This is my assistant Robert with the doorway dolly getting the timing of the move dialed in. I can’t reveal yet what we were shooting, as it has yet to be posted and published by the magazine, however I can tell you this was one of the most personally moving stories I have ever done- [...]
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Moving Photograph
The idea here was sort of a play on words, how moving can I make a photograph? I hired an actress who could cry on command, which is a talent that absolutely mystifies me. I wanted her to go through a range of emotion from happy to sad, but for reasons that became clear once [...]
Gear crush of the week. 6800f/ps
Check this out. I have no idea what sort of camera shoots at that frame rate, but I would love to find out. Like did these guys get a loaner from NASA? Related Posts:No Related Posts
Video crush of the week
Thanks to my buddy Joshua Davis, for send me this. Related Posts:No Related Posts
Glass Works
When shooting stills, at least in the current RAW world, the optical nature of the lens is not as critical as it once was. Back in the day of color trans film, back when one needed to really know how to work a light meter and a color meter, we used to pull 3 lenses [...]
Marshall Monitor
Here are a coupe of ways we use the Marshall. Sometimes I mount on the camera, in this case Robert clamped it onto the slider mount and I am using it to judge the speed of the tracking motion. I often use a Zacuto finder, but find with these sort of situations the Marshall works [...]
Z-Finder
This little device is what has made using the 5DII as a movie camera possible for me. How Vince and the other pioneers were working without it astonishes me. Not only is the 3X magnifier a juicy view of the LCD, but it also helps me stabalize the camera by having a solid point of [...]
Fotocare
I have found that I need a partner on the equipment side who really knows what they are doing, a guy to equipment problem solve for me. For me that person is Jeff at Fotocare. Even though I am in LA most of the time these days, I would rather call Jeff in NYC, go [...]
About
David Harry Stewart is a photographer and director. He comes from a small town in western New York. He started taking pictures at the age of 8, first with a plastic Kodak 126, then a Polaroid Swinger. He did his first national ad campaign at age 23, then moved on to Paris to work for fashion magazines. Returning to New York he has a successful and award winning career, working for magazines like Interview, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, New York Magazine, Time and The New York Times Magazine. Agency work includes Saatchi, Deutsch, BBDO, Leo Burnett, and Ogilivy, for clients such as American Express, Nike, Coke, Corona and Bank of America. Awards include Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club, Photo District News, The Living Photograph Motion Awards, and American Photography. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York.
