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And thanks to all of you who have been so supportive and involved with the studio over the years!! It's been a fun ride and it's far from over.
- JD
Super cool way to see all your twitter followers...
This is a really kick ass way to check out all your twitter followers at a glance... sorta. So here's a quick view of who's checking up on me... Click on any photo to see their profile and follow @TheJamesDouglas to get added to the wall!!
Get your twitter mosaic here.
And thanks to all of you who have been so supportive and involved with the studio over the years!! It's been a fun ride and it's far from over.
- JD
Get your twitter mosaic here.
And thanks to all of you who have been so supportive and involved with the studio over the years!! It's been a fun ride and it's far from over.
- JD
Huntin season...
Just got back a few days ago after spending some time in good ol' West Virginia. While hanging out in an old church converted into a loft with it's backyard being pure wilderness I got a chance to really unplug and shoot something that I had never really been apart of until now... deer season.
Having cut my teeth shooting for magazines and newspapers I decided to approach this not from a commercial standpoint, as most of my work recently has been, but go back to my roots and shoot it as a documentary piece. No flash… no tripod… no ridiculous retouching… just the raw unedited story that hunting is. I wanted to shoot the hunting process from start to finish… pulling out of the driveway hours before dawn to the final product of putting meat in the fridge. I shot these just outside of Marlinton West Virginia over Thanksgiving weekend. These were all shot with my Canon Mark IIDs with the 24-70mm 2.8 lens… and nothing else. I just turned them gray and am posting them up as is. Let me know what you guys think. James@JamesDouglasStudio.com
And don't think for a minute that I was standing back from any of this... you can actually see my hand holding the hack saw in the fourth picture. That was something I didn't think I'd be doing on the trip... HA!
- JD
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Quickie: Workout Session...
Been shooting here and there for Fitness Magazine and recently had a shoot working with them to document a workout session with a personal trainer and Masha Spaic who has been using the personal trainer to get in shape. It was a fun and pretty simple shoot with just my trusty Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II with my 24-70mm F/2.8, White Lighting 1600 strobe, Vagabond II battery pack. Little beauty dish for a softer light but nothing too technical here.
You can see the light stand and orange battery pack there on the left side. Instead of bringing a huge softbox and a bunch of reflectors and modifiers to this shoot I did a little research and checked out the space before I arrived(something you should all be doing). Turns out they have a huge white ceiling which would reflect my strobe quite nicely. I got there... thought about using my 7" reflector but it didn't give me the light coverage I was looking for so the beauty dish gave a huge spread and in seconds I had a 20'x80' softbox!! And because its an editorial shoot they didn't want any intense lighting, the more "natural" look works great for this.
Lil retouching here and there and you end up with something like this...
There isn't always a need for hyper conceptualized lighting and uuber aggressive styling... sometimes all you might need is a little extra light to capture what is really happening right then and there. No fake sky, dropped in extras, or completely faked lens flare... just a girl and a workout session. Every once in a while it's nice to just tone it down a little.
Any questions about what I did or how I did it... feel free to email me... James@JamesDouglasStudio.com
- JD
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Some super old slides...
Recently went back through some of my college stuff... Memory lane can be a very fun place to peruse every so often and this time was no exception. I had taken a photography based study abroad program in New Zealand my Junior year and I took waaaaaaay too many photos to deal with at the time. I pulled a couple really good ones out for my "show" and then boxed em up and put them in the closet. Well now having a decent scanner an intern and more powerful editing software I've been able to digitize them and catalog them into my archive properly. Here's a couple "weird" landscapes that I passed over the first time but have since rediscovered.
And to give you an idea of just how old these are... they were shot on Fuji Velvia 50!! Arguably the best slide film ever created and subsequently discontinued. Velvia 50 first came into the limelight as the "go-to" film for National Geographic photographers all over the world because of its unprecedented color accuracy and lack of grain. I was introduced to the stuff during an internship with Robb Kendrick, a national geographic shooter for over 20 years, in 2002. When I heard it was going to be discontinued I purchased some 20 cases of the stuff and have it stored in it's own little fridge behind my desk... where there may or may not be a case of PBR's as well. HA!
- JD
And to give you an idea of just how old these are... they were shot on Fuji Velvia 50!! Arguably the best slide film ever created and subsequently discontinued. Velvia 50 first came into the limelight as the "go-to" film for National Geographic photographers all over the world because of its unprecedented color accuracy and lack of grain. I was introduced to the stuff during an internship with Robb Kendrick, a national geographic shooter for over 20 years, in 2002. When I heard it was going to be discontinued I purchased some 20 cases of the stuff and have it stored in it's own little fridge behind my desk... where there may or may not be a case of PBR's as well. HA!
- JD
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Quickie: A Night of Too Many Stars
Had a blast the other night when I was selected to photograph the annual Night of Too Many Stars event here in good ol' NYC at the Beacon Theater. The event which is an annual gala put on by Comedy Central as a fundraiser for the NYCA. I was asked by Michelle and Robert Smigel, Robert best known as the voice of Triumph the insult comic dog and a longtime writer for SNL, to shoot not just the event but to capture some of the more notable personalities interacting with the children that were present. I jumped at the chance to give back and donate my time and efforts to the foundation.
With Jon Stewart hosting and the likes of Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Steve Carrell, Tina Fey, Jim Gaffigan, Billy Crudup, Ricky Gervais, Lewis Black, Tom Brokaw, Jimmy Fallon, Joel McHale, Sarah Silverman, Tracy Morgan, and Stephen Colbert; just to name a few, the night was bound to be an incredible success. And it was... an amazing event that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the the foundation. The actual televised event will air tonight at 9pm on Comedy Central so be sure to tune in.
- JD
With Jon Stewart hosting and the likes of Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Steve Carrell, Tina Fey, Jim Gaffigan, Billy Crudup, Ricky Gervais, Lewis Black, Tom Brokaw, Jimmy Fallon, Joel McHale, Sarah Silverman, Tracy Morgan, and Stephen Colbert; just to name a few, the night was bound to be an incredible success. And it was... an amazing event that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the the foundation. The actual televised event will air tonight at 9pm on Comedy Central so be sure to tune in.
- JD
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