Sunday Spotlight 4/14/13
Sunday April 14th, 2013
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Weekend Links 4/5/13
Friday April 5th, 2013
Fancy animals.
The shades are a start, but he needs to step his game up. Photo by Bruton Stroube
Guess where I’m calling from.
26 things you never want to see under a microscope.
Things are ugly under a microscope, enhance the beauty of nature with a beer-o-scope. Photo by David Arky
London parking space selling for £275,000.
New York Times puts Instagram shot on front page.
NYPD now scanning social media photos to identify criminals.
They’re honing in on a criminal Instagramming photos of his dinner. Photo by James Quantz Jr
Coloring book for grown ups.
Celebs and brands making their own ads on Instagram.
Photographers Update:
- Jodi Jones shares lighting tips for fashion photography.
- Devlo Media creates a “Farm to Fork” video for Bertucci’s.
- Brian Cummings shoots St. Louis Magazine’s spring fashion.
- Bryan Regan photographs in·an·i·mate sex.
- Annabel Clark captures Someone I know.
- Jonathan Chapman takes you BTS of his MN Twins Community Fund, “Winter Baseball” shoot & shares the final TV spot.
- David E Jackson guest blogs for Scott Kelby.
- Sara Rubinstein gets a new site.
- Maria Luci
Weekend Links 3/1/13
Friday March 1st, 2013
How master cinematographer Roger Deakins got these 10 Shots.
Best way to get somewhere you never want to go. Photo By Gregory Miller
And open letter to Ang Lee.
Photographer recreates real life versions of old school video games.
Photos from Vanity Fair’s Oscar Party.
Just down the street was the slightly less formal Filth Magazine Oscar Party. Photo by Brian Sorg
Downton Abbey meets Beauty and the Beast.
Recap of Oscar commercials.
DKNY to pay $25K after photography copyright infringement.
When your heart stops beating, you’ll keep tweeting.
Service not required by the undead. Photo by Paul Shiakallis
This art is bananas!
Photographers Update:
- Scott Witter teams up with Natalie Morales to create music video for Killmama.
- David E Jackson photographs IndyCar driver Shannon McIntosh.
- Lincoln Barbour shoots a Flesischmann’s Yeast ad campaign.
- Jodi Jones share’s some Photoshop tips.
- Mark King interviewed by American Photo for “How You Living?”
- Maria Luci
Weekend Links 12/21/12
Friday December 21st, 2012
Today’s the day! Prepare for the apocalypse!
No apocalypse yet? Well then, Santa-Gator wishes you a Merry Weekend Links!
Known to commute via Rein-weilers. photo by Nicolle Clemetson
Mini train photography… just in time to put under your mini tree!
Top photographic magazine covers of the year.
Which Wes Anderson character are you?
The red cap and affinity towards strumming peg Santa as a member of Team Zissou for sure. photo by Jamey Guy
So you want to watch a holiday movie?
8 most insane ads of 2012.
What people will pay when they can pay what they want.
Not to be confused with ‘Desert Sleighing’. photo by Jacom Stephens
Indiana Jones and the Mysterious Package.
Mystery solved!
Photographers:
- Amy Harrity‘s “Moving On” project on The Bold Italic.
- David E Jackson‘s American Craft Magazine feature.
- Jim Golden opens a Big Cartel store.
- Ross Woodhall covers Trapped.
- Jonathan Hanson photographs Jenny Leigh.
- Scott Witter featured on Communication Arts Exhibit.
- Aki-Pekka Sinikoski‘s music video nominated for Best Finnish Music Video 2012.
- Maria Luci
David E Jackson Can Handle It
Monday October 22nd, 2012
by Maria Luci
After helping out their studio neighbor Fox Cities Magazine with a couple of shoots around town, David E Jackson was given a full page ad. Knowing it wasn’t exactly the right avenue to reach their target market, David and his team decided to have some fun. They came up with the idea of shooting a caricature of what it’s like being David’s studio manager/assistant. The final ad featured real assistant Adam carrying a large pile of equipment while David and his producer Trevor sit back with a couple PBRs (their “beer of choice”). The shot turned out so well, and was so fun to create, that the team decided to continue the project as a series of promos to highlight David’s skills and sense of humor.
The first concept had been fairly easy to come up with since Adam’s always slinging gear—but for David and Trevor’s shots, it was a bit harder to conjure up exaggerated tableaus. As David puts it, “holding a camera and working excel spreadsheets are not very funny concepts.” Eventually, David and Trevor were able to come up with concepts they were happy with and soon moved on to production.
There wasn’t much pre-production involved in these images, as each person was shot on white. I think it took about 15 minutes of actual shooting per person. Everyone was shot in my studio and then composited into the scenes. The desert background was “leftovers” from a client shoot that brought us into Death Valley earlier this year. All in all, I would say this whole series came together in my spare time over the course of a few days.
As for setting Trevor on fire and battling an elephant, that was all handled with a little post-production Photoshop magic. The elephant was actually sourced from a stock site, which was a fairly new experience for David, who rarely uses stock for his composites. But he knew this time around it would be both easier and cheaper to do than using a real elephant.
Once the photos were shot and the images composited, David got to work designing the promos. He handled all the graphic design himself while the illustrations were handled by friend Rob Dobi. The team sent out the final results as both print and email promos. David had a “lot of fun putting them together” and was even able to learn a thing or two, but most importantly, he believes that these promos were a great way to share his sense of humor, saying “we focus on marketing our personalities over everywthing. With the stress of the advertising industry, it’s really important for us to keep everyone in good, easy-going moods. With this, we’ve found clients tend to open themselves up to us and we create relationships more than just money-deals.”
View more at davidejackson.com.
