David Bauman Photography
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About the Photographer
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Painting with Light |
| It was 1965 when I photographed a neighbor's house through a window which had a small flying saucer pasted on it. In essence, I photographed a UFO flying over the neighbor's house. That was the result of my "unusual picture" assignment from my junior high photography course. This UFO photo found its way to the Pentagon, then Project Blue Book in Dayton, Ohio and finally was published on the inside cover of True's Flying Saucer Magazine. |
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The hobby continued until declaring a major in Photography and Cinema at The Ohio State University. The curriculum combined theory and hands-on training in still photography and film production. At the time, my interest was photo history. I became involved in a service area of the University that produced multi-media presentations. The group was synchronizing slides, 16mm film, and stereo audio with reel-to-reel tape players. "State-of- the- art" in the early 70's. |
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| In 1974 I accepted a full time photography position with the University and continued schooling by enrolling in independent study classes that gave credit hours for producing University films and events. |
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| Most of my photography was with 35mm format cameras. Striving for quality of technique and sharpness of image I always had my camera on a tripod with the mirror locked-up, a polarizing filter over the lens, and an f-stop of 16 or higher. I also began practicing the art of "previsualization" or "The Decisive Moment." This allows the photographer to see the desired image as an end result and then apply learned technical aspects of the photographic process to achieve the previsualized image. I often thought of myself as a surviving member of "Group f64". |
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| In the summer of 1976, I graduated from Ohio State with a BA degree in Photography & Cinema and several months later moved to Europe. After some touring, I began work as a part time documentary cinematographer and eventually accepted a full time position as a multi-media producer for Reger Studios in Munich. |
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Returning to the states a year later, I formed Bauman Communications. The company was a turn-key operation that produced and staged national, sales and product introduction meetings for fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Procter & Gamble, GE Aircraft Engines, Bosch, Abbott Labs, International Paper, Chiquita Brands, Valvoline, Welches, Batesville Casket & McDonalds Corporation. Services included motivational and training videos, photography, and assorted collateral print material such as posters, point-of-purchase displays, sales materials and merchandising brochures. I was intrigued with 3-D photography and began incorporating the technique into several productions, one of them being a 27 projector, 3-D slide show for the Sea World of Florida's "Shark Encounter Theatre". In 1986 I formed “Imaginative Insights Incorporated”, an international company that staged meetings and events in Europe. |
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| During the 15 years that I owned Bauman Communications, most of my time involved running the business. The art of previsualizion does work within the business world as well. The ability to "visualize the end" allows you to efficiently direct with your creative, technical, and business skills to achieve your expected results the first time. One of the great business persons with previsualization abilities was Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald's Corporation. |
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| In 1996 I began working for the McDonald's Corporation
within the Creative Services Department as a Senior Producer Director.
My work involved managing creative, quality of product, staging, production
schedules,
and budgets and for event, meeting, and video productions. Utilizing
their Intranet to help distribute video and centralize event information
I
was later
appointed to the newly founded position of Intranet Product Manager for
McDonald’s Global Communications.
During my time a McDonald’s I began sorting through and scanning the 10,000 slides that I had made over the past 28 years. With the new tool Photoshop. I learned to retouch the resulting digital images with much more control than the older wet processes. |
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I have since moved to Glendale, Arizona and now work as the Assistant Director of Midwestern University's Media Resource Office. Photo and video services are included in our department and in 2005 we retired our film and video cameras in exchange for all digital. I also purchased an Olympus C-7000, 7.1 megapixel camera for Bauman Photography. The first photographs from this camera were made at the Grand Canyon. |
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| In 2006, my wife published her first book, Good-bye and Good Riddance. It received third place in the 2006 Arizona Literary Contest and Book Awards. [link to her web site] |
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Self Portrait- Elevator Doors |
