David Bauman Photography
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About the Photographer
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Self Portrait - Painting with Light |
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| In 1965 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 six years later when I declared 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. My major area of concentration was photo history. |
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| During my studies, I became interested in a service area of the university that produced multi-media presentations. The group was experimenting with a combination of slides and motion pictures synchronized to audio tracks from a reel-to-reel tape player. In the early 1970's, this was "state-of- the- art". It was here that I also met Chuck Csuri who was showcasing his first computer graphics efforts in some of the productions. |
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| I began supporting the photographic needs of the group and in 1974 became a full time photographer for the University and the State of Ohio. With only a few quarters left of schooling, I was also producing multi-media presentations for the University. |
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| Most of my photography was with 35mm format cameras. Striving for quality of technique and sharpness of image I shot Kodachrome 25 film, 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 often thought of myself as a surviving member of "Group f64". Exceptions to Kodachrome film were made for experiments with Infrared film. Shooting Infrared film with an aperture of f-22 and the numerous filters needed for enhanced color forced exposures times up to 5 minutes. Factor in reciprocity failure and I had exposures mounting upwards of 20 minutes. It was also at a time when I began practicing the art "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. With this ability came spontaneity of image creation and use of the photographic medium for true artistic endeavors. |
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| In the summer of 1976, I graduated from Ohio State with a BA degree in Photography & Cinema and several months thereafter moved to Europe. After some touring, I began work as a part time documentary cinematographer and later 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. 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”. This was 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. With 17 full time employees and usually another 12 contractors, little time was left for artistic photography. However, the art of previsualizion does work within the business world as well. |
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| 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. | |||
| In 1996 I accepted a full time job at the McDonald's Corporation within the Creative Services Department as a Senior Producer. My work involved managing production schedules, budgets and quality of product for meeting and video productions. In the evenings and I began sorting through and scanning the 10,000 slides that I had made over the past 28 years. I learned to manipulate the resulting digital images in Photoshop. This allowed me to retouch many of the photographs with much more control than the older wet processes. |
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| I have since moved to Glendale, Arizona and 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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