The latest news and adventures from JPL Design Group photographer, James Lundeen.
A video for South Side Baptist Tabernacle’s new Servant’s Quarters for Pastors and Missionaries and their family to use while traveling. Here is a video that we created for them. It is brief, but graphics and editing along with filming and audio done by me.
I had the privilege to design this prayer card for Jeremy Robertson while he was on deputation. The card does involve a multi layer texture used created through the use of photographing crumpled paper, a textured book cover and a few cloud effects in Photoshop layered to get the right color feel. I then created a vector outline of the Ukraine in Illustrator.
Jeremy’s Youtube Channel has several videos giving updates on his ministry. You can also get updates on his ministry at www.robertsoninukraine.com.
In the fall of this year, I was tasked with videoing our missionary to public schools, Jay Cooper of RBM Ministries. The state of Michigan allows for time during the school day for a time of Bible class. This year with many schools in partial attendance and partial virtual attendance, Jay decided that the best option to reach the students was virtually.
To this point we have done 13 videos together with this one being the Christmas edition. The audio is recorded separately with Adobe Audition and the video was edited with Adobe After Effects and Premier.
To watch other videos on Jay’s Youtube Channel.
Photos from the waterfalls of Cuyahoga Valley Nationa Park
Read MoreA few weeks ago I went out photo walking with my son David who works at Omega Electric and Sign in Alpena, Michigan. We went out during the “golden hour” in the evening. This really made the colors of the leaves pop! After the sun went down, we went to the Presque Isle Light and tried our hand at astro photography. This was a first real attempt for both of us. This is what I got.
I did learn some things and pretty much got what I am going to get out of the lenses that I own. I think next time we try this, we will rent some lenses.
My friend and Pastor of Bridge Baptist Church in Clinton, Michigan tasked me with creating promotional material for an upcoming Men’s retreat that our church will be hosting. He did a great job at communicating what the conference theme was to be.
Below are a postcard and video that I created for the event. The logo of the church in the circle was created using Adobe Illustrator and the entire layout was done in Adobe Indesign. The video audio was created in Adobe Audition. I set it up in my kitchen and went through several different read-throughs. Still didn’t quite nail it, but this was the best one with a couple of edits and digital splicing done.
The video was in Adobe Premier and After Effects. I am new to the video editing world and plan on expanding that. The background is a photo of my jeans which was edited in Adobe Camera Raw. All in all, 6 different applications to create and what fun it was. Thanks South Side Baptist Tabernacle and Ron Kramarczyk for allowing me to do this.
The first week in August, we took a trip to Texas to visit my wife’s family. As a compromise, we planned the trip around the time when the Detroit Tigers were playing the Texas Rangers. I know, the Tigers are having a bad year, but I always been a fan. I am also a fan of the Ballpark in Texas. I have built a scale model of the ballpark and have a lithograph painting of the ballpark that we purchased back in 1994 the year the ballpark opened. We went this year because the Rangers and the city of Arlington, Texas have decided that they need a new ballpark. By the way, I am opposed to this, but I don’t live there and they didn’t ask my opinion.
We got into Arlington the night before the game we were planning on attending. Our hotel was just across the lake form the ballpark, so I took the quiet evening to take these long exposure HDR photos of what I have always called, “The Ballpark in Arlington.”
Earlier this week I had a job in Thompsonville, Michigan, up near Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore. I was driving up the road when around the bend this mountain of fall color appeared. I love how the field of grass, evergreen trees and burst of color rising above it.
In July my wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. Part of that trip included a trip to Pictured Rocks National Park in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There are many other attractions other than the cliffs overlooking Lake Superior, but in today’s blog, I will just include photos of the cliffs.
I love photography and love to try to create pictures that capture what I saw. Of course God’s creation is far superior than what I can capture in an image. This is my humble attempt to manipulate the light and capture what my memory thinks it saw.
A few more photos taken from our trip to Cleveland back in August. These photos show a railroad bridge on a towpath trail, Brandywine Falls in Cuyahoga National Park, and ivy growing up a wall in downtown Akron, OH.
This is a showcase of photography and graphic design work by James Lundeen. We started off as a web design business and have evolved into a print design and photography business.
