The latest news and adventures from JPL Design Group photographer, James Lundeen.
My friend Todd and I have been asked to do this Bad Dad Christmas Joke Video for our church. Neither of us are comfortable in front of the camera, but we did it anyway. This is a self videoed 2-camera job that I edited and did the graphics for along with some AfterEffect snowflakes.
Christmas Bad Dad Jokes 2024
This video is an introduction to God. We hope that everyone who sees it will come to know who God is. It was a labor of love for the entire team that worked on it. Steve and Melissa Robertson wrote and narrated the content, and Ron Joslyn selected the music. I created the graphics and did the editing, as well as engineered the audio recording for this project. I hope you enjoy it. Please take a moment to watch this video and share it with your friends and family.
New Destiny, a regional quartet from Michigan, asked me to design a cover for their latest album. The photography for the background image was done in-house, and the concept was developed collaboratively. The record player design is a recreation from a previous t-shirt design that they were selling. The cover was inspired by a television program that aired in the southeastern United States in the 1960s and 1970s called "Gospel Singing Jubilee."
Here is a brief video that we created for South Side Baptist Tabernacle's new Servant's Quarters. The quarters are for the use of pastors, missionaries, and their families while traveling. I did the graphics, editing, filming, and audio using Adobe Illustrator, AfterEffects, and Premier.
I had the privilege of designing this prayer card for Jeremy Robertson while he was on deputation. The card has a multi-layer texture that I created by photographing crumpled paper, a textured book cover, and some cloud effects in Photoshop. I then created a vector outline of Ukraine was done in Illustrator. You can get updates on Jeremy's 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.”
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.
