Sunday, August 31st

Remember when my website used to contain a portfolio? Well, I just wanted to make a point of mentioning that the plan all along since I took it down was to redo it and make it look way better than it used to do. Ever since the day I took it down I have been spending the free time I have in between jobs working on it and trying to make sure it is something I am happy with. At this point, it is pretty much done, aside from a few minor tweaks which I have been trying to find the time this past week to finally get to. The plan is to have it up within the next month or 2. At the very least I am going to have it up by the end of the year for sure. I will make an announcement on here when I have it ready to go. It will be exciting. Add Comment

Thursday, August 27th - Final Fantasy

Last night I finally had the chance to see Final Fantasy perform at The Danforth Music Hall and it was amazing! If you dont know who Final Fantasy is then you should really get on that right away. Its really something else to watch Owen record his violin parts and then loop them overtop of each other while to build up to a full sound which he then sings over. Its kind of funny how I had never actually seen him perform before tonight since over a year ago I did some portraits of Owen in my old studio. Check out some photos below, and even more photos at FormerTransformer.com by clicking HERE Add Comment

Thursday, August 21st - Rohan Ricketts

Two days ago I hung out with Rohan Ricketts and did some photos of him to use as headshots for his soon to be acting career. Along with the acting headshots, I did some portraits more in my own style as well. Rohan is orginally from London England and now plays soccer for Toronto FC which is really cool. You may have noticed that in the 50 Cent photo on the front page of my website, he is wearing a Toronto soccer jersey. I will tell the story of how that came to be. As 50 and his crew were about to drive away, Rohan walked up to the window of the SUV and started explaining to 50 Cent how he thinks he is such a great man and how he thinks a lot of people dont give him credit for how smart and well articulated he really is in his interviews. Rohan then told him how much it would mean to him to have a photo of such a great man holding his jersey. 50 reached forward and took the jersey from Rohan and put it on. Rohan then went to hold up his cell phone to take a photo of it when he noticed me standing there with my camera and he asked if I would take the picture for him. Of course I wasnt going to refuse so I stuck my camera in the window of the car and took the photo. 50 then turned around to let me take a photo of the back of the jersey showing Rohan's name as well. It turned out to be a great picture that I am so happy to have, as well as an amazing story to tell. I have a lot more respect for 50 Cent after that happened. He is actually a really nice person which was so cool to learn. To see the 50 Cent photo in question, just go back to www.jessbaumung.com and check it out. Here is one of the photos of Rohan from the shoot. Add Comment

Wednesday, August 20th

I realize I havent been posting as much recently and I am working on getting better at that. The reason is because I have been working on a ton of new projects and they are going to be amazing once I am finished with them. For now check out the latest issue of Concrete Powder Magazine for a photo I took of City and Colour from the show at Massey Hall in Toronto. Add Comment

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