If viewers could see the Herculean hustle, madcap scramble and damn near panic behind your average local TV newscast, they’d watch in greater numbers. I’m convinced of it. What’s more compelling – that static parking lot live shot or the cross-co…

  I had my first local shoot at the Chicago Bears training camp for a :30 PSA that will air on NFL Network. For this shoot I got to roll out the big guns and shoot on the Sony PMW F3 fitted with Nikon primes. I had the F3 set on a doorway dolly and […]

It’s never too early to set your own journalistic standards says Greg Brock, who works as the Senior Editor for Standards at the New York Times. Speaking to a group of journalism students at the University of Mississippi, Brock said the primary goal of journalists has changed in a world where everyone can publish information.  For his generation, Brock says the goal was to uphold and defend a free press. “Your generation will have to promote and protect an accurate press,” Brock told the crowd. In his job with the paper, Brock works with editors and reporters throughout the newsroom to address issues of fairness and accuracy in news coverage.  As he puts it, he tries “all day long  to keep the New York Times from screwing up.” He says it’s his job to deal with corrections, like the one involving a movie called, “Butter.”  Brock says the reporter got tired of using the word butter and erroneously substituted the word lard — he got to deal with the fallout. Or the time in the Sunday magazine when someone misidentified a giant cow as  a giant bull. Though Brock joked that what he does may seem “pitiful,” to some; he […]

There’s been a lot of attention given to this year’s World Series and the Ultra High Speed Phantom Camera technology that’s being used during the broadcast, and Atlanta Director of Photography Tom Wells is there capturing some of it for FOX Sports. While the live broadcast is using 7 different Phantom Cameras, dubbed the X-Mo, […]

Just because I’m nowhere near the coast this weekend doesn’t mean Hurricane Sandy ain’t on my brain. Twice now I’ve caught myself fondling granola bars in the pantry. When it gets dark, I’m gonna go in the garage and blind-roll my poncho. If …