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Nashville Crew Goes Behind The Scenes With ABC’s “The Bachelorette”
I may not have walked away with a rose but I did get some cool behind the scenes footage of ABC’s hit show, “The Bachelorette.” For two days I shot BTS in Charlotte where the show is now based. I was shooting on Sony F800 XDcam. I spent the first day covering the bachelorette’s first […]
Read More →September’s Camera
With thanks to one of my readers for the tip, it seems that a TV photog has done something that is rather rare recently (even more so that he wasn’t a network photog either) – written a book about himself. Jeff Scarborough of WNBC wrote a book in 2007 called “September’s Camera” relating his experiences […]
Read More →Wild cameramen vs. wild geese
Chalmer Sinkey, a Seattle-based Fox Movietone News photographer, writes about shooting his yearly story about wild geese at Tule Lake, California in early autumn of 1941. “An intriguing thought,” thinks the editor, “is the sight of hordes of migratory wild fowl darkening the sky, literally blotting out the landscape.” But a wild task indeed, is […]
Read More →On The Way to Rancho Cucamonga
This week we lost another member of the CBS2/KCAL9 family. Chuck Hollis passed away and even though he’d been gone from the newsroom for a number of years, I always half-expected for him to just show up for work one day and start doing his job&nb…
Read More →Charleston Crew Back on Rachel Ray Show in Columbia SC
Recently in Columbia, Charleston DP Dave Baker shot another story for Rachel Ray. The details of the story cannot be divulged here before it airs, but, as a preview, here is a still capture from the interview, lit with Kino Flo Divas and Arri tungsten lights, shot with a Panasonic HVX200. Also seen are the […]
Read More →Barbarians at the Gate
Cindy Farmer and I didn’t go to the White House just to get frisked by Secret Service agents. (Well, I didn’t.) We went to tackle the tough issues. So we headed to the Rose Garden. There we found a few other news crews: selected anchor women from aroun…
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