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Ain’t no April Fools joke, DC Crew launches April 1st
Command central gave the green light, DC launch is a GO. #GTTDC is official. I am humbled and very excited to launch another market under the wings of GTT. After the great success of the Chicago launch, certainly going to miss the relationships and great clients I worked with in Chicago, the DC launch has […]
Read More →Better TV stand-ups in a box
Shooting compelling solo stand-ups is a challenge — especially if you are new to TV news. Joshua Davidsburg is a TV reporter himself, now teaching broadcast journalism at the University of Maryland. He created a unique online video module with best practices for shooting stands-ups on your own. It takes less than 8 minutes to …
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Read More →It’s called death watch…
…the stories you go on “just in case”… Routine almost to the point of boring. Hop on over to Amanda Emily’s The Dope Sheet and check it out. Addendum April 13, 2014. Just noticed how many folks are clicking through on the link above and think I’d better explain a bit. A lot of times Read More →
A wet evening in Lakehurst
“What’s the use, Bill!” griped one of Pathe News photographer Bill Deeke’s colleagues. “You can’t shoot without light and the outfit will be soaked. Besides it’s a long, long way back to Times Square. What do you say if we pack it up and beat it?” “We’ve come seventy miles Read More →
Houston rocks concert gig at Final Four in Dallas
During the Mens NCAA Final Four in Dallas, I picked up a pretty sweet gig covering a live concert series in downtown at Reunion Park. Here was our view as Dallas lit up the sky. Each night hosted a new musical artist including the likes of Jason Aldean, The Killers, Bruce Springsteen, and of course Kid Rock! […]
Read More →ACM Awards
Something about covering a country music awards program just makes you want to yell, YEE-HAW!Over the weekend, I got to travel to Las Vegas to run our satellite truck for the ACM Awards.I don’t often get to work with our entertainment unit these days, …
Read More →DJI Phantom 2 +
DJI continues to up the ante in the RC Copter world ( I don’t like to say ‘Drone’ it makes them sound too military) The Phantom Vision 2 plus is what we wanted the original Phantom to be but with a $1200 price tag, compared to the original $700, it gave us a chance to make less painful mistakes and become savvy aerial photogs. The new DJI Phantom 2 + comes with a three axis gimbal and a 1080i camera compared to the 2 axis Zenmuse H3-2D gimbal which is an add on at almost $700. When you do the math, the new Phantom is cheaper in the long […]
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