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GTT’s Nashville Crew on Back-to-back Shoots for The Weather Channel

The Nashville crew recently spent some quality time with the Weather Channel; first on winter-storm watch with Jim Cantore in Charleston, SC, followed by coverage of the American Meteorological Society Convention with Dave Malkoff in Atlanta, GA. Ice and snow were forecast in Charleston, of which it received enough to produce a snowball, as demonstrated […]

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Joe’s Last Battle

For my California readers who also like dull boring history. But first a short background on Joe Rucker. Rucker was one of the earliest staff news photographers in the US, having started a century ago back in 1914 with Universal. From there he shot for Pathe and Paramount, covering the Read More →

Nashville Crew in Panther Territory for NFL Network

GTT’s Nashville Crew ventured into Panther territory in Charlotte, North Carolina. The shoot, for NFL Network, saw DP Craig G. shooting interviews with various Panther players in the studio at Bank of America Stadium. The Sony PMW-F3 camera was used, along with a Canon 30–105mm PL lens.

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Wires will be wires….

A short tale of a smartaleck and his chief from Harry Birch’s chronicles of the activities of the Chicago news crews. It seems that in the building of a short wave radio receiver, Charles Ford needed some special wire to complete the job. He sent Jack Barnett out in the Read More →

The domino effect…

…is how I once got a job. Had applied for a shooter position at KPIX in San Francisco and got a call one day from Harry Fuller (I think but can’t accurately remember if he was the AD at the time), who proceeded to tell me I was his second choice for the job. And Read More →

Three way light face-off…

I’ve been wondering what the difference in color temperature is between a good tungsten light head, a good LED head, and a cheap LED head. The video is below. Judge for yourself, but from what I see the tungsten is spot-on for good vibrant color. I used my little Lowell Prolight/cost around $120 but the Read More →

Busy Man (part 3: Queenie Pie)

Who knew that Duke Ellington wrote an opera?  Personally, I did not know that.When I saw that the Long Beach Opera would be staging a production of this little known work, I wanted to check it out.  I thought it would be a fun performance to …

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