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CNN Highlights War Photog’s Career
Back in the late 90’s, I was fortunate enough to travel overseas to places like Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Persian Gulf. On a number of these brief trips we would run into crews from CNN and other networks. We’d sit in a hotel bar – after a days shoot – Read More →
Photog Documents Battle with Cancer
We are all storytellers after all. Michael Levine, a South Florida based shooter and active member of the b-roll.net family, shares advice and great wisdom with “b-rollers” around the world as A Step Above Productions. It seems that now the advice he’s sharing is how to be incredibly strong in Read More →
What RTNDA Focus Groups Hate about TV News
From: RTNDA Communicator RTNDA Chairman, Stacey Woelfel; Poynter Online Guru, Al Tompkins; and talented photographer, Lynn French, among others, posed questions to a focus group of TV news viewers and discovered a few things they like and hate about us. Some of their reactions are completely predictable, but you’ll find Read More →
NPPA to Produce Virtual Video Workshop
From: NPPA With the Virtual Video Workshop coming up this Saturday, I wanted to re-run this story for July… — The Virtual Video Workshop is coming to a computer near you. At last, a video workshop you can attend in your pajamas. This exciting new approach to providing a workshop Read More →
b-roll.net Golden Hour Calculator
After I bragged about a “golden hour” calculator I found on the internet, Amanda Emily, photog historian and lifesaving server-tech, told me she had already built one. She kindly shared it with the b-roll community, and we’re now proud to unveil the b-roll.net Golden Hour Calculator. Even though it sounds Read More →
CNN Reports Confusion on the Potomac
From: Al Tompkins, Poynter Online “CNN unnerved the nation Friday morning with live reports of Coast Guard teams firing on a suspect vessel on the Potomac River that would not stop when ordered. We know now it was just radio chatter, part of a “routine and low-level” Coast Guard exercise. Read More →
TV Azteca and the Watermark
I’m starting to think that the folks at TV Azteca read b-roll.net. Or at least Nino‘s thread about watermarking your video. The live hijacking footage coming out of Mexico today on all the networks was plastered with the TV Azteca logo. I’ve seen bugs and “courtesies” but never something across Read More →