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Lenslinger
10-19-2006, 10:08 PM
If you keep a mental list of low overpasses, clean skyline views and greasy spoons, chances are you’re a Photog.
If you feel socially awkward at cocktail parties, yet will gladly walk into a police sniper’s crosshairs with a loaded tripod slung over your shoulder, chances are you’re a Photog.
I f you can make a three-story escape ladder from your collection of press-pass lanyards, chances are you’re a Photog.
If your idea of proper funeral attire is a pair of wrinkled cargo pants, unpolished hiking boots and a station golf shirt buttoned all the way to the top, chances are you’re a Photog.
If you know just where to go should the mayor be brought up on illicit yak-smuggling charges, chances are you’re a Photog.
If you’ve grown to a despise a new co-worker just as half the state has deemed them favorite regional newcomer, chances are you’re a Photog.
If you find yourself admiring the backlight shimmering off the pizza guy’s hat as he hands you your third deep-dish of the week, chances are you’re a Photog.
If you feel any SUV with enough splashy logos should be allowed to exceed the speed limit in the breakdown lane and park in handicap spots, chances are you’re a Photog.
If you know more than one overnight dispatcher, two fast-food managers and three obese bailiffs by first name basis, chances are you’re a Photog.
AND FINALLY….
If you can field-strip an expensive piece of recording equipment in two minutes, but still pretend not to understand the newsroom’s phone system, chances are you’re a Photog.
FTOJRLST
10-19-2006, 10:36 PM
If you can drive with your knees, change lanes to negotiate slower traffic, wolf down a burger, fries and a large coke and follow the scanner traffic, all while on the way to spot news, chances are you're a photog.
Shootblue
10-19-2006, 10:44 PM
If you can tell what police/fire/ems organization is dispatching just by the quality of the audio or the dispatcher...
I've many a time sat there and listened to something roll across and everyone starts panicking because they didnt see what frequency it was...but I just tell them....from about 20 feet away from the scanner.
INLANDNEWS
10-20-2006, 01:51 AM
If you drive around town on your day off with friends and family and point out liveshot locations and places where you have covered incidents.
If you know every back alley, shortcut, side road and timing of every light in town.
You can identify the officer driving every police car or firefighter on every single firetruck you see.
You know which restrooms are the cleanest and dirtiest!
You park your personal vehicle on the curb or the red zone on your days off.
Dirge
10-20-2006, 07:19 AM
If you know the location of every convenience store, drive thru, and post office in a 150 mile radius, chances are you’re a photog.
If you justify wearing jeans and a polo shirt to a fancy restaurant by saying, “Hey, this is how I dress to meet the President, and these guys are no where near as important”, chances are you’re a photog. (I use this on my wife on a regular basis)
If you can field-strip an expensive piece of recording equipment in two minutes, but still pretend not to understand the newsroom’s phone system, chances are you’re a Photog.
I think that needs to be changed to: …and honestly not know how to use the newsroom’s phone system, chances…
queen of blue
10-20-2006, 08:57 AM
If you seem to have one of these
http://216.2.173.7/product_images/K078BARREL-170.bmp
in every jacket, backpack, personal vehicle, and on your nightstand.....
If you know that that ^^^ thing ^^^^ IS ..... chances are you're a photog.
I STILL love that one!!! And still have them too.
Edit: Ok, how did this post get OVER Tippsters???? That's wierd.
Tippster
10-20-2006, 09:03 AM
If you seem to have one of these
http://216.2.173.7/product_images/K078BARREL-170.bmp
in every jacket, backpack, personal vehicle, and on your nightstand.....
Eaglewolf
10-20-2006, 10:35 AM
.....when you tell your wife that her cooking is MONEY
BluesDaddy
10-20-2006, 11:57 AM
If you've been inside a maximum security prison and at the county fair on the same day, chances are you're a photog.
cameragod
10-20-2006, 02:34 PM
If you have been to every live theater venue in town but never by the front door or paid to get in, chances are you are a photog
if you choose your jeans not by fashion but as to weather you can get a camera battery into one back pocket and a tape in the other, chances are you are a photog
if the moment you wake up the first place you visit after the toilet is the computer so you can log onto b-roll, you must be a photog…
LongTimePhotog
10-20-2006, 03:04 PM
If you've been inside a maximum security prison and at the county fair on the same day, chances are you're a photog.
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Trust me...at our county fairs this could to be alot of folks!
sagarian
10-20-2006, 10:40 PM
If you seem to have one of these
http://216.2.173.7/product_images/K078BARREL-170.bmp
in every jacket, backpack, personal vehicle, and on your nightstand.....
Ditto for 9 Volts.
FTOJRLST
10-22-2006, 01:12 PM
Found it, right here in my computer desk drawer....
http://static.flickr.com/99/276330006_cb24f9e07d_m.jpg
focusthis
10-23-2006, 12:51 AM
If you're less impressed with the President's arrival than you are about the Black Van with all the antennae in the motorcade....you might be a photog.
http://static.flickr.com/91/276999756_06fb864d34_m.jpg
If it takes you six tries to get the barrel connector shot you want.........
Dirge
10-23-2006, 05:45 AM
If you're less impressed with the President's arrival than you are about the Black Van with all the antennae in the motorcade....you might be a photog.
Spot on!!! On several times I’ve tried to get close to it to check it out. It’s a 4x4 panel van with two “mystery” access doors on the driver’s side…that’s about all I know about it.
Speaking of the President’s arrival, the last time I flew I had a connecting flight in Cincinnati. W was there for something and everyone was climbing over to the starboard side to take pictures of Air Force One on the tarmac. I couldn’t believe how excited they were. Between growing up near Dover Air Force Base (where AFO does touch and goes all day once a month) and being a news photog, I really didn’t give two s#!+$ about it--especially on my day off. I thought it’s only AFO, what’s the big…Oooooohhh! It took me that long to realize that this was probably the only time in their lives that they’d EVER see Air Force One. Definitely a photog moment.
If you can actually is the blue-ness of sunlight, you are a photog!
code20photog
10-23-2006, 08:29 PM
No one wants to watch TV with you... ;)
Flairmarq
10-23-2006, 09:22 PM
You went into one foot of snow/flood waters to get the one shot you need.
marv3
10-23-2006, 11:38 PM
During halloween you set your front lawn up to look like a crime scene including the live van. Cops didn't like that one.
INLANDNEWS
10-24-2006, 09:02 PM
During halloween you set your front lawn up to look like a crime scene including the live van. Cops didn't like that one.
I would imagine that would draw a crowd, including the police sgt.
During halloween you set your front lawn up to look like a crime scene including the live van. Cops didn't like that one.
Now I know what I am going to do for next year's decorations!! :D
OKC CHIEF
10-30-2006, 10:24 PM
you've seen every major concert for free but only 30 seconds of the 1st, 3rd and 5th songs!
jeremycohn
10-30-2006, 10:55 PM
If you're watching the news with your family and they keep telling you to hush up while you're complaining about the shooters chroma level.
The Daywood
10-31-2006, 09:54 AM
If you can actually is the blue-ness of sunlight, you are a photog!
If you make a post like this, and those reading it actually know what you mean, not only are you a photog, but so are they...
Flairmarq
10-31-2006, 02:29 PM
You get asked on a daily basis "can make them look beautiful for the news?"
You understand the whole concept behind the "bad lighting" episode of Seinfeld, and have said you've been there.
yellowbeta
10-31-2006, 06:32 PM
if you know the police codes better than the rookies ;)
***did that once****
If you make a post like this, and those reading it actually know what you mean, not only are you a photog, but so are they...
I've been working the AM shift and my spellin' and grammar ain't be good in the morning. What I meant to say is...
If you can actually SEE the blue-ness of sunlight, you are a photog!
You meet a girl at the bar and she wants to give you directions to her place and you say "just give me the damn address" and you find it easier than she does, without using a map book, YOU ARE DEFINITELY A PHOTOG!!!
btsatman
11-02-2006, 03:40 AM
You step out of your live truck with your camera, wearing a company polo shirt, and somebody will ask you "Excuse me, but do you work for the TV station?", or even better, "Are you with the newspaper/radio?".
aughtone
11-02-2006, 06:43 AM
you are geekifying yourselves.
just stop.
it's jeff foxworthy's bit.
let it go.
Tippster
11-02-2006, 10:59 AM
Thanks, newb. Now shut the hell up.
Read, understand, post, smoke crack. This order is inviolate.
Chuxty
11-02-2006, 03:44 PM
Thanks, newb. Now shut the hell up.
Read, understand, post, smoke crack. This order is inviolate.
LOL, one of my favorite posts yet! :D
Dirge
11-03-2006, 06:44 AM
Tipp, you are now my favorite moderator.
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