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Lured to the dark side…

Felix Kubik, Jr., news photographer for WGN’s “Chicago Newsreel.” Photo dated September of 1948. Kubik was a former still photographer for the Chicago Tribune who was lured over to the dark side…err the television side of photojournalism when WGN-TV set up their television newsroom in early 1948. Two years later after this photo was shot, [...]

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LA Crew Has Just Two Hours To Shoot Fox’s Fox :45

One of the newest segments on the Fox Sports NFL Pre-Game show is Fox :45.  Every week the producers have just 45 seconds to make us laugh with everything from short skits to song covers and impersonations.  Go To Team’s Skip Clark, based in Los Angeles, CA, has been shooting most of these segments in [...]

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Prodigal Fog

With loss comes introspection, an affliction from which I’ve suffered all my life. What can I say: I muse in Hi-Def. That doesn’t mean I’m smarter than you; it just means that if I ever got tossed in a car trunk and driven across state lines, I could e…

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Waiting for the President

Chicago newsreel cameramen waiting for President Truman to speak at the April 6,  1946 Army Day observance in Chicago. Notice the media credentials shoved in the hat band of the cameramen on the left. The old Hollywood journalist stereotype was actually based upon a real practice, not artistic license. From the camera of the photographers [...]

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App of the Week – CardMunch

Business cards are still a huge part of networking and with all the meetings I’ve been to since the new year the stack is getting out of control. So what’s a quick way to put them all away yet still have the information stored for ready access? [...]

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App of the Week – CardMunch

Business cards are still a huge part of networking and with all the meetings I’ve been to since the new year the stack is getting out of control. So what’s a quick way to put them all away yet still have the information stored for ready access? [...]

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Supeshooter DP’s the GTP

I recently started working with a new client in Atlanta. Goldie Taylor is known in the media as a cultural critic and political analyst. I have been shooting and directing the first videos of the Goldie Taylor Project. Hopefully, it will get a distr…

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