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Lenslinger on the Radio
Long-time cameraman/scribe, Stewart “Lenslinger” Pittman, took his brilliant proses to a vocal level yesterday. He was able to find his way onto a regional talk radio show on WZTK in North Carolina. Host, Allan Handelman guided the discussion on local TV news, OMBs, social media and streaming media. Pittman made Read More →
SNL DP Uses Canon 5d and 7d for Open
From: Philip Bloom According to Alex Buono, DP for SNL, the new show open for Saturday Night Live was shot on the Canon 5d and 7d. In addition, some of the commercials and shorts normally shot on film were accomplished with the dSLRs. Normally these segments would be shot on Read More →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Philip Bloom Shoots the 7D
The MacGyver of digital video cameras, Philip Bloom can shoot beautiful images on just about anything. And his string of video product reviews, world travels and active blog somehow leave him time to try every new camera that is released. This weekend, Bloom took a break from his F-Stop Academy Read More →