tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132494532011-12-01T04:01:38.405-08:00Rants, Ruminations and Ramblings of a television news photographer/editorPixelWranglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266410214228196970noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13249453.post-1119851124412484102005-06-26T21:37:00.000-07:002005-06-26T22:45:24.430-07:00

Kind of a heavy topic to deal with, what with me coming off a nice, relaxing vacation and all, but here goes:Our Father of News-Photographer-blogging, lenslinger, recently posted a particularly well-composed item dealing with the unpleasentness of reporting on death.We've all done it... time and again... covered the sometimes violent, sometimes accidental, sometimes freakish, always tragic end of

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I feel like I'm getting into a rut here...I think it's more about scheduling than anything else, though. We usually have 3 photographers and 2 reporters working "nightside". I come in at 1:30 and the other two guys come in at 2:00. Most of the dayside guys are out in the field when i get to work, so I'm usually out the door immediately on some sort of vosot or spot news. By the time I get

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Wouldn't'cha know it... I launched this blog so that I could regale everyone with my amazing tales of photojournalistic derring-do, to give you an insider's view of my insider's view of life as it happens... And since the big launch, well... life hasn't been happening! Seems lately that Iris, the mythological Greek Goddess of news assignments, has had me relegated to what we soldiers refer to

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What are you, my fellow nomads out there in the PhotograBlogosphere (©Lenslinger) using to capture the pictures that populate your blogs?The vast majority of pictures that appear on my other blog are captured with the Nikon D100, which is an amazing photographic tool that gives me beefy images with accurate color fidelity and speed to spare. The problem is that it's sorta like shooting with an

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Time spent driving for today's story: 4 hours 20 minutes.Miles driven for today's story: 247Time spent shooting today's story: 22 minutesTime spent editing today's story: 17 minutes (by necessity, not choice)Hanging out with 3 generations of Oklahoma wheat farmers: Priceless!Overall grade for today's effort: D minus...It could have been, but it wasn't... Know what I mean?

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I hesitate to admit this publicly for fear of setting in motion a wave of jealousy throughout newsrooms across America, but here goes: Most evenings, I get a dinner break. I don't know why it works out that way, it just does more often than not. And what's even better is that most of those evenings I'm able to head home for a nice, home-cooked meal with the girls.This evening, however, the

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Tonight, I fired up NewsCutter #3, opened the NRCS tool and scanned my reporter's script as she was writing it. Most of her pkg was in, so I made mental notes of the video I would use to fill the gaps 'tween bites as I was capturing/digitizing/ingesting... Now, this particular reporter is in the habit of leaving "video" notes on the left-hand column of the script: a "Road Map" of sorts,

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When severe weather breaks out, as it often does this time of the year in my neck of the woods... This is my favorite place to track it: From the command center desk in my office den at the station home.You'll notice I've got one eye trained on the tv and the other on the weather discussion blogs online.But seriously, if you happen to be my boss and happen to be reading this... I'm ready to

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Funny how things work... For the past couple days, I've found myself shooting stories that not-so-subtly remind me of the fact that I'm getting old. Yesterday's post about the former band director turned principal sent me reminiscing down memory lane about the "glory days" of high school, then today's story about the benefit golf tournament for the former-star-athelete-turned-quadriplegic

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I shot an Anchor PKG this afternoon about a new fine arts charter school starting up next fall in my community. Interviewed the principal who, turns out, was band director of my high school's arch-rival (if high school bands can actually have arch-rivals) back in the day.After the interview, he and I were shootin' the shit... He asks, "Was so-and-so your band director?My reply, "Yeah, helluva

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Two of my May sweeps pieces have been linked on Fark.com! I don't know whether to laugh or cry!The first was "May 3rd, 1999: The Lost Tape". This link was attributed to an Austin, TX station, which, through a "friend of a friend" deal broadcast our original piece.The other was "Freezing Gas Prices", originally a lame sidebar that evolved into a full-fledged sweeps piece. This one, according to

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Lemme set the scene...It's late in the book, we're in a neck-and-neck battle with the guys down the street, who are threatening to topple us from our long-held perch atop the ratings pyramid.Marc, our senior-stormchaser-emeritus, ambles into the newsroom one morning and says,"Check this out... I just found found this Hi-8 tape from the May 3rd tornado in my bin! This shit never made air!"The May

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I've stumbled across a handful of TV Photographer blogs lately and, frankly, it left me feeling a little left out. So here I am... Let's see where this takes us...

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