While we traversed the floor of NAB 2010 in Las Vegas last week we were able to catch up with several industry movers and shakers as it relates to the future of the News Photographer.
Stewart "Lenslinger" Pittman conducted interviews with B-Roll.net founder Kevin Johnson, KSHB News Director Peggy Phillip, Poynter Institute Media Trainer Al Tompkins, Veteran Network News Cameraman Les Rose and Las Vegas News Photographer Ozkar "Latin Lens" Palomo.
These folks shared their insight into the world of Broadcast News and how they each think One-Man-Band Photographer/Reporters will shape it's future.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
NAB 2010 - Day 2
Converging Medium
You may think this is some fancy pants operation....Stewart, Rick, Adam and me running around Las Vegas pretending to know what we're doing....well...we know what we're doing but how we're doing it is nothing short of piecemeal.
From Adam's consumer JVC HD Camcorder to my $25 Radio Shack adapter cable we're carry far fewer dollars worth of equipment than during our 9 to 5 routine.
But we like to think we're giving it our best effort despite our lack of fancy pants equipment. I mean look at what Lenslinger had to resort to for his blog because his laptop is at home in a hundred pieces!
Equipment...that's just a money thing. Maybe some of our new aquaintences will pony up a nicer camera and a wireless mic for us to use next year....or maybe I'll just by one.
From Adam's consumer JVC HD Camcorder to my $25 Radio Shack adapter cable we're carry far fewer dollars worth of equipment than during our 9 to 5 routine.
But we like to think we're giving it our best effort despite our lack of fancy pants equipment. I mean look at what Lenslinger had to resort to for his blog because his laptop is at home in a hundred pieces!
Equipment...that's just a money thing. Maybe some of our new aquaintences will pony up a nicer camera and a wireless mic for us to use next year....or maybe I'll just by one.
Monday, April 12, 2010
NAB 2010 Day 1 - Hitting the Floor
In 3D...In Las Vegas
With all the hype of NAB 2010 and social media and cameras that will upload in a nanosecond - according to some and depending on speed - I am happy to report Stewart "Lenslinger" Pittman, Rick "Turdpolisher" Portier and Adam "Newshawk" Krolfifer and I hit the floor the Las Vegas Convention Center and will soon have lots of media files to share with you.
Because we shot most of our video on a small HD camera that will have to wait until we can get back to a more powerful edit laptop that didn't make the trip with us.
But I can tell you that the talk of NAB this year is 3-D. Not neccesarily for news but just as color replaced black and white and HDTV is replacing analog color, 3-D is coming...and we have seen it....albeit thru (not-rose-colored) glasses.
Although a lot of the are 3-D setups are really two cameras run through a fancy processing system there are fully equipped single camera setups on display that have two small lenses side by side for creating 3-D productions...which by the way is NOT what I'm attempting in this picture of a double live stream interview between Kevin Johnson, of B-Roll dot Net and Lenslinger.(Can be found HERE)
Almost all of these 3-D setups require the viewer to where glasses, in fact I haven't seen otherwise, and that may be the short term downfall of the technology...that and it looks like ass without the glasses.
But with the glasses on it's incredible. I can vouch.
Stand by for more pictures, articles and ultimately videos from the floor of NAB 2010!
For Now check out Kevin Johnson and Stewart Pittman talking about the first day at NAB 2010.
Because we shot most of our video on a small HD camera that will have to wait until we can get back to a more powerful edit laptop that didn't make the trip with us.
But I can tell you that the talk of NAB this year is 3-D. Not neccesarily for news but just as color replaced black and white and HDTV is replacing analog color, 3-D is coming...and we have seen it....albeit thru (not-rose-colored) glasses.
Although a lot of the are 3-D setups are really two cameras run through a fancy processing system there are fully equipped single camera setups on display that have two small lenses side by side for creating 3-D productions...which by the way is NOT what I'm attempting in this picture of a double live stream interview between Kevin Johnson, of B-Roll dot Net and Lenslinger.(Can be found HERE)
Almost all of these 3-D setups require the viewer to where glasses, in fact I haven't seen otherwise, and that may be the short term downfall of the technology...that and it looks like ass without the glasses.
But with the glasses on it's incredible. I can vouch.
Stand by for more pictures, articles and ultimately videos from the floor of NAB 2010!
For Now check out Kevin Johnson and Stewart Pittman talking about the first day at NAB 2010.
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