KCRA Photographers Reporting In The A-Block
The Olympics are in full swing, both on NBC and for the newsroom staffs of NBC-affiliates across the country. At KCRA we have crews crews assigned to the Olympic Zone, a KCRA produced local Olympic...
View Article“Breaking Into TV News”— New Black & White Edition — Only $13.95!
The book Breaking Into TV News: How To Get A Job & Excel As A TV Reporter-Photographer is now Breaking
View ArticleKZAP Lives Again At KDVS
For 48-hours on November 8-9, 2012, the U.C. Davis student-run campus radio station KDVS 90.3 FM. I was sent out to do a story on this for KCRA’s 6 o’clock news. KZAP was one of the first of the...
View ArticleKCRA Sac-Anime Convention
The Sac-Anime Convention is going on this weekend downtown at the Sacramento Convention Center. I was sent over to grab a quick VO-SOT, a :20-second reader leading up to a short interview soundbite. I...
View ArticleKCRA – $6 Bag O’ Books!
Heading out of KCRA this morning with morning anchor Mae Fesai to shoot a story at Raley’s about their football deli food for 49ers fans for the game today. “Then we have to go shoot a VO on the book...
View ArticleKCRA Midtown Farmers Market 4-27-2013
It’s been a while since I’ve done a same day news story — as both photographer and reporter — so I’m very glad to resent this latest addition. Last weekend my Saturday was all mapped out: Do some...
View ArticleDAY IN THE LIFE: Covering the Return of Olympic Gold to California
In this post I started out wanting to provide a moment-by-moment chronicle of covering one of my one-person reporter-photographer TV news stories. But as you will see, when you’re covering a the...
View ArticleKCRA Free Comic Book Day 2014
When I was handed this assignment I absolutely couldn’t wait to get there. The subject was Free Comic Book Day — something that I had never heard of, but which I learned has been going on for eleven...
View ArticleNews Editing: Slow Down the Fast Cuts & Let Your Pictures Breathe
I am a fanatic about editing and starting a shot on just the right frame — and frames in TV in the U.S. roll at 30-frames-per-second. But in editing, being off by so much as one or two frames can made...
View ArticleKCRA Salvation Army Food Truck Thanksgiving
Ever since I’ve been shooting TV news, if I’m working Thanksgiving Day, I can count on being at shelter or a church filming traditional Thanksgiving meals being served to those in need. It just goes...
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