Helicopter of the Week

Veterans Day

You just cant beat a good flag photo. Great photos to be made at a memorial service at Southwood High School.

Shattered Saturday

Art Nerio, a photographer for KTAL in Shreveport, got a good story this morning while on assignment shooting some bicycles along Highland Ave. A rock was kicked up from a passing car and shattered the filter on his DVCPro video camera.

Give the guy a raise, sure a $50 filter is nothing compared to a new lens on a professional tv camera!

Ingenuity...sort of.

I called it "ghetto"...I'm sure they call it ingenuity...but in the end, whatever gets the job done. Here we have local media taping mics and recorders to a single light stand before the start of a press conference at the Office of Emergency Preparedness in Bossier City.

Dedication

With all of the weather and flooding we've been having lately, the true dedication of journalists come out when we have to make our way through flood waters to get the story. Here we have Times reporter Drew Pierson making his way through some water in south Bossier City.

Halloween 2009

Why We Use Filters

I was sent to cover Bossier Parish inmates sandbagging in response to rising levels on the Red Chute Bayou. I knew right away my nice clean tennis shoes were going to get muddy, so I was pleased when we got to shoot on the road along the levee. That meant limited mud...or so I thought. EVerything was dry and clean until one of the inmates dropped a bag of sand as they passed it down the line...splash! I was covered in mud splatter. You Saints fans in the area will be thrilled to know my Cowboys pullover was hit...my clothes and my gear! But, that's why we use a UV filter on our lenses...it's nothing but a piece of glass but it kept mud off the front element!

Just for fun.

PAN vs BLUR

This post is dedicated to the students from my sports photography class last semester at BPCC. We had a section on different techniques to use, and we spent a class and assignment talking about panning and blurring techniques. I was looking for something a bit different at my high school football game assignment between Loyola and Northwood, so I tried the two techniques as the Loyola players came onto the field at the opening of the game.

(ISO:800 f7.1 1/10)

The above is an example of the blur technique. For this technique, the camera stays in a fixed position and a slow shutter speed is used to capture the image. The key to this particular image was the use of my flash with my setting on rear curtain sync. Put plainly, that means the flash fires at the end of the exposure rather the the beginning. If it was set on normal, the flash would have fired early and the effect would have come out looking as though the player was running backwards.

(ISO:800 f3.2 1/40)
This image is an example of panning. For this technique, you move your camera and follow along with the player as he moves. The background is what blurs and the player stays sharp...at least in theory. It's a bit harder than it looks sometimes, so let's just say I was happy to get a keeper.

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Anyone guess where this press conference was held?