...meaning one more thing off the bucket list. For years, aye decades, I've wanted to serve on a jury. Never quite understood the comments from folks who would do anything to avoid it. Now I've spent plenty of time IN courthouses and IN courtrooms - just never doing the deed. I've gone to countless arraignments … Continue reading Another one down…
A workshop is kinda like a class but shorter...and I've got two scheduled over the next few months through SICL/Stockton Institute for Continued Learning. That's an all-volunteer group based out of my local community college - San Joaquin Delta College. So if you're in the area and want to pick up some pretty bare bones … Continue reading Upcoming workshops
...from making the light box. What to do, what to do... How about making a handy-dandy two-sided reflector? What you'll need: Cardboard Scissors Tape Foil Glue White board or paper.
Have an artist acquaintance who needs to take photos of his work (wire sculptures) for his website. We tried a jury rigged setup in his garage but the light (as expected) was too harsh. So I reverted back to my teaching days to make a home-made light box out of cardboard, tape, and white board. … Continue reading Do-It-Yourself Light Box
I'll be working on some artist profiles over the next year with luck and need to move a few of them from wanting to sell their stuff to making the public wanting to purchase their vision. As with any professional they love doing what they do...and like all of us they'd love to make a … Continue reading Buy my stuff…
Seems to me I've gone over an awful lot over the years about the knowledge and techniques required to be a decent VJ (or news cameraman). But one essential that has not been separated out and should have been is shooting. Now I'm not talking about the aesthetics, the art of shooting. Or the … Continue reading The Whole Enchillada…
Sorting through old drafts and found this from 2010. 10.12.10 I am constantly befuddled by people who say they don’t know what career they want to go into. This includes my kin and students. I’ve known since I first got my hands on a camera at about age 12. I won the camera – a … Continue reading Archiving the past…
Sometimes you live long enough to wade through changes you saw or never saw coming. Shifts in the reality of getting your job done. Film to tape I saw coming...and the shift to digital (much further along the timeline than I expected frankly). And more recently (on my personal timeline) the shift from a recognized … Continue reading Choosing a camera 6.0
I'm retired...meaning not working for pay. But there's no way I can give up doing what I love most, which is shooting and producing videos. I've had to come up with a plan...a philosophy...so I can continue my love without compromising my ethics...and here it is, subject to revision. 1. If you have a budget … Continue reading Disengaging from being paid to work…
Comes the day when we all have to retire...from work. At that point are we still journalists? Or former journalists? Or do we morph into something else as we settle into our new lifestyle. My life is divided into segments. Child. Student. Photographer. Broadcast news cameraman. Teacher. Freelance VJ. And now retired...and no longer a … Continue reading When you are no longer a journalist…
