Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH
10.19.2009 11:45 pm

Canon unveils 1D Mark IV-ISO 102,400, HD Video

After months and months of speculation Canon has finally announced the specs for their new professional camera.  The best I can offer is a list of links that have more information then I have, but here are some highlights.

–ISO 102,400(I’ll…

  • Comments (1)
  • Email this
05.31.2009 9:50 pm

Online Video or slideshows, which do you prefer to look at?

This is an informal poll but I’m interested in what people want out of our website STLtoday.com.  I can’t promise a vote one way or another will influence anything but I’m curious to see what people prefer.

Which would you like…

  • Comments Off
  • Email this
05.13.2009 1:51 pm

President Obama’s town hall meeting transformed back into Fox High School gym

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s amazing what a large American flag, hot lights, and a few thousand Obama supporters can do to transfer a high school gym into a stage for the President, who visited Fox High School in Arnold to mark his first…

  • Comments Off
  • Email this
03.23.2009 11:32 am

Video toybox is great for still photographers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I’ve become intrigued by our new little video lights, but not only for videos.  They are just so handy for still photography, especially when I need something small.

Such was the case a couple weeks back when photographing homemade liqueurs at…

  • Comments (1)
  • Email this
02.01.2009 5:39 pm

Photographers cover the Blagojevich impeachment trial

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The news media gather in the Senate Chambers in Springfield, Ill.

The news media gather in the Senate Chambers in Springfield, Ill.

For as long as I can remember, there’s always been friction between still photographers and videographers. It’s like oil and water. I’ve been a still shooter for most of my…

  • Comments Off
  • Email this
01.26.2009 11:06 am

Inauguration day timeline

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

4:55 a.m. - The bus leaves a Baltimore airport hotel. I’m on board with a group of Ritenour High School students. They’ve worked hard to get here today. All of them are part of an organization called Partners in Achievement.…

  • Comments (2)
  • Email this
12.10.2008 4:59 pm

Learning to use a video camera stabilizer instead of a tripod

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Video camera stabilizer Glidecam 4000

Its probably safe to assume that most people don’t want to see a shaky picture of jerky video. As a still photographer, that was not a major concern. Even in a dimly lit situation, I can hand hold 1/8th of…

  • Comments (1)
  • Email this
09.18.2008 12:25 pm

The “perfect” staff camera for newspaper photojournalists?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Whether this feature will live or die in future models, either way it’s official, the race to get HD video in a digital SLR camera is here. Canon released their much anticipated digital SLR camera, the EOS 5D Mark II…

  • Comments (1)
  • Email this
09.08.2008 7:24 pm

Hello video, meet holga, see holgeo?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

hernandez.jpg

Ever dream of turning your high-end HD video camera into the perfect artistic venture using a mounted 35mm-format lens? So did I (I guess you did?) And here it is, relatively cheap. Check out a simply killer video Richard Koci…

  • Comments (2)
  • Email this
08.28.2008 5:28 pm

Why do you need a video camera for a newspaper?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Often on our photo assignments for the newspaper, someone will ask the question: “So, which TV station are you from?”

I’ll usually show them my 35MM Canon SLR still digital cameras and answer with a correction that I’m a newspaper photographer for…

  • Comments Off
  • Email this