Back in the day (late 80’s to mid 90’s for yours truly), the never ending quest for a compact lighting kit for on location photo journalism made me a believer in John Falk’s book and philosophy “Adventures In Location Lighting“.
This is a small collection of images I have shot for magazine assignments back when I was shooting still images. Each title is linked to an image. These were shot with a consumer 3 megapixel point and shoot camera in a housing with a 100 degree wide angle lens. Nothing fancy on the equipment, but it did get the job done. These images were created while breath hold, or Freediving.
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Over on Michael Rosenblums blog, a post was made discussing the conclusion of the Travel Channel Academy’s attendees camera choice.
And the winner was???
A consumer Canon HV20 HDV camera. This was selected over the larger SONY Z1U and Panasonic DVX100 prosumer cameras.
Now , I have been skeptical over the so called “NEED” to upgrade to HDV purely based upon the advertising spin doctors implying I needed to upgrade.
When I began to research this catch phrase “Video Journalist” last year, what little information out there was sparse at best. Then I happened upon David Dunkley Gyimah’s “Viewmagazine.tv” and low and behold, I found the mother load for what I was searching for.
Client: Light & Motion
Assignment: Product Demonstration Video for their newly released Titan D200 Housing for the Nikon D200 Digital SLR Camera.
Description: Light & Motion is an underwater housing and bike light company in Monterey, Calif. They contacted me after a series of self generated video podcasts I produced in late 2006 for my other site, UWDV.COM.
