A Cameraman is Accidentally in This ‘Harry Potter’ Scene
Fans have spotted a cameraman accidentally appearing in an iconic scene in Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets -- and the blunder may be down to the changing aspect ratios in cinema.
Fans have spotted a cameraman accidentally appearing in an iconic scene in Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets -- and the blunder may be down to the changing aspect ratios in cinema.
An Olympic cameraman disturbed a 5,000-meter run after wandering into the middle of the pack during a race -- drawing criticism from the athletes.
Researchers believe they have eliminated the problem of camera operators appearing in shot during live sports games.
A skating cameraman in camouflage went out onto the ice to film two hockey players fighting during a Memorial Cup game in Canada.
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill promised to pay the lost wages of the photographer who was suspended by the NFL for filming his backflip selfie celebration video.
An NFL photographer and content creator had his media credentials suspended for his part in the Tyreek Hill backflip selfie celebration video.
A baseball game was stopped yesterday after a ball forcefully struck a cameraman in the face and he was taken to hospital.
The NBA has fined Memphis Grizzlies player Dillon Brooks $35,000 after he shoved a camera operator who was hurt in the incident.
A former international soccer player has apologized after footage of him brutally attacking a cameraman was filmed at the World Cup in Qatar.
A senior BBC cameraman was arrested and beaten up while covering anti-lockdown protests in China yesterday.
Runners in the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase final at the World Athletics Championships had to take evasive action to avoid hitting a camera operator who was inexplicably standing in the middle of the track.
Sports photographers and videographers usually work stealthily in the background, documenting athletes without distracting from the competition, but one cameraman in China stole the show after he outran the sprinters in a 100m race.
If you ever find yourself getting low to the ground to try and get the perfect shot of a horned animal, be sure to protect what's valuable to you. A BBC cameraman found out what can happen if you don't, as you can see in this short viral clip above.
Illustrator Rob Mathieson has a dog named Fatman the Dog with some impressive camera skills. With a camera mounted to his back, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier captures great footage of skateboarders doing their thing.
Live side views of sprinters are usually shot using remote cameras on rails. But if you have a cameraman that's as fit and fast as the athletes themselves, you can ditch the high-tech equipment and use just a gimbal stabilizer instead.
This is some seriously impressive camera work! Take a peek behind the scenes of Oscar-nominated film 'La La Land,' and see how one of the camera men was able to swing a massive camera around like a toy to create perfect in-camera whip pans.
While shooting for a conservation film about rhino poaching in South Africa, cameraman Garth De Bruno Austin was approached by a wild rhino who was apparently in search of a nice belly rub. The unusual encounter was captured in the 15-second video above.
This must be every professional racing photographer's nightmare: you're sitting on a rickety perch, capturing the action, when a crash sends a flipping race car hurtling in your direction, taking out said perch and only narrowly missing you.
Want to see what you get when you combine a ninja with a cameraman? Just look at Florian Hatwagner, a Vienna, Austria-based camera operator who goes by the name "gimbalninja" online.
"I'm an Austria based cameraman that specializes in operating a camera whilst running, jumping and leaping over obstacles," he says.
The Rugby World Cup is coming up this September and New Zealand sports television channel Sky Sports wants to make sure that their cameramen are ready for the job. In this series of hilarious videos from 2011, we witness ‘cameramen at boot camp’. Whether they are trying to keep their lenses focused or assemble their camera bodies while blindfolded, we wish them all the best.
A cameraman at the Coke Zero 400 NASCAR race escaped disaster this past weekend at the Daytona International Speedway. While working a camera on a tripod on the side of the track, the man found himself just a short distance away from a car slamming into the catch fence after a big wreck.
Footage shot with smartphones has become much more common in the world of journalism today, where quick turnaround times are just as important as getting the shot. Knowing this, one CNN cameraman wanted to see if it was possible for a smartphone (namely the iPhone 6) to keep up with a much larger, traditional broadcast camera.
Memphis Grizzlies guard Tony Allen got a little carried away last week when, after committing his third foul, he decided to take out his frustration by smacking Bo Bradley's camera as he was capturing the action -- an act that is going to cost him.
If you ever find yourself wondering what it's like to be hunted by a hungry polar bear, just ask filmmaker Gordon Buchanan. While shooting wildlife imagery in Svalbard, Norway for a BBC series titled The Polar Bear Family and Me, Buchanan was approached by a giant 1,000lb, 8-foot-tall polar bear. Luckily for Buchanan, he was in a tiny Plexiglas enclosure. Luckily for the BBC, Buchanan was able to capture the 45-minute ordeal on film.