
Baseball Game is Stopped After Cameraman is Struck in the Face
A baseball game was stopped yesterday after a ball forcefully struck a cameraman in the face and he was taken to hospital.
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.
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.
Rapper Jack Harlow became the center of controversy when he filmed himself adjusting the settings on a live broadcast camera without the operator’s knowledge or permission while courtside at an NBA playoff game.
A few months ago, I was hired as an on-court, fixed broadcast camera operator for an Association of Tennis Professionals event as an independent contractor. While we were not broadcast live on a network, we were broadcasting throughout the stadium and event village as well as being taped for the network.
Our hats go off to SkyCam operator Darin Haggard and pilot Alex Milton who were working the New Orleans Saints vs Chicago Bears game on October 20th. They both earned their paycheck and then some when they captured some buttery smooth, perfectly framed footage of a 102-yard kickoff return that has since gone viral.
When I go to a photography exhibit or show, I find myself looking at similar work: photographs made from an inkjet printer that are just stylized archives. Be it a photo of a bird, a dress, a subject or event. Whatever it is, it’s just a photograph. A photograph that can be easily duplicated with the simple press of a button. A print on a piece of paper, nothing more, nothing less.
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.