PhotogProblems

We push a button to record history, and make slot any way we can. Vent away television photographers. Use #PhotogProblems for retweets

[Lenslinger @Lenslinger]

Everyone has a plan until they double-punch the RECORD button on the big interview.

How you handle the fallout speaks volumes.

Squeaking of volume, your shit’s pegged out to the max.

[Lenslinger @Lenslinger]

Being a TV News photog is walking backwards in a courthouse hallway as a local dentist and his posse of fem-bot hygienists throw elbows and dirty looks as if YOU’RE the one accused of fondling unconscious patients.

Sometimes, I still love this job.

[Arianna Grainey @AriannaGrainey]

Covering a council meeting and gets a call.
him: "are you at home?"
me: "nope I am shoot...I mean... photographing council"
says while literally surrounded by about 8 cops...

[Lenslinger @Lenslinger]

SHOUT OUT to all the news photogs currently stuck covering the South Carolina Republican Primary on a Saturday night! Especially the ones I sent there!

Sorry, fellas… Y’all rock!

[Lenslinger @Lenslinger]

When you see a photog hoist his baby-cam up in the air like this, you’d better STEP THE EFF BACK, because, clearly, you’re in the presence of a champion.

(Professional camera handler on closed course. Do NOT attempt at home. Or work. Or anywhere, really.)

Photo C/O @AbsoluteLe

[Chad @CABrownTV]

@PhotogProblems1 no problems getting a good white balance today

[Lenslinger @Lenslinger]

Ahh, late December… that time of year when anchors go on vacation, managers work half-days and news crews rotate between house fires, the airport and whatever parade the newsroom didn’t plan to cover until the last minute.

Just head on over. I’m sure traffic won’t be a problem.

[Mark Neitro @MNeitroCO]

@PhotogProblems1 So many memories! I remember running down the hallways to the tape room before a newscast with a stack of tapes from my chin to my extended arms.

[PhotogProblems @PhotogProblems1]

This is the greatest piece of art that has ever existed!

[Mark Neitro @MNeitroCO]

Our @CBSNewsColorado #newsroom tree made out of old DVCPRO tapes.🎄Hundreds of memories & old news stories in that tree. Props to our stream team! #tvnews #OverheardInTheNewsroom #ThatNewsLife

[Mark Neitro @MNeitroCO]

Our @CBSNewsColorado #newsroom tree made out of old DVCPRO tapes.🎄Hundreds of memories & old news stories in that tree. Props to our stream team! #tvnews #OverheardInTheNewsroom #ThatNewsLife

[Chris Knight @PhotogOnFire]

@Lenslinger MOS interviews in the strip mall parking lot while trying to avoid the store manager who will have to call corporate to see if it’s OK for us to pop shoppers about their reaction to the controversial breast enhancement billboard down the street…

[Lenslinger @Lenslinger]

Every TV News photographer knows what it’s like to be trapped in a small room with a new reporter who’s totally lost control of an interview.

Only a few of us will pull the fire alarm.

(Kidding, of course. Usually I just slip out and flip a breaker.)

[Lenslinger @Lenslinger]

Let us now recite The TV News Photog’s Prayer…

God grant me the serenity to accept the reporter I’ve been assigned, the courage to change out batteries at just the right time and the wisdom to push the Record button thingie whenever I’m supposed to.

Amen.

[Lenslinger @Lenslinger]

Tell me again how the live shot backpack button hurt your finger...

(Picture provided by @Hart10Chris, a veteran photog who now finds himself on the assignment desk... which may very well make him the most BS-proof assignment editor out there.)

[Bob Vermiglio @WisnPhotog]

@TonyAtkinsTV @WESH News crew alert!

[Bridgette Pacholka @BridgetteWEWS]

Currently packing for hurricane coverage. What am I forgetting, photog/reporter/mmj friends? I have like 20 pairs of socks, cash, rain clothes, boots...and I'm about to go pick up snacks and protein bars.

[Lenslinger @Lenslinger]

Ever watch a buncha TV news photogs try to keep up with some NFL Cheerleaders? It’s a hoot. Check out this quick look behind the scenes of our five part series on the making of the Carolina Panthers TopCats…

[Chris Mercadante @Mercbg2k]

No free rides! #photogproblems

[trimsplicecut✂️ @trimsplicecut]

Editing is for introverts

Discuss

[Chad @CABrownTV]

We all know a photog who talks over his broll