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Pariahgrinch

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Headin home from dinner w the family and came across a car that had rammed into one of those huge bay garage doors at a muffler shop. Buddy was still in it noticeably freaked. Not being a paramedic, I of course race home (1 min away) scoop up the cam and fly back to shoot him trying to reverse the car out and pulling most of the door with him. I have since sent off the tape to a local affiliate for some much needed P2 money! Long winded?? Perhaps...Anyone have any tips for arriving on scene with no time to tweak and just gotta roll? Could be informative and hilarious.

I should mention that I did yell out of the car window to the small group that had gathered whether he needed help and it was all good. Only heartless when provoked.
 
I shot a bear in a pool in So California with my cell phone and the local news used it, they did all of the color, etc correction.....I probably would not worry about it, more about content than technical ....PS Hope Buddy is OK..
 
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Buddy was in fine shape. It turns out he worked there and hit the gas instead of the brake. I dropped of a copy of the tape to the owner after. You were close enough to a bear in a pool to shoot on a cell phone? Kevlar boxers I hope. Thanks for pipin in.
 
If you have no time to set up anything, then you have no time.

All I can say is leave your cam with settings that have worked in the past.

But I don't understand what you are asking for as advice to tweak settings if there is not time to do this.

It's not as if you are going to constantly run into these situations while driving around.
 
i work for a newspaper so i pretty much stay ready. hvx in bag with empty p2 cards, sticks, mics, boompole, wireless, still camera and laptop. most of the stuff i do for work i don't shoot in HD, so i just leave the cam in SD mode. content is king, so it almost doesnt matter what its shot on. some of our most popular videos were shot on digicam point shoots using the movie mode. its just all about right place at the right time.
 
I shot 2 news stories in my 20 year broadcast career. One traffic fatality and one airplane crash that won me an EMMY.
That ticked off the News Photogs at my station. :)
I wasn't fond of my roll at either scene so I'm staying with productions and not news.
 
AIRPLANE CRASH?

Just sitting around getting stock footage or what?

Isn't this what the auto switch is for?
If you have more than a minute, spend the time on settings, but don't forget about composition. There are tens of thousands of photos and videos from NY on September 11, but there are only a few that will represent the tragedy going forward.
If you have only a few moments, just shoot and pray. If you've got the Zapruder film, someone will save it in post.
 
I got there after the crash. The jet tried to land in a school playground but pulled up at the last second to miss children and crashed into some apartments.
A parent of a child who was on the playground saw our van labeled "NBC Production" and asked if we would do an interview.
I only agreed for PR reasons but that kid did the most animated description of seeing the pilot avoid killing all the kids.

Ya know what kills me, you see all these videos and as soon as something smashes or crashes the people stop the recording! :thumbdown
Like that lady that got hit by lightning and she stopped recording. Woooosie. :tongue:
 
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