Sports Shooter, 2/6/05
"Pro Tech Support Advisor : Tamron/Bronica. Short lived, the company had no support for the two of us doing support, and we both quit. Hard to deal with pros when the company has no desire to back up what you are saying"FlyerTalk, 2/16/08
"In addition to my extensive career as a news/corporate photog, and now shooting weddings around the world as well, I also briefly served as Tamron/Bronica's pro-services representative (there was only one, it was me, and the position was eliminated quickly after it was created) and the preferred way of quickly cleaning lenses was the Ilford anti-state cloth."
NPPA-L, 9/30/97
"I was briefly the Technical Support Service Representative for Tamron-Bronica U.S.A. when A.P. had the bad freelance contract"
Happy Lying!
Check out his bio on this photography website that calls him a "travel expert".
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How about this Golden Oldie from the ProPhoto Forum.
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12-13-2003, 09:12 PM
Steven_E_Frischling
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Re: Photojournalist digital equipment and workflow
Being a photojournalist who in the past calender year has been to two riots over seas this year (both in London, UK), to Iraq, Kuwait, and a bunch of other assignments domestically where things were time constrained, action happened fast, and violence was a possibility (as well as major sporting events, and political situations). I can tell you NO photog should go into these situations if they can't compose, meter, and fire off thier photo with the confidence that they will get their photo.
Like most photogs working in harsh situations, experience teaches you when to duck, where the action is headed, when to run, and how to get in and out safely (most of the time).
It is somewhat insulting to think that you think photogs just go in with a wide-angle lens, shoot in program at f8, and deal with the composition later.
.....anyway....I shoot usually with two bodies (EOS 1D bodies) , one with a 17-35f2.8 and the other with a 70-200f2.8. At times I have an EOS 10D (used to have the DCS520) with a 28-70f2.8, but rarely three bodies in a hostile environment. I usually shoot JPEG for speed, sometimes JPEG + RAW. JPEG is always in Fine-Large.
I often leave my laptop in a safe environment, car far from the action, hotel, airport baggage hold, military command vehicle, etc etc etc. Once I am done, I transfer my images to my laptop (usually a Mac PowerBook G4.....sometimes I use my Dell Latitude C600 running Windows 2000). Once the images are in, I open them in Photo Mechanic (either Mac or Windows), and insert the general IPTC header info. After the basic header info is in place, I edit the photos in Photoshop (v7.0 on Mac, v6.0 in Win2K).
Like any photojournalist in the field working for a newspaper, agency, or wire service, I crop and resize my images. I tend to not try and colour correct my images, as my laptop is not calibrated, and it simpy takes to long. I click "auto levels" and move on usually. My images are fully captioned, and sent.
Domestically I often transmit off my cell phone, sometimes from a wi-fi hot spot. Overseas I have used cell phones and wi-fi, as well as Satalite Phones. In a month (or less) I'll be in Bahrain and off the southern coast of Iraq with the US Coast Guard for a week, there I'll use Sat Phones, and ship-board e-mail to transmit my photos.
I usually shoot in manual mode, sometimes in aperture priority. I also check my while balance, to get my light as close as possible....and I ALWAYS am aware of what is going on, and try to compose my photos so I don't need to crop heavily later.
-Steven E. Frischling
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www.sportsshooter.com/sefrischling/sports
www.sportsshooter.com/sefrischling/dean
I love his bio from 6:18 post. Just for grins let's take his claim of shooting 4 assignments in 3.5 days while going completely around the world. 3.5 days is 84 hours. Assuming that a plane trip averages 500mph and the circumference of the earth is 25,000 miles at the equator (yes I rounded up from 24,901), he spent 50 hours in the air. That left him with 34 hours or an average of 8.5 hours to shoot each assignment. The 8.5(assuming he slept and ate on the plane) hours includes clearing customs, getting to the shoot, showering and personal care, and getting back to the airport. Without proof he is Superman especially in light of his medical history, I quote Southpark, and call shenanigans.
ReplyDeletewhat are you some irs beancounter
ReplyDelete^once again you have nothing to say about the actual blog content... very revealing.
ReplyDeleteoh i was talking about sl and tax issues, sorry
ReplyDeleteall professional photographers schedule multiple assignments on different continents back to back with little time in between because nothing EVER goes wrong and people are always on time, just like flights. I have NEVER had a flight delayed so I am pretty confident that I could totally rely on commercial aviation to get me everywhere I need to go so I can shoot my important (self assigned) assignments. all of my photo friends are doing this now, as a matter of fact, I try to schedule my days with a minimum of 6 assignments in 4 states because that is how I roll. I wish fish would bring back his around the world workshops because this is the wave of the future and I am sure people would now be beating down his door to get in on one of these amazing classes about how to get on a plane and hail a cab at the airport.
ReplyDelete"I'm selling aa Sigma 17-35f2.8-4 with a Nikon mount for $225. Sure, it is not as glamourous as the Nikkor, but I've shot assignments for Time Magazine, The New York Times Travel Section, the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, The Times of London with this lens, so the lens can't be that bad if used properly. The lens is pretty sharp, it is bright, it is fast for most situations, and produces nice images (if the images are composed and exposed properly obviously)."
ReplyDeleteSteven Frischling, 9/26/03
http://www.sportsshooter.com/message_display.html?tid=4295
"You think I am funny? Mosty folks just think I am a hyper failing yutz on the sidelines or the media room"
ReplyDeleteSteven Frischling, 10/7/03
http://www.sportsshooter.com/message_display.html?tid=4551
"In 2000 I followed a group of protestors, lead by some famous professor, into a WalMart in Hinsdale, NH, asthey went about handing out flyers informing people of slave labour tactics. The manager wanted me thrown out before the protestors. The advantage to having worked in a smallish area is I had contacted the police chief ahead of time and told him my plans, from the time WalMart placed the call to the time it hit the police dispatcher was 2 min, response time was 12 minutes (this town is small, and has to many cops.....the chief of police hated WalMart)."
ReplyDeleteSteven Frischling, 10/9/03 Sports Shooter
The Walmart management had every right to eject dickhead from the premises. It is private property and the police would have to enforce the request to have him removed even if he allegedly had called the police chief beforehand. what a dunce.
"labour" - what is he, British?
ReplyDelete^he spells everything that way: labour, colour, humour.
ReplyDeleteEven spelling rules do not apply to sociopaths.
"I can't even figure out which end of a camera I should be using. "
ReplyDeleteSteven Frischling, 11/11/03 Sports Shooter
" I had contacted the police chief ahead of time and told him my plans, from the time WalMart placed the call to the time it hit the police dispatcher was 2 min"
ReplyDeleteYou would have expected the cop was on his way to beat the shit out of him"
The devil is in the details:
ReplyDeleteHe covered two riots "over seas"??? I hope he brought his wet suit.
And ya gotta love someone who says "London, UK." I thought he was talking about London, Iowa.
And, finally, "where violence was a possibility"???? Yes, I, Steven Frischling, have never actually covered violence, only situations in which "violence was a possibility." That's very brave.
>>>>>12-13-2003, 09:12 PM
Steven_E_Frischling
Guest
Re: Photojournalist digital equipment and workflow
Being a photojournalist who in the past calender year has been to two riots over seas this year (both in London, UK), to Iraq, Kuwait, and a bunch of other assignments domestically where things were time constrained, action happened fast, and violence was a possibility (as well as major sporting events, and political situations).<<<<<
I can just hear this guy at some poor person's wedding, "Weddings are just a side business for me because you know I'm very busy most of the year shooting major stories for Time, Newsweek, Life, oh yes, they're still in business, so like I was saying, it's a good thing no one brought any guns to this wedding because you know I've had to dodge many bullits in my career as one of the top 5 photographers in the world, say, that's a nice compact camera you have there you should come to one of the many seminars I teach because you know I teach when I'm teaching and sometimes I have to save a few people lives who choke on the food because I've had EMT training working at nights in the Bronx while I was busy during the day covering major events like the Super Bowl and same sex marriages, where did you say the buffet table is?
ReplyDelete^quite true. It's like he is physically unable to shut himself up.
ReplyDeletehttp://fishfraud.blogspot.com/2010/11/weddingwirecom-steven-is-idiot-who-wont.html
2:47, that's nearly word for word what steven was saying to me on my wedding day as I waited to sign my marriage certificate. I remember staring at him dumbfounded, thinking "you've got to be kidding me, why are you telling me this? I just got married!" Turns out a lot of people from the wedding party that day had a similar experience.
ReplyDelete3:29. I'm very sorry. Joking around isn't really helping, obviously. Your situation shouldn't be wished on anyone. SF I can make fun of. Having a wedding ruined by some slouch, I'm at a loss for words.
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