Charlotte Crew Travels to Tampa for a SPEED Channel Shoot with NASCAR Driver Kevin Harvick
Audio op Graig Goodale and I had a chance to catch up with NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick for a shoot with SPEED Channel this week. Our day began with scenics of the beaches and water ways that surround the Tampa skyline and then it was off to shoot Kevin’s arrival at the airport. Once we picked […]
Read MoreAtlanta Director of Photography, Tom Wells, Hits the Road for TNT’s NASCAR Season
Each year the NASCAR Season is divided up among several broadcasters, the first two being FOX Sports and TNT. Tom helped FOX Sports wrap up their season in Dover, DE at the Monster Mile and transitioned over to TNT’s Summer Six Pack (named after the 6 races that TNT covers) the very next week. Tom […]
Read MoreNashville Crew Shoots for SPEED with NASCAR Legends
Usually if I’m shooting for SPEED it means I’m in Charlotte. However, this time SPEED came to me. We ended up shooting three features in two days. The first day we shot a feature on the old Fairgrounds Speedway located in Nashville. I was rocking the HDX 900, 5D, and Contour POV camera. We were […]
Read MoreNashville Crew Goes Behind the Scenes with “The Champ”
The NASCAR season is in full gear. I headed down to Charlotte to shoot behind scenes footage of the new Sprint commercial with Jimmie Johnson. It’s no secret that I love NASCAR so I must say I was pretty pumped to be shooting the five-time Sprint Cup champion. I was shooting on the Panasonic HDX […]
Read MoreAtlanta’s Director of Photography Heads to Korea for FOX Sports
Atlanta based DP Tom Wells spent some time recently in Korea for a FOX Sports special assignment. Each year FOX Sports spends some time overseas with US troops during the holidays. Past trips for the special have included assignments in Afghanistan and Qatar. This year’s trip took the crew to Seoul, Korea to shoot packages […]
Read MoreNashville Crew Wraps Up the Year with NASCAR Legend
Before the ball drop in New York City and everyone started celebrating the new year I found myself in Darrel Waltrip’s Honda Dealership. Fox Sports was putting together a piece on television innovator, David Hill and they needed a few sound bites from D.W. We set up the interview in Mr. Waltrip’s office. Before we […]
Read MoreThe Journey: Go To Team’s LA Apprenticeship
The Go To Team apprenticeship has been quite a journey so far. The adventure began as I loaded up my belongings and left South Carolina and headed for sunny California. I was very excited to have the opportunity to learn from the LA crews’ Skip Clark and Dan Lowrey. My first few days with Skip and Dan […]
Read MoreAtlanta’s Director of Photography Turns Up The Heat for Six Weeks at Turner’s NASCAR Summer Series
Atlanta based Director of Photography Tom Wells spent a good part of this summer serving as the ENG Crew for TNT’s NASCAR Summer Series. For 6 weeks Turner Sports handled the broadcasting of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series covering the races in Pocono, Daytona, Kentucky, Louden, Michigan, and Sonoma. DP Tom Wells and Apprentice Kevin […]
Read MoreNashville Crew Rocks Out with Martina McBride
I love living in Nashville cause it almost guarantees that I’ll be working with a lot of rock stars, and who doesn’t love rock stars? Anyways, NASCAR on TNT was in town shooting a new music video for Martina McBride. I was there with a Panasonic HDX-900 to shoot the behind the scenes of the […]
Read MoreLA’s Clark Crew Wraps Its EIGHTH Year on NASCAR!
Go To Team’s Skip Clark has wrapped up his eighth year on the NASCAR circuit for Fox Sports. Every year brings something different, and in that way, 2011 was just the same. There was a new schedule with a new stop for Fox – Kansas – and there was new gear – Go To Team’s new Sony […]
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