Construction Photos
I adore construction sites. I suppose it’s because so much of my hometown of Ubly, Michigan works in construction (road and house). Nacho and I have been hired by an engineering firm here, in Santiago, to photograph their work. This was our first go. Nacho had the 70-200 2.8 on the 7d. I had the [...]
Audio setups and traveling light
My La Tercera gear is a Canon Rebel 2ti with a kit lens (28-70 f3.5-5.6) with one battery and a 4gb normal speed memory card. I purchased for myself an 8gb 30mb/s card, because the video needs memory and quick memory at that. I have access to a Sony HDR-SR7 avchd (a camera available in [...]
Video Compression: How
The above is from the project I referenced before about the damage to Chile’s architectural heritage. It is set to be live today. Marcelo Bravo, an architect with the University of Chile, pauses to bless himself with holy water, as he passes the sanctuary during his inspection of Santa Filomena in the Patronato neighborhood of [...]
On music and fonts
The above photos are from a project I did about the beginning of school in Santiago – how both children and parents are coping. It has nothing to do with the rest of the post, but is fulfilling our always visuals rule. The post itself talks about an unpublished piece, which will not appear in [...]
Result: Flipbooks Galore
So, what happened? Nicolás Alcalde, from my second presidential project, and I met at the paper at 7, and arrived at the bus stop at 7.30. We began to search for someone going from there to the end of the future metro. We found an individual to follow fairly quickly – a middle aged woman. [...]
Laying Multimedia Plans
Santiago’s Metro is expanding. The government opened three new stations (conveniently, days before a tight presidential election) and announced about a week and a half ago that they would begin building an entirely new line, which will connect a heavily working class area of the city with a heavily middle and upper class section. I [...]
La Tercera: Project 2 – The Challenges the Candidates Face
I have a new project published in La Tercera. It is part two in my exploration of issues in the presidential elections in Chile. In this part, I examined access for people with disabilities, public transportation and access to affordable housing (vivienda). All of these stories were done with the production help of my collegue [...]
Master vs. Jack… Who am I?
And why is that title not SEO optimized? The photo is from the third story in my next La Tercera series. The story is about living conditions or housing. This was taken in a small campamento in an area of Santiago called Renca. I will discuss the campamento and the story in a later post. [...]
On the bus, with the gear
I am doing another series on issues in the upcoming presidential elections. This time, the issues are people with disabilities(Nacho’s killer photo from yesterday,) living conditions, and transportation. Today I went to a bus depot at the far end of town. With a colleague, Nicolás Alcalde, I interviewed a bus driver. Then we rode with [...]
Gone out shooting
Man it feels nice. Today I went with Eileen while she was on assignment for La Tercera, where she’s shooting some of the topics that the presidential candidates are focusing on. This time it was “minusválidos” (disabled) and for that she’s following Francisca Mardones (36) who’s 17th in the world tennis ranking for handicapped people. [...]
Elections and Remebering
My Spanish teacher told me that someone had presented one of the presidential candidates here with a great bag of raisins. According to Chilean lore, they are supposed to help you remember. I’ve been working freelance for La Tercera, one of the major Chilean newspapers. They brought me in especially to produce multimedia projects. My [...]
Stretching our photographic muscles
A few days after we arrived in Santiago, a friend asked us to take just a few stills of a small carnival that was going on in Santiago. “Why not make a small multimedia piece about it?” we said, so this is the result. Just a couple of hours shooting, having fun and trying to [...]
Blogging together and the Mapuche protest
Nacho and I decided to start a blog together. More accurately, I decided we should start a blog together, and he didn’t object. Why together? 1. We work together constantly. I do what I can to help him, he perfects my work. To put up work on separate blogs would really muddle the contributions of [...]