I am pleased to announce, our baby is back! She never really left us but has been sitting idle on the gear shelf for a couple of years gathering dust. With the crazy advent of the DSLR movement, we just couldn’t use her anymore with the smaller cameras. That is, until now. We found a…
It’s not often that I wish I were sick. But after a week of shooting out at St. Luke’s Pulmonary Rehabilitation and witnessing their “dream team” of medical personnel in action, I found myself wishing I had a reason to sign up for their services! St. Luke’s Pulmonary Rehabilitation is a comprehensive program for patients…
On the road again filming the Rocky Mountain Fly Highway! We got to spend our day with the 2006 Individual National Fly Fishing Champion, Bret Bishop. Bret has competed in two Fly Fishing World Championships, and shares his expertise guiding with Silver Creek Outfitters. Bret shared his knowledge about the uniquely challenging nature of fishing…
The artist, Jewel and her husband, rodeo star Ty Murray recently spent two hours with our Boise video crew for a series of interviews and promo clips for the American Movie Channel. Wide Eye Productions provided production support to the three camera AMC team. The footage is part of AMC’s “John Wayne All American Weekend”…
Daily Show Correspondent John Oliver works over the former Senator in an interview captured by our Idaho camera crews. John Oliver turns political tragedy into pure comedy in this interview with former Senator Larry Craig, which aired last night (6/2/10) on Comedy Central. Our camera crews captured the interview in a two camera HDX900 setup,…
I’m not a military man, but I got to drive my first tank in 1980. I crashed it. The only bruise was to my ego, and the only loss was 100 feet of film. Had they survived, the images would have been beautiful. I took it pretty hard. I don’t like losing beautiful images. 30…
One of the first things I appreciated when I entered the motion picture business 20 years ago was the diversity of projects I was allowed to work on, from Pillsbury Dough Boy commercials, to Grateful Dead videos. The small but hip production company I worked for in San Francisco, Colossal (Pictures), had a great variety…
Photographer Bill Krumm’s behind-the-scenes look at shooting for NBC’s hit series, The Biggest Loser.
Rarely does a day pass when I donʼt learn something new at work. My bag of Wide Eye tricks grows ever larger, filling with lessons on winding cables, collapsing C-stands, and packing up a Chimera.
Prime Time Live, The Sarah Johnson Story When director/photographer Tom Hadzor got the call from ABC producer Jeff Diamond to shoot a series of four-camera interviews for an upcoming Prime Time Live special, he knew he’d have to bring along the entire equipment locker. Wide Eye was to provide a third BetaSP unit to a…
