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Dave Baker

Charleston, South Carolina Director of Photography and Video Camera Crew

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  • Charleston Crew Teams Up with Guerrilla Cuisine to Bring Food to the People

    1/09/12 •

    The Mission: to bring an elegant dining experience to a secret location under guerrilla cooking conditions. The Location: an undisclosed venue forgotten by time The A-Team: Culinary Connoisseur “jimihatt”, and GTT’s Charleston based Baker Crew. After helping “revitalize” (ie: removing old furniture, wiring, dust covers, and other various detritus) the abandoned venue, Dave Baker set [...]

  • Charleston Crew rolls “deep” wth the South Carolina Aquarium for Halloween

    11/02/11 •

      Charleston based DP Dave Baker recently teamed up with the South Carolina Aquarium to help produce a Halloween special for the Weather Channel. The challenge? Underwater pumpkin carving in the aquariums 40 foot deep undersea exhibit. Divers submerged and went to work on their masterpieces amid hundreds of fish, sharks, and even a 300 [...]

  • Charleston Crew up to bat with MLB Network

    10/24/11 •

    Our Charleston Crew, led by Director of Photography Dave Baker teamed up with MLB Network in Bluffton, SC to tell the tale of the Sczcepanik family. What a terrific family and a great shoot day. It’s always a  good time with the MLB folks. Great producers really know how to set the tone and get [...]

  • Charleston Crew gets some press in Asheville, NC with CNBC

    9/26/11 •

    GTT’s Dave Baker was spotted by the press recently in Asheville while shooting an HD segment for MSNBC’s “Your Business.” The Charleston based DP was happy to head for the cooler air of the mountains and a change of scenery. Check out the finished story here: MSNBC Your Business Asheville Playgrounds.   The story chronicled [...]

  • Charleston Crew “Tunes in Tokyo” with TV Tokyo for Rick Perry Presidential Announcement

    9/14/11 •

    GTT’s Charleston based Dave Baker was front and center for Texas Governor Rick Perry’s Presidential bid announcement in At the Redstate.com gathering in Charleston SC. Armed with a High Definition Sony F-800 XDcam and a Japanese Text to Translate app on his droid, Dave provided his DP services to a new client, “TV Tokyo.” It [...]

  • Charleston Crew Pregames Hurricane Irene with the Weather Channel

    9/09/11 •

    Charleston’s Go To Team DP Dave Baker and crew recently traveled up to the North Carolina Coast in search of early warning signs from Hurricane Irene with the Weather Channel’s Eric Fisher. Despite the beautiful sunny weather and moderate comfortable temperatures, The Panasonic HDX900 and the (in this case unnecessarily waterproof) Bron Kobolds performed marvelously, [...]

  • Charleston Crew at Charleston Southern with CSU Alumni Congressman Tim Scott

    9/07/11 •

    GTT Charleston DP Dave Baker teamed up with CSU once again to create another High Definition marketing video for Charleston Southern University featuring CSU Alumni Congressman Tim Scott.  This shoot was a continuation of marketing videos consisting of various alumni and current students talking about the varying ways in which Charleston Southern University has changed [...]

  • Charleston Crew “Goin’ to Jackson”…Fort Jackson, that is

    6/10/11 •

    Charleston Based GTT Director of Photography Dave Baker recently went up to Columbia, SC’s Fort Jackson.  The mission?  To grab footage of the base for a story soon to air on ABC’s “Nightline”.  Before sunrise, Dave was out at the gate with a Panasonic HVX200, and like the army, he had done more by lunchtime [...]

  • Charleston Video Crew sits down with Tim Pawlenty for GMA

    6/03/11 •

      Go To Team’s Charleston based Director of Photography, Dave Baker, had a chance to sit down with Republican Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty the morning following the GOP debate in Greenville, SC. 5am and the crew began converting an empty hotel meeting room into the backdrop for a Good Morning America live shot.  The Arri [...]

  • Charleston Crew Captures America’s Most Wanted

    3/02/11 •

    Charleston Based GTT Dave Baker teamed up again with “America’s Most Wanted” in North Carolina to help capture fugitive rapist/identity thief  Jack Allen Poteat. After interviews with the FBI, and local law enforcement, and some recreations of the criminal events, using the ubiquitous Sony D600, and the broad spectrum of top of the line lighting [...]