Tag archive for ‘NASCAR’
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The 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 [...]
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Atlanta DP Turns Up The Heat for 6 Weeks with 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 [...]
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Nashville 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 [...]
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A Blog about Atlanta with DP Tom Wells
People ask me all the time what I’ve been up to – and most of the time I have a hard time remembering more than the last week or two – which consequently helps explain my lack of blogs about shoots in Atlanta (of which I’m reminded of frequently by GTT staff and our fans [...]
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LA’s Clark Crew Wraps 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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Tragedy In Joplin
Even after traveling to cover sports for the last seven years, Go To Team’s Skip Clark still finds himself on a news story every once in a while. When tornadoes devastated the small town of Joplin, MO, in May the country reached out to help out, including NASCAR’s Jamie McMurray. McMurray was born and raised [...]
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Sightseeing In London – Time-Lapse Style!
Even with all the travel in the first half of the year following NASCAR, Go To Team’s Skip Clark found the time to take an assignment over in London! Right after the race in Dover, Skip flew straight to London for a quick three days of scenics. The crew, headed up by producer PT Navarro, [...]
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Nashville Crew works with NASCAR on TNT in a Wind Tunnel
Before this shoot I wasn’t sure what it was like to film with 40mph winds knocking at me. Now I know, it’s wild! I was out in Mooresville, NC with NASCAR on TNT at a wind tunnel testing facility. It was there that I met up with Larry McReynolds and Tony Stewart crew chief, Darian [...]
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Seven Years Makes It A Tradition… The Hanger Shoot in Daytona for NASCAR on Fox.
Every year for the past seven years Los Angeles based Skip Clark has spent the first two weeks of February in Daytona for the Fox Sports broadcast of the Daytona 500. And those two weeks start with the “hangar shoot” where all hands are on deck for one of the biggest shoots Fox puts together [...]
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Atlanta Director of Photography on the Big Events… From SuperBowl straight to Daytona 500.
From Dallas to Daytona, Atlanta DP and Apprentice Kevin Juston were on the road again right after finishing up Superbowl 45 and heading to the Daytona 500. In Daytona Beach, Tom and Kevin were in full gear long before the engines roared and underdog Trevor Bayne stole the show during the 53rd running of the [...]
