{"id":573888665,"date":"2015-10-08T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T03:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888665"},"modified":"2016-01-27T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T22:07:49","slug":"somehow-i-made-this-all-about-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/somehow-i-made-this-all-about-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Somehow I made this all about cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The park, the crack of the bat, umps making bad calls, managers doing their best to make the umpires look good. (Seriously, you don&#8217;t make the last out at third.) Ahh, baseball. It is a communal sport to me at this point. I&#8217;ve long since stopped watching it on television. I don&#8217;t follow standings or stats or side stories of any league at any level. But I will go to the park to watch a game. And I&#8217;m always pleased to do it if there are people around I know a little bit. <\/p>\n<p>Mostly, though, I go for the peanuts. Peanuts are usually a springtime food for me. But I had a few today, and that seemed like something to take a picture with. <\/p>\n<p> <center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct15\/oct06.jpg\" alt=\"peanuts\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is the other side of having a camera in your phone. It sometimes creates the opportunity for an uninspired pic. I would have never brought my Canon to my eye, let alone changed the aperture or adjusted the shutter speed for that snapshot. But, it allowed me to get a few sentences on sport and legumes, so there&#8217;s that. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the podcast I recorded yesterday. This is with one of my students, and the features editor of the Crimson. He&#8217;s my first student guest on this program. Hopefully the first of many. Jimmy did a great job and this episode shows how easy it could be for others interested in such a conversation. If you like movies, you&#8217;ll find this a very interesting chat. And, he said, his mother was proud to hear it. Hi, Jimmy&#8217;s mom! Check it out.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"75%\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/227523190&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me now that I should have pulled out the phone to take a picture of him in action. I bet his mom would have liked that even more. Except the background would have been pretty flat. So I could dress up the room. At which point I would be inclined to take that shot with my DSLR &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>In a mostly-unrelated story, this is at least the third television outlet to give this a try:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Swiss TV station <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lemanbleutv\">@lemanbleutv<\/a> replaces cameras with iPhones and selfie sticks\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/5AFbK10PQc\">http:\/\/t.co\/5AFbK10PQc<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/NtrDex6J2u\">pic.twitter.com\/NtrDex6J2u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LIQUID NEWSROOM (@LiquidNewsroom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiquidNewsroom\/status\/652083702479126528\">October 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It is in play at a Scandinavian station. It underwhelmed in an American news shop. But I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll be tried again. We already have the technology to do this sort of thing from our homes on the cheap. I&#8217;m shopping for green screens right now. Someone, in their den or an extra bedroom or basement, is going to resurrect the phrase &#8220;When news breaks, we fix it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be all downhill from there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The park, the crack of the bat, umps making bad calls, managers doing their best to make the umpires look good. (Seriously, you don&#8217;t make the last out at third.) Ahh, baseball. It is a communal sport to me at this point. I&#8217;ve long since stopped watching it on television. 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