Secrets of a 60 Minutes cameraman

By: 60 Minutes Overtime Staff
Topics: Overtime Original

They say polo ponies can run 35 mph and then stop on a dime. But how would you like to be the cameraman who's forced to stand still, as a massive horse comes barreling at him?

That's exactly what 60 Minutes cameramen Chris Albert and Don Lee did to film "The Sport of Kings," a broadcast story that helped the men win three prestigious first-place awards this week in the 2013 White House News Photographers Association Awards Video Photography Contest.

Watch Albert and Lee at work in the above Overtime feature, which takes viewers behind-the-scenes on the 60 Minutes polo shoot and shows viewers how difficult it was to capture the grace, speed, and power of polo ponies in motion. Albert and Lee explain how they got their best shots (think cameras mounted on everything from polo mallets to the heads of ponies) and the unconventional cameras that helped them do it.

Albert and Lee also won first place for their videography in the 60 Minutes piece "Lion Kings," a story about wildlife filmmakers in Botswana. Lee's photo diary of the assignment shows how he and Albert were able to get the best shots viewers saw both on 60 Minutes broadcast and in the 60 Minutes Overtime videos about the dangers of filming in Botswana.

Congratulations, Albert and Lee.

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by Epic_Fail_2011 February 17, 2013 8:10 AM EST: @eroteme2 you are a bit slow.... for one the Camera Operator really only does what he is told and then tries to expand on it and then there is the fact the CBS is a moderate conservative station. CBS in reality is much more broadly conservative than FOX News who has a Neo-Conservative news channel in a huge collection of ultra liberal programming on all their other channels.

If you look at the programming for CBS it's quite clear the good guy will routinely shoot and kill the bad guy, where most other channels have shows that it's about the apprehension of the bad guy. Also if you look directly at FOX does Glee really back the FOX News conservative values no not in the slightest. CBS also has on many occasions in shows promoted capital punishment. Heck the 700 club is on every morning on CBS here.

Also tell Dan Rather that CBS is liberal and he would either get a bit mad or laugh at you being that he was fired for pointing a spotlight at Bush SR's Reserves record or lack their of.; Reply to this comment


by eroteme2 February 14, 2013 12:55 AM EST: I wonder if 60 minute cameramen, camerapeople? are required to pass a liberal political test before being hired.; Reply to this comment

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