Like I said, elegant
 

How To Shoot Someone Who Does Not Want To Be Identified

Posted October 29, 2020
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Every video journalist runs into this problem at some point.

How do you work with a subject who wants to partiicpate but does not want to be identified or appear on camera?

There are lots of solutions to this, most of them pretty raggedy

You can backlight them so that you can't see their face

You can only shoot their hands

You can shoot them from behind

You can blur their face

Like I said, all pretty raggedy

But in this story, Spectrum News 1 MMJ Kamady Lewis comes up with a FAR more elegant solution to the problem

Take a look:

 

 


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