October 19, 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar It’s time to register for the 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. They’ve expanded and added a third day for video storytelling. Very cool. Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 19, 2012 Portrait of a Presidency Over at Times’s LightBox blog, Pete Souza talks about his time as President Obama’s photographer. Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism
October 17, 2012 News Video Workshop Returns After taking a year off, the NPPA’s News Video Workshop is back on for March 17-22 in Norman, Oklahoma. Some very cool things planned for this, worth getting yourself to if you can. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
October 17, 2012 The Ethics of Political Coverage The second tenant of the National Press Photographers Association’s Code of Ethics, which all members must sign, reads: Resist being manipulated by staged photo opportunities. It’s a pretty simple statement – don’t allow people to lie to you, it goes nicely with the Society of Professional Journalists “Seek truth and report it” code. So what do you do when you’re... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
October 16, 2012 Swing States Swinging Very cool infographic by Mike Bostock, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox over at The New York Times that looks at how swing states have swung over the last 60 years. Things like that make me want to be a designer … (Thanks to colleague Janet Frick for the link.) Categories Good Work/Graphic Design/Journalism
October 16, 2012 L.A. Times Time-Lapse of Shuttle Endeavor This … this is about the most awesome use of time-lapse photography in journalism I’ve ever seen. The shot at 1:09? Totally freaking brilliant. Of course, I’m a total NASA-geek, so I’m probably a touch biased. Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 12, 2012 NCAA and Instagram Well, this is interesting. After listing Instagram as one of the apps that coaches can’t use to process images sent to recruits earlier in the week, the NCAA is now backtracking on this and saying the app, and others like it, are okay to use. To quote them: An NCAA educational column posted online that discussed the alteration of photos... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 11, 2012 No More Instagraming for College Coaches Yep, you read that right – the NCAA has told coaches that they cannot use Instagram or other image-editing applications on photos sent to recruits. I kind of love the NCAA right now … Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
October 11, 2012 Art vs. Craft Richard Hamm, a former student and current staff photojournalist at the Athens Banner-Herald, sent along a link to a post by photographer Derek Shapton where he talks about whether he is an artist or not. It’s a good read, particularly this segment: At best, assignment photographers are craftsmen, not artists, solving other people’s problems and putting other people’s ideas into... Categories Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
October 10, 2012 Kodak Discontinues P3200 Most of you have never heard of this stuff, but when it came out, Kodak’s P3200 was an astounding high-sensitivity black and white film. Many, many, many rolls of that stuff went through my Nikons in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Now, it is no more. Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk