February 16, 2012 NPPA Multimedia Immersion Registration Now Open There are only 40 slots for the 2012 edition, get yours now. Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
February 16, 2012 Photographer Assaulted in San Diego Pixiq has the story about a San Diego photographer who was assaulted, and then not really helped, after he photographed three women who are part of the cast of a Discover reality show called Biker Wives. Categories Ethics & Legal
February 14, 2012 Photographers You Should Know About Scott Bourne over at PhotoFocus has stolen an idea from me. Of course, it’s an idea I never executed, but whatever … he is beginning a series on Photographers You Should Know About with a look at Dorothea Lange, one of the stars of the Farm Securities Administration in the 1930s. Worth keeping an eye on this series if he... Categories Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
February 13, 2012 Antenna Aiming Nope, this isn’t about amateur radio stuff (though I’m geeky enough to talk about that, too). David Hobby put up a post on Strobist about working with radio remotes for flashes and some tips on antenna orientation. As he titled it, core knowledge – stuff you need to know that may not be in the books. Categories Tech Talk
February 13, 2012 How to Learn Anything Adam Westbrook writes on his 2012 goal to learn lots of new things and the best way to do that is not by reading but by doing. Love these sending grafs: Finally, an important note about learning. Too often, we use education as a procrastination tool. Someone who wants to make a documentary (or says they want to) will go... Categories Advice & Learning
February 13, 2012 Craig Walker POYi Newspaper Photographer of the Year The Denver Post’s Craig F. walker was named the 2011 Newspaper Photographer of the Year by the 69th Annual Pictures of the Year International competition over the weekend. I had the pleasure of meeting Walker during the National Press Photographers Association’s Convergence 2010 conference, where he talked about his 2010 Pulitzer Prize. It would be hard for me to name... Categories Competitions/Photojournalism
February 12, 2012 Impossible Photography Photogrpaher Erik Johansson talks about his artwork at TED. Not journalism, but the conflict of what we do and what artists do is always in our heads and he has a nice line around the five minute mark that touches on ethics: I personally think that it’s easier to actually create a place than to find a place because then... Categories Craft/Ethics & Legal/Thoughts & Theory
February 12, 2012 Summer Internships in Washington, D.C. From time to time, I get asked if I’ll ever go for a doctoral degree. When I remind them that I have a full-time job, am married and have kids, they sot of get it. But then I see there are internship opportunities available to students at the National Air and Space Museum and I think, huh … I wonder... Categories Advice & Learning
February 10, 2012 If You Thought Copyright Idiocy Was Running Rampant Here … Wait until you read the comments from one Matthew Fearn, a deputy picture editor at the Telegraph in Britain as reported in the British Journal of Photography: Our industry therefore adopts the stance that if a picture has no overwhelming artistic value and if there is no issue of exclusivity (ie it is already being published online or elsewhere) then... Categories Journalism
February 10, 2012 Friday Humor: Shtuff People Say to Photographers I’m starting to love this meme … Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory/Video