January 6, 2012 Kodak Edges Towards Bankruptcy It’s just painful to watch … but on Thursday, shares of Kodak were trading for less than $0.50 amid speculation they would file for bankruptcy protection. Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk
January 6, 2012 Nikon Announces the D4 Dpreview.com has a story up on the announcement of Nikon’s D4, their new top-of-the-line pro camera. They also have an overview story up … drooling a touch. Nikon’s release was posted this morning, as well. This is expected to ship in February for a suggested price of (gulp) $5,999.95. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
January 6, 2012 Eve Arnold Passes at 99 Magnum Photos announced on Thursday that Eve Arnold has died in London at the age of 99. Arnold was the first woman admitted into the exclusive agency. “Her intimate, sensitive and compassionate 10-year collaboration with Marilyn Monroe has cemented her as one of the most iconic portrait photographers of our time, but it is the long-term reportage stories that drove... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism
January 5, 2012 Video Game for Photojournalists Arstechnica’s Andrew Webster reported a few months ago about Warco, a first-person video game about a photojournalist covering a war zone. The company working on it, Defiant Development, doesn’t appear to have done anything more with it since the early fall. (Thanks to Dorie Griggs for the link.) Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
January 5, 2012 Inside National Geographic, 19 Years Ago Joe McNally has posted a video done about him working on the Sense of Sight story in National Geographic nearly 20 years ago. Runs about 16 minutes, but well worth it as it gives you a sense of how stories were built back then. Categories Craft/Photojournalism
January 4, 2012 365 Days in Photographs Time’s Lightbox blog has put together a photos-of-the-year collection with a twist – one for every day of the year. Prepare to lose a big chunk of your morning. Categories Photojournalism
January 3, 2012 NPPA Best of Photojournalism Call for Entries The National Press Photographers Association’s 2012 Best of Photojournalism is now accepting entries. The whole process is done online and, if you’re an NPPA member, there’s no charge to enter. Deadline to enter is February 3. Categories Competitions/Photojournalism
January 1, 2012 When Seeing Isn’t Enough Another link from Black Star Rising today … David Saxe talking about the photographers role in image making, that simply being there isn’t enough, that there’s a need to share your vision, your feeling, your emotion. Categories Craft
December 31, 2011 Licensing Music Made Hard David Walker has an article up at Photo District News about the troubles photographers have – and are getting into – in using copyrighted music in wedding videos. It’s hard, from all reports, to get a license for use in these videos so many photographers just do without. That’s coming back to bite some of them. I am constantly stunned... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
December 30, 2011 How to Get Better Some day, I want to have lunch with Scott Bourne … just to find out how he finds the time in his day to think and write. He’s updated an older post on 15 Ways to Improve Your Photography Without Buying Gear over at PhotoFocus, and I want you to pay special attention to number six: Work hard. And then... Categories Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk