October 31, 2011 Over at the Gear Geek … Today I’m taking a look at the Grid-It – a neat way to help organize all the miscellaneous stuff we now need to survive. Categories Tech Talk
October 30, 2011 How to Be A Critic David Saxe over at Black Star Rising has posted four simple rules for critiquing other’s work. It’s a good list. Because I can, here’s my companion list for being critiqued: Be Aware of Time: Depending on the environment you are in, you may have get a long critique or a short one. If you’re doing evening portfolio reviews at a... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
October 28, 2011 ACLU Sues Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a law suit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department claiming that the department’s deputies have repeatedly subject photographers, “to detention, search and interrogation simply because they took pictures.” Categories Ethics & Legal
October 28, 2011 Kodak, Then and Now Kodak has been in the news a lot lately and most of it hasn’t been good. The New York Times reported last week about their woes and how the stock price has been tumbling. It’s not looking great for Big Yellow. Which is sort of stunning. The company brought us photography as we know it and has managed to have... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 28, 2011 Study Photojournalism in Berlin Since it’s time for the annual Georgia-Florida football war, let’s talk about the University of Florida for a few moments … Professor John Freeman has built an excellent summer workshop in Berlin for photojournalism students, one that’s open to those from UF as well as other universities. It’s limited to 12 students and runs for two weeks in the second... Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism
October 27, 2011 Multimedia Boot Camp at the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute Just a few days left to register for the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute’s Nov. 16-20 Multimedia Boot Camp in Nashville, Tenn. There are reportedly just a few seats left as they’re capping the class at 18. From the flier: Participants will learn how to: Produce multimedia on a budget, buy the right gear and find cheap ways to record and... Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism
October 27, 2011 Registration for the Northern Short Course Now Open It’s the one I started at more than 20 years ago, the one I can’t wait to get back to in March – the NPPA’s Northern Short Course will be in Fairfax, Va., March 8-12, 2012 and your an now register online. Do it early, do it often … I mean, if you can afford to … Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
October 26, 2011 Terrorism, Tornados and Telling Visual Stories A reminder that David Handschuh from the New York Daily News and Jeff Roberts of the Birmingham News will be talking about covering major events in their communities at 10:30 this morning in the Grady College’s Drewry Room as part of the McGill Symposium on Journalistic Courage. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory
October 25, 2011 Web Site Design Tips Everyone will, eventually, have a web site. Or so it seems with the continued explosive growth we’re seeing. If you’re a photographer, the question becomes what should yours look like? Over at Black Star Rising, David Saxe approaches this from the other end – how should you build it? But I think he buried the lead – his fourth point,... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Tech Talk
October 24, 2011 Role Reversals and Fun with Lights There’s a great interview over at The Image, Deconstructed with Matt Roth, formerly of Patuxent Publishing, about a series of portraits for a lifestyle magazine on Howard County, Maryland. The lead image is worth the click-thru alone. Love his take on lighting: Uh, a lot of people have me pegged as a lighting wizard… which I’m not. I think I’m... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Tech Talk