February 7, 2013 Useless, Wanted Projects I have absolutely no need for this, but I really want to make a smartphone shoebox projector now … Categories Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
February 5, 2013 Covering the Big Game Nice piece by David Pierce over at The Verge looking at how Peter Read Miller covers big games, like his 38th Super Bowl Sunday night. There’s a big difference between taking a great picture, and taking a great picture of the game. In sports, the outcome is all that matters, and no matter how pretty a shot you took, it... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
February 5, 2013 Color Controlled Project We don’t talk about Pantone colors much here, but I love this idea of this project by Alison Anselot of matching food colors to the industry-standard color scheme. Categories Craft/Good Work
February 4, 2013 Multimedia Immersion Workshop Info is up on the 2013 edition of the NPPA’s Multimedia Immersion workshop, May 14-18 this year. Have heard nothing but great things about this very hands-on training session. Categories Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
February 4, 2013 IDs in Wire Service Captions I am … dumbfounded. Again. Stony Brook University’s Wasim Ahmad has a piece up on iMediaEthics about captions again, this time talking with AFP’s Director of Photography for North America Miaden Antonov. This piece is a result of an earlier piece where Aline Marie talked about no one asking her permission or talking to her after being photographed at a... Categories Craft/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
February 4, 2013 “Go Away to See Who You Become” Great interview by David Walker with the legendary Jorl Meyerowitz over at PDNOnline. Make sure you read both part one and the second part, where the above quote comes from. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
February 3, 2013 The Good from One Photo We see the bad sides of people an awful lot in journalism. Sometimes, though, you get to see the good. (Thanks to Mark Hertzberg for the link.) Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
February 2, 2013 Video That Matters Every spring, I teach a course titled Documentary Photography and, the lest few iterations, I’ve felt a little funny with that name. It’s now about half photography and half video storytelling, because that’s what my kids need. Depending on which conference you head to and what pundit has tweeted most recently, you either believe in video our you don’t. There... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video
February 2, 2013 Street-side Execution, 43 Years Ago Yesterday marked the 45th anniversary of Eddie Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect in the middle of a Saigon street. The Newseum has a short video clip of Adams talking about the image. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
February 2, 2013 From Doctor to Part-time Photographer Ten years ago, Dr. Scott Lieberman trained his then-new digital camera on the sky above Texas and documented a horrific scene – the breaking up of Columbia. The image, widely distributed, is iconic now and just as harrowing to look at. Over at the Poynter Institute, Andrew Beaujon has a follow-up story on the doctor who is now stringing for... Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk