December 6, 2014 American Photojournalist Killed in Yemen The Associated Press is reporting photojournalist Luke Somers was killed during an American-led rescue attempt in Yemen. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
December 3, 2014 WPOW Elections Congrats to UGA VJ alumna Melissa Golden on her election as president of the Women Photojournalists of Washington. As a heads up, the WPOW traveling exhibit will be visiting Athens in January 2015. Pencil January 9 into your daybooks for an opening and panel discussions here in Athens. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
November 25, 2014 Gear Posts, Redux Most years I write a series of posts about buying gear for my kids here at University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. I’ll be doing some updates to the posts later this week, but start with these: Where to Buy New or Used? Full Frame or Crop Sensor? Lenses Some of the prices have shifted and... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
November 20, 2014 Poynter-ONA Leadership Academy This looks pretty cool … and free. The four-and-a-half day program for 25 promising women leaders will include guidance on the business of journalism, individual leadership style, navigating newsroom culture, entrepreneurship and one-on-one coaching. Poynter and ONA will collaborate to build an agile, interactive curriculum led by prominent women faculty in the startup, tech, media and academic fields. Applicants will... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
November 18, 2014 Stolen: Where and What PetaPixel’s DL Cade has a post up about the most stolen camera equipment as tracked by Lenstag. The results are surprising to me – I would have assumed some consumer level camera was the most commonly lost piece of kit, not the high end pieces from Canon that make up the top three. Digging deeper, the data source – Lenstag... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
November 16, 2014 Get a Grip We don’t deal much with grip equipment in our visual journalism sequence, but some of my kids wander off into commercial/corporate/advertising work where they’ll suddenly have to know what a C-stand is or how to load V-flats for transport. Cinescopophilia has a collection of three videos on what goes into a grip truck. Every photographer who ever leaves their office... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
November 13, 2014 What Comes After School Poking around the web today I found this two year old post by Steve Giralt about being in business and, since I’m talking about business with my kids these days, it seems really relevant. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Photojournalism
November 13, 2014 How to Recognize When the Problem Is You Don Giannatti has a great rant over at Lighting Essentials about photographers who suck but don’t yet know it. He runs through 10 clear reasons why you aren’t successful and he’s on target with all of them. As we approach the end of the semester, I’m starting to get the gear questions*. Most of my kids get that it’s not... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
November 10, 2014 Sixteen Tips Kathryn Henderson at Complex.com asked 16 people in the photo industry what photographers should know. My feeling is the most important one comes from Molly Clifford: Understand your business, not just the technique needed for making a photograph. If you don’t have a business plan, you have a hobby. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
November 10, 2014 Will Smartphones Be the Death of Us? No. But they are forcing some changes to the way we work and how the public processes images. The literacy that has developed over 180 years of photography is changing, some would say in the say way the English language is changing – a devolution in style, structure and tone. A PhotoPlux Expo this year, a panel was put together... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory