October 28, 2019 Photographer Caricatures Something a little lighter … PetaPixel has the story of Pixelcrush’s caricatures of photographers and they’re worth a little time. And, yes, I’ve met most of these folks. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
October 23, 2019 One Step Closer to a Small Claims Copyright Court The House of Representatives passed the CASE act yesterday on a 410-6 vote, which brings the bill one step closer to becoming a law. Why do we care? This bill has been ten-years in the making, supported by the U.S. Copyright Office and trade organizations (including the National Press Photographers Association) and is designed to make sub-$30,000 copyright infringement claims... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
October 22, 2019 Start Your Holiday Shopping with Photojournalist Barbie On the one hand, I think the partnership between the Barbie brand and National Geographic is great – giving kids, especially girls, more role models and career views is fantastic. The growth of the Barbie line in my lifetime has been fun to watch (even if our own kid never played with one). That said, the video released as part... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
October 19, 2019 Visualizing Change A good behind the scenes look into how The Guardian is changing the way they use images in stories about climate change. I think this is an incredibly important discussion to have for many of the reasons they denote – we all feel bad about the polar bear, but it doesn’t impact most of our daily lives and so, after... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
October 2, 2019 The Importance of Design in Cameras The designed Luigi Colani died recently. While that New York Times obit deals with many things, it doesn’t do justice to the work he did with Canon in the 1980s – he is credited with the design of the T90, the first truly modern SLR camera. Look at that camera – introduced in 1986, almost every DSLR of today owes... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
June 10, 2019 Visual Journalism Fellowships in the Bay Area This is an interesting idea – CatchLight Local is coordinating three, three-month long visual fellowships in the San Francisco area for later this year. The fellows will partner with local newsrooms to help show the story of the community. (Application info and more details available at the link.) Research has shown that visual journalists have been eliminated from newsrooms at... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
May 16, 2019 Starry, Starry Fakes I may have a new hero – Dr. Elisabeth Bik, a microbiologist who has been looking at ethical issues in science journals, has turned her eye to some astrophotography published by National Geographic. One of the great losses of the last 20 years has been the relationships between photo editors and photographers. It used to be that those relationships were... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
March 26, 2019 Pop Stars and Copyright Theft Seems like we’ve been down this road before … The National Press Photographers Association and 15 others organizations have sent a letter of protest to Ariana Grande’s management company over a copyright grad that’s inserted into their press coverage agreement. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
December 10, 2018 Putting a Box Around the World Ted Koppel did a piece centered on the Bronx Documentary Center that really looks at the lives of Chris Hondros, Tim Hetherington and other photojournalists who have been killed while cover the world’s wars. Worth ten minutes of your time. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
October 21, 2018 Inside the Canon EOS R Sometimes, I really want to take things apart … then I remember I would be responsible for putting them back together. Which makes me happy when Roger Cicala at LensRentals.com does it. They last camera I disassembled was an all-mechanical Nikon, things have changed. Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk