Category: Business & Industry

January 18, 2012

We’re Not Blacked Out, But This Should Have Been

I didn’t go offline today, I just got busy. Mostly reading about why lots of major online organizations did go offline. And, while tempted to assign a paper to my students yesterday that is due tomorrow, I decided against it. I like my students. But they also need to learn the difference between online piracy, good news sourcing and free...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

January 17, 2012

Return of the Staff Photographer?

Over at A Photo Editor, Grayson Schaffer interviews Christopher Anderson who was just named New York Magazine’s first staff photographer. Remember staff photographers?

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

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

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 23, 2011

Yearend Reading

I’m on the road, catching up with family and friends for a while, so it will be quiet the next few days around here. But, to keep you busy, Photoshelter has posted list of what they think are the best photo blog posts of the year – that’ll keep you busy for a while. (Thanks to NPPA President Sean Elliot...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

December 22, 2011

Winter Break Project for Students

Over at the NPPA Visual Student blog, Brian McDermott has posted the last of a three part series on Designing a Better Portfolio Website. Part one looked at understanding your audience and building a better structure. Part two looked at finding inspiration and developing a basic understanding of the coding that underlies all sites. Part three looks at the design...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Photojournalism

December 21, 2011

The Digital Darkroom

In the old days, it was not unusual for photojournalists to ship unprocessed film from wherever they were in the filed back to a central lab. That lab would process, edit and print the film, then send it off to various publications. The printer had to interpret the images and adjust contrast and tonality to match what they perceived as...

Categories Business & Industry/Competitions/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

December 14, 2011

Cute, But Bad for Your SEO

I require my upper level students to have a Twitter account. Sometimes we use it extensively, sometimes we don’t. But, darn it, they have one. As journalists, I also tell them that having a private account is generally a bad thing – you want to have open lines of communication, you want your knowledge to be shared. That can’t happen...

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia