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November 1, 2011

Gannett/US Pressire Contract Breakdown

John Harrington has done it again … over at the Photo Business Forum he goes through the entire Gannett/US Presswire contract, explaining what each clause means to you if you sign the contract. Read this carefully – there’s a ton of great info in that post.

Business & Industry

November 1, 2011

Young Conflict Photographers

Michael Kamber has a great piece up over on the New York Times’ Lens blog about the explosion of young photojournalists showing up in conflict zones. A good read where he talks with several of the top war photographers of our time and explores why there were so many young shooters in Libya this year.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/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...

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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 …

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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.

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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,...

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...

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October 24, 2011

What’s News?

Hyperlocal blog post here … at 4 p.m. today, Monday, October 24, I’ll be participating in a panel discussion titled What’s News to Students? We’ll be in the Miller Learning Center on the University of Georgia Campus, room 248. My colleague from Grady, Prof. Horace Newcomb, will moderate the panel which will also include Prof. Steve Smith, the Athens Banner-Herald’s...

Business & Industry

October 23, 2011

The Sunday Storytelling Slide

If you’re reading this soon after posting, it’s Sunday morning. Maybe you’ve got your coffee going and are padding your slippered feet out the driveway to grab your Sunday paper. (Remember when newspaper carriers delivered papers to your door? Dang, I’m old …) Sunday front pages are centerpieces, something the newsroom spends days, if not weeks, prepping for you. Big...

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October 21, 2011

The Chris Hondros Fund Launches

Chris Hondros, who was killed in Libya earlier this year alongside Tim Hetherington, left behind a legacy of images and work ethic. Now, his fiancé has created the Chris Hondros Fund, a fellowship for, “an outstanding photojournalist who is committed to creating a visual history that brings shared human experiences into the public eye and whose work shows exceptional promise.”

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