February 2, 2011 Covering Cairo Photo District News has a short story up about how photojournalists are covering the situation in Cairo. Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk
February 1, 2011 Covering Weather The whole country is getting battered by winter storms, so how do you cover it? The Boston Globe’s Bill Greene talks about how he does it … Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work
February 1, 2011 Crowd Funding Your Next Project IJnet has a story up about crowd-funding photojournalism projects, which is an interesting idea. A group of professionals will rate the merit of proposed stories and, those making the mark, will be put out for sourcing. Funders will get special access to the photos and behind-the-scenes stories. Is this the new model for in-depth stories? It has merits, that’s for... Categories Business & Industry
January 31, 2011 WHOA! Massive Photo Mechanic Sale The timing on this is unbelievable … today, in my Intro to Photojournalism course, I taught the kids how to use one of my two favorite pieces of software ever – Photo Mechanic. And now, this evening, I found out Camera Bits, the company that makes digital photography worth doing, has put it on sale for the ridiculously low price... Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk
January 28, 2011 Covering Dakar Reuters photojournalist Eric Gaillard takes us behind the scenes and gives a brief glimpse of what it is like to cover the Dakar Rally. On my automotive lists of things to do, at the top would be to compete on the Dakar. I know I’ll never do that, so maybe covering it one year … even that would be an... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism
January 26, 2011 Changes in the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Judging This has been making the photo rounds … the National Press Photographers Association has announced a change in the way judging will be handled for some categories of this year’s Best of Photojournalism competition. I’ve read the post a few times and, well … I’m still unclear of what they’re doing. It sounds like the judges will review images remotely,... Categories Business & Industry/Competitions
January 26, 2011 Mantra vs. Mission Statement Guy Kawaski was the original Macintosh evangelist. I know this because for many years I subscribed to his Mac EvangeList listserv. (Which was, I think, the first one I ever subscribed to in, um … 1993?) In this video from a Stanford University presentation, he talks about wasting time and money on creating a 50-word mission statement. Instead, create a... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism
January 19, 2011 Big Picture Editor Moving to The Atlantic Alan Taylor, the brain child behind Boston.com’s The Big Picture photo blog, is leaving for The Atlantic, according to a story on the Nieman Journalism Lab’s web site. Taylor started the blog and ran it for the last two years while continuing to do his normal web development job. At the new gig, he’ll focus just on the images. I... Categories Business & Industry
January 18, 2011 Elliot Elected NPPA President To almost no one’s surprise, my good friend Sean Elliot became the new president of the National Press Photographers Association this past weekend. I can think of no one more qualified, more committed and more passionate than Sean – he has been an excellent friend, a wonderful professional colleague and a strong advocate for all of us. And, thinking on... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
January 14, 2011 Shooting Away from the Center I swear, sometimes I think I must be related to Michael Johnston over at The Online Photographer … his recent post on hitting the sweet spot with consumer level cameras is something I’ve tried to articulate before, but never quite so eloquently. The difference in image quality between an entry level DSLR (or even some higher end point and shoots)... Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk