November 16, 2009 5 Ways to Improve Your Shooting Without a Camera Courtesy of Michael Zhang’s Twitter feed … put the camera down, or aside, and practice these techniques for seeing. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry
November 14, 2009 Video Rolls Online Sorry, bad pun in the headline … but the New York Times‘ Brian Stetler has taken a look at how online advertising is booming – at least, those that are attached to online video. He brings up that video is expensive, but doesn’t go into much detail on why, so let me hit a few points here: Gear is expensive.... Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk/Video
November 11, 2009 Don’t Do, Be Coincidences are wonderful things … after class wrapped up yesterday, two students hung around to return some gear and ask a few questions. Not about class, about what comes after class. One is graduating in a few weeks and had an idea on what she wanted to do – six month internship, then grad school in the fall. A month... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory
November 9, 2009 Jargon In prepping the above post, I came across this list of newspaper jargon on the Detroit Free Press‘ site. If you can’t define all of these things, you’re not a newspaper person … if you can, you’re probably an old newspaper person. Categories At Work/Business & Industry
November 6, 2009 Career Starters … and Enders Former student Beth Farrar sent this along … Nothing overly shocking in this report, to be honest, as anyone over the age of X will tell you everyone under the age of X is less professional than their generation. But it’s still worth spending some time thinking about how professionalism factors into the hiring process. The word “entitlement” comes up... Categories At Work/Business & Industry
November 5, 2009 Why We Matter Outside of Journalism Andrea Jones (who bills herself as, “an ink-stained-turned-pixel-stained wretch,” which I love) tells us the Five Reasons You Should Hire a Photojournalist. To her five I’d add what Laurie Moot said in class last year: “Other people just aren’t as good at doing things as we are.” Which closely ties into Jones’ fourth reason: “Photojournalists are problem solvers.” And, really,... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
November 5, 2009 Amy Vitale on Shooting Video The Poynter Institute’s Al Tompkins talked with photojournalist Amy Vitale on her new work in video. Vitale, whose still credits include National Geographic, Newsweek and Geo, has this comment towards the end: This is the best time to be a photo journalist. We have more tools available than ever before and we also have an audience bigger than anytime in... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk/Video
November 5, 2009 Digitizing Memory I do it as much as anyone else. There’s a camera with me all the time and, much to my family’s dismay, I use it. I shoot short videos to embarrass them with later. My phone has a little program called Evernote that lets me store snippets of information for later retrieval, and it’s synched to my home and work... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
October 15, 2009 Prior Restraint or Patriotism? The U.S. military in Afghanistan has changed the rules which members of the media must follow when embedded with a unit. The key change is in section 14: 14. Media will not be allowed to photograph or record video of U.S. personnel killed in action. Thoughts? Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal
October 5, 2009 Internship Opportunity: The Associated Press I have received a deluge of very strange emails of late (and some of them may be mocked soon on a post here), but this one’s legit: As many of you know, the Associated Press offers a highly competitive intern program each year. A minimum of two of the positions are offered to photographers or photo editors. The application deadline... Categories At Work/Business & Industry