Craft – Page 10 – Visual Journalism

July 15, 2014

Monster Marks

First, disclosure: I have been friends with CJ Gunther for two decades. Was even in his wedding. I’m also an unabashed Red Sox fan who cherished my nine years of Fenway Park coverage. So when I see that my buddy CJ’s project on baseball impressions on the Green monster is being featured on National Geographic’s Proof blog … well, I’m...

At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 11, 2014

Ed Kashi on the Direction and Quality of Light

Short interview with Ed Kashi done by Marc Silber where he talks about how he sees and interacts with people.

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 9, 2014

Playing With Music and Emotions

A few years back I did a talk at the Grandfather Mountain Camera Clinic titled, Photojournalism, Instagram and Artificial Authenticity. You can probably figure out where it went, that applying the latest filters to pristine images was playing with the emotions of your viewers, not helping them comprehend what was happening in the image before them. I am, after all,...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory/Video

July 6, 2014

The Letters of Dublin

Neat video on the sign painters of Dublin … Gentlemen of Letters – A Dublin Sign Painting Film from Colin Brady on Vimeo. (Thanks to Khoi Vinh for the link.)

Craft/Graphic Design/Journalism/Tech Talk

July 5, 2014

Art After Death

Arthur Lubow has a deep piece up on The New York Times about a posthumous retrospective of Gary Winogrand’s work now on display at the Museum of Modern Art. It’s a very posthumous show – when Winogrand died in 1984, he left some 2,500 rolls of film that hadn’t even been processed. Lubow’s piece wrestles with some deep questions about...

Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 2, 2014

A Good Eye Doesn’t Make You a Good Photographer

An old piece by legendary photo editor John Loengard rumbled into view on the Nieman Reports web site and it included this gem that I’d lost along the way: Before I became a picture editor, I assumed that “good photographers” took “good pictures” because they had a special eye. What I found was that good photographers take good pictures because...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism

June 27, 2014

Diving In

This is pretty wild … photographer Clark Little specializes in photographing surf, from inside the waves. (Thanks to Sara Quinn for the link.)

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 26, 2014

Four Photographers Named as National Geographic Explorers

The National Geographic Society has their first set of visual storytellers to be added to their Explorers program. Previous Explorers have come primarily from areas of science, research and innovation. David Guttendelder, Lyn Johnson, Cory Richards and Brian Skerry will spend two years, “sharing their visual expertise with diverse areas of the National Geographic Society and with the public, producing...

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

June 12, 2014

Promote Yourself

Neat Tumblr from Photo District News on promotional pieces being sent out, triggered by this post on Dave Cooper’s.

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June 10, 2014

Small Screen Impact in Photos

Over at the Poynter Institute, Sam Kirkland put up a piece about consuming photojournalism on smartphones. This is something I’ve been thinking about and trying to find a place for in my program – we have to be thinking of how our audience is looking at our work and mobile devices is a huge percentage now. Solid advice from Kirkland...

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