Craft – Page 31 – Visual Journalism

November 13, 2011

After 42 Years, Bill Luster Retires

Heather Graulich has a piece up on the NPPA web site looking at the retirement of a legend, the Louisville Courier-Journal’s Bill Luster. Congrats, Mr. Luster – but keep shooting.

Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 10, 2011

Go Small, Go Everywhere

Good piece up over on Photo District News about the move to smaller cameras for use in conflict areas. When you don’t look like a professional, the idea goes, you’ll get hassled less. As a guy who shot Leica film cameras for a long time, and currently carries a small Olympus E-P2 everywhere, there is something to be said about...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

November 9, 2011

From Documenting Abuse to Advocating for Departure

Donna Ferrato’s images of domestic abuse shocked a nation when here book Living with the Enemy was first published. It has been reprinted several times and she’s given hundreds of lectures about domestic abuse over the years. Now, according to a New York Times Lens blog entry, she’s turning her attention to encouraging the victims to get out of those...

Craft/Photojournalism

October 28, 2011

Kodak, Then and Now

Kodak has been in the news a lot lately and most of it hasn’t been good. The New York Times reported last week about their woes and how the stock price has been tumbling. It’s not looking great for Big Yellow. Which is sort of stunning. The company brought us photography as we know it and has managed to have...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

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...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Tech Talk

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...

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

October 17, 2011

Annoying Photo Critique Comments

We do a lot of in-class critiquing around here. Every assignment, from every student, ends up on the big screen and we all tear into them … at least, that’s what I want. What I get is a lot of silence some days, or vague platitudes about how they “like it.” They give no reason, so I have to draw...

Advice & Learning/Craft

October 12, 2011

On Being a Creative …

Chase Jarvis has a post up on the 10 Things Every Photographer or Creative Person Must Learn. Worth a look, particularly points seven and 10.

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October 9, 2011

Don McCullin on War Photography

Interesting talk by war photographer Don McCullin where he talks about his start, his war coverage and the landscapes he now shoots which many think look like a continuation of his conflict photography.