Category: Craft

September 7, 2011

More Signs You’re Really a Photographer

Peter Phun over at Black Star Rising has a fun post on 15 More Signs You’re a Real Photographer Now. I like number three quite a bit: It’s no longer enough to make pilgrimages to all the natural wonders of the world; you now obsess over being there at sunrise, sunset, moon rise and eclipses. And my wife is probably...

Categories Craft/Thoughts & Theory

September 6, 2011

Finding Inspiration in the Everyday

Over at Black Star Rising, David Saxe has a post up about finding inspiration through personal projects. This is similar to what I teach and do – shooting something, anything, every day and posting it as evidence of my continued need to tell visual stories. The project he created from going to his basic idea of shooting building facades is...

Categories Craft

September 3, 2011

The Sky Cowboys

Great piece by Damon Winter for the New York Times on ironworkers changing the skyline of New York. Beautifully shot, but pay close attention to the audio work – he layering of sounds, the pacing of the voices, the tight, tight editing … all done by one of my former classmates, Pamela Chen. You could close your ideas and still...

Categories Craft/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

September 3, 2011

Tips from CNN

Aimed at the CNN iReporters, Mark Hill has put together a primer on how to shoot for the news. Some good ideas in there.

Categories Craft/Tech Talk

September 2, 2011

The Challenge of Mixing Audio and Photography

Olivier Laurent has a great piece up on the British Journal of Photography about the art and craft of using audio with photography, one of the best intellectual looks at it I’ve seen.

Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 30, 2011

On Compromise

I was down at the Poynter Institute for the oddly-names Teachapalooza conference last month where we were told to think of this as an old-fashioned tent revival. Whenever someone said something really smart, we should all yell, “TEACH IT!” I should have yelled more, but I was to busy typing out brilliant ideas to steal. Except, we were also told...

Categories Craft/Tech Talk

August 30, 2011

“This Is What I Do. This Is All That I Know.”

The New York Times’ Lens blog has an interview up with Joao Silva who lost both of his legs last year to a land mine in Afghanistan. It’s by far the most comprehensive interview with him that I have seen and he talks, at length, about what happened that day, what he has gone through in recovery, how he came...

Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

August 29, 2011

A Photographic Illusion

If I had more time with my kids, we might spend some of it on tones, color, contrast and how light and shadow affect all of those. Or maybe if I was a better teacher I’d find a way to fit it in. Along with color theory, lots of color theory … Because then I could totally justify having them...

Categories Craft/Tech Talk

August 28, 2011

The Edges of Light

I’ve never used this phrase, but William Neill has an entry talking about his favorite type of light … which is the same as mine. A new phase to drag into the classroom.

Categories Craft

August 20, 2011

Shooting a Triple Play

The Boston Globe’s Jim David talks about how he shot all three outs on a triple play.

Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk