August 19, 2011 On Analog Photography This is kind of cool, but not what I expect from CNN … a short film on analog photography. Categories Craft/Tech Talk
August 13, 2011 Golf, Gear and Wishful Thinking It’s an interesting dilemma I face on a regular basis. I love telling stories, and I love telling them visually. Even those little snippets of life that I capture and post on one of my other sites, they’re just my way of triggering memories. Little ironies, little slices of a life that’s still racing by me, a life I’ve enjoyed... Categories Craft/Tech Talk
August 12, 2011 The Apocalypse is Nigh For years, I joked that the job I really wanted was Photo Editor at the Wall Street Journal because, well … they didn’t run photos. I envisioned walking into the daily budget meeting and the editors going around the table talking about their pitches for A1 and, when they got to me, I could just say, “Not yet.” Well, now... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
August 10, 2011 “A Great Shot Is …” The New York Times’ Lens blog has a short interview up with Finnish photojournalist Jussi Leinonen where he talks about a photo that helped him become Finland’s Press Photographer of the Year in 2008. Loved this quote: A great shot is always there to be had, but you can’t get tired of searching for it. I had already sort of... Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
August 6, 2011 Modern Retro Photo District News is reporting that there will be a new version of the Diana Mini Flash – this one in all white. The Diana is a very low tech film camera. Image quality is, well, horrific is you care at all about sharpness or color accuracy. Build quality will be questionable. Reliability? I wouldn’t mention that word. But people... Categories Craft/Tech Talk
August 5, 2011 Is It the Gear? Or the Photographer? I will always, always say the latter. Even the cheapest stuff out there today is comparable, if not better, to what our predecessors had a few decades ago. Case in point, say you come across a guy shooting with an old Konica film camera covered in goofy stickers: You’d think he makes goofy pictures of his friends in Tokyo bars,... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 2, 2011 Making Your Job Application Stand Out Just stumbled over this while checking a link in the last post … Charles Apple will be doing a live chat over at the Poynter Institute at 3 p.m. (Eastern) on making job applications more visual. Apple, if you don’t know him, is the former design director for the Virginian Pilot, one of the best designed papers in the country... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Graphic Design/Journalism
August 1, 2011 Funding Photojournalism: The Manufacturers Step Up Interesting piece by Olivier Laurent over at the British Journal of Photography on camera manufacturers that are stepping beyond just supplying equipment and into funding major projects. Canon and Nikon have, for years, had a small group of very prominent photographers that they supported, usually with equipment and heightened level of technical support. Sometimes those agreements are with an agency... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 31, 2011 Herding (Very Talented, Very Famous) Cats That’s the only way to describe this footage (pixelage?) of Rene Burri shooting the group portrait at the Magnum Annual General Meeting. Magnum Annual General Meeting 2011 from Magnum in Motion on Vimeo. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.) Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Video
July 31, 2011 Remembering Learning Over on the New York Times‘ Lens blog, James Estrin wrote a great tribute to street photographer and teacher Jerome Liebling. I had never heard of Liebling, but after reading this, I really wish I could have taken a class with him. Jerry Liebling’s photography classes — at least in the late ’70s, when I studied under him — consisted... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism