Craft – Page 42 – Visual Journalism

July 23, 2010

What the Duck on Photoshop Insider

Student Emily Karol passes this along … a column by What the Duck creator Aaron Johnston over on Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider blog … complete with a new comic. Man, I love that guy …

Business & Industry/Craft

June 28, 2010

Bruce Davidson and Identifying Myself

This is one of those posts that probably won’t make any sense, even if I wrote it, sat on it and re-wrote it a dozen times. Sorry, sometimes that’s the way it is … The New York Times Lens blog has an entry up on Bruce Davidson that promotes his new, three volume book set. Davidson is one of those...

Craft/Good Work/Thoughts & Theory

June 17, 2010

Inside the Mexican Suitcase

A neat look at what may – or may not – be in The Mexican Suitcase, which was brought to light in 2007 containing lost negatives from Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

June 14, 2010

AP Video Journalist Dives in the Gulf Oil Slick

Journalism is about commitment, about knowing what your readers need to see (and hear) and bringing them to places they can’t go. Associated Press video journalist Rich Matthews did just that. Read about his account and the Editor & Publisher story.

Craft/Journalism

May 25, 2010

(Psst … David LaBelle Now Has a Blog … Pass It On)

Don’t know how I missed this, but it’s true … let’s encourage him as much as we can …

Craft/Good Work/Journalism

May 21, 2010

Painting, with Moving Pictures

This piece, funded by Stella Artois and produced by Malcolm Murray, hits me in a couple of ways … I am fascinated by the subject matter, painted signs to me are just really cool. (And I have a desire to do a project about them … someday … myself.) And I think this is really well shot and well told....

Craft/Good Work/Video

May 20, 2010

Make or Take?

If you haven’t spent some time looking at the videos from the various TED conferences, you really should. Alum Jake Daniels pointed me to this one of Jonathan Klein from Getty Images and it brought up a debate I’ve been having in my head for the last few years about making or taking photographs. I argued for years that the...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Journalism

May 14, 2010

The 10 Traits of a Winning Photojournalist

Alex Garcia, over at the Chicago Tribune, as a list of what he thinks are the 10 things that separate the good from the great in our craft. I think he’s missing one, though: A love of people and community. If you don’t care about your subjects and your audience, then you’re only shooting for your own ego and that...

Business & Industry/Craft

May 1, 2010

Another Practitioner of the Sneaker Zoom

My good friend Woody Marshall down at the Macon Telegraph was talking with one of my students a few years ago and used the phrase “sneaker zoom.” The student had a full compliment of lenses, from 17 mm to 200 mm, in her bag but she needed to get closer to her subjects, so he told her to use her...

Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk

April 10, 2010

Cartier-Bresson Exhibit at MoMA

The New York Times has a review of the soon-to-open Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Any student or friend of mine knows how much I love his work, how much I admired the man and how desperately I have tried to emulate his vision through the development of my own style. Sometimes,...