Craft – Page 45 – Visual Journalism

August 13, 2009

Shooting Cheap

Our good friend Dave LaBelle was featured on Good Morning Arizona talking about shooting with disposable cameras. Yeah, he’s good enough to beat most of us with high end digitals …

Craft/Good Work

July 13, 2009

Burnett, Again, from 1969

The new York Times‘ Lens blog is kind of rocking my world … today they have up a set of David Burnett’s images from the 1969 Apollo 11 launch. Burnett, being the genius that he is, didn’t shoot the launch – he was a young Time magazine shooter and wasn’t going to get that gig. So he pitched the idea...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 23, 2009

WeeGee and Cartier-Bresson speak!

This is excellent – an out of print LP of photographers talking, and Ted Barron has made a pair of them available as mp3 files. And they are good ones – WeeGee, the infamous crime photographer, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. (Thanks to The Online Photographer for the link.)

Audio/Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk

June 22, 2009

Momma, they're taking my Kodachrome away

It’s official – Kodak has announced it will no longer produce Kodachrome. After 74 years of production, the last batch is the last batch. (Sales had declined to where they were only making it once a year.) Having grown up on Kodachrome 25 and 64, I’m pretty saddened by this. Though I’m part of its demise – I haven’t shot...

Craft/Tech Talk

June 20, 2009

Ed Kashi: Three

Ed Kashi has produced a new book, “Three,” of triptychs that span his career. The three-image panels don’t always relate, story-wise, but do flow very nicely. The New York Times‘ Lens blog has a selection of them, along with Kashi narrating the ideas behind the packaging.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 8, 2009

The other side of Polaroids

Many of you know that Polaroid has shut down production of its instant films – the days of those white bordered prints are seriously numbered. But there is another, lesser known, Polaroid film that has been a mainstay of photographers for years – Type 55, a 4 inch by 5 inch instant negative film. On the New York Times’s Lens...

Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk

January 28, 2009

17th annual Southwestern Photojournalism Conference

FYI … Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is excited to host the 17th annual Southwestern Photojournalism Conference, Feb. 27 – March 1, 2009. The conference, supported by Christians in Photojournalism, benefits those who believe photojournalism is a calling and the act of bearing witness is essential. This year’s speakers include Scott Strazzante, staff photographer for the Chicago Tribune; Bill Fortney of...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Craft

January 20, 2009

New View of the Inauguration

It may seem simple, but it means a lot to be able to get something different from a Presidential Inauguration. Chuck Kennedy managed to do it, with a low and wide remote shot from Tuesday’s event.

Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk

November 12, 2008

Burnett's Behind Beijing Video

David Burnett, founder of Contact Press Images and an all-around amazing guy, has published a behind-the-scenes-look at covering this summer’s Olympics in Beijing. Long, but if you’re a Burnett fan, worth watching.

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft

September 23, 2008

Don't Take my Kodachrome Away

I admit, it’s been years since I ran a roll through a camera, but this AP story on whether digital imaging has killed off Kodachrome has me thinking of ordering up a few rolls. For you young’uns, if you’ve never shot a roll of film, once, just once, borrow your parents’ (or grandparents’) camera and run a roll of Kodachrome...