Category: Craft

October 20, 2014

Slivers and Shadows

So, here’s my native New Englander coming out … but I’d love to see someone try this at other fields, chasing slivers and shadows of light like the Boston Globe’s Stan Grossfeld did at Fenway Park this season. Having spent some later afternoon time inside the University of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium, there’s a cool project just years away from my...

Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

October 13, 2014

A Fair Day at the Fair

For the last nine years I’ve lead some sort of a workshop every semester for my advanced photojournalism students. This past weekend, we tackled something new – a 16 hour day at the Georgia National Fair and the Macon Telegraph posted a massive gallery of 265 images in addition to a section front (seen at left). There are really two...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

September 8, 2014

Go Deep, Not Just Far

While looking for something else this morning I stumbled across a blog post from Ami Vitale about travel photography. As my first-semester students are out wandering campus, camera in hand, there’s a lot of lessons for them in here, particularly the second of her ten, which ends with this: If some of the people who surrounded Subita had taken the...

Categories Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

September 7, 2014

Heisler on Heisler

I’ve talked about him before, but B&H Photo has posted a great interview with Gregory Heisler on their site. Worth spending the time – and it will take some – to go through. I have his book, I’ve seen him speak … and if my wife wouldn’t divorce me, I might go back to my old school where he’s now...

Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 29, 2014

Watch a Hunk of Lightning

Premiering tonight on PBS stations is a new documentary on Dorothea Lange, the legendary photojournalist whose iconic Migrant Mother photo has defined the Great Depression. Grab a Hunk of Lightning will be featured on the American Masters series. In some markets, it is on Friday night. For those in Georgia, it will be on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. My DVR...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 27, 2014

The New Old Photo Business

James Estrin has a great interview with Getty Images’ Jonathan Klein up on the New York Times’ Lens blog. Buried in it, amongst some things I didn’t know, was this: The world’s most-spoken language isn’t Mandarin — it’s pictures. We haven’t yet figured out how we get people to pay for it, but we will over time. Makes me at...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

August 25, 2014

What Does a Photo Say?

And can it say it wrong? That’s the question David Davis tackles at Deadspin in talking about one of Neil Leifer’s iconic images. An image can capture one moment from one angle. For it to rise to journalism, though, it must be seen in context. Doesn’t sound like that happened a half century ago.

Categories Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 13, 2014

Many Faces of the Same Man

There has been a lot written about the death of Robin Williams over the last few days, much of it touching upon nerves that run deep within me. As a visual journalist, one of our challenges is sharing the personality of our subjects with our audience and Krystam Grow over at Time’s Lightbox blog has given us six images of...

Categories At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

August 12, 2014

Am I Making Things Better?

It’s a question I often ask and it’s one architect Bob Borson asks himself, too. As a parent, journalist and educator, I wrestle with that question quite a bit. What’s the point if I am not making things better? Mr. Borson goes deeper, delving into what integrity means: I have wondered if personal integrity has to do with predisposition –...

Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 26, 2014

Nope, Video is Still Horizontal …

Kelly Hodgkins over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog posted a link to a Dan Toth video, claiming that, “your entire perception of portrait video will change forever, guaranteed.” It didn’t. Was this shot as a vertical video? Yes. But then it was edited into a horizontal video. Nice try, though.

Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Video