Good Work – Page 43 – Visual Journalism

September 5, 2010

Belle Isle, Over Time

Gina Damron and Brian Kaufman from the Detroit Free Press put together a wonderful video piece that looks at a year in the life of Belle Isle, Detroit’s island park. Spend the time on all three pieces, worth it. (Thanks to Seth Gitner for the link.)

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September 2, 2010

Denver Post on the Days of Summer

Meghan Lyden is just one of the best picture editors around … she puts together the Denver Post’s Plog (photo blog) and has collected a great set of images looking back at the summer that was. I want to live in about two thirds of those images …

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August 31, 2010

Secs in the City

Up at My Old School, incoming grad students go through a six week boot camp that now includes a multimedia component. The students are required to produce a 60 second video or audio slide show about someone (or thing) within the neighborhood of Syracuse, New York. I think this is brilliant. And, given the quality on some of these first-attempt...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism

August 27, 2010

Clever Designs

Second post linking to the other side of the pond today … I may need fish and chips for lunch … Design Shack has a collection of 50 clever logo designs. I am in awe of people who come up with such things as I have tried and not had a tremendous amount of success with them over the years....

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August 11, 2010

No Photos, Please – But They’re Available For Sale

Over on the NPPA listserv, Mark Hertzberg posted links to a pair of stories that come out of England about a soccer team that is not credentialing photographers this season, instead telling them to buy them from the official photographers. Which lead one paper to, brilliantly, have an illustrator draw the key action moments from the game. A new market...

Business & Industry/Good Work

August 3, 2010

Some Photographs of the Day

Jennifer Cisney, Kodak’s Chief Blogger, linked, indirectly, to this collection of photos done by Jamie Livingston and it’s worth spending some time on. Actually, she linked to Chris Higgins’ post about the story behind the images, so I’d start there. It’s an awesome collection – for 18 years, Livingston shot one Polaroid photo every day. Right up until the day...

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July 31, 2010

Shoot a Magazine Cover of an iPhone … with an iPhone

No, really – use a cell phone to shoot a full-size magazine cover. Pixel-peepers the world over are cringing right now, but Peter Belanger shot the current Macworld cover with his new iPhone 4. And didn’t retouch it, either. See, it isn’t the camera, is it? As Ansel Adams said, “The single most important component of a camera is the twelve...

Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk

July 31, 2010

The 1930s and 1940s, in Color

I’ve posted links to some similar collections, but the Denver Post has, again, eclipsed everyone else with their collection of color images from the 1930s and 1940s. Maybe it’s just me, but these images are fascinating because we’re so used to seeing the subjects in black and white.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 30, 2010

The Reasoning Behind Time Magazine’s Cover Choice

Time managing editor Richard Stengal explains why they made the decision to use a portrait of a young woman who has had her nose and ears cut off by the Taliban. The photo, by Jodi Bieber, is an arresting image – the soft light and simple composition draw you in before you realize what it is that you’re looking at.

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July 29, 2010

Colorama Returns

Kodak has taken the massive backlit displays it used to feature in New York City’s Grand Central Station and sent them to the Eastman House Museum. If you’re in e Rochester area, I would highly recommend taking a look.

Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk

Category: Good Work

Belle Isle, Over Time

Denver Post on the Days of Summer

Secs in the City

Clever Designs

No Photos, Please – But They’re Available For Sale

Some Photographs of the Day

Shoot a Magazine Cover of an iPhone … with an iPhone

The 1930s and 1940s, in Color

The Reasoning Behind Time Magazine’s Cover Choice

Colorama Returns