Good Work – Page 49 – Visual Journalism

November 20, 2009

Free Food! (Or Why We Go Into Journalism?)

It’s the dream assignment on a bad day. You’re on your fourth shoot and there it is, someone offering you food. Some cheese, maybe half a tuna sandwich on a croissant … or, if you shoot for National Geographic, maybe it’s a … live penguin?

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work

November 19, 2009

David Guttenfelder’s Visual Variety

I talk with my students – constantly – about visual variety. About finding different ways of showing a story, about giving their readers a different perspective on the story at hand. We also talk about how it helps page designers – not having four medium shots from three stories makes the page look a lot better. Over the years, I’ve...

Craft/Good Work

November 19, 2009

World Series via Time Lapse

Daniel Shirey sent this along … Robert Caplin tool multiple cameras to the last World Series game and put together a time lapse story out of the 12,000 images. Neat effect, gives you a feel of how the event went. (And, see? Not a single comment about my feelings towards the winners of that game.)

Good Work

November 16, 2009

College Photographer of the Year Awards

They’re up – the 2009 CPOY award winners. And while a lot of them make me jealous, there’s one … that’s … well … you’ll find it. It’s funny, but … uh … every photojournalism professor in the country I know of discourages that particular subject.

Competitions/Good Work

November 15, 2009

“How I Got That Shot of Ayatollah Khomeini”

My admiration for David Burnett is well known, so posting links to his work is an automatic thing at this point. So Slate’s slide show of his work from the Iranian revolution, complete with his commentary, is worth spending a few minutes on. (Thanks to former student Thomas O’Connor for the heads up.)

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November 14, 2009

An American Soldier

The Denver Post’s Craig Walker spent 27 months documenting the enlistment, training and deployment of Ian FIsher. Great set of images and great, continuing access.

Good Work

November 13, 2009

This New is Old. Again.

It is obvious that I am not a fashion conscious person. Some would argue that I am not even fashion aware. That said, here’s a little something from the New York Times about fashion as they explore the “old is new” theme in men’s clothing – apparently, late 19th century menswear is now fashionable. Which, really, we don’t care about...

Good Work/Tech Talk

October 5, 2009

Big Trees

This has popped up in a few places from a few people, and I’ve been just enough out of it to not remember who has sent it to me. So, whoever you are, um, thanks … This month’s National Geographic has a cover story on redwoods – the massive, ancient trees. And there’s a foldout image that will blow your...

Good Work/Tech Talk

September 17, 2009

Ethics vs. Art: The Crop

The New York Times‘ Lens blog (really, a must read at this point) has an essay up by David Hume Kennerly where he talks about a photo he shot of former Vice President Dick Cheney at home with his family preparing a dinner meal. The image was picked up by Newsweek, but two thirds of it was cropped out. Kennerly...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work

September 11, 2009

Football, with a Twist

My good friend Scott Bryant at the Statesboro (Ga.) Herald sent along a link to an audio slide show he did on the first Georgia Southern game of the season. He said he’d been asked to get more fans into the paper and didn’t want to do just another gallery of cheering people. But what do you think? Does it...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

Category: Good Work

Free Food! (Or Why We Go Into Journalism?)

David Guttenfelder’s Visual Variety

World Series via Time Lapse

College Photographer of the Year Awards

“How I Got That Shot of Ayatollah Khomeini”

An American Soldier

This New is Old. Again.

Big Trees

Ethics vs. Art: The Crop

Football, with a Twist