Good Work – Page 55 – Visual Journalism

April 15, 2008

Over-Photoshopping

Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, wrote about a blog post by Carrie Niland, who I know but didn’t know had a blog … Anyway, Carrie takes on an over-toned image by a former intern that recently appears in Photo District News. The comments are as good as the entry.

Ethics & Legal/Good Work

April 7, 2008

Pulitzer Prizes

Announced today … For Spot Braking Photography, Reuters’ Adrees Latif for his photo of wounded Japanese photographer Kenji Nagai in Myanmar. For Feature Photography, Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for photos of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness.

Competitions/Good Work

April 5, 2008

Business Photos

The Reuters blog posted a nice collection of economic and business related photos. There are lots of shooters who hate getting a business assignment, I used to like them. Something different. Of course, 75% of what I shot was sports which, believe it or not, gets tiring after a while.

Good Work

April 5, 2008

Joe McNally on Junk Piles and Herschel Walker

Over on Joe McNally’s blog, he talks about a workshop he was teaching and, at the tail end of it, is a little bit about shooting covers for national magazines, this one on UGA’s own Herschel Walker. Probably of more interest locally than non-locally …

Good Work/Photojournalism

April 2, 2008

UGAzine Looking for Photo Stories

Passing along … Each semester, ugazine publishes a two-page, color Photo Essay for thedepartment “In A Thousand Words.” All submissions will be reviewed by ourPhoto Editor, Editor-In-Chief and Managing Editor. If your work is selected forpublication, then you’ll be asked to submit a brief (2-3 sentence) summaryparagraph of the story to accompany the photos and captions.To submit your work, please...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work

March 27, 2008

THIS is TOO COOL

Here’s the scene: You’re a wire shooter, assigned to cover the European Swimming Championships. There’s a guy, Alain Bernard of France, who may set a record. So you know you’re concentrating on him. Of course, every other wire and agency photographer is going to focus in on this guy, how do you do it differently? Well, shoot it from underwater,...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 26, 2008

Chip Simons, Then and Now

In the 1980s, I wasn’t much of a studio/fashion/commercial kind of photographer. I was a journalist, I looked up to people like Stan Grosfeld, Susan Meiselas and Michel DuCille and didn’t think much about the rest of the photography world. Of course, there were a few names we all knew – Mark Seliger, Annie Leibovitz and Chip Simons were high...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Tech Talk

March 21, 2008

Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War

Reuters has put together a multimedia package looking at the first five years of the war in Iraq. The introduction piece is a nice summation of what Reuters has been doing to cover the war, specifically talking about using local journalists as opposed to parachuting in folks. (The intro runs just under five minutes, watch your audio – the video...

At Work/Audio/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Tech Talk

March 15, 2008

Photo Booths

The New York Times has a story and video about photo booths and their transition from chemical to digital. Interesting and entertaining.

Business & Industry/Good Work/Multimedia

March 12, 2008

Baseball Shooter

ESPN has a nice piece up on Gregg Forwerck who shoots for Topps baseball cards. Not very technical, but a nice profile.