Category: Good Work

September 24, 2007

New Student Blog

Kelly Wegel has joined us in the blogosphere … where are the rest of you?

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

September 17, 2007

Finding the Way Home

MediaStorm has posted their latest package by Brenda Ann Kenneally looking at a family two years after Katrina. I see some interesting things in this 10 minute piece, but I’m curious what others think. So you speak first.

Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

September 12, 2007

How They Covered Katrina

For the second anniversary of Hurrican Katrina, the New Orleans Times-Picayune has put out a 25 minute long video talking about the photo department handled the disaster. Well worth your time.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Tech Talk

August 29, 2007

Back in Class

One of the truly neat things about where I teach is that we supply equipment to all of our students. Everyone in the Introduction to Photojournalism course is issued a digital camera and lens that they use for the entire semester and advanced students get a body, three lenses, flash and access to more gear than I think I have....

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work

August 22, 2007

Photo Contest: The New American Farm

I like the theme, take a look and judge for yourself, lots of stories that could be told around Athens. From their site: SARE’s 20th Anniversary Conference: The New American Farm: Advancing the frontier of sustainable agriculture SARE’s 20th Anniversary Photo Competition Rules (Word) (PDF) Theme: Groundbreaking Innovations, People and Partnerships in Sustainable Agriculture In celebration of the 20th Anniversary...

Categories Business & Industry/Competitions/Good Work

August 22, 2007

Smoky Mountain Stories

Friend and supporter Woody Marshall at the Macon Telegraph sent along a link to Smoky Mountain Stories – a collection of photo stories done last spring by University of North Carolina students. Worth spending some time on.

Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

August 21, 2007

What A Ride!

David Handschuh at the New York Daily News has a SoundSlides piece on a roller coaster club. This is done with the newer version of SS which allows pans and zooms, which I usually hate. (A.k.a. the Ken Burns effect), but here I don’t mind it quite so much. Make note of how clean and graphic the images are.

Categories Good Work/Multimedia

July 24, 2007

When it all goes "Pear Shaped"

Covering huge events can be a logistical nightmare – access, equipment, technical problems. And then it can all go up in flames.

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 24, 2007

Henry Wessel video

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a show on Henry Wessel and KQED has produced a short film of him talking about his work. (“Short” may be relative – it’s just under eight minutes in length.) (You’ll need the RealAudio player, worth it because the quality here is really nice.) Some of his work resonates with me, but...

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 20, 2007

WaPo goes LoCo

Confused? Join most of the newspaper editors around the world. This week, Rob Curley (digital maven and massive bright spot to the news industry) launched LoudounExtra.com – the Washington Post’s (WaPo) new hyperlocal web site covering Loudoun County (LoCo) in northern Virginia. Curley’s the guy behind the Naples News site down in Florida where he went nuts building out massive...

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk