Good Work – Page 62 – Visual Journalism

May 26, 2007

Light(ing) Snacks

There are time I miss shooting more than I can tell you, and it’s usually not the big stuff that I miss. Yeah, the championship games and neat places we get to go to are all cool, but it’s the simple stuff I miss. Sadly, I never worked for a newspaper that had a real studio. Which is okay, because...

Good Work/Tech Talk

May 25, 2007

NYT Fashion Shoot

Ever wondered how the New York Times does a fashion shoot? Check out this three minute video …

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Tech Talk

May 20, 2007

11 Tips for Landscape Photography

(Those coming into JOUR3710 pay attention here – your first few assignments will be on pictorials and all of this applies.) Over at The Digital Photography School, there’s a great post talking about landscape photography. Not journalism, but some of the tips apply to seeing something we can all work on. (Thanks to Brother Brian for the link.)

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 7, 2007

Annie Leibovitz at Atlanta's High Museum

The High Museum in Atlanta has a special event for the opening of Annie Leibovitz’s new show, “Celebrating a Photographer’s Life,” this Friday, May 11. Tickets are only $250 … Or maybe you just want to go see the 175 photos that are on exhibit from May 12 through September 9. I know I do.

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

April 23, 2007

VT Student Photojournalist's Images

In the chaos following last week’s shootings at Virginia Tech, police detained a photojournalist shooting for the campus paper. Shaozhuo Cui was detained for two hours and his equipment held for two days. Now, his story and photos are in Newsweek and posted online at MSNBC.com – including him talking about the events and a collection of other images shot...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

April 23, 2007

A Prayer for Father Tim

Jim Gerhz and Maura Lerner at the Minneapolis Star Tribune teamed up for a story looking at a military chaplain who was injured in Iraq. Note the use of audio – subtle and effective. Look at the variety of images – no two ever look similar. Thanks to Lindy Dugger for the link.

Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

April 17, 2007

UGA Student Wins Southern Short Course Shootout

Last weekend, seven photojournalism students from UGA’s Grady College went to the Southern Short Couse for News Photography in Chattanooga, Tenn. Their trip was funded by the Harry Hodgson Journalism Student Support Fund. Part of the three-day workshop was the Nikon Shootout – participants are loaned a Nikon point-and-shoot camera and given one hour to illustrate a theme. This year,...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

April 12, 2007

Roads Not Taken

Ctein over on The Online Photographer has a cautionary tale about missed opportunities. Every photojournalist I’ve ever met has a story about the photo they didn’t go after. (I don’t like to talk about mine.) (Any of them.) (Though I’ve gotten better about them over the years.) If you’re reading this, you’re probably young and impressionable and desirous of a...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 11, 2007

Adena Stevens launches website

I’ve been a fan of Adena Stevens’ work for a while, and she’s finally online with her work. Her attention to the details in stories has always impressed me and she shoots very clean – through choices of lens, aperture and background. She self-assigned herself to cover a local college’s basketball teams for a season and vastly improved her sports...

Good Work/Photojournalism

April 10, 2007

David Burnett (are you sick of him yet? I am not)

David Burnett‘s show is up at the Georgia Center and he’s made his public talk … and we’re all better for it. Really, we are. After picking him up in Atlanta, we stopped to shoot a 81-year-old World War II vet who jumped into Normandy in 1944. And in 1994. And again in 2004 … the guy is a true...