Advice & Learning – Page 14 – Visual Journalism

November 13, 2014

How to Recognize When the Problem Is You

Don Giannatti has a great rant over at Lighting Essentials about photographers who suck but don’t yet know it. He runs through 10 clear reasons why you aren’t successful and he’s on target with all of them. As we approach the end of the semester, I’m starting to get the gear questions*. Most of my kids get that it’s not...

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November 3, 2014

Wish I Knew Then …

Many, many people have uttered the phrase I wish I knew then what I know now … and often they’re lamenting not learning something in school that they had to figure out on their jobs. In that vein, Sarah Jacobs at PhotoShelter has a post of the Top 10 Things Photographers Wish They Learned in Photo School that you should...

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October 26, 2014

Maybe My Kids Need More Time …

I try to keep things pretty tight on my academic schedule – assignments for the intro class go out on a Wednesday and are due the following Friday. Nine days seems like enough time for them to do some research, find a subject, try it out, see it doesn’t work, find another subject, get that one to work out then...

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October 22, 2014

MediaStorm Internship Applications Due November 1

MediaStorm, one of the top multimedia production companies, is looking for spring interns. You won’t create, but you will help produce.

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October 18, 2014

Internships and Fellowships, A List

Over at the Poynter Institute, Benjamin Mullin has compiled a list of 33 journalism fellowships and internships with upcoming deadlines. Some very good leads in there, worth poking through them.

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October 16, 2014

“You Can’t Hide Hell”

Agence France-Presse’s Roland de Courson posted a chilling piece about their photo editors who have to look through all of the images coming out of the Middle East. Reading this gives you an entirely new perspective on hell. Commenting on how the job has changed since the start of the Iraq war more than a decade ago, photo editor Marina...

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October 13, 2014

And Over at PBS …

… there’s me prattling on about matching sights and sounds on the EducationShift blog.

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October 13, 2014

A Fair Day at the Fair

For the last nine years I’ve lead some sort of a workshop every semester for my advanced photojournalism students. This past weekend, we tackled something new – a 16 hour day at the Georgia National Fair and the Macon Telegraph posted a massive gallery of 265 images in addition to a section front (seen at left). There are really two...

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October 6, 2014

Being Prepared to Cross the Streams

Very nice post by Sid Ceaser over at DEDPXL on being prepared. Why the odd title? Go read and find out. You can’t cross the streams unless you take a chance.

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