Advice & Learning – Page 32 – Visual Journalism

February 3, 2012

WHNPA Student Photographer of the Year Competition

Details are out on the White House News Photographers Association’s 2012 Student Photographer of the Year competition. Submissions can be made, online, through March 15 and there is a nominal fee of $26 (which can also be put towards your membership in the WHNPA). From the rules: Portfolio General Requirements – Each student will submit a portfolio of a minimum...

Advice & Learning/Competitions/Photojournalism

January 31, 2012

On Rights Licensing and Visibility

Good read by Jim Pickerell over at Black Star Rising on how images get selected from online databases. I really want a much deeper conversation on this, though. Perhaps some case studies on how images were chosen when things went wrong or went really right. This section is where I want more from: Algorithms Have Replaced Editing Twenty years ago...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

January 31, 2012

NPPF Scholarships

The National Press Photographers Foundation offers several scholarships for college students – and you don’t need to be an NPPA student member. (Though, really, if you’re reading this, why aren’t you?) The scholarships are worth $2,000 and you’ll need to be in school in the fall to be eligible. From the release: NPPF scholarships are awarded to encourage those with...

Advice & Learning/Competitions

January 27, 2012

NPPA Tuition Grants

On the fence about heading to the Northern Short Course? Or maybe the Advanced Storytelling Workshop or Multimedia Immersion? Is it because of the registration cost? The National Press Photographers Association has announced a grant program, funded by the Authors Coalition of America, that may be able to help you out.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

January 23, 2012

PhotoShelter Guide to Social Media

PhotoShelter has created a two-part Photographer’s Social Media Handbook that you can get emailed to you from their site. It covers Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter and a few other platforms.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

January 23, 2012

Creativity is a Struggle

CNN.com’s Todd Leopold is building a nice little series on creativity, success and failure. This week, he features Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan but also touches on the Xerox PARC lab, Orson Welles and others. Money graf: But it’s not true. Successful people — creative people — fail every day, just like everybody else. Except they don’t view failure...

Advice & Learning/Craft

January 20, 2012

Southwestern Photojournalism Conference

Details are on their web site, but the basics are this is a multiple day event in late February in Fort Worth, Texas. Cheap, too, at $65 for students and they can come a day early for some extra events. Great line up of speakers including Alex Garcia from the Chicago Tribune, Brad Moore, Garrett Hubbard from USA Today, Lisa...

Advice & Learning

January 19, 2012

Reporter Skills, the New Baseline

Steve Yelvington put up a post on the New Baseline Skill Set for reporters, worth reading and pondering.

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January 16, 2012

Study Photojournalism in Berlin

I’ve had a few students do this program before and all have come back with glowing reports. Yeah, for you UGA students, having it run through the University of Florida may seem like a problem, but the guy leading this – John Freeman – is a stand-up guy and probably won’t mention football. The three credit hour course runs for...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism

January 9, 2012

Spring 2012 Semester, Day One

In a little less than an hour, I’ll throw open the doors to the Photojournalism Lab and welcome in a new crop of students. They’ll come in having heard some rumors about the class, some believing they know how to do this and some admitting that cameras and computers scare them. Sixteen weeks from now, we should have 32 more...