February 3, 2012 NSC Teach-a-thon So, need another reason to attend the Northern Short Course? Ever heard me speak? Think I can teach anything in just seven minutes? Come find out. Categories Advice & Learning
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... Categories 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... Categories 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... Categories 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. Categories 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. Categories 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... Categories 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... Categories 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. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk
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... Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism