Advice & Learning – Page 35 – Visual Journalism

October 27, 2011

Registration for the Northern Short Course Now Open

It’s the one I started at more than 20 years ago, the one I can’t wait to get back to in March – the NPPA’s Northern Short Course will be in Fairfax, Va., March 8-12, 2012 and your an now register online. Do it early, do it often … I mean, if you can afford to …

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October 26, 2011

Terrorism, Tornados and Telling Visual Stories

A reminder that David Handschuh from the New York Daily News and Jeff Roberts of the Birmingham News will be talking about covering major events in their communities at 10:30 this morning in the Grady College’s Drewry Room as part of the McGill Symposium on Journalistic Courage.

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October 24, 2011

Role Reversals and Fun with Lights

There’s a great interview over at The Image, Deconstructed with Matt Roth, formerly of Patuxent Publishing, about a series of portraits for a lifestyle magazine on Howard County, Maryland. The lead image is worth the click-thru alone. Love his take on lighting: Uh, a lot of people have me pegged as a lighting wizard… which I’m not. I think I’m...

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October 21, 2011

Twitter Humor for Journalists

There are lots of hashtags worth following on Twitter, but one of my favorites is the #partylikeajournalist group. Because, well … because it’s just great geek humor for us.

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October 21, 2011

The Chris Hondros Fund Launches

Chris Hondros, who was killed in Libya earlier this year alongside Tim Hetherington, left behind a legacy of images and work ethic. Now, his fiancé has created the Chris Hondros Fund, a fellowship for, “an outstanding photojournalist who is committed to creating a visual history that brings shared human experiences into the public eye and whose work shows exceptional promise.”

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October 18, 2011

FYI … NPPAStudents Now on Twitter

If you’re a student and an NPPA member, you should follow the NPPAStudent account. I suspect there will be a lot of good info coming through there.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

October 17, 2011

Annoying Photo Critique Comments

We do a lot of in-class critiquing around here. Every assignment, from every student, ends up on the big screen and we all tear into them … at least, that’s what I want. What I get is a lot of silence some days, or vague platitudes about how they “like it.” They give no reason, so I have to draw...

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October 16, 2011

Live Chat About Internship and Job Searches

(Mirrored from the NPPA’s Visual Student blog.) Live Student Chat on Internship and Job Searches

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October 13, 2011

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Registration Now Open

Get it on your calendar and get registered – the 2011 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar is scheduled for December 2-3 at the Westin Atlanta Perimeter North Hotel. The list of folks there this year is pretty amazing – David Burnett, Rich Addicks, Mary Calvert, Barbara Davidson, Julie Jacobson, Greg Kahn, Mike David, Tom Kennedy … lots of very smart, very successful...

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October 10, 2011

Next NPPA Student Chat Set for Oct. 16

Over at the NPPA’s Visual Student blog, they’ve announced the next student chat session. On Sunday, Oct. 16, at 9 p.m. (Eastern, for our western readers) NPPA President Sean Elliot, Student Committee Chair Bettina Hansen, Student Chapters Committee Chair Michael P. King and Student Representative Maddie McGarvey will join me for a live chat about finding internships and jobs. You...

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