Advice & Learning – Page 35 – Visual Journalism

October 27, 2011

Multimedia Boot Camp at the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute

Just a few days left to register for the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute’s Nov. 16-20 Multimedia Boot Camp in Nashville, Tenn. There are reportedly just a few seats left as they’re capping the class at 18. From the flier: Participants will learn how to: Produce multimedia on a budget, buy the right gear and find cheap ways to record and...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

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 …

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

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.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory

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...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Tech Talk

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.

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

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.”

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

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...

Advice & Learning/Craft

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

Advice & Learning

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...