Category: Advice & Learning

September 29, 2010

Field Trip

The Introduction to Photojournalism students from the morning section got a brief walk onto the lawn this morning as we talked a bit about light and portraits. As they took aim at me, I shot back – a burst of nine photos, moving a little to the right each time – because I wanted to try the panorama stitching in...

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work

September 29, 2010

Stanley Leary on Looking for Light

Stanley Leary has become a great resource and friend to my program at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. I have him come in every year to talk about business practices, something he does extremely well. He’s also started doing some video blogging, and the most recent one fits nicely with the next assignment for...

Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

September 27, 2010

Internship Opp.: Associated Press

The Associated Press’ internship application deadline is still more than a month away, but why wait? Get your stuff together and get it in. Photo Internship Program WHAT IS IT? A highly selective, 12-week, individually tailored training program for students who are aspiring photojournalists or photo editors for the summer of 2011. AM I ELIGIBLE? The internship is open to...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

September 27, 2010

Digital Literacy and a Resource Page

Over the weekend, a new tab popped up along that nav bar–Resources. I’ll put links in there to teaching materials from my classes. The first thing in there is a public link to the Digital Literacy videos I created over the summer. These 13 video modules are being used in several of our courses to help students learn new(ish) technologies...

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Tech Talk

September 27, 2010

Semi-Random College Advice

The New York Times this weekend posted a collection of short thoughts on how to improve your college education experience. There’s very little in there that directly affects visual journalism, but since most of the audience members here are students … go read that.

Categories Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

September 25, 2010

On Teaching and the Value of Education

John Harrington, a gentleman I admire for numerous reasons, has opened up the question – again – as to whether university programs are preparing “photographers” for the real world. He brings up several important issues and his post is worth ruminating on. His main complaint stems from ads looking for photography faculty members and requiring at least a masters’ degree...

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

September 24, 2010

Why Archiving Is Important

Over on the New York Times, there is a story about a lost television recording of the last game of the 1960 World Series that has been found in a wine cellar of Bing Crosby. Aside from the Yankees losing that game, it is a nice reminder of the value of finding long-term storage solutions for our own archives. Right...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

September 13, 2010

Twittering Students

I have my Advanced Photojournalism students on Twitter (and blogging), but I have to say this exchange that I found this morning made me chuckle. (Remember to read from the bottom up.) Makes the old D-76 in the bloodstream flow a little better seeing that. Of course, I preach that the photojournalism classes will be the least used courses they...

Categories Advice & Learning

September 10, 2010

Free Knight Multimedia Training for Mid-career Journalists

Yep, free – as in get yourself there yourself and they’ll cover the training. There are, of course, some caveats: The multimedia workshop, Web 2.0 and Interactive Census training application process requires a letter of interest, resume, a training plan and a letter of support from your supervisor. The supervisor needs to confirm that the organization will spend a minimum...

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism

September 7, 2010

John Loengard on Being a Picture Editor

John Loengard has a guest post over on Scott Kelby’s site, and it’s an entry that every aspiring photographer and picture editor has to read. The role of the picture editor is, perhaps, the most misunderstood one in the communication industry. No one likes their picture editor – not the photographers nor the editors on high. But the role a...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism