Advice & Learning – Page 70 – Visual Journalism

December 26, 2007

Sports Shooter Academy V – March 5-9

Passing this along … I’ve heard from several people that this is well worth your time and money to attend … SPORTS SHOOTER ACADEMY V SET FOR MARCH 5 – 9, 2008 Sports Shooter Academy V will be held March 5-9, 2008 in Orange County, California. This hands-on, 5-day shooting workshop will have the “best schedule of events ever,” according...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

December 14, 2007

Travel Edit

Photo District News has a 10-photo feature up on travel photography. They talked with Travel + Leisure photo editor Whitney Lawson about a recent shoot by David Nicolas, looking at what images were accepted and rejected and, more importantly, why.

Advice & Learning/Good Work

December 13, 2007

Books the Working Photojournalist Should Own

A brief, and expanding, collection of non-photo photo books. These are about people, about the craft and about vision. ______________________________ Blue Highways, William Least Heat Moon – This is the book that made me want to be a journalist. He was a college professor losing his job and his wife, so he headed out in an Ford Econoline plumber’s truck...

Advice & Learning

December 11, 2007

And I thought Iowa was the Corny State …

But, apparently, curators with the Wisconsin Historical Society are cornier. They have a collection of vintage postcards titled, “Exaggerated Postcards, 1900-.” I assume that means they’re still working on the collection. But who knew corn could break a wagon? Or be ridden like a horse? Or that it could take a whole train car to move one ear of corn?...

Advice & Learning/Ethics & Legal/Good Work

December 7, 2007

Quotes

As classes came to a close on Thursday, I shared some quotes with my advanced class about our roles as photojournalists. One asked me to post it on the class blog, but I suspect some of them may resonate with others, as well. We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no...

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

December 7, 2007

ScanAthens.com

One of the Advanced Photojournalism students, Richard Hamm, pointed out that Clarke County police, fire and emergency medical services, as well as University of Georgia campus police, have their radio traffic broadcast on the web through ScanAthens.com. Looks like you can have it fed into iTunes, a Real Audio player, Windows Media player and a few others.

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

December 4, 2007

New Photojournalism Center

The Angus & Betty McDougall Center for Photojournalism Studies has been created at the University of Missouri.

Advice & Learning

November 29, 2007

Offline for a Few Days

I’ll be at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar for the next two days. If something big happens, I’m sure you’ll find out about it. Full report when I return.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

November 19, 2007

Canon Makes Significant Loan to Grady

Okay, I don’t like to brag. Much. But we scored a big loan from Canon this semester, and there’s now a story up on our web site about it.

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

November 13, 2007

College Photographer of the Year

The College Photographer of the Year awards are out – and up. All the photos, audio slideshows and videos have now been posted online. Go, explore, question.

Advice & Learning/Competitions/Good Work

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