Advice & Learning – Page 73 – Visual Journalism

September 14, 2007

One Flash, Lots of Effects

Back in February, PhotoshopTV had Joe McNally on talking about using a single strobe for some of his work. Go to the 12:30 mark for his bit, runs about seven minutes.

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

September 13, 2007

FREE PIZZA – And a New Media Talk Here On Campus – Jim Alred, Tuesday, Sept. 18

Did I get your attention with the headline? Should I make it bigger? FREE PIZZA!!!!!!!! Jim Alred, New Media Director for the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune will be doing a public talk in Grady College’s Drewry Room on Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 12:30. You need to RSVP to Sophie Barnes by Monday, she’s in room 233. Alred will speak in some...

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

September 11, 2007

The Forgotten Lens

Well, hopefully none of the 3710 students have forgotten this lens as each of you was issued one last month … Regardless, an interesting treatise on the wonder of the basic 50 mm lens over on Gary Voth’s site. I’ve decided my 24 mm is my standard lens, but have been thinking a second body with a 50/1.4 would be...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Tech Talk

August 30, 2007

Color Tests

We should talk about color theory in class a lot more than we do, I keep trying to get it in there and it just keeps slipping by. So in its place, here’s a small online game for looking at color gradations. See how you do.

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Thoughts & Theory

August 29, 2007

Back in Class

One of the truly neat things about where I teach is that we supply equipment to all of our students. Everyone in the Introduction to Photojournalism course is issued a digital camera and lens that they use for the entire semester and advanced students get a body, three lenses, flash and access to more gear than I think I have....

Advice & Learning/Good Work

August 27, 2007

My Sides Hurt …

Scott Schamp, director of the New Media Institute at UGA’s Grady College, is teaching a class in Second Life this semester. It’s an experiment, of sorts, to see how a virtual world could be used for learning. Based on his latest blog entry, I think Dr. Schamp is in for a long and entertaining semester. To quote: But last Friday,...

Advice & Learning

August 21, 2007

Some Days, It Pays to be a Pack Rat

Not many, but some. While rooting around for something else I found a yellowed sheet of paper I must have been handed in grad school by my mentor, Prof. David Sutherland. And so I share it with you … ARE YOU THINKING PICTURES?Questions to keep in mind: Does the photo communicate quicker, stronger, better or more eloquently than a simple...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 24, 2007

Henry Wessel video

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a show on Henry Wessel and KQED has produced a short film of him talking about his work. (“Short” may be relative – it’s just under eight minutes in length.) (You’ll need the RealAudio player, worth it because the quality here is really nice.) Some of his work resonates with me, but...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 20, 2007

WaPo goes LoCo

Confused? Join most of the newspaper editors around the world. This week, Rob Curley (digital maven and massive bright spot to the news industry) launched LoudounExtra.com – the Washington Post’s (WaPo) new hyperlocal web site covering Loudoun County (LoCo) in northern Virginia. Curley’s the guy behind the Naples News site down in Florida where he went nuts building out massive...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 15, 2007

"Caretaking the Rare Glass"

Our friend (I hope he doesn’t mind that) David Burnett has a great post on acquiring a new/old lens – and brings up the idea of not owning older gear but merely being the caretaker of it. I so want a Speed Graphic …