July 18, 2012 “Getting Prepared for Luck” The Chicago Tribune’s Scott Strazzante talks about the anatomy of a sports photograph. That one-line – “getting prepared for luck” – really says it all. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
July 18, 2012 Life Interviews David Douglas Duncan Many consider David Douglas Duncan’s This Is War to be the ultimate complete book of combat photography (and I am one of them). Over on Life.com, they have an interview with him about how this seminal collection of images from the Korean War came to be some sixty years ago. Well worth a read. Categories At Work/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
July 17, 2012 AP Goes Robotic, Too Not to be out down by their colleagues at Reuters, the Associated Press is also setting up a phalanx of remote controlled cameras for the Olympics according to the British Journal of Photography. Sweet …. Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 10, 2012 Georgia Press Association Photo of the Year goes to UGA VJ Alum Big congratulations go to Jon-Michael Sullivan for a stunning image that took the Photo of the Year award from the Georgia Press Association. Sullivan, a staff photographer at the Marietta Daily Journal made the fireworks-and-lightening image during the 2011 Fourth of July celebrations in Kennasaw, Ga. Sweet pic, Jon-Michael. Categories Competitions/Craft/Photojournalism
July 10, 2012 NPPA Short Grant Application Deadline Approaching If you haven’t done it yet, you’ve got less than a week left to apply for one of six $3,000 grants from the National Press Photographers Association. Categories Competitions/Photojournalism
July 9, 2012 Olympic Problems for “User Generated Content” Plans If you were hoping to have your audience help flush out your Olympic coverage this year, better come up with a new plan: Ticket holders are barred from releasing images they create to for any commercial usage. According to Cleland Thom at the Press Gazette, attendees can post photos and text to their own social media sites so long as... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
July 9, 2012 Naw, Shooting Sports Isn’t Dangerous Except, you know, when it is … (Thanks to Alicia Wagner Calzada for the link.) Categories At Work/Photojournalism
July 7, 2012 Looking For a Job? The New Orleans CityBusiness is looking for a new reporter – and they’ve written one of the best job ads ever. Great advice can be gleaned from that post – would you be ready to apply? Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 5, 2012 Minor Victories in the War Against Photoshopping Think Progress is reporting on an eighth grader who wrote Seventeen magazine asking them to not Photoshop at least one person per issue. Her online petition has over 81,000 signatures – and the magazine responded. But not how you’d expect – (T)he magazine has made a commitment to not alter the body size or face shape of the girls and... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 4, 2012 More Olympic Photos This time, though, they’re a lot better … CNN has a gallery of Donal Miralle’s work up from past Olympic Games, some really nice frames in there. Categories Craft/Photojournalism