August 20, 2011 Shooting a Triple Play The Boston Globe’s Jim David talks about how he shot all three outs on a triple play. Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 17, 2011 Being Prepared for the Salt Flats So, your editor says, go our west to the Bonneville Salt Flats for SpeedWeek, when a bunch of nutcases try to go as fast as they can in a big, dried up ocean bed. How hard could this be? Jim Urguhart from Reuters found out. With temperatures well over 100 degrees and no shade anywhere, it’s easy to cook yourself... Categories At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 17, 2011 Students: One for Your RSS Feeds Because I know, by now, you have set up an RSS reader, right? Add this one in: The Visual Student is the National Press Photographers Association’s blog for students and, with a new Student Chair, I think it’s going to be getting busier. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 14, 2011 Five Who Were There The Huffington Post has put up interviews with five Associated Press photographers who were either in New York City or with President Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001. More of these to come, I’m sure. Categories Photojournalism
August 12, 2011 Memories of The Wall Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall, the wall that was one of the largest physical manifestations of the Cold War, physically splitting Berlin into communist and democratic sides. The Associated Press has moved a story about photographer Peter Hillebrecht who, in the middle of an August night, got a call that the East Germans... Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
August 12, 2011 No Comment Really, I’m not saying anything about this at all. Nope. Okay, maybe one thing: It’s important to know your market. Also, REALLY? Categories Ethics & Legal/Graphic Design/Photojournalism
August 12, 2011 The Apocalypse is Nigh For years, I joked that the job I really wanted was Photo Editor at the Wall Street Journal because, well … they didn’t run photos. I envisioned walking into the daily budget meeting and the editors going around the table talking about their pitches for A1 and, when they got to me, I could just say, “Not yet.” Well, now... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
August 11, 2011 The White House and the Pentagon At Odds Over Photo Coverage Interesting piece moved by the Associated Press about an apparent conflict and/or miscommunication between the White House and the Pentagon about photos from Dover Air Force Base of the returning of the remains of the 30 soldiers killed in Afghanistan. While the White House released the photo, the AP stuck to its policy of not moving hand-out photos from situations... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
August 10, 2011 Newsweek Under FIre for Michelle Bachman Cover Newsweek’s cover story on Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and her run for the presidency has come under fire for both the headline (“The Queen of Rage”) and the cover photo. Some of the images used in the article include a “pious-looking portrait” and a frame with “swept-back hair,” according to the Poynter article linked above. The full gallery of images contains... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
August 10, 2011 A Desperate Leap in London Time’s Lighbox blog has the backstory on the series of images by Amy Weston of a woman leaping to safety in London. There has been some speculation that the photo was faked, but WENN, her agency, has released the four-frame sequence that convinces me it’s authentic and a great bit of photojournalism. Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism