May 2, 2011 Fake Osama Bin Laden Photo FYI, there is a fake photo of a dead Osama Bin Laden floating around the ‘net. Reuters got hold of it and proved it wasn’t real. Nice to see the editing system work. Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
May 2, 2011 Front Pages Today You’ve heard the news, I’m sure, by now. Julie Moos over at the Poynter Institute has pulled together 20 front pages from newspapers around the country. It’s an interesting study of how different publications played the news with photos and, particularly, headlines. The Newseum in Washington, D.C., runs the front pages of several hundred newspapers every day, but as of... Categories Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism
April 29, 2011 Shoot or Help Marrary Jean Tenore has a story up at the Poynter Institute that talks with Tuscaloosa News photojournalist Dusty Compton about the already-iconic image of the massive tornado that rolled over the city. Both before and after it hit, Compton was faced with choices – shoot or help? “There were so many things going through my head at the time,” Compton... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
April 29, 2011 Memories – and History – on the Auction Block The legendary John G. Morris, 94, has decided to put most of his personal collection of prints up for auction, according to a story by David W. Dunlop on the New York Times’ Lens blog. Why should you care? Do you have any idea who he is? Morris could be considered the father, grandfather, godfather and founder of the modern... Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
April 28, 2011 The Only Post I Hope to Write on The Wedding Curious what it will take to cover the Royal Wedding? Check out this post from one of the shooters who will be out there. Reuters will have 15 shooters out there, though they won’t be running around with all of that gear. My guess is they’ll be locked into place hours before the event starts and stuck there until hours... Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
April 27, 2011 Reminder: Registration Open for the Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference FYI … We’re excited to announce that pre-registration for the 2011 Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference is now open! We have an excellent faculty lined up this year including Pulitzer Prize-winner Deanne Fitzmaurice and 2010 Scripps Howard Foundation first place winner Lisa Krantz who will speak on topics ranging from the business of multimedia to how to come up with and... Categories Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Photojournalism
April 26, 2011 Covering Holi and Protecting Gear I’ve seen photos from the Holi festival in India several times before, but had no idea they celebrate it in … Utah? Yeah, Utah. Retuers’ Jim Urguhart covered the event earlier this month and posted on the company’s blog about his experiences there. Buried in there is a graf or two about prepping his gear and made mention of something... Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
April 26, 2011 Disaster Diptychs It’s a phrase Scott Strazzante has used for a while in his on-going Common Ground project, but it popped into my head while looking at a collection of images shot by Retuers’ Carlos Barria in Japan and Haiti. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
April 25, 2011 Rich Clarkson on His Own Sports Photography Catching up on my photo blogs … another from the Denver Post with images and commentary from Rich Clarkson, arguably one of the two deans of sports photography over the last 50 years. Clarkson has probably trained more great sports shooters then everyone else combined. Categories Photojournalism
April 25, 2011 Vietnam Revisited The deaths of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros last week have a lot of people revisiting the idea of war photography. Michael Johnston at The Online Photographer pointed back to a photo gallery from a year ago by the Denver Post’s Captured blog. The collection of images looks at the war in Vietnam on the 35th anniversary of the fall... Categories Photojournalism