Photojournalism – Page 148 – Visual Journalism

March 27, 2008

THIS is TOO COOL

Here’s the scene: You’re a wire shooter, assigned to cover the European Swimming Championships. There’s a guy, Alain Bernard of France, who may set a record. So you know you’re concentrating on him. Of course, every other wire and agency photographer is going to focus in on this guy, how do you do it differently? Well, shoot it from underwater,...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 24, 2008

Al on Colleges Covering College Basketball

The Poynter Institute’s Al Tomkins put up a piece linking to how college newspapers are covering the NCAA tournaments. A little late for us here, but thinking about how to do this as future events unfold is a good idea. Say, the gymnastics championships … (And if you’re not reading Al’s Morning Meeting, what are you doing with your life?)

Multimedia/Photojournalism

March 12, 2008

Baseball Shooter

ESPN has a nice piece up on Gregg Forwerck who shoots for Topps baseball cards. Not very technical, but a nice profile.

Good Work/Photojournalism

February 14, 2008

The Speed of News

I spent time working for the wires (Associated Press and Agence France-Presse) and did enough newspaper night coverage to have pushed deadlines as much as the next guy. I remember waiting for a lower-office candidate to concede one night in Providence, R.I., so we could get the governor to come out and celebrate his win. That little twerp, down by...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 4, 2008

Photo of Ernie Pyle Found

MSNBC.com has an Associated Press story about a photo of legendary World War II journalist Ernie Pyle. It’s never believed to have been published as it shows him just after he was shot and killed on Okinawa.

Good Work/Photojournalism

January 30, 2008

Shooting the SOTU

John Harrington has a video up on shooting the State of the Union, including an interview with our friend David Burnett.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 29, 2008

Speaker: Dennis Dimick, Thursday, Jan. 31

Dennis Dimick, executive editor at National Geographic, will be in the photo lab from 11 a.m. to 12 noon on Thursday, talking about environmental coverage. All are welcome. This precedes his Charter lecture in the afternoon.

Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism

January 26, 2008

"The Capa Cache"

This is amazing … 70-year-old negatives, long since thought lost, from Robert Capa have turned up in Mexico, according to a New York Times article.

Business & Industry/Craft/Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

January 22, 2008

Twenty Days, Twenty Thousand Photos

Turned into one video by the Toronto Star’s Lucas Oleniuk. You can question its journalistic objectivity, I suppose, but … wow.

Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 14, 2008

Rock Photographer Jim Marshall

Being in Athens, many of my students want to shoot music scene stories. There’s one guy who they should all study – Jim Marshall. For almost 50 years he’s shot the biggest and the best stars, from the typical on-stage antics to the behind the scenes moments that let you understand who these people are. He’s posted an interview on...