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. Categories 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... Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
December 26, 2007 Sports Shooter Academy V – March 5-9 Passing this along … I’ve heard from several people that this is well worth your time and money to attend … SPORTS SHOOTER ACADEMY V SET FOR MARCH 5 – 9, 2008 Sports Shooter Academy V will be held March 5-9, 2008 in Orange County, California. This hands-on, 5-day shooting workshop will have the “best schedule of events ever,” according... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
December 26, 2007 Carolina Sports Photojournalism Workshop This has been sitting on my to-post list for a while, but back in November, the University of North Carolina hosted a sports photojournalism workshop. Images from the weekend are posted online for your perusal. Additionally, they have a blog where they’re posting content from class shoot-offs. I like this idea and, if there’s interest, think we’ll incorporate it into... Categories Competitions/Good Work/Photojournalism
December 20, 2007 "Our Hidden Poor" The Chicago Tribune has an audio slideshow by Kuni Takahashi looking at the hidden poor of Illinois. Nicely shot, the transition/text frames are well designed. Simple, elegant. Worth spending seven minutes with. Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism
December 18, 2007 Flash Duration File under Geek Alert … some of what you need to know about flash duration and sports photography, courtesy of Shawn Cullen over at SportsShooter.com. Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
December 12, 2007 "The Ninth Floor" MediaStorm has posted an audio slide show by Jessica Dimmock looking at the lives of heroin addicts who used to live in a ninth floor apartment in New York City. Access is what this is all about – Dimmock has manages to make her subjects so comfortable with her presence that she is there for everything. (And, I will warn... Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism
November 29, 2007 Offline for a Few Days I’ll be at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar for the next two days. If something big happens, I’m sure you’ll find out about it. Full report when I return. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
November 28, 2007 New Lincoln Photo Some of you may have seen the news that a “new” photo of President Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg was found. Now, the New York Times has a column about the photo and it asks some questions we, as photojournalists, should be thinking about. In class this week we talked about the differences between “general news” photographs and “documentary” photographs. How... Categories Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
November 19, 2007 "A New Dawn" David Stephenson’s two year coverage of a woman going through drug court is up on the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader’s web site. Broken into several chapters, it follows her through the courts and treatment programs and ends up … close to where she started. Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism