Photojournalism – Page 150 – Visual Journalism

November 9, 2007

Sports Portfolio – John Biever

Okay, aside from this being basically an ad for (our excellent and truly supportive friends at) Canon, Sports Illustrated’s gallery of photos by John Biever is worth wandering through.

Good Work/Photojournalism

November 2, 2007

The Mundane Becomes Cool

One of the things I love about newspapers moving into new storytelling modes is the ability to make a seemingly mundane thing more interesting. Had I ever told my staff to go to a football game and cover the chain gang – the volunteers who move the first down markers around – they would have had a fit. But the...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

October 29, 2007

FREE PIZZA – And Pictures of Bugs

How can you pass up that combination? You can’t, you just can’t … On Friday, November 2, Professor G. Keith Douce from the Department of Entomology on the Tifton campus, will be in the Photojournalism Lab at noon to talk about the Bugwood Network – an image archive of pests, plants and problems around the world. The photo archive is...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

October 17, 2007

Stop Talking About Gear

And start thinking about how to use it better. Ken Rockwell, who has a ton of information on his site about cameras and lenses, wrote a diatribe a while back about why the camera you use doesn’t matter. Some of his analogies are weak, but this one always rings true: We all know how to play the piano: you just...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

October 12, 2007

Eddie Adams Workshop – Multimedia Pieces

The annual Eddie Adams Workshop, which was last month in upstate New York, has posted their multimedia pieces – created in just a few days, there’s some very nice pieces in here. Two I’d take a closer look at … “Never Checking Out” looks at the life of two men living at the Liberty Motel. And “Pro/Con” which has some...

Multimedia/Photojournalism

October 11, 2007

Obit: Alexandra Boulat, 45

Alexandra Boulat, a founding member of the VII agency, has passed away after suffering a brain aneurysm in June. Photo District News article.Blogher article.

Good Work/Photojournalism

October 10, 2007

Meth or Suicide?

Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, posted this to her blog the other day – it’s an interesting look at how a possible suicide unfolded in Reno, Nev., as done by the Gazette-Journal. This is a basic SoundSlides presentation – but with strong narration and using the publicly available 911 tapes, it has a lot of detail. The visuals are simple but...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

October 7, 2007

UGA Photojournalism Students at Petit Le Mans

On Saturday, October 6, 13 University of Georgia photojournalism students headed out to Brasleton, Ga., for the 10th Annual Petit Le Mans and the Second Annual Motorsports Photojournalism Workshop. What? Yep, for the second year Grady College students spent a day covering the ten-hour (or 1000 miles) sports car race sanctioned by the American Le Mans Series. Three editors worked...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

September 25, 2007

For the Sports Shooters

Slots still available for the SportsShooter Academy Boot Camp in early November.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Photojournalism

September 17, 2007

Finding the Way Home

MediaStorm has posted their latest package by Brenda Ann Kenneally looking at a family two years after Katrina. I see some interesting things in this 10 minute piece, but I’m curious what others think. So you speak first.