June 7, 2007 A Little Late for This Year … But bookmark this site for next year – the Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Va. I’ll probably see you there … Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
May 20, 2007 11 Tips for Landscape Photography (Those coming into JOUR3710 pay attention here – your first few assignments will be on pictorials and all of this applies.) Over at The Digital Photography School, there’s a great post talking about landscape photography. Not journalism, but some of the tips apply to seeing something we can all work on. (Thanks to Brother Brian for the link.) Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
May 7, 2007 Annie Leibovitz at Atlanta's High Museum The High Museum in Atlanta has a special event for the opening of Annie Leibovitz’s new show, “Celebrating a Photographer’s Life,” this Friday, May 11. Tickets are only $250 … Or maybe you just want to go see the 175 photos that are on exhibit from May 12 through September 9. I know I do. Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism
May 2, 2007 Lighting 102 – An Online Lighting Workshop David over at Strobist has announced their second online lighting workshop, which will start June 4. Partnering the blog and Flickr groups, you’ll be able to follow along and work on your lighting techniques, post them to Flickr and see how other people handle the assignments. Not familiar with Strobist? Go poke around – their moto is “Less Gear. More... Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
May 2, 2007 100 Good Things Chip Litherland, from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, has put together a list of the 100 things that are completely right with photojournalism jobs. Categories Photojournalism
April 23, 2007 VT Student Photojournalist's Images In the chaos following last week’s shootings at Virginia Tech, police detained a photojournalist shooting for the campus paper. Shaozhuo Cui was detained for two hours and his equipment held for two days. Now, his story and photos are in Newsweek and posted online at MSNBC.com – including him talking about the events and a collection of other images shot... Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism
April 23, 2007 A Prayer for Father Tim Jim Gerhz and Maura Lerner at the Minneapolis Star Tribune teamed up for a story looking at a military chaplain who was injured in Iraq. Note the use of audio – subtle and effective. Look at the variety of images – no two ever look similar. Thanks to Lindy Dugger for the link. Categories Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism
April 19, 2007 From Laos to Barrow Su Anderson, the newest staff photographer at the Gwinnett Daily Post, has the first in a three-part series of audio slide shows looking at a the Hmong population in Barrow County, Georgia. Pay close attention to how she helps the reader identify who’s speaking – by cropping in on a group photo, then fading to the full version, the viewer... Categories Multimedia/Photojournalism
April 18, 2007 Virginia Tech Student Photojournalist Detained, Equipment Held According to an article on the Student Press Law Center web site, Collegiate Times photojournalist Shaozhuo Cui was detained by police on Monday because he matched a description of the possible shooter on the Virginia Tech campus. While the student newspaper isn’t objecting to his being detained given the circumstances, the authorities have not returned his cameras or identification cards... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
April 17, 2007 UGA Student Wins Southern Short Course Shootout Last weekend, seven photojournalism students from UGA’s Grady College went to the Southern Short Couse for News Photography in Chattanooga, Tenn. Their trip was funded by the Harry Hodgson Journalism Student Support Fund. Part of the three-day workshop was the Nikon Shootout – participants are loaned a Nikon point-and-shoot camera and given one hour to illustrate a theme. This year,... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism