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March 24, 2007

Day 1 – UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop

One day down at the 2007 UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop. Students – and editors – finished up with a slide show of the days best work at about 9:45 p.m. Images available for your perusal over on Flickr. More to follow after Day 2.

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

March 22, 2007

Reuters has a photo blog, and there's a Very Cool Story on it

Reuters has set up a blog for it’s photojournalists to talk about their work. One of the very cool stories now posted is about a 68-year-old woman in Australia who runs, by herself, a, ahem, 6,000 acre farm … the photos are very nicely done – absolutely stunning light – and the story behind them (shot for International Women’s Day)...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

March 21, 2007

UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop

This weekend marks the second annual UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop – three days of shooting, editing and learning. All of our Documentary Photography students, a group of industrious Introduction to Photojournalism students and lots of alumni are headed out to Walton County to shoot the town. Six professionals are joining us, as well, to help critique the students’ work. The...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

March 20, 2007

Southern Short Course in News Photography – April 13-15

The 2007 edition of the Southern Short Course in News Photography is skedded for April 13-15 in Chattannooga, Tenn. There are a lot of sessions on multimedia storytelling this year, along with sessions on portfolio building and critiques, sports photography, career advancement and building respect. And on top of that, the speakers will include Lisa Krantz, Region 8 Photographer of...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Photojournalism

March 19, 2007

Here's YOUR CHANCE to contribute to this blog!

So, Time magazine decided to illustrate their most recent story about “How the Right Went Wrong” with a cover photo of Ronald Reagan – with an oversized tear running down his cheek. There’s been a bit of buzz on the `net about whether this is ethical or not and the illustrator who did the work was interviewed about it at...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

March 16, 2007

Reuters on Photoshop Usage

After the events last year with altered images moving on the Reuters wire, David Schlesinger, Editor in Chief for Reuters, posted the company’s rules for using Photoshop. Well worth a read as it offers up a good set of guidelines for what is and what is not acceptable. Also gives some insight into how Reuters wants digital images handled from...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

March 15, 2007

Crisis in Darfur Expands – WashingtonPost.com video

Backpack journalist Travis Fox has posted a new series of videos and panoramic images from Darfur. Well worth spending some time with. I like the interface and the image quality is very high. Al Tompkins at the Poynter Institute has posted a brief interview about how the stories were shot, as well.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 13, 2007

Pictures of the Year International winners

Judging has wrapped up on the 64th annual POYi competition and there are links to winners on their site. You have to poke around a bit to find the multimedia winners, but if you go to Complete Winners List, then scroll down to category 39 you’ll see the links. (POYi is one of the two big photojournalism competitions in the...

Multimedia/Photojournalism

March 11, 2007

Deal on National Geographic membership

National Geographic is running a membership/subscription special – $15 for a year of the yellow-boxed magazine. That’s, what, three cups of coffee? (I don’t know, I still don’t drink coffee. Working on that.) The magazine is still one of the preeminent photojournalism publications, and you get all kinds of cool maps, too. Why haven’t you clicked over there yet?

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 9, 2007

Geek alert – Sigma DP-1 announced

There has been some clamoring for a fixed lens, large sensor digital camera and Sigma has just formally announced their DP-1 camera. There is no indication of a price on this, but if it’s priced right, it could be a great camera for street photography or just for knocking around town with.