May 6, 2014 Catching a Fly in Flight An interview with Swiss photographer René Burri about six of his iconic images and how they came to be. Some fascinating stuff in here … “Six Photographs”: René Burri from PORT on Vimeo. Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
May 1, 2014 The Photographic Cliché The morning just disappeared on me, sucked into a string of never-ending links and web searches about … photographic clichés. It started with good intentions then someone opened the darkroom door and ruined everything. That someone, of course, was me … Regardless, this is a roundabout way of getting to this 2011 post by Martin Parr about photographic clichés. Somewhere,... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 30, 2014 Gear Time Again As my kids here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication start turning in their final portfolios and handing back all the gear we’ve loaned them, the tremors start … how am I supposed to live without a way to share my world? The fact that we supply every kid with everything they need is... Categories At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
April 28, 2014 To Be a Pro, You Must Appear to Be a Pro So much of this seems like common sense, but it’s not – so here’s a reminder that if you want to be taken seriously, you must be serious about every aspect of your business. We get this gift to be invited into people’s lives, their homes – the last thing we want to do is give them any reason to... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 25, 2014 The Growth Curve of a Young Photojournalist Melissa Lyttle has put up a post on hitting the plateau as a photographer, something we all wrestle with. Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 25, 2014 Summer Habits My kids are wrapping up and getting ready to wonder off into the ether of either summer break or the future. Outside of the structure classes and deadlines, it can be hard to stay focused on learning. Doable, but complex to drive yourself to shoot and grow. Jeff Meyer over at PetaPixel gives us seven things to work on every... Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
April 25, 2014 They Are People, Not Subjects My good friend David LaBelle is at it again, this time talking about a man he met in New York City. I can point my camera “at” you or I make a picture “with” you. One is a cowardly drive-by shooting, while the other is a collaborative, shared experience. One objectifies, capturing subjects as objects, graphic elements in a broader... Categories Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
April 24, 2014 Geek Alert: The Best SD Cards Yeah, this is pretty geeky … how do you choose the best SD memory card? Kimber Streams at The Wirecutter has the answers. (Thanks to Michael Schwartz for the link.) Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
April 23, 2014 Lighting 3,000 People Yes, you read that right – Gregory Heisler shot last week’s cover of Sports Illustrated featuring 3,000 Bostonians at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. And he lit it. How do you decide on the quality of light for 3,000 people? When you work with light, you have the ability to completely set a tone and a mood—people have... Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
April 23, 2014 The Intern’s Plan We are just days away from freedom the end of the semester and that means a whole new grip of kids are heading out the door, ideals in hand and ready to rock their first internship or job. The vibe in the Photo Cave is a mix of shear fear at finishing up their final projects and overflowing enthusiasm for... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism