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December 17, 2013

WHNPA Eyes of History Student Contest Opens

The White House News Photographers Association’s Eyes of History competition has a student component and you can enter through Jan. 26, 2014. If you want to get your work in front of some of the top people in the industry, this is a pretty good way … There is an entry fee, so be wary of entering too much.

Competitions/Photojournalism

December 15, 2013

Once Around

Neat piece by The New York Times’ Todd Heisler of a walking tour around Manhattan – 30 miles in a day. How many other places could do a piece like this?

Good Work/Photojournalism

December 12, 2013

PhotoShelter Webinat on Archiving and Metadata

PhotoShelter is offering a free webinar on Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 4 p.m. on archiving and metadata, something we all need to pay a lot of attention to. Go register. From the blurb: In this webinar you’ll learn: • 3 great techniques to make image archiving easier & faster • The power of using image metadata • Free tools you...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

December 12, 2013

Yet More on Visual News Releases

Santiago Lyon, vice president and director of photography for the Associated Press, has an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the current White House administration’s restrictive access policies to the president. If it feels like I’m posting about this all the time, it’s probably because I am – and because everyone needs to be aware of it. The...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

December 10, 2013

Shooting in a White Out

I’ve done this and it is … entertaining? Over at Pop Photo, Stan Horaczek interviews Michael Perez about covering the Detroit-Philadelphia game on Sunday. This made me laugh: For all of the first quarter and most of the second quarter it was a near whiteout. The AF was getting fooled a lot. I was trying everything. I tried matrix focus,...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

December 10, 2013

Epic Pictures of an Epic Place

Before I headed to the Grand Canyon last year, I was told it’s an epic place and impossible to make a photograph of that conveys it. They were right. But this set of photos from The Atlantic shot by the National Park Service’s Erin Huggins and Erin Whitaker are pretty mind blowing. Now I want to try again …

Good Work/Photojournalism

December 9, 2013

Winter Break Viewing

Now that the semester is winding down for my kids, they need something to keep them focused and thinking visually. Thankfully, PetaPixel put together a list of documentaries about photography to keep them entertained through the next few weeks.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

December 9, 2013

Again, Private or Not

Makes me happy when the dean of my old school agrees with me on something: “I am very disappointed in President Obama for trying to limit press access,” said Lorraine Branham, dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University … “You cannot say it is private and then turn around and put out photos.” Also from...

Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism

December 9, 2013

Be a Journalist

I’m behind in some of my reading so I just got to Jim Colton’s interview with National Geographic’s Dennis Dimmick on the National Press Photographers Association’s Photo Journal page. We talk about being the expert in my class on whatever it is you’re going to cover, but I’m not always sure that comes through. So this will be required reading...

Journalism/Photojournalism

December 9, 2013

Environmental Photographer of the Year Competition

The British Journal of Photography is reporting that the deadline for entries in the Environmental Photographer of the Year competition has been set for March 31. If this is your area, worth entering as there is no fee involved.

Competitions/Photojournalism

Category: Photojournalism

WHNPA Eyes of History Student Contest Opens

Once Around

PhotoShelter Webinat on Archiving and Metadata

Yet More on Visual News Releases

Shooting in a White Out

Epic Pictures of an Epic Place

Winter Break Viewing

Again, Private or Not

Be a Journalist

Environmental Photographer of the Year Competition