July 19, 2013 Maybe a Filter Would Have Helped …? But probably not … watch as Thomas Bjorn chips a shot right into an ESPN camera, taking out the front lens element. Categories At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 19, 2013 Covering the Zimmerman Trial The Orlando Sentinel's Gary Greene shares some of his experiences covering the George Zimmerman trial. The one surprising thing for me: remote cameras in the courtroom. I suspect this is more common than I'm aware of, but thinking back to my courtroom coverage, that option would have been fantastic for better telling those stories. Categories At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 18, 2013 So, Is This a Problem? When Southern Community Newspapers, Inc., decided to let their photo staffs go, we all knew the photos would have to come from somewhere. Reporters may be able to cover some things, but if you’re the Gwinnett Daily Post and you routinely cover the Gwinnett Braves, the AAA farm team for the Atlanta Braves, I assumed you’d hire a stringer, right?... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 18, 2013 Will Photojournalism Survive Instagram? That’s the question Mother Jones’ Jeremy Lybarger tries to answer in an interview with Fred Ritchin. I’m afraid he never really answers it but Richtin, one of the great photography theorists of our time, doesn’t seem to think so. An excerpt: There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can... Categories Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 18, 2013 Football Hall of Fame Removes Award Winning Image I’ve been stewing on this for a few days now … the Pro Football Hall of Fame has decided to remove a photo of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez from a display of winners in the 2010 annual Hall of Fame photo contest. (Hernandez, for those of you living a hermetic life this summer, has been charged with... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 16, 2013 Shooting Sports Over on the National Press Photographers Association’s web site, Jim Colton gives us six tips on shooting sports and then adds tips from more than a dozen working pros. Great resource here. Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 15, 2013 Who Decides Who the Real Journalists Are? The irony of linking to this is a little sickening … but Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has penned a letter to the, ahem, Chicago Sun-Times (that bastion of journalistic excellence) about letting the government decide who is a journalist. Ack. Just … ack. Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism
July 15, 2013 What’s in Your Trunk? My students laugh at all of the things I tell them I used to carry around in the back of my car. They laugh enough to mock me, openly, on a regular basis. And then they go get an internship or job and send me a note saying they just bought one of those ridiculous things because they needed it... Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 13, 2013 More Visions Silenced I’ve known about this one for a few weeks as one of my friends was involved – Southern Community Newspapers decided last month to let their photography staffs go at all of their papers. One was converted to a videographer, but that’s it. With a few poorly phrased keystrokes, the vision of several communities was wiped out. Blinded by a... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
July 12, 2013 National Geographic Photojournalist Arrested You would expect to see that headline on a story with a foreign dateline, not Kansas. George Steinmetz was arrested last month for trespassing, though the story is a little vague at the moment. Steinmetz has done some stunning work for National Geographic, shooting landscapes from a paraglider. It appears he was arrested in trespassing charges for where he... Categories Photojournalism