Photojournalism – Page 83 – Visual Journalism

May 15, 2013

The Perfect Portfolio

Over at the National Press Photographers Association’s web site, Jim Colton has put together a series of posts on building the perfect portfolio. In the third part of the series, he quotes MaryAnne Golon of the Washington Post: You need to care deeply about every image in your portfolio. If you don’t care about your pictures, why would anyone else?...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

May 15, 2013

Leading Off Changes

The opening pages of Sports Illustrated have featured some of the best sports photojournalism of the week for years. The new director of photography at the magazine, Brad Smith, is moving towards changing that format for one that tells stories with a lot more depth.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

May 14, 2013

World Press Photo Clears Prize Winning Image

The World Press Photo competition has submitted the files of Paul Hansen’s winning image to a forensic expert and have declared the image to be okay. “We have reviewed the RAW image, as supplied by World Press Photo, and the resulting published JPEG image. It is clear that the published photo was retouched with respect to both global and local...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

May 13, 2013

Just How Manipulated Was the World Press Photo Winner?

Sebastian Anthony over at ExtremeTech (a site I'd never heard of until moments ago) has a post up claiming the already-questionable World Press Photo winner may have been faked. Several questions have already been raised about Paul Hansen's winning image from Gaza, but most have been about the amount of toning involved.

Competitions/Photojournalism

May 13, 2013

Saving Receipts

Every accountant will tell you to save, file and organize your receipts. The George Eastman House takes the cake, though – they have a receipt for a camera purchased in 1840 on file. One Samuel A. Bemis spent a total of $76 for a “daguerreotype apparatus” and 12 glass plates. Including shipping. That’s about $2,128 in today’s money, if you’re...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 8, 2013

That Tree

I had better not ever hear a student say there’s nothing worth photographing … The Denver Post’s Plog looks at a year’s worth of images by Mark Hirsch of the same tree. Yep, 365 photos of one tree, all shot on his phone.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 5, 2013

Building Connections

The International Center of Photography has announced their Infinity Awards recognizing outstanding achievements in photography. Eight awards were given and MediaStorm produced films on each of the winners. David Guttenfelder’s is a great look into how his work out of North Korea has come about. If you mouse over the right side, you can see the play list and watch...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Competitions/Craft/Photojournalism

May 4, 2013

John Tlumacki Talks About the Marathon Bombing

From a few days ago, but worth a few minutes of your time …

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 3, 2013

We’re Done

It’s a little past 5 p.m. and I’ve just closed up the Photo Cave. Spring semester 2013 is essentially done. Well, except for the grading. And conducting exit interviews early next week. And then I’ll start teaching a Maymester class in a little over 10 days … still, the first-semester students have pixel-peeped and clicked their way through final projects...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism