Category: Photojournalism

March 1, 2013

Shooting Weather

Nice piece by Les Shu over at Digital Trends about storm-chaser Jim Reed. There’s a small part of me that would love to go document the effects of weather. Not so sure I want to shoot the storms themselves, but certainly focus on how climate change is acutely affecting the Earth. (Thanks to Lance Speere for the link.)

Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 28, 2013

Bookmark This Now: Deadlines for Photo Contests

This is a really nice bit of public service – Jasmine DeFoore has collected together, on one page, all of the major photo contests, grouped by the month their deadlines fall in, with links to their sites. All it needs is a downloadable calendar you can import …

Categories Competitions/Photojournalism

February 28, 2013

Pricing Guide from PhotoShelter

It’s one of the most-asked questions by my students: How much do I charge? Well, if it’s a magazine assignment, PhotoShelter has some answers for you in their newest guide, Pricing Your Work: Magazine Photography.

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism

February 28, 2013

Intimacy Through Living

Nice piece by Alex Garcia on why he decided to move into a difficult neighborhood in order to do better journalism. By being there, in the off hours, the photos got better, deeper: Images began to take on the almost elusive element of powerful photojournalism: intimacy.

Categories Craft/Photojournalism

February 27, 2013

Ozzie Sweet Has Passed

Over at the New York Times, Bruce Weber has a story up on the life of Ozzie Sweet, one of the most prolific photographers of the 20th century. It’s not all journalism, but then he never called himself a journalist. He considered himself not a news photographer but a photographic illustrator, and like the work of the painter Norman Rockwell,...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

February 27, 2013

And for Some Light Entertainment …

… today we have Iran doctoring an image of Michelle Obama at the Oscars. Seems like they’d have better things to do than worry about her dress, but whatever …

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

February 27, 2013

Luck Is the Residue of Hard Work

The Boston Herald has a piece up looking at the work of Stanley Forman. Forman won two Pulitzer Prizes in the 1970s and in the video he talks about one of them. “You can be good,” Stanley said, “but if you’re not lucky, it ain’t gonna happen. And luck, as Leo Durocher once said, is the residue of hard work.”

Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism

February 27, 2013

Copyright and the Fan

Over at the Poynter Institute, Al Tompkins has been looking into the issue of copyright infringements as it relates to video of the crash on Saturday at the Daytona International Speedway. A fan in the stands recorded the incident, posted it to YouTube and NASCAR, the race’s sanctioning body, had it pulled initially claiming a copyright violation. (They later changed...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

February 26, 2013

Is It Lying?

Even more on the ethics of photos this week … Samuel Corum has an excellent take on Paolo Pellegrin debacle. And, yeah, it is a debacle. Is this what Magnum has sunk to? Wasn’t that supposed to be the preeminent photojournalism agency, where all the greats went? Now they have incomplete and inaccurate captions going out with their images? How...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

February 26, 2013

Photojournalism or Movie Ad?

Continuing on my catching up … over at PhotoShelter, Allen Murabayashi takes on the question of over toning images, to the point they look like movie posters. I fully support Murabayashi except for the first part of this excerpt: To be clear, I’m not suggesting that there has been any manipulation that falls outside of the rules of the contest,...

Categories Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism