March 9, 2014 Time to Check Your Time It happened again last night – time shifted in a lot of places. Get out your cameras this morning and check the clock, chances are you’re off by an hour. Categories Tech Talk
March 8, 2014 Camera of Lust As often as I have told people I don’t care about cameras, that I care about pictures, you’d think I would actually believe that … and I do care much more about pictures than cameras when it comes to shooting and telling stories. But I am a geek and so I occasionally fall into the geek trap of lusting after... Categories Craft/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
March 5, 2014 Getty Goes Free Sort of. Getty images is pulling the watermark off of images and allowing users to embed the images free of charge. How does this work? The new money comes because, once the images are embedded, Getty has much more control over the images. The new embeds are built on the same iframe code that lets you embed a tweet or... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
March 4, 2014 For the Educators in the Audience Need to spend off a little leftover FY14 travel funding? Here’s how to do it – Poynter’s Teachapalooza is one of the best journalism educator conferences around. Three (or five) days of über nerdy, totally geeked out learning about how to better teach journalism at the university level. Disclosure: I’m on the faculty, but I paid my way for the... Categories Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video
March 4, 2014 Whose Copyright Is It Anyway? Over at The Wire, Philip Bump takes a legal look at the Oscar selfie that broke Twitter. Particularly, how the Associated Press may have asked the wrong person (Ellen DeGeneres) for permission to distribute the image when it should have been Bradley Cooper, the celeb who actually took the photo. The lawyers then get involved with the tale and it... Categories Ethics & Legal/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
March 4, 2014 IRE Event in Athens – April 26-27 Not purely visual, but there’s an event run by Investigative Reporters and Editors coming up in late April. Worth getting on your calendar. Categories Journalism/Tech Talk
March 4, 2014 Why Situational Awareness Matters I would like to think that I’m pretty good at paying attention to what’s happening around me. As a journalist, that power to observe was a key component of my mental tool kit. It can also be an important survival tool as one Philadelphia television reporter almost found out. The fact that neither he nor his photojournalist had the foresight... Categories At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory/Video
March 3, 2014 Nikon D600 Dust Advisory I try not to get too geeky here, but I’ve heard just enough people comment that the Nikon D600 has some dust issues to warrant this … Nikon has posted a service advisory for the camera. Nikon is making available to all owners of D600 cameras (even if Nikon’s product warranty has expired) this customer-service measure, which includes the inspection,... Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
February 27, 2014 Big Changes in Orlando Reports coming out from the National Press Photographers Associaiton that the Orlando Sentinel has told all of its staff photojournalists they have until tomorrow to reapply for new jobs that are much more video-centric. While the need to produce more video is certainly there, is this the best path? To threaten job loss? Wouldn’t a progress policy of training be... Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video
February 26, 2014 Many visual pundits have been writing about this year’s World Press Photo of the Year winner, a stunning image made by John Stanmeyer for National Geographic. The image is a beautiful and powerful statement on the relevance of communication and technology. One of the best pieces of read so far on it comes from Fred Ritchin writing at Time’s Lightbox... Categories Competitions/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory