Tech Talk – Page 19 – Visual Journalism

May 28, 2013

Shooting Color, When Color Wasn’t Cool

I have a circle of craftsmen around me. Not physically, but there, in my mind and, occasionally, at my side. These folks go beyond colleagues, beyond mentors – they are photographic friends, people who feel images as much as see them. People who passionately believe in the power of a single frame, a moment in time. An image that can...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

May 23, 2013

It’s Not the Tool …

Zach Arias has a segment of the web where he answers reader questions, and this one about upgrading lights rang pretty true. REMEMBER THIS!!! I’M GRABBING YOU BY THE SHOULDERS AND SHAKING YOU!!!! REMEMBER THIS…. You do not walk into a meeting with a potential client with your bag of gear. You walk in with your portfolio. Your portfolio and...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 23, 2013

Arresting (App) Developments

If you haven’t seen it and you’re a fan of the Arrested Development series, you have to head over to NPR’s web site to see this insane, inside-joke app they created. Then, head over to the Poynter Institute where Andrew Beaujon has interviewed it’s creator, Adam Cole, who says it started as a bit of a hobby project. And for...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Graphic Design/Journalism/Tech Talk

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

Adobe Moving to Full Subscription Model

The news came out a few days ago that Adobe will not release a seventh iteration of its Creative Suite software, instead moving to a subscription model called Creative Cloud. And then my email, Twitter, RSS and Facebook accounts all exploded with rage about how THOSE GREEDY BASTARDS DON’T UNDERSTAND I NEED TO PIRATE THEIR SOFTWARE SO I CAN DO...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk

May 2, 2013

When the Drone Becomes the Story

We joke about launching a Drone Journalism program here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and, if we ever did (we won’t), I suppose we’d have to have an ethics and/or business class to deal with what happens when your drone crashes into Lady Justice. (Thanks to Doral Chenoweth for the link.)

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 29, 2013

All’s Quiet in the Courts

Had I been a little smarter when I was a shooter, I bet I could have convinced my bosses that they had to buy me Leica M rangefinders when they sent me to court. According to a Michael Zhang article at PetaPixel, several states use the Leicas as the standard for sound. The video is kind of cool, but a...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 10, 2013

Celebrating the Father of Animated GIFs

Ever wonder who did the first animated GIF? It was Eadwerd Muybridge … in about 1872. See? Nothing on the web is really new.

Tech Talk

April 4, 2013

Celebrating 50 Years of the Instamatic

Tom Tobin of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has the story of the fiftieth anniversary of Kodak’s Instamatic, the camera many said changed the shape of photography. The camera, all modern plastics and elegantly simple, launched the first really successful cartridge based film system that eliminated the, ahem, “hassle” of loading film into a camera. The square format lasted for...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 31, 2013

New Tascam DSLR Audio Recorder

This looks very, very cool – Tascam is introducing a new audio recorder to mount under DSLR cameras. It has all the bells and whistles and a price that puts it below a lot of the others out there. Wantwantwant. (Thanks to David Simpson for the link.)

Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

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