October 19, 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar It’s time to register for the 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. They’ve expanded and added a third day for video storytelling. Very cool. Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 16, 2012 L.A. Times Time-Lapse of Shuttle Endeavor This … this is about the most awesome use of time-lapse photography in journalism I’ve ever seen. The shot at 1:09? Totally freaking brilliant. Of course, I’m a total NASA-geek, so I’m probably a touch biased. Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 12, 2012 NCAA and Instagram Well, this is interesting. After listing Instagram as one of the apps that coaches can’t use to process images sent to recruits earlier in the week, the NCAA is now backtracking on this and saying the app, and others like it, are okay to use. To quote them: An NCAA educational column posted online that discussed the alteration of photos... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 11, 2012 No More Instagraming for College Coaches Yep, you read that right – the NCAA has told coaches that they cannot use Instagram or other image-editing applications on photos sent to recruits. I kind of love the NCAA right now … Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
October 10, 2012 Kodak Discontinues P3200 Most of you have never heard of this stuff, but when it came out, Kodak’s P3200 was an astounding high-sensitivity black and white film. Many, many, many rolls of that stuff went through my Nikons in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Now, it is no more. Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
September 27, 2012 Photographers to Ignore Over at Wired, they’ve picked up a piece by Bryan Formhals and Blake Andrews on 10 Photographers You Should Ignore. Stick your tongue in your cheek as you read this … then realize most young shooters won’t. Or will argue that they really are the next Arbus or Adams. I might recommend being aware of these shooters but not emulating... Categories Craft/Tech Talk
September 18, 2012 Then and Now There have been lots of folks talking about the Civil War over the last year, but this is one of the coolest … Todd Harrington, who specializes in wet plate photography, has tried to find the location of some of Alexander Gardner’s images from the Battle of Antietam and recreate them. The way NPR put the web page together is... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
September 17, 2012 Canon Goes Full-Frame and Cheap(er) Canon has announced their EOS 6D, an entry level full-frame camera with a 20 megapixel sensor in a body that weighs 20% less than their EOS 5D Mark III. Last week, Nikon introduced a similar model, the D600, at the same $2,100 price point. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
September 15, 2012 One for the Lust List When Polaroid shut down their instant film business, a group of folks came up with a way to keep making the film and called themselves The Impossible Project. Now, they've launched a Kickstarter project for a device to let you connect your iPhone to an instant film printer … and I want one. Categories Tech Talk
September 14, 2012 The Darkening Effect of Memory Over at Bag News Notes, Michael Shaw looks at the retoning of images shot by James Nachtwey on September 11, 2001 – all of the images are appearing darker than when originally published eleven years ago. He makes some good arguments for why this may be, particularly that the editors who scanned and prepped those images weren’t on the scene... Categories Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk