Tech Talk – Page 27 – Visual Journalism

August 8, 2012

When Grand Central Was a Grand Gallery

In all my youthful travels to New York, I don’t ever recall getting to see these images. But I wish I had … At The New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin takes a look back at the giant Colorama images that use to grace Grand Central Station. Shot on large format cameras, these 60-foot wide images must have been...

Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk

August 7, 2012

Ready for Weather

My students get an earful somedays about things they’d never expect to talk about in journalism courses. Step ladders? Snow tires? Rain coats? All fair game as far as I’m concerned. Former-student Daniel Shirey posted a link to an REI page that talks about rain gear and it’s a nice primer on how to be prepared to be out and...

At Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 23, 2012

Canon Introduces a New Mirrorless Camera

Dpreview.com has a preview piece up on the new Canon EOS-M camera that has just been announced. Priced at $800 with the fixed lens, is this a serious competitor in the “mirrorless” marketplace? It's hard to say … I have been shooting with an Olympus E-P2 micro 4/3 format camera for almost two years now, which is the same class...

Tech Talk

July 21, 2012

Libya, by iPhone

Jessica Bennett has interviewed Benjamin Lowy about his work in Libya shooting with just his iPhone. I don’t have a problem with shooting on smartphones – any tool that works is fine for me. It’s the post processing (through apps like Hipstamatic or Instagram) that bother me. So, of course, Lowy will have a Hipstamatic “lens” released later this year...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 19, 2012

Time and Sports Illustrated Turn to Instagram

Two stalwarts of high-quality photojournalism are … turning to Instagram? Yep. Sports Illustrated will have a Leading Off page in the next issue of photos shot by regular contributor Brad Mangin with his smartphone and processed through the social photo network app. It’s a collection of images he made during this baseball season. Time, on the other hand, is working...

Business & Industry/Craft/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 17, 2012

AP Goes Robotic, Too

Not to be out down by their colleagues at Reuters, the Associated Press is also setting up a phalanx of remote controlled cameras for the Olympics according to the British Journal of Photography. Sweet ….

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 17, 2012

Was Life Simpler?

I hate stereotypes and curmudgeons (though many of my students will claim I am both), so it’s always entertaining when a colleague tells me how much easier it was when we didn’t have to worry about the web and digital imaging. And then says they love not having to truck portable darkrooms around … At the Dallas Morning News, Chris...

Tech Talk

July 8, 2012

Hipsters, Film and Flawed Analysis

CNet has a story up about teenagers and hipsters making a move back to film cameras. Which is fine, a probably trend that makes for an entertaining story. However, and here’s the journalism lesson, there’s one sentence in there that completely erodes the credibility of the story: The Photo Marketing Association’s most recent report (PDF) on U.S. camera sales from...

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

July 3, 2012

Robberies of Journalists in California

The Oakland Tribune is reporting that robberies of journalists have spiked in the last six weeks in the Oakland, Calif., area. Remember your gear can be replaced, but, despite what corporate managers occasionally believe, you cannot. (Thanks to the Poynter Institute for the link.)

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk