February 22, 2017 160 Years of The New York Times Front Pages This is just awesome: Every front page of The New York Times – watch the way it changes over time put together by Josh Begley. (Thanks to DL Cade at PetaPixel for the link.) Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Graphic Design/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
September 21, 2016 Well, That Escalated … SanDisk Announces 1 TB Card Yes, you read that headline right – SanDisk unveiled a prototype of a 1 TB – terabyte SDXC card at Photokina this week. That’s … so frightening to me. To have so much data in one tiny card, it gives me palpitations just thinking about the risk of losing it. Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 24, 2016 Visuals at the Olympics This is a look into how Getty Images handled images at the Olympics. I suspect it’s a little different than how we will handle them at the Paralympics … we won’t have the robotic cameras. And a few other things they have. Categories At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 23, 2016 Photo Editors Please, or At Least Visual Awareness (Updated) It seems that I am on a multi-year rant about my local news organization. I pay my subscription, I read it every day online, spend time with the delivered Sunday edition and I truly appreciate that they are severely understaffed. That the depth of their coverage has suffered is sad and I do not find fault with the individual journalists... Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
May 25, 2016 Expired, but Still Working An interesting project by Chip Litherland – taking expired film to major events, just to see what happens. Yeah, it’s art … but it’s sort of cool. And I’ve probably got 20 rolls of various film in the freezer or drawers around here … Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
April 13, 2016 Would HCB Use a Cellphone? It’s an interesting question, whether Henri Cariter-Bresson would convert from his Leica to a smartphone were he alive and working today. William Dalrymple believe he would have and, as much as I adore the craft of photography … I guess I agree HCB would be wielding an iPhone 6s. But definitely not a 6s Plus, that would be too big.... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
April 8, 2016 Photography Without Vision Om Malik has a wonderful piece up at the New Yorker, triggered by Google’s announcement it is making the Nik Collection of software tools free. This idea that we are photographing everything, never seeing anything and, perhaps worse, not remembering anything is troubling to me. I have a very large collection of family photos, somewhere in excess of 20,000 images,... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
April 5, 2016 Defending McCurry There’s been a bit of a storm brewing over a New York Times piece by Teju Cole about the work of Steve McCurry, one of the legendary National Geographic photojournalists. I … don’t agree with his assessment but don’t feel qualified to take it on. Allen Murabayashi from PhotoShelter, though, has completely encapsulated my thoughts on the matter. Having an... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
March 13, 2016 Times Changes So you’ve spent you morning reprogramming the microwave and oven clocks, maybe you even reset your alarm clock last night. You’ll get to your watch later … But, right now, pull out all your cameras and reset those clocks, as well. It’s usually pretty easy to find in the menus, but while you’re in there take a look at all... Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
January 5, 2016 The Last Peels Elsa Dorfman is retiring after shooting with the same oversized Polaroid camera for 30 years. Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory