Tech Talk – Page 32 – Visual Journalism

February 8, 2012

Gear Lust

Okay, everyone else may be salivating over the upcoming Nikon D4 or D800, or perhaps it’s the Canon EOS 1D X that has your blood pressure rising. And that’s all fine – if either Canon or Nikon would like to send me one, I’d be more than happy to push its pixels around. But the message in my email box...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 7, 2012

Nikon Introduces the D800

The rumor mill had been buzzing for a while, but it’s official – Nikon has announced it’s latest full frame camera, the D800 and the D800E. All you gear heads can start drooling now and telling each other that this camera is either: The One True Camera, Greater Than All Others and that without it no photographer can call themselves...

Tech Talk

February 1, 2012

Um … STUFF Photographers Say

Not that I think the language would bother anyone, but you never know … a video about the STUFF Photographers Say. I’m thinking we may need a Stuff UGA VJ Kids Say … (Thanks to Sarah Osbourne for the lede.)

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 24, 2012

On Kodak and Life

Over at the New York Times‘ Lens blog, David Gonzalez has posted his eulogy (perhaps premature) for Kodak. I loved this segment: And so I became an acolyte in the Temple of Kodak. Like a convert, I embraced the rituals, spending hours under the soft amber lights, holding beakers like chalices, head bowed over trays in worshipful anticipation. There was...

Craft/Tech Talk

January 23, 2012

PhotoShelter Guide to Social Media

PhotoShelter has created a two-part Photographer’s Social Media Handbook that you can get emailed to you from their site. It covers Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter and a few other platforms.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

January 20, 2012

For Your Friday Afternoon Entertainment …

Battle at F-Stop Ridge, Part 2

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 19, 2012

Reporter Skills, the New Baseline

Steve Yelvington put up a post on the New Baseline Skill Set for reporters, worth reading and pondering.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk

January 18, 2012

Lenses: Cameras as Applications: Computers?

Over at The Online Photographer, Ctein has an elegantly headlined post about whether you’re buying into a camera system or a lens system. Worth pondering.

Craft/Tech Talk

January 18, 2012

Colorizing History

This is both really well done and horrifying … iconic black and white images that have been colorized by Sanna Dullaway.

Craft/Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 13, 2012

I Am a Square

I know this. Anyone who talks with me for a bit knows I’m a bit square. And I have a habit of cropping images into squares. I like squares. But there aren’t many square-shaped images sensors out there and … well … there should be. Over on The Online Photographer, Eduardo Cervantes makes an argument for them. I mean, why...