Tech Talk – Page 34 – Visual Journalism

December 5, 2011

AP-Google Journalism & Technology Scholarship

The deadline to apply for a $20,000 scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year is Jan. 27, 2012. From the release: The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media. The...

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

November 30, 2011

A New Book! A New Flash!

I am significantly more excited about the announcement buried in this Joe McNally blog post where he talks about a new Nikon SB-910 flash – he has another book coming out. Sketching Light: An Illustrated Tour of the Possibilities of Flash is due to ship soon, it would seem. Going to go ahead and preorder it – why not, we...

Craft/Tech Talk

November 29, 2011

Rating Manipulation

Harry Farid, a professor of computer science and digital forensics at Dartmouth College, is developing a software program to rank the level of Photoshop manipulation on images according to a Steve Lohr story in the New York Times. The emphasis is on portraits and images of models now, but I’d love to know if this is looking at content or...

Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

November 28, 2011

Over at the Gear Geek …

I’m talking about Cyber Monday and finding deals.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

November 27, 2011

Cyber Monday and You

It’s almost here – the day when retailers lead you to believe most online shopping gets done. (It’s not, that day comes about two weeks before Christmas.) Earlier, I refreshed an old post about what you need to buy if you’re heading out into the real world. In it, I alluded to finding deals that were too good to be...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

November 27, 2011

The Gear Post – What Am I Buying Again?

Towards the end of every semester, I start getting The Questions. They’re not about grades, thankfully – my students are smart enough to know not to ask those questions. They are about life. Sort of. Life after they have to return the college-owned gear I’ve supplied them with for their coursework. It’s a great program – supported fully by my department...

At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

November 25, 2011

Kodak PlayTouch Deal

I’ve touted the advantages of the Kodak pocket video cameras before (specifically, it’s the only one with a mic jack), and now Amazon.com has them for under $100. Yeah, You have to get it in red for the $99 price right now … but you know you’ll just wrap it in gaffer’s tape to give it that custom look.

Tech Talk/Video

November 18, 2011

What Photographers Should Care About

Over at GoingPro, Scott Bourne writes about the things we, as photographers, should and should not care about. This … this is a topic I could go on about for days. Here are a list of things I could not care less about: Cameras Lenses Flashes Software Computers Social media Megapixels Filters Plugins Photoshop actions Workflow However, there are things...

Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

November 17, 2011

Funding for Women Media Entrepreneurs

J-Lab is awarding grants to women with an entrepreneurial idea to the tune of $12,000. Got a brilliant new media idea? Check out the guidelines and apply by Jan. 27, 2012. From the release: Washington, D.C. – J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University has been awarded $250,000 from the McCormick Foundation to fund eight innovative women-led news...

At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

November 15, 2011

Imagining a Non-imaging Kodak

A little late on this … and that’s a terrible headline, too. But last week, Kodak sold off its Image Sensor Solutions business to an equity firm for, supposedly, $200 million. Which means that Kodak no longer manufactures or sells anything that actually records an image outside of some film stocks. How did this happen?

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

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