Category: Tech Talk

September 7, 2011

The Next Kitchen Table, er … Newspaper

Nieman Labs has a fascinating video up about the next kitchen table … developed by the New York Times’ R&D Lab. WANT THIS. New York Times R&D Lab: The kitchen table of the Future from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo. I do wish the videographer hadn’t tried to shoot part of this as a vertical, though … lesson learned, I...

Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Tech Talk

September 7, 2011

And One More iPad App …

The British Journal of Photography, the longest continually published photography magazine, now has a (free) iPad app. Downloading now … Update: Turns out the app is free but the individual issues are a buck a piece. Hrmpf.

Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk

September 6, 2011

Greenpeace Images App for the iPad

Greenpeace has launched a free iPad app to highlight images from their archives. It’s a pretty simple interface with a limited number of images, but they say they’ll add more over time and cycle out the current ones. If you like an image, they recommend either making it a favorite or doing a screen capture of it. How many apps...

Categories Tech Talk

September 5, 2011

How Detailed Can Your Lighting Get?

Well, this entire lighting set-up is mainly to showcase … a sneaker. Okay, it’s a soccer cleat. On the foot of one of the greatest players of our time. But … still, that’s a lot of effort for a dirty shoe, right? My advanced class will be diving into lighting this week … not sure we’ll go this far, but...

Categories Tech Talk

September 5, 2011

Over at the Gear Geek …

This week I’m taking a look at a piece of software called Plural Eyes which will let you quickly and easily sync up multiple camera angles at the same scene.

Categories Tech Talk

September 4, 2011

Totally Getting These …

PetaPixel is selling sheets of camera stickers … I just ordered mine. No idea what I’ll do with them, but they’re kind of cool.

Categories Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

September 3, 2011

Tips from CNN

Aimed at the CNN iReporters, Mark Hill has put together a primer on how to shoot for the news. Some good ideas in there.

Categories Craft/Tech Talk

September 2, 2011

The Challenge of Mixing Audio and Photography

Olivier Laurent has a great piece up on the British Journal of Photography about the art and craft of using audio with photography, one of the best intellectual looks at it I’ve seen.

Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

September 1, 2011

There’s a Difference Between TV Pundits and Robots, I’m Sure

But this isn’t helping me see what it is … The Creative Machine Lab at Cornell University decided to have two Cleverbots talk to each other. Very entertaining.

Categories Tech Talk

August 30, 2011

On Compromise

I was down at the Poynter Institute for the oddly-names Teachapalooza conference last month where we were told to think of this as an old-fashioned tent revival. Whenever someone said something really smart, we should all yell, “TEACH IT!” I should have yelled more, but I was to busy typing out brilliant ideas to steal. Except, we were also told...

Categories Craft/Tech Talk