August 19, 2011 On Analog Photography This is kind of cool, but not what I expect from CNN … a short film on analog photography. Categories Craft/Tech Talk
August 17, 2011 Being Prepared for the Salt Flats So, your editor says, go our west to the Bonneville Salt Flats for SpeedWeek, when a bunch of nutcases try to go as fast as they can in a big, dried up ocean bed. How hard could this be? Jim Urguhart from Reuters found out. With temperatures well over 100 degrees and no shade anywhere, it’s easy to cook yourself... Categories At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 17, 2011 Students: One for Your RSS Feeds Because I know, by now, you have set up an RSS reader, right? Add this one in: The Visual Student is the National Press Photographers Association’s blog for students and, with a new Student Chair, I think it’s going to be getting busier. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 15, 2011 AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship FYI … The Associated Press and Google announce a new national scholarship program intended to foster digital and new media skills in student journalists. The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, will administer the program. The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate... Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk
August 15, 2011 Over at the Gear Geek … This week, I take a look at the Frio – which, if you made it to The Flash Bus tour earlier this year, you have in your bag already. Categories Tech Talk
August 13, 2011 Golf, Gear and Wishful Thinking It’s an interesting dilemma I face on a regular basis. I love telling stories, and I love telling them visually. Even those little snippets of life that I capture and post on one of my other sites, they’re just my way of triggering memories. Little ironies, little slices of a life that’s still racing by me, a life I’ve enjoyed... Categories Craft/Tech Talk
August 9, 2011 Studio Light Basics Good summation by Joe Farace over at PhotoFocus on the basic elements of studio flash units. Nice primer if you’ve never touched one of these things before. Categories Tech Talk
August 8, 2011 Over at the Gear Geek … This week, a look at some cheap wide angle lens adaptors for pocket video cameras and cell phones. How cheap? Under $30. Categories Tech Talk
August 6, 2011 Modern Retro Photo District News is reporting that there will be a new version of the Diana Mini Flash – this one in all white. The Diana is a very low tech film camera. Image quality is, well, horrific is you care at all about sharpness or color accuracy. Build quality will be questionable. Reliability? I wouldn’t mention that word. But people... Categories Craft/Tech Talk
August 5, 2011 Is It the Gear? Or the Photographer? I will always, always say the latter. Even the cheapest stuff out there today is comparable, if not better, to what our predecessors had a few decades ago. Case in point, say you come across a guy shooting with an old Konica film camera covered in goofy stickers: You’d think he makes goofy pictures of his friends in Tokyo bars,... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk