Category: Tech Talk

These come across the wires from time to time, links to lists of needed apps for mobile journalists. The latest is from Mediactive and put together by Josh Sprague, comprehensive if not exhaustive. No problems with most of these, though I’m not sure I’d include Instagram as it is more of an art filter program, but it has been building...

Photo District News has a short story up about how photojournalists are covering the situation in Cairo.

The timing on this is unbelievable … today, in my Intro to Photojournalism course, I taught the kids how to use one of my two favorite pieces of software ever – Photo Mechanic. And now, this evening, I found out Camera Bits, the company that makes digital photography worth doing, has put it on sale for the ridiculously low price...

I swear, sometimes I think I must be related to Michael Johnston over at The Online Photographer … his recent post on hitting the sweet spot with consumer level cameras is something I’ve tried to articulate before, but never quite so eloquently. The difference in image quality between an entry level DSLR (or even some higher end point and shoots)...