Category: Tech Talk

March 26, 2008

Chip Simons, Then and Now

In the 1980s, I wasn’t much of a studio/fashion/commercial kind of photographer. I was a journalist, I looked up to people like Stan Grosfeld, Susan Meiselas and Michel DuCille and didn’t think much about the rest of the photography world. Of course, there were a few names we all knew – Mark Seliger, Annie Leibovitz and Chip Simons were high...

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Tech Talk

March 21, 2008

Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War

Reuters has put together a multimedia package looking at the first five years of the war in Iraq. The introduction piece is a nice summation of what Reuters has been doing to cover the war, specifically talking about using local journalists as opposed to parachuting in folks. (The intro runs just under five minutes, watch your audio – the video...

Categories At Work/Audio/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Tech Talk

March 20, 2008

We Scooped the New York Times

Tech writer David Pogue just wrote a review of the Flip Ultra, something done here back in November. Jeez, no wonder the Times is in trouble … though Pogue does point out that the Flip has captured, ahem, 13% of the video camera market. Which is, well, stunning.

Categories Tech Talk

March 11, 2008

An Air Disappears into Thin Air

Tech writer Steven Levy over at Newsweek has, ahem, lost his computer – a loaner MacBook Air from Apple. And that’s why I didn’t buy one … plus, it really wouldn’t work for me. Well, it would, but, you know, not without some other things … like a Mac Pro for home.

Categories Tech Talk

March 3, 2008

Blog Note

Small note here – that last post, on trapezoid cropping, was the 300th post on the UGA Photojournalism blog. Which also happened to celebrate its first birthday on Thursday, February 28.

Categories Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

March 1, 2008

Southern Short Course in News Photography – March 26-30

Any students interested in going to the Southern Short Course in News Photography need to see me ASAP – we have some funding to help you go. Meaning, it won’t cost you much to learn and schmooze in Charlotte for a few days. Really, why wouldn’t you go?

Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

February 27, 2008

iPhones for Everyone!

Well, if you’re enrolling at Abilene Christian University. Not here in Athens. So, is an iPhone a teaching device? I’m going to think about how I could use one. Well, use one in class … I can think of lots of ways I could use one for myself. – Vodcasting classes (though I may move around too much to make...

Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

February 14, 2008

The Speed of News

I spent time working for the wires (Associated Press and Agence France-Presse) and did enough newspaper night coverage to have pushed deadlines as much as the next guy. I remember waiting for a lower-office candidate to concede one night in Providence, R.I., so we could get the governor to come out and celebrate his win. That little twerp, down by...

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 12, 2008

(Not) Instant Death – Polaroid's In Trouble

This has been coming for quite some time, I suppose, but Polaroid – the company that invented the instant camera – is laying off 450 workers, shuttering factories and will cease production of all instant films. Many readers here will scratch their heads and wonder why this matters. Film’s dead, right? Probably, or at least gasping for air on a...

Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk

February 5, 2008

I Play With … Stuff

For the Multimedia Journalism class, my students will be producing multimedia autobiographies today. They’ve been playing with audio and web design, today they get SoundSlides. Because I still haven’t produced enough audio slide shows (I mean, who has?), I decided to do another so I had examples and samples. I scanned images at home last night (after digging through several...

Categories Advice & Learning/Audio/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk