Tech Talk – Page 66 – Visual Journalism

November 24, 2007

Black Friday (Updated 11/26)

Ugh. I hated Black Friday when I was shooting. Dealing with the mall PR office to get permission to shoot, then still having to deal with the mall cops … just, ugh. And for what? Pictures of people shopping. Blechh. So how would this work in video for a newspaper site? Check out how the San Jose Mercury News did...

Tech Talk

November 19, 2007

Canon Makes Significant Loan to Grady

Okay, I don’t like to brag. Much. But we scored a big loan from Canon this semester, and there’s now a story up on our web site about it.

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

November 16, 2007

More on Bokeh

I mentioned this concept of “bokeh” in class the other day – the term for how a lens renders the out-of-focus areas in an image. (I think I likened it to trying to explain to a high school friend why the silence of CDs was important in 1986 … he kept asking why anyone was paying attention to the time...

Tech Talk

November 12, 2007

On Campus

From our friends in TeleComm … Dan Goslee, an emerging specialist in Telecine and Digital Imaging will visit Grady College November 14 – 16th. Dan will give a short lecture/demo on Wednesday, November 14th in Room 214 of the SLC from 4:30pm – 6pm. Worth exploring.

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

November 12, 2007

Joel Meyerowitz on Printing

HP has a video on Joel Meyerowitz – shooting and printing for a Paris show. Yes, it’s a puff piece for HP, but there’s some good information in there and he talks about the creative process.

Good Work/Tech Talk

November 11, 2007

Sunday Morning Humor

My generation believed that “War Games” was about as cool as computer movies could get. Of course, we also thought that “Tron” had the greatest graphics ever, too … so what did we know? But imagine what would happen if some modern shows were done in an earlier time … say, “24” being done in 1994 …

Tech Talk

November 8, 2007

Filter Ethics

I’ve been sitting on this one for a while because I’m not sure how I feel about it. Part of me is angry, part annoyed and part … well, just accepting. CNN.com posted a video several weeks ago about a Scottish farmer who is refusing to sell his land to Donald Trump. Trump wants to build a golf course, the...

Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk

November 5, 2007

Motion Graphics Talk – Wednesday Night

From David Hazinski in Broadcast, something to think about going to. Meaning, GO!! Motion graphics workshop Wednesday night in the photo lab, room 130. Unless we get too many people, then we’ll probably move to the newsroom. My classes had asked for ‘more’ on motion graphics, so I set this up… then invited Mark Wright. Mark has been the chief...

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Tech Talk

November 2, 2007

The Smile – and Other – Shutters

Okay, so Sony has a new camera that recognizes smiles. Now I could make some comment about how if the person behind the camera can’t recognize a smile they must be in art school or be a 20-year newspaper veteran, but that just seems cruel. So, instead, I give you the other shutter releases I would like to see on...

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

November 2, 2007

The Mundane Becomes Cool

One of the things I love about newspapers moving into new storytelling modes is the ability to make a seemingly mundane thing more interesting. Had I ever told my staff to go to a football game and cover the chain gang – the volunteers who move the first down markers around – they would have had a fit. But the...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

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Black Friday (Updated 11/26)

Canon Makes Significant Loan to Grady

More on Bokeh

On Campus

Joel Meyerowitz on Printing

Sunday Morning Humor

Filter Ethics

Motion Graphics Talk – Wednesday Night

The Smile – and Other – Shutters

The Mundane Becomes Cool