Tech Talk – Page 7 – Visual Journalism

November 25, 2014

Gear Posts, Redux

Most years I write a series of posts about buying gear for my kids here at University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. I’ll be doing some updates to the posts later this week, but start with these: Where to Buy New or Used? Full Frame or Crop Sensor? Lenses Some of the prices have shifted and...

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November 18, 2014

The Language of Photography

We talk about the language of the photograph in my classes quite a bit, whether the kids recognize it or not. There’s a parallel language, spoken by photographers, and there’s a dictionary for it … who knew? Future students may have to study this … lots of quiz possibilities there.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

November 18, 2014

Stolen: Where and What

PetaPixel’s DL Cade has a post up about the most stolen camera equipment as tracked by Lenstag. The results are surprising to me – I would have assumed some consumer level camera was the most commonly lost piece of kit, not the high end pieces from Canon that make up the top three. Digging deeper, the data source – Lenstag...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

November 16, 2014

Get a Grip

We don’t deal much with grip equipment in our visual journalism sequence, but some of my kids wander off into commercial/corporate/advertising work where they’ll suddenly have to know what a C-stand is or how to load V-flats for transport. Cinescopophilia has a collection of three videos on what goes into a grip truck. Every photographer who ever leaves their office...

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November 13, 2014

How to Recognize When the Problem Is You

Don Giannatti has a great rant over at Lighting Essentials about photographers who suck but don’t yet know it. He runs through 10 clear reasons why you aren’t successful and he’s on target with all of them. As we approach the end of the semester, I’m starting to get the gear questions*. Most of my kids get that it’s not...

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October 27, 2014

Fake Ice and Other Studio Tricks

Nice piece by commercial photographer Tony Roslund that gives a look into some of the tricks he uses to photograph glass bottles and beverages.

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

October 26, 2014

A Photojournalist-Eye View of Covering Football

The Columbia Tribune’s Daniel Brenner mounted a camera to his head and let it roll for eight hours while covering the Missouri-Georgia football game. They get shuttles at Missouri? Nice … (Thanks to Jake May for the link.)

At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

October 20, 2014

The Dangers of Sideline Work

On Saturday, Mike Simons of the Tulsa World had a $10,499 lens destroyed. Today, he apologized for hurting Oklahoma’s Sterling Shepard. Simons is a class act, folks. Let this be a warning to all shooters on the sidelines – if you watch the video, you’ll see him move out of the way easily. Why? He was on his knees, not...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

October 13, 2014

And Over at PBS …

… there’s me prattling on about matching sights and sounds on the EducationShift blog.

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October 6, 2014

Being Prepared to Cross the Streams

Very nice post by Sid Ceaser over at DEDPXL on being prepared. Why the odd title? Go read and find out. You can’t cross the streams unless you take a chance.

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