Tech Talk – Page 71 – Visual Journalism

July 14, 2007

The YouTube Aesthetic

Khoi Vinh has a short post on the YouTube Aesthetic – how television commercials are now trying to look more amateurish. In a few days, I’ll be set up to start scanning old slides again. I’ve finished my grandfather’s collection (well over 6,000 photos) and am about to start my father’s. Most of these photos have a lot of family...

Multimedia/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

June 25, 2007

"That's going to leave a mark …"

Good journalism is good journalism. And when it involves killer flying fish, well, you just have to watch … (okay, not killer, but they could certainly maim you) Thanks to Poynter’s Al Tompkins for the link.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 8, 2007

My Dream Job … Has Been Taken

There is one book that changed my life more than almost anything else. It convinced me to be a journalist, it reenforced my wandering habits. It taught me that good stories don’t come from good writers, they come from great subjects. William Least Heat Moon’s “Blue Highways” was loaned to me when I was a very impressionably 16-year-old and I...

Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 8, 2007

Seadragon and Photosynth

Another video presentation from the TED conference earlier this year. A Microsoft initiative, Seadragon and Photosynth can link photos from different photographers of the same place to create hyper-real navigatible views of locations. (Video runs about eight minutes) Okay, so there are some copyright concerns here (they’re scraping photos out of Flickr), but the ability to recreate something lost based...

Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

June 4, 2007

From the "Why Didn't I Think of That:" Strobe on a Rope

Over at The Strobist, there’s a neat way of using what you’ve got to get better light during outdoor shoots. And, not to plug Nikon gear any more than necessary, but with my D200 and an SB800 I don’t need the synch cord anymore – the D200 has a “commander” mode that will completely control an SB800 or SB600 in...

Tech Talk

May 28, 2007

Sky Visions

NPR.org has a nice audio slideshow on Michael Collier, an ariel landscape photographer. The story that aired on Morning Edition has slightly different audio – including the reporter, Howard Berkes, talking about his air sickness patch. Both are worth a few minutes of your time.

Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

May 27, 2007

Updates

You’ll notice the template has changed … while the black backgrounds made photos look good (generally), white-on-black gets hard to read after a while. Hopefully this’ll be a little easier on the eyes. Of course, I suspect many of you aren’t actually here reading this as you’re using an RSS reader of some sort … right? Also note over there...

Graphic Design/Tech Talk

May 26, 2007

Light(ing) Snacks

There are time I miss shooting more than I can tell you, and it’s usually not the big stuff that I miss. Yeah, the championship games and neat places we get to go to are all cool, but it’s the simple stuff I miss. Sadly, I never worked for a newspaper that had a real studio. Which is okay, because...

Good Work/Tech Talk

May 25, 2007

NYT Fashion Shoot

Ever wondered how the New York Times does a fashion shoot? Check out this three minute video …

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Tech Talk