Tech Talk – Page 73 – Visual Journalism

April 8, 2007

Talking Color Space

John Harrington has a very good primer on color space, how to choose one and how to ask your client which one they want. Not too geeky, but certainly something any freelancer needs to know about.

Tech Talk

April 6, 2007

Baseball in Infrared

Peter Lockley, shooting for the Washington Times, tried something different during his six-week stint at spring training. With an infrared camera and a tilt/shift lens, his portfolio of images gives a very different look to the boys of summer.

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 5, 2007

Leicas, free film and a pixelated future

It’s an odd day here in Athens. This morning, I took four boxes of frozen Fujicolor film out of the freezer and brought them to work. In a few short hours, I’ll be handing out the seven year old film to some of my students who are experimenting with their parents 35mm cameras. I’ve moved this film from freezer to...

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 4, 2007

twitter.com – World's Greatest Time Suck

I listen to a couple of podcats each week (MacBreak Weekly and This Week in Tech) and they’ve been yammering on and on about twitter.com … so I decided to try it. There is no reason to do this. Absolutely none. Yet, here I am … So, there must be a reason … right? Productivity monitoring, perhaps?

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 1, 2007

Arm Wrestling

During our UGA Weekend Photojournalism Workshop we heard many of the editors cajoling us to use longer lens, to get away from the wide angle zooms and explore the beauty of the 70-200 mm lens. Scott Lewis has posted an audio slideshow from the 2005 Arm Wrestling Championships that has some great, tight, indoor images – a good model on...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 1, 2007

Gmail Paper

Google has a beta program to print all of your Gmail correspondence and mail it to you. Attachments? Those, too – and if you’re emailing photos around, then you’ll get those printed on high quality paper. Limited time offer, I suspect – just today.

Tech Talk

April 1, 2007

How blogs get ranked by Google

Google, if you weren’t aware, indexes and ranks blogs like they do everything else on the web. (Can they rank produce vendors? I can’t find good apples in Georgia.) Mindy McAdams put up a link to a blog entry by Danny Sanchez on how the rankings work. (For what it’s worth, Technorati ranks blogs by popularity – you’re reading the...

Tech Talk

March 29, 2007

Broadcast Journalism/Video workshop at UGA – This Saturday!

The Telecomm department here at Grady College is running a day-long workshop called the Broadcast News Bluejeans Workshop this Saturday, March 31. Segments on reporting, photojournalism, digital news gathering and video tape editing will be repeated throughout the day. Video is becoming increasingly important in the “print” world, this is a great chance to get your feet wet. (Well, for...

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

March 28, 2007

New Eyetrack Study from the Poynter Institute

Eyetrack III is out – and it has some surprises. Readers are going deeper with online stories than print, something that is surprising. Go check it out, though the video isn’t working as of noon on Wednesday … grrr …

Business & Industry/Multimedia/Tech Talk

March 16, 2007

Another recorder option

Mindy McAdams posted my suggestions on cheap audio equipment over on her blog (which you SHOULD BE READING), but another new recorder is out there you may be interested in. Word is the Roanoke, Va., newspaper has been using the Samson H4 Handy Recorder with some success. Has XLR jacks for microphones, which is a big plus, and it stores...

Multimedia/Tech Talk

Category: Tech Talk

Talking Color Space

Baseball in Infrared

Leicas, free film and a pixelated future

twitter.com – World's Greatest Time Suck

Arm Wrestling

Gmail Paper

How blogs get ranked by Google

Broadcast Journalism/Video workshop at UGA – This Saturday!

New Eyetrack Study from the Poynter Institute

Another recorder option