October 3, 2014 Leica Celebrates a Century Leica is celebrating 100 years of photography with an interesting video. (Note there is some nudity in it.) Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
September 29, 2014 Can You Still Shoot Film? Well, yes, of course you can. But can you shoot it on deadline? Mike Drew of the Calgary Sun tried it for a day. What did we learn? Take a look. I’m thinking maybe we have a film shoot off some time … Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
September 17, 2014 Photographer Excuses Something a little lighter … maybe. Jeff Guyer at DIY Photography has posted 24 Things Photographers Say (And What They Really Mean). Anyone care to add some more? And read through the comments, some really high ISO people in there … (Thanks to David Tulis for the link.) Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
September 7, 2014 Heisler on Heisler I’ve talked about him before, but B&H Photo has posted a great interview with Gregory Heisler on their site. Worth spending the time – and it will take some – to go through. I have his book, I’ve seen him speak … and if my wife wouldn’t divorce me, I might go back to my old school where he’s now... Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
September 2, 2014 Searching History Very cool project put together by Prof. Laura Wexler and her colleagues at Yale University – a visual and searchable database of photographs from the Farm Securities Administration. You can search by photographer or – and this is so sweet – go to a map of the U.S., zoom in on your area and see what images there are from... Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 29, 2014 Flipping Busy Week … So, I have this friend. She’s brilliant and charming and funny and I would follow here anywhere. But I have to stop talking around her – every time someone says something interesting around Katy Culver, she asks them to Tweet about it. Or write about it. Or show up on a podcast. This week’s rundown: I did a Twitter chat... Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
August 27, 2014 A Few Days Late … But I agree with most of what Jeanette D. Moses at PopPhoto says about things I wish my kids knew before classes started. Much of it I do cover, but the idea that photography involves math seems to throw a lot of them … Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 11, 2014 Ed Kashi on the Direction and Quality of Light Short interview with Ed Kashi done by Marc Silber where he talks about how he sees and interacts with people. Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 9, 2014 Playing With Music and Emotions A few years back I did a talk at the Grandfather Mountain Camera Clinic titled, Photojournalism, Instagram and Artificial Authenticity. You can probably figure out where it went, that applying the latest filters to pristine images was playing with the emotions of your viewers, not helping them comprehend what was happening in the image before them. I am, after all,... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory/Video
July 6, 2014 The Letters of Dublin Neat video on the sign painters of Dublin … Gentlemen of Letters – A Dublin Sign Painting Film from Colin Brady on Vimeo. (Thanks to Khoi Vinh for the link.) Categories Craft/Graphic Design/Journalism/Tech Talk