Thoughts & Theory – Page 31 – Visual Journalism

January 24, 2012

One of Our Own

Sara Guevara, a 26-year-old staff photographer at the Gainesville Times, has cancer. I’m sure there are other photojournalists out there who are struggling with this, too. But Sara … Sara is one of mine. In the last two weeks I have lost two dear friends and mentors to the big-C. So, Sara? Listen up – you’re kicking this thing in...

Thoughts & Theory

January 20, 2012

For Your Friday Afternoon Entertainment …

Battle at F-Stop Ridge, Part 2

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 18, 2012

Colorizing History

This is both really well done and horrifying … iconic black and white images that have been colorized by Sanna Dullaway.

Craft/Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 16, 2012

Compositing at the Washington Post

There’s a pretty big discussion going on in various online spaces about the front page of Friday’s Washington Post. The image is of a jet taking off from Reagan National Airport and crossing over the 14th Street Bridge, the site of a crash 30 years ago. The problem? Here’s a segment of the caption: This image is a composite created...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

December 28, 2011

Using Project Argo as a Teaching Model

Matt Thompson writes over at Idea Lab about what he’d do differently if he were launching NPR’s Project Argo in 2012. Going through his five points, there’s an awful lot we, as visual journalists, can put to good use. And I think I shall in my classes. The big one, the one I’ve been hammering journalism students and journalists on...

Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

December 26, 2011

Memory Tips

You never want to forget anything, so a bigger memory bank would be great, right? Same thing goes for memory cards, right? Bigger is better, so the Lexar 128 GB SD card would be awesome. Wouldn’t it? Uh, no. Scott Bourne over at PhotoFocus gives us five tips on how to handle memory cards, and I’ll add one more –...

Thoughts & Theory

December 25, 2011

Happy Holidays

Here’s hoping your culturally relevant December celebrations bring you much joy. An maybe some cool stuff …

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

December 21, 2011

The Digital Darkroom

In the old days, it was not unusual for photojournalists to ship unprocessed film from wherever they were in the filed back to a central lab. That lab would process, edit and print the film, then send it off to various publications. The printer had to interpret the images and adjust contrast and tonality to match what they perceived as...

Business & Industry/Competitions/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

December 13, 2011

A Flashy Holiday Gift

Last year, David Hobby and Joe McNally hopped on a big bus and spent 42 days wandering around America teaching folks how to use their flashes better. Now, you can buy it on DVD or a download you can play everywhere. Is this the greatest thing you could ever get as a holiday gift? Well, no. For me, that would...

Thoughts & Theory

December 8, 2011

Interview Prep

Mario Garcia, one of the top designers in the world, has put together a post about The Art of Preparing for the Interview – and it’s something every journalism student and journalist needs to read. It has me rethinking how I’m going to have students structure interviews for multimedia projects. Perhaps before allowing them to go out into the field,...

Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

Category: Thoughts & Theory

One of Our Own

For Your Friday Afternoon Entertainment …

Colorizing History

Compositing at the Washington Post

Using Project Argo as a Teaching Model

Memory Tips

Happy Holidays

The Digital Darkroom

A Flashy Holiday Gift

Interview Prep