Thoughts & Theory – Page 37 – Visual Journalism

September 25, 2010

On Teaching and the Value of Education

John Harrington, a gentleman I admire for numerous reasons, has opened up the question – again – as to whether university programs are preparing “photographers” for the real world. He brings up several important issues and his post is worth ruminating on. His main complaint stems from ads looking for photography faculty members and requiring at least a masters’ degree...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

September 9, 2010

Terrorists, Again

Carlos Miller points out a new Transportation Security Agency poster that insinuates photographers who take photos of planes are terrorists. Really? Really? In the handful of domestic terrorism incidents we have had in the United States, never have photographs of planes or airports been found during the investigations that followed the attacks that I am aware of. And I am...

Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 20, 2010

“Sometimes you make a mistake and it’s fatal. I made a fatal mistake.”

Guy Reynolds, the photo editor at the Dallas Morning News who found the altered golf image of Matt Bettencourt has talked with the (now) former Getty Images freelance photographer who made, altered and transmitted the image. (Reynolds’ original post is still online which explains how he found the image and what he did.) In the update, Marc Feldman claims Bettencourt’s...

Ethics & Legal/Thoughts & Theory

June 28, 2010

Bruce Davidson and Identifying Myself

This is one of those posts that probably won’t make any sense, even if I wrote it, sat on it and re-wrote it a dozen times. Sorry, sometimes that’s the way it is … The New York Times Lens blog has an entry up on Bruce Davidson that promotes his new, three volume book set. Davidson is one of those...

Craft/Good Work/Thoughts & Theory

April 29, 2010

Hope is So … Rich

For instance, Anssi Vanjoki, head of sales for Nokia, said at a recent news conference the the cameras in, ahem, cell phones will make other “system cameras” obsolete. By which he means digital single lens reflex cameras. Yes, I believe that small-sensor, small-lens cameras using the processing power available in a handheld cellular telephone will be able to render the...

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 1, 2010

Standardizing Photography, Again

Scott Bourne has a small rant up about Olympus and the non-standard connecting cables they ship with their latest cameras. I have to say, I agree completely with him. While everyone thinks they have a better way of doing things, sometimes the standard way is a standard because it works for the largest number of people out there. Compromises suck....

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 1, 2010

Kodak Announces Latest Breakthrough

Kodak’s Chief Blogger, Jennifer Cisney, tweeted a few moments ago that Kodak today announces it’s latest technological breakthrough – and it’s one I might have sniffed at a few years ago, thinking it was a foul idea. But, in today’s market, where there are a million things to see and here, this could be the one piece of technology that...

Business & Industry/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

March 9, 2010

Paparazzi For Hire?

I’m not sure if this is brilliant or an unbelievable indictment of where our world has gone – you can now hire a team of paparazzi photographers to follow you around on your night on the town. I am all for finding new ways to generate income to support the journalistic work we know needs to be done, but it...

Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory

March 5, 2010

Saving Newspaper

Not a typo – we need to save the newspaper itself and, by extension, the industry. At least according to this panel on The Onion. How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers? (Thanks to David Noah for the link and laugh.) (It’s a joke, you are supposed to laugh.)

Thoughts & Theory

March 4, 2010

Losing Class

There are a lot of things that happen during my photojournalism classes – philosophy and sociology discussions, rambles about roads, ponderings on psychology. Sometimes, they even relate to photojournalism … but today, well, today we went off track. Every week we do a “VizCamp” – it’s a 10-15 minute presentation by a student on something they think everyone else should...

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

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