Thoughts & Theory – Page 37 – Visual Journalism

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

January 27, 2010

Wild Tablet Speculation!

It is T-day – January 27, 2010. In just over four hours, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will walk onto a stage in San Francisco and tell us all … something. No one knows exactly what it will be, or won’t be, or even could be – but that hasn’t stopped anyone from trying to speculate on it. (Here, search “apple...

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 24, 2010

Ugh. More Useless “Journalism” About Journalism

Over on the Los Angeles Times’ On The Media column, James Rainey has a long list of the ills befalling creative people – not just us photographers, but writers, graphic artists, musicians and even architects. He talks about outsourcing and cheap stock libraries, too. Which is great, and it’s all true. And, in my opinion, it’s a totally useless piece...

Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory

Category: Thoughts & Theory

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

Bruce Davidson and Identifying Myself

Hope is So … Rich

Standardizing Photography, Again

Kodak Announces Latest Breakthrough

Paparazzi For Hire?

Saving Newspaper

Losing Class

Wild Tablet Speculation!

Ugh. More Useless “Journalism” About Journalism