Thoughts & Theory – Page 42 – Visual Journalism

August 14, 2007

Pretensious Pretentions

I have often read the Leica-infused writings of Erwin Puts but a recent post on his site has me thinking I’m done there. He argues that because the workflow in digital is different from the processes involved in silver halide films that digital is not photography. Baloney. If that’s true, then all those Tri-X shooting masters who switched to Kodachromes...

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

July 17, 2007

Newsweek and the Bad Photo Editor

Every magazine photo editor (and newspaper and wire service editor, too) makes a mistake at some point in their life. At the bad end of the scale are the days when you doctor someone’s teeth or move a pyramid to fit a cover. But the other end of the scale can be just as damaging at times, when it’s minor...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 14, 2007

The YouTube Aesthetic

Khoi Vinh has a short post on the YouTube Aesthetic – how television commercials are now trying to look more amateurish. In a few days, I’ll be set up to start scanning old slides again. I’ve finished my grandfather’s collection (well over 6,000 photos) and am about to start my father’s. Most of these photos have a lot of family...

Multimedia/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

June 19, 2007

Why Newspapers are in Trouble

First, go read this. Now, think about it. Does it hurt yet? Because I keep looking at the date to see if it’s April 1 or something … is there any actual news here? If I call up the paper and say, oh, I don’t know … “I’m creating a new automobile company, based in Bogart, and if we get...

Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 25, 2007

Oh, the Email I Get

Across the transom this morning came this … I am a graduate student at UGA, and have an impending wedding on July 29th. Due to the budgetary constraints I face, I am unable to hire a professional photographer for the wedding. I talked to a few of my friends who went through Grady for their undergrad and they suggested that...

Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory

May 7, 2007

Another. Altered. Photo.

Sean Elliot, NPPA Secretary, chief photographer and all-around good guy, pointed this out to me today – the Charlotte (Fla.) Sun “accidentally” moved an altered image to the Associated Press last week. The unaltered image ran in the paper on Saturday. According to Executive Editor Jim Gouvellis, the photographer noticed the altered image had been sent while she was making...

Ethics & Legal/Thoughts & Theory

May 5, 2007

Is CNN.com Complicit in Lying to its Readers?

This just, well, stunned me. On the front page of CNN.com this morning is a story about the tornadoes that tore through Kansas last night. And quoted, on the front page and in the third graf of the story, is an “Allan Detrich.” Is this the disgraced former Toledo Blade photographer? The one who lied to his editors, his blog...

Ethics & Legal/Thoughts & Theory

April 24, 2007

What The Duck's 200th strip

Today, Aaron Johnson posted his 200th What the Duck comic – a must read for photo-folks. In addition, he asked others to post their versions of some older strips – his drawings, their text – and they are a riot. (The Ansel Adams-button made me laugh out loud.)

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

April 13, 2007

Stuck in Oldthink Muck

Mark Glaser writes in Mediashift about a recent visit to Ball State University and he rambles on about the issues educators are facing. How much of the old curriculum is worth saving? How much can be repurposed? How much new stuff do we need? The educators amongst us have been wrestling with this for a while, some are close to...

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

April 12, 2007

Roads Not Taken

Ctein over on The Online Photographer has a cautionary tale about missed opportunities. Every photojournalist I’ve ever met has a story about the photo they didn’t go after. (I don’t like to talk about mine.) (Any of them.) (Though I’ve gotten better about them over the years.) If you’re reading this, you’re probably young and impressionable and desirous of a...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

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