Thoughts & Theory – Page 42 – Visual Journalism

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

April 5, 2007

Leicas, free film and a pixelated future

It’s an odd day here in Athens. This morning, I took four boxes of frozen Fujicolor film out of the freezer and brought them to work. In a few short hours, I’ll be handing out the seven year old film to some of my students who are experimenting with their parents 35mm cameras. I’ve moved this film from freezer to...

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 4, 2007

twitter.com – World's Greatest Time Suck

I listen to a couple of podcats each week (MacBreak Weekly and This Week in Tech) and they’ve been yammering on and on about twitter.com … so I decided to try it. There is no reason to do this. Absolutely none. Yet, here I am … So, there must be a reason … right? Productivity monitoring, perhaps?

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 2, 2007

Camera wonks or photographers?

Some of you already know of my affection for “elitist” cameras (like my recently departed Leica, the last of my usable film cameras … *sigh*). But I hope I have always stressed the importance of the tool only in relationship to the final product – that the image is what matters most. There’s a comic strip out there and today’s...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 8, 2007

No Freedom Fries in France

Remember when the French got picked on a few years ago and everyone stopped ordering “french fries” and went to “freedom fries?” Turns out there really may be a difference. The French government has banned citizens from filming acts of violence. There is an exemption for “professional journalists,” but I wonder how they plan to define a professional. (If the...

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