Visual Journalism

January 18, 2013

New WordPress.com Photo Themes

If you are using WordPress.com to host your photo site, life just got a little better for you as they have introduced some new themes aimed at photographers. If you’re not self-hosting, this is a good option to explore.

Categories Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 17, 2013

Creativity on a Deadline

Poynter’s NewsU has a workshop on Saturday titled Video Storytelling with the Pros: Creativity on a Deadline. It’s all online, with a steep discount for NPPA members (pro and student). Will run through the day and, if you can’t watch it live, you’ll have access to the archives afterwards. I would hate to catch a cold and not be able...

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

January 17, 2013

Photo Data Verification

The Knight News Challenge has decided to fund a smartphone app that will allow editors to verify an image and have it transmitted securely. There are some significant limitations in this plan, but there’s some value, too.

Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 17, 2013

How Another Portion Rolls

I read a lot of stuff, some of it far afield of the journalism realm. One of my favorites is Life of an Architect, where owner Bob Borson has let architectural photographer Brad Feinknopf talk about what it takes to shoot buildings. Don’t complain about the cost of gear in photojournalism …

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 16, 2013

NPPA Introduces a First Amendment Award

Very cool news … the National Press Photographers Association has named an award after member Alicia Calzada, honoring her for all her work on first amendment issues over the years. The NPPA Alicia Calzada First Amendment Award will be given annually to individuals or organizations who have supported First Amendment freedoms. Great news.

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

January 16, 2013

Investigating the End of Investigating

The Daily Show takes on the loss of investigative news teams at CNN and elsewhere … so sad that this resonates as so true.

Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism

January 15, 2013

Students: Read This. NOW.

The first response on this thread is from David Carr at the New York Times (I think, he uses that handle elsewhere). Gospel. Read it, believe it, do it.

Categories Advice & Learning

January 14, 2013

Designing Empty

For the graphic designers … nice piece by Craig Dennis on how to design for empty space in apps. Reminded of a luddite friend in high school, when CDs were coming of age, who mocked me for making the switch so I could hear more silence between the songs …

Categories Graphic Design

January 13, 2013

Gene Patterson has Passed

He was not a photojournalist, though he worked in journalism during what many consider to be the coming of age of our craft. He is not as well known as other civil rights leaders of his time, but his work is of equal importance because it was Gene Patterson, through the bully pulpit of the Atlanta Constitution, brought light to...

Categories Craft/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

January 13, 2013

The Value of Planning

I’d love to know some more about the planning for this clip of Dean Potter tightrope walking across Cathedral Peak. As a full moon rises behind him. Very nice cinematography by Mikey Schaefer and Bryan Smith. Moonwalk from Reel Water Productions on Vimeo. If you check the Vimeo page, you’ll see that’s shot with, ahem, a 1600 mm lens. On...

Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video