Visual Journalism – Page 110 – Notes from aside the camera

October 29, 2012

If the Gear Was Better, I’d Be Better …

… or, not, as it turns out in a piece on PetaPixel. Every photojournalist I’ve ever met has, at some point, said they would have been a better shooter if they only had some other piece of kit. Now, someone has gone back and challenged that idea by buying all of the gear they used to have and testing it....

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

October 29, 2012

Maybe You Can’t Enter That Photo Contest

Michael Zhang at PetaPixel has the explanation on why if you liven Iran, North Korea, Vermont or New Jersey you can’t enter the National Geographic photo contest. True, there are a bunch of other places you can’t live and enter, but lumping North Korea and New Jersey is selective entertainment on my part …

Competitions/Photojournalism

October 29, 2012

Tips for Teens

That’s a quote from one of my high school teachers (also, “One for those cheese dips,” which takes some more explaining. Over on the European Canon site, Nick Papadopoulos has some great, practical advice for your shooters, well worth your time.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

October 25, 2012

Cue up the VCR …

Photography-News.com has a list of 56 documentaries about photography up … and I haven’t seen a lot of them. I think I know what I’m doing over winter break now …

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

October 23, 2012

LSU Deletes Crosses from Photo of Students

Yeah … not sure what to say about this, but Louisiana State University apparently retouched an image of four students, all painted up, taking out a cross they had on their shoulder. Seems like a state university would be better of not getting into a religious debate.

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

October 23, 2012

Inside the FSA Project

Over at LensRentals.com, Roger Cicila has a great history of Roy Stryker’s Farm Securities Administration photo team – one of the best summations I’ve seen, well worth spending some time on. There’s an argument to be made that we need another FSA-like project … if anyone is reading, I am available.

Craft/Good Work

October 21, 2012

UGA PJ at Petit Le Mans

Saturday’s 15th running of the American Le Mans Series’ Petit Le Mans was also the seventh edition of our motorsports photojournalism workshop. In addition to photo-blogging the event for the ALMS, AutoWeek Magazine has posted a gallery of some of the student work.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

October 19, 2012

What’s Journalism and What’s Advertising?

The National Press Photographers Association’s Ethics Matters blog takes on the issue of the National Review altering an image from Reuters for their cover. This isn’t the first time this has come up, and it won’t be the last, but I’m thinking I may want to have a talk with my Advertising faculty colleagues about this, see if the ad...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

October 19, 2012

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar

It’s time to register for the 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. They’ve expanded and added a third day for video storytelling. Very cool.

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

October 19, 2012

Portrait of a Presidency

Over at Times’s LightBox blog, Pete Souza talks about his time as President Obama’s photographer.

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism