Visual Journalism – Page 119 – Notes from aside the camera

July 17, 2012

AP Goes Robotic, Too

Not to be out down by their colleagues at Reuters, the Associated Press is also setting up a phalanx of remote controlled cameras for the Olympics according to the British Journal of Photography. Sweet ….

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 17, 2012

Was Life Simpler?

I hate stereotypes and curmudgeons (though many of my students will claim I am both), so it’s always entertaining when a colleague tells me how much easier it was when we didn’t have to worry about the web and digital imaging. And then says they love not having to truck portable darkrooms around … At the Dallas Morning News, Chris...

Tech Talk

July 10, 2012

Georgia Press Association Photo of the Year goes to UGA VJ Alum

Big congratulations go to Jon-Michael Sullivan for a stunning image that took the Photo of the Year award from the Georgia Press Association. Sullivan, a staff photographer at the Marietta Daily Journal made the fireworks-and-lightening image during the 2011 Fourth of July celebrations in Kennasaw, Ga. Sweet pic, Jon-Michael.

Competitions/Craft/Photojournalism

July 10, 2012

NPPA Short Grant Application Deadline Approaching

If you haven’t done it yet, you’ve got less than a week left to apply for one of six $3,000 grants from the National Press Photographers Association.

Competitions/Photojournalism

July 9, 2012

Olympic Problems for “User Generated Content” Plans

If you were hoping to have your audience help flush out your Olympic coverage this year, better come up with a new plan: Ticket holders are barred from releasing images they create to for any commercial usage. According to Cleland Thom at the Press Gazette, attendees can post photos and text to their own social media sites so long as...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

July 9, 2012

Naw, Shooting Sports Isn’t Dangerous

Except, you know, when it is … (Thanks to Alicia Wagner Calzada for the link.)

At Work/Photojournalism

July 8, 2012

Hipsters, Film and Flawed Analysis

CNet has a story up about teenagers and hipsters making a move back to film cameras. Which is fine, a probably trend that makes for an entertaining story. However, and here’s the journalism lesson, there’s one sentence in there that completely erodes the credibility of the story: The Photo Marketing Association’s most recent report (PDF) on U.S. camera sales from...

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

July 7, 2012

Looking For a Job?

The New Orleans CityBusiness is looking for a new reporter – and they’ve written one of the best job ads ever. Great advice can be gleaned from that post – would you be ready to apply?

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 6, 2012

Reuters Goes Robo

As you know, I love technology – but only when it helps you do something better. When I think about covering something like the Olympics, with the hundreds of photographers all penned together, my desire to shoot there plummets. I want to go where the others are, I want to make the image no one else sees. But so many...

Journalism

July 5, 2012

Minor Victories in the War Against Photoshopping

Think Progress is reporting on an eighth grader who wrote Seventeen magazine asking them to not Photoshop at least one person per issue. Her online petition has over 81,000 signatures – and the magazine responded. But not how you’d expect – (T)he magazine has made a commitment to not alter the body size or face shape of the girls and...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory