Visual Journalism – Page 137 – Notes from aside the camera

February 16, 2012

Students: Shoot Stock, Make Money

Alamy has created a program where student photographers can submit images to the stock agency and get 100% of the royalties for up to two years. Do your own research, but it may be worth looking into. (Thanks to Stanley Leary for the lead.)

Business & Industry

February 16, 2012

NPPA Multimedia Immersion Registration Now Open

There are only 40 slots for the 2012 edition, get yours now.

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

February 16, 2012

Photographer Assaulted in San Diego

Pixiq has the story about a San Diego photographer who was assaulted, and then not really helped, after he photographed three women who are part of the cast of a Discover reality show called Biker Wives.

Ethics & Legal

February 14, 2012

Photographers You Should Know About

Scott Bourne over at PhotoFocus has stolen an idea from me. Of course, it’s an idea I never executed, but whatever … he is beginning a series on Photographers You Should Know About with a look at Dorothea Lange, one of the stars of the Farm Securities Administration in the 1930s. Worth keeping an eye on this series if he...

Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

February 13, 2012

Antenna Aiming

Nope, this isn’t about amateur radio stuff (though I’m geeky enough to talk about that, too). David Hobby put up a post on Strobist about working with radio remotes for flashes and some tips on antenna orientation. As he titled it, core knowledge – stuff you need to know that may not be in the books.

Tech Talk

February 13, 2012

How to Learn Anything

Adam Westbrook writes on his 2012 goal to learn lots of new things and the best way to do that is not by reading but by doing. Love these sending grafs: Finally, an important note about learning. Too often, we use education as a procrastination tool. Someone who wants to make a documentary (or says they want to) will go...

Advice & Learning

February 13, 2012

Craig Walker POYi Newspaper Photographer of the Year

The Denver Post’s Craig F. walker was named the 2011 Newspaper Photographer of the Year by the 69th Annual Pictures of the Year International competition over the weekend. I had the pleasure of meeting Walker during the National Press Photographers Association’s Convergence 2010 conference, where he talked about his 2010 Pulitzer Prize. It would be hard for me to name...

Competitions/Photojournalism

February 12, 2012

Impossible Photography

Photogrpaher Erik Johansson talks about his artwork at TED. Not journalism, but the conflict of what we do and what artists do is always in our heads and he has a nice line around the five minute mark that touches on ethics: I personally think that it’s easier to actually create a place than to find a place because then...

Craft/Ethics & Legal/Thoughts & Theory

February 12, 2012

Summer Internships in Washington, D.C.

From time to time, I get asked if I’ll ever go for a doctoral degree. When I remind them that I have a full-time job, am married and have kids, they sot of get it. But then I see there are internship opportunities available to students at the National Air and Space Museum and I think, huh … I wonder...

Advice & Learning

February 10, 2012

If You Thought Copyright Idiocy Was Running Rampant Here …

Wait until you read the comments from one Matthew Fearn, a deputy picture editor at the Telegraph in Britain as reported in the British Journal of Photography: Our industry therefore adopts the stance that if a picture has no overwhelming artistic value and if there is no issue of exclusivity (ie it is already being published online or elsewhere) then...

Journalism