Visual Journalism – Page 141 – Notes from aside the camera

January 22, 2012

Google Photography Contest

Yep, that Google is putting on a photo contest. A quick look at the contest rules (make sure you read section 11) don’t show anything too horrifying, a nice relief. They have ten categories (Me, Food, Travel, Fashion, Action, Street, Sports, Night, Sound/Silence and Point of View) that you can enter under. (Thanks to David Sutherland at Syracuse University for...

Competitions

January 22, 2012

Photographers and Their Photographs

Wired.com has posted a gallery of images by Tim Mantoani that’s pretty cool – portraits of photographers holding their iconic images. (Thanks to colleague Welch Suggs for the lede.)

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

January 20, 2012

For Your Friday Afternoon Entertainment …

Battle at F-Stop Ridge, Part 2

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 20, 2012

Southwestern Photojournalism Conference

Details are on their web site, but the basics are this is a multiple day event in late February in Fort Worth, Texas. Cheap, too, at $65 for students and they can come a day early for some extra events. Great line up of speakers including Alex Garcia from the Chicago Tribune, Brad Moore, Garrett Hubbard from USA Today, Lisa...

Advice & Learning

January 19, 2012

Reporter Skills, the New Baseline

Steve Yelvington put up a post on the New Baseline Skill Set for reporters, worth reading and pondering.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk

January 19, 2012

Just a Matter of Time … and Why It Happened

Sometimes, Twitter brings great news. Sometimes, it doesn’t … Remy Thurston, a new student of mine, sent me a direct message a little while ago: The New York Times is reporting Kodak has filed for bankruptcy protection. I could ponder this for a while, kick a stone around the parking lot, asking how the heck does this happen? But I...

Business & Industry/Journalism

January 18, 2012

Lenses: Cameras as Applications: Computers?

Over at The Online Photographer, Ctein has an elegantly headlined post about whether you’re buying into a camera system or a lens system. Worth pondering.

Craft/Tech Talk

January 18, 2012

Colorizing History

This is both really well done and horrifying … iconic black and white images that have been colorized by Sanna Dullaway.

Craft/Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 18, 2012

We’re Not Blacked Out, But This Should Have Been

I didn’t go offline today, I just got busy. Mostly reading about why lots of major online organizations did go offline. And, while tempted to assign a paper to my students yesterday that is due tomorrow, I decided against it. I like my students. But they also need to learn the difference between online piracy, good news sourcing and free...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

January 17, 2012

Return of the Staff Photographer?

Over at A Photo Editor, Grayson Schaffer interviews Christopher Anderson who was just named New York Magazine’s first staff photographer. Remember staff photographers?

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism