December 19, 2011 Advanced Storytelling Workshop Registration Opens FYI, registration for the NPPA’s Advanced Storytelling Workshop has opened. It’s running April 15-20 in San Marcos, Texas. Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism
December 19, 2011 “Citizen Journalists” and Understanding Ethics The Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner picked up a photo from a regular “citizen journalist” contributor of a train passing over another on a set of elevated tracks. A dramatic image, one that requires planning and patience to make. Or, well, ten minutes in Photoshop … the photo, from a “trusted contributor,” was a fake. Two images, shot ten minutes apart, were... Categories Ethics & Legal
December 19, 2011 Holiday Deal on a Pocket Camera I try not to make this a shopping site (my wife does that, much better than I ever could), but sometimes a deal comes along that’s too good not to pass along. Most of us have out big honking DSLRs and maybe some sort of a pocket/compact camera. I’ve been thinking about getting one for a while, something that slots... Categories Tech Talk
December 17, 2011 Time’s Photos of the Year I’ll probably post a lot of these over the next week or two, so here’s a start: Time.com’s Lightbox has posted their ten best photos of 2011. Categories Photojournalism
December 14, 2011 Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism An oddly worded title, but this is a growing event held in Hannover, Germany in mid-June. Worth looking into. Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism
December 14, 2011 Cute, But Bad for Your SEO I require my upper level students to have a Twitter account. Sometimes we use it extensively, sometimes we don’t. But, darn it, they have one. As journalists, I also tell them that having a private account is generally a bad thing – you want to have open lines of communication, you want your knowledge to be shared. That can’t happen... Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia
December 13, 2011 Remembering Alexia Nice column by the Newark Star-Ledger’s Bob Braun remembering Alexia Tsairis, one of 35 Syracuse University students murdered on Dec. 21, 1988, when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland. Remember that the Alexia Foundation is now accepting entries for the 2012 competition. Categories Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
December 13, 2011 Shooting on Spec … for $0.17 Per Hour Over on Sportsshoter.com, Luke Johnson tells the tale of shooting on spec for the baseball season … and losing $1,028.44 in the process. Yeah, spec? Not a good business plan to start out with. (Thanks to NPPA President Sean Elliot for the link.) Categories Business & Industry
December 13, 2011 A Flashy Holiday Gift Last year, David Hobby and Joe McNally hopped on a big bus and spent 42 days wandering around America teaching folks how to use their flashes better. Now, you can buy it on DVD or a download you can play everywhere. Is this the greatest thing you could ever get as a holiday gift? Well, no. For me, that would... Categories Thoughts & Theory
December 12, 2011 On Failing and Invoicing I’ve been delinquent in reading my RSS feeds, but in digging through FreelanceSwitch I came up with two things that need to be shared. First is a list of 10 Reasons Your Freelance Career is Failing by James Clear. So many of us are heading in this direction (if we’re not already there) that it’s a good checklist to look... Categories Business & Industry