Visual Journalism – Page 154 – Notes from aside the camera

October 24, 2011

Role Reversals and Fun with Lights

There’s a great interview over at The Image, Deconstructed with Matt Roth, formerly of Patuxent Publishing, about a series of portraits for a lifestyle magazine on Howard County, Maryland. The lead image is worth the click-thru alone. Love his take on lighting: Uh, a lot of people have me pegged as a lighting wizard… which I’m not. I think I’m...

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

October 24, 2011

What’s News?

Hyperlocal blog post here … at 4 p.m. today, Monday, October 24, I’ll be participating in a panel discussion titled What’s News to Students? We’ll be in the Miller Learning Center on the University of Georgia Campus, room 248. My colleague from Grady, Prof. Horace Newcomb, will moderate the panel which will also include Prof. Steve Smith, the Athens Banner-Herald’s...

Business & Industry

October 23, 2011

The Sunday Storytelling Slide

If you’re reading this soon after posting, it’s Sunday morning. Maybe you’ve got your coffee going and are padding your slippered feet out the driveway to grab your Sunday paper. (Remember when newspaper carriers delivered papers to your door? Dang, I’m old …) Sunday front pages are centerpieces, something the newsroom spends days, if not weeks, prepping for you. Big...

Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

October 21, 2011

Twitter Humor for Journalists

There are lots of hashtags worth following on Twitter, but one of my favorites is the #partylikeajournalist group. Because, well … because it’s just great geek humor for us.

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

October 21, 2011

The Chris Hondros Fund Launches

Chris Hondros, who was killed in Libya earlier this year alongside Tim Hetherington, left behind a legacy of images and work ethic. Now, his fiancé has created the Chris Hondros Fund, a fellowship for, “an outstanding photojournalist who is committed to creating a visual history that brings shared human experiences into the public eye and whose work shows exceptional promise.”

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

October 20, 2011

Hmmm … I Sense a Class Project …

The New York Times’ Librado Romero has been working on a series of images shot “round midnight,” a semi-homage to the classic jazz tune. Makes me wonder if my students would show up for a class that starts at 12:01 a.m.

Photojournalism

October 20, 2011

New Canon EOS-1D X Announced

We’ll have to wait until spring to see one, but Canon announced their next pro-level camera this week – the EOS-1D X. It’s … not what many expected. At the top end of the spectrum, Canon had been selling two cameras – the 1D was (is) a 1.3x cropped sensor camera designed for news and sports. Along side it was...

Tech Talk

October 19, 2011

AP Photojournalist Ed Reinke Has Passed

The Associated Press’ Kentucky photographer, Ed Reinke, has died. He fell during the October 2 IndyCar race and suffered significant head injuries. His career spanned nearly 40 years and was filled with amazing work.

At Work/Photojournalism

October 19, 2011

Photoshop’s Next Possible Feature: Image Deblurring

At Adobe’s 2011 Sneak Peek conference, they showed a possible future feature for Photoshop – a deblurring algorithm. It’s … well … stunning. In concept, it analyzes an image that is not sharp due to motion (not focus) (yet) and then corrects for the motion pattern it has sensed. They run through three different images in the demo posted above....

Tech Talk

October 19, 2011

The Ethics of Picture Editing

We spend a lot of time talking about the ethics of photojournalists in the field and in front of the computer screen. Did they manipulate the scene? The image? But there’s a whole other layer of the journalism process where ethics come into play – the editing phase. Over at Salon.com, Justin Elliot takes a look at a front page...

Ethics & Legal