October 18, 2011 FYI … NPPAStudents Now on Twitter If you’re a student and an NPPA member, you should follow the NPPAStudent account. I suspect there will be a lot of good info coming through there. Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 17, 2011 Annoying Photo Critique Comments We do a lot of in-class critiquing around here. Every assignment, from every student, ends up on the big screen and we all tear into them … at least, that’s what I want. What I get is a lot of silence some days, or vague platitudes about how they “like it.” They give no reason, so I have to draw... Categories Advice & Learning/Craft
October 16, 2011 Live Chat About Internship and Job Searches (Mirrored from the NPPA’s Visual Student blog.) Live Student Chat on Internship and Job Searches Categories Advice & Learning
October 16, 2011 Behind the Conflict Photographers Italian photojournalist Ruben Salvadori has turned his cameras away from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to look at how photographers are covering the (apparently) regular battles. It’s a bit disturbing to see how many of them are, well, faking the news by showing a very narrow slice of what’s happening. Photojournalism Behind the Scenes [ITA-ENG subs] from Ruben Salvadori on Vimeo. Categories Ethics & Legal
October 15, 2011 National Stories Gone Local, With a Back Beat The hardest thing to learn in photojournalism is where to point the camera and when to push the button. The rest, well … it’s just mechanics, really. Maybe in between is composition, but a great moment (when to push the button) from a great story (where to point the camera) trumps composition. Usually. So when I talk with my students... Categories Good Work
October 14, 2011 Lens Genealogy … Super Geeky Over on the Lensrentals.com site, Roger Cicala has posted a pair of super-geeky pieces on the history of lens designs. The first one looks at three of the six primary lens designs out there – the Petzval Portrait, the Rapid Rectilinear and the Double Gauss. Part two looks at the other three lens types – the Cooke Triplet, the Telephoto... Categories Tech Talk
October 13, 2011 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Registration Now Open Get it on your calendar and get registered – the 2011 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar is scheduled for December 2-3 at the Westin Atlanta Perimeter North Hotel. The list of folks there this year is pretty amazing – David Burnett, Rich Addicks, Mary Calvert, Barbara Davidson, Julie Jacobson, Greg Kahn, Mike David, Tom Kennedy … lots of very smart, very successful... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
October 12, 2011 On Being a Creative … Chase Jarvis has a post up on the 10 Things Every Photographer or Creative Person Must Learn. Worth a look, particularly points seven and 10. Categories Craft
October 11, 2011 Photographing Steve Jobs He was an icon before he started putting an “i” before everything and made everything easier, but Steve Jobs was apparently a very difficult person to photography according to a piece on Photo District News. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
October 11, 2011 Has a Presidential Candidate Violated a Copyright? Please note that this post is not about politics, it’s about legal issues surrounding a political ad. The Huffington Post has a story about Texas Governor Rick Perry’s latest campaign ad, a web-only attack on Mitt Romney. At issue is whether the usage of a White House-provided image violates the terms under which it was released. In the ad, an... Categories Ethics & Legal