Visual Journalism

September 7, 2011

More Signs You’re Really a Photographer

Peter Phun over at Black Star Rising has a fun post on 15 More Signs You’re a Real Photographer Now. I like number three quite a bit: It’s no longer enough to make pilgrimages to all the natural wonders of the world; you now obsess over being there at sunrise, sunset, moon rise and eclipses. And my wife is probably...

Categories Craft/Thoughts & Theory

September 6, 2011

Finding Inspiration in the Everyday

Over at Black Star Rising, David Saxe has a post up about finding inspiration through personal projects. This is similar to what I teach and do – shooting something, anything, every day and posting it as evidence of my continued need to tell visual stories. The project he created from going to his basic idea of shooting building facades is...

Categories Craft

September 6, 2011

Greenpeace Images App for the iPad

Greenpeace has launched a free iPad app to highlight images from their archives. It’s a pretty simple interface with a limited number of images, but they say they’ll add more over time and cycle out the current ones. If you like an image, they recommend either making it a favorite or doing a screen capture of it. How many apps...

Categories Tech Talk

September 6, 2011

Lewis Hine as Photographer, Activist and Character

James Estrin has a great interview up with Alison Nordstrom about the Lewis Hine exhibit she has curated for the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. The collection of images over at the Lens blog on the New York Times site is great, but it’s the interview with Nordstrom that really interests me. She has deeply studied not just his work...

Categories Journalism

September 5, 2011

How Detailed Can Your Lighting Get?

Well, this entire lighting set-up is mainly to showcase … a sneaker. Okay, it’s a soccer cleat. On the foot of one of the greatest players of our time. But … still, that’s a lot of effort for a dirty shoe, right? My advanced class will be diving into lighting this week … not sure we’ll go this far, but...

Categories Tech Talk

September 5, 2011

Over at the Gear Geek …

This week I’m taking a look at a piece of software called Plural Eyes which will let you quickly and easily sync up multiple camera angles at the same scene.

Categories Tech Talk

September 5, 2011

Get your Entries In Now – It’s Time for CPOY

The Call for Entries in the 66th College Photographer of the Year competition is out now. Get your stuff together and get it entered by Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2011. No prints or slides anymore, everything is done online. Judging will be done in early November at the University of Missouri and you’ll be able to watch some of the judging...

Categories Competitions

September 4, 2011

Prepping for a Career or Prepping for Life

Every now and then I have to remind the students in my photojournalism courses that I am not there to make them into photojournalists, that I am not giving them career training. They look confused until I remind them that the purpose of a university education is not to get you a job, but to make you into a productive...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

September 4, 2011

Totally Getting These …

PetaPixel is selling sheets of camera stickers … I just ordered mine. No idea what I’ll do with them, but they’re kind of cool.

Categories Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

September 4, 2011

New Diane Arbus Bio

Over on NPR, Lawrence Frascella reviews William Todd Schultz’s An Emergency in Slow Motion, the first biography on Diane Arbus in more than 30 years. (Thanks to colleague Dr. Carolina Acosta-Alzuru for the link.)

Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism