Visual Journalism

July 29, 2011

Magnum Tips for Young Photographers

IdeasTap.com has a post up with advice from a half dozen Magnum photographers for young shooters who want to go professional. Some of it is contradictory (study photography, don’t study photography), but some of it is well put like this comment from Alex Webb: Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

July 29, 2011

Inside the Bag(s) of a Multimedia Reporter

MediaStorm has an interview up with Rick Gershon that details what he takes while on assignment – it’s a staggering display of nerdy, geeky ecstasy. Why so much stuff? Because he’s paranoid. Each one of these pieces was bought after I wasn’t able to do something that I wanted to do. Shooting, failing, and fixing it. That’s really what it’s...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 28, 2011

Joao Silva Returns to Work

Joao Silva, who lost both of his legs last year while on assignment for the New York Times, landed a front page photo in the gray lady this week. That’s pretty awesome.

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 28, 2011

Philadelphia Reporter and Photographer Attacked on Live Television

It’s a bizarre story that gets weirder on the evening news … reporter Chris O’Connell and photographer Dave Edwards were attacked while doing a live shot for Fox 29 outside of a house in Philadelphia. Both are okay.

Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Video

July 28, 2011

MSCNE Presentation on Video Journalism

I spent all day Wednesday teaching a Multimedia Immersion workshop as part of the Management Seminar for College News Editors. A pair of two-hour long sessions on shooting video in the morning, a mock-disaster exercise in the afternoon where the 60+ editors from across the country divided into eight teams to cover a simulated crash and then an evening of...

Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk/Video

July 28, 2011

Banning Over-Photoshopped Images

Those crazy Europeans, believing that people in advertising photos should look like realistic people … in Britain, a Lancome ad featuring a heavily retouched image of Julia Roberts has been banned. (Thanks to Stanley Leary for the lede.)

Categories Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk

July 27, 2011

Screwed Up? Own Up

It’s a simple concept, really – take responsibility. I won’t say more, just go read Skip Cohen’s piece over at GoingPro.

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft

July 26, 2011

Tim Hetherington’s Last Frames

Newsweek.com has posted a gallery of images pulled from Tim Hetherington’s camera from his last day of shooting. It’s hard to believe it has been three months since he and Chris Hondros were killed in Libya.

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

July 26, 2011

Finding Vivian Maier Trailer

The buzz continues … and I want to see this. Trailer: Finding Vivian Maier from John Maloof on Vimeo.

Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Video

July 26, 2011

Captioning, From a Non-Journalistic Point of View

Michael Johnston (who I’m thinking I need to meet at some point, because he’s pretty smart) has an interesting post over at The Online Photographer about captions. He’s not looking at them in a journalistic sense, but it does get to the importance of them. For those heading to the PJ lab this fall, pay attention – I love a...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism