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
July 25, 2011 Over at the Gear Geek … I’m writing about a couple of cheap mobile apps visual journalists should take a look at over at the NPPA’s Gear Geek blog this morning. All of these were things brought to my attention at this past weekend’s Teachapalooza* conference at the Poynter Institute. Incoming and returning students be warned: I have A LOT of new ideas for the fall.... Categories Tech Talk
July 25, 2011 Traveling Light Ben Long over at Macworld.com talks about leaving his MacBook behind and wandering through parts of Turkey with just his iPad, DSLR and a portable hard drive. He’s got some good tips on software for the iPad that’s worth looking at. (I use Photogene and have been happy with it, so there’s another vote for it.) Categories Tech Talk