Visual Journalism – Page 173 – Notes from aside the camera

July 21, 2011

The Scientist Behind the Milk Drop

The British Journal of Photography has a short piece up looking at Harold Edgerton, the MIT professor who spent 30 years trying to photograph a symmetrical milk drop. The most interesting part of this is that Edgerton never felt he got the shot. Next time I’m in Boston, I think I need to swing over to The Edgerton Center at...

Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk

July 20, 2011

Arghhh … What the Duck’s Daily Comic is Ending

I’m just so sad … Tuesday was the last daily edition of Aaron Johnson’s What the Duck comic. It’s been a highlight of my mornings for five years and I’ve shared so many of these with my students. Bah. Thanks, Aaron for all the laughs. Can’t wait to see what’s coming next.

Thoughts & Theory

July 20, 2011

Awful Use of Stock Art

Charles Apple (rightly) calls out WUSA TV in Washington, D.C., for an unbelievably poor choice of stock art attached to a tragic news story. What were they thinking?

Ethics & Legal/Graphic Design/Journalism

July 20, 2011

Life in a Day Trailer

Need to see if this running around here next week … on July 24, 2010, Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald asked people to shoot video all around the world and submit it. They received 80,000 submissions, 4,500 hours of footage. And they made a movie out of it with National Geographic that’s supposed to open on July 24, 2011. (Thanks...

Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

July 19, 2011

Yet Another Post on Captioning, Keywording and Tagging

My students hate how hard I hammer them on captions. Aside from the need for, you know, grammar and punctuation, I also make them write in – heaven forbid! – AP style. You’d think I was making them writing in cuneiform on clay tablets or something. But it gets worse – I make them get names. And contact info. I’m...

Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 19, 2011

Why We’re In Demand

Writing at Communications Conversations, Arik Hanson explains why the skill sets we’ve spent the last decade working on are now in high demand – in the public relations field. I know it’s a cliché and all, that journalists leave journalism for PR because they want the better hours and higher pay. But I also know that at least half of...

Business & Industry/Multimedia

July 19, 2011

Finding Focus

Melissa Lyttle tweeted this comment: Dear young photographer, be more like this guy. And … she’s right. Read that, ponder it, then go do it.

Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 18, 2011

Photographers at Work

Life.com has a collection of images up of their photographers at work over the years. It’s always fun to take a look at how our predecessors were equipped, and they’ve asked Andrew Hetherington to comment on them, as well. To me, looking through the images, two really stand out. The first is of John Shearer (at left) working outside the...

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 18, 2011

Behind the Rube

Last week, we showed you that amazing Rube Goldbergian device created by the folks at 2D Photography. They’ve posted a semi behind-the-scenes look at how it was done now. I’m thinking next summer, in my lab, when no one else is around …

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

July 18, 2011

Over at the Gear Geek …

This week, I’m talking about a cheap LED light for shooting video at the NPPA’s Gear Geek blog, swing on by.

Tech Talk