Visual Journalism – Page 175 – Notes from aside the camera

July 13, 2011

Tips for JPEG Shooters

I’m not one of you, but I know there are a lot of you out there – those who go for speed and small file size by shooting JPEGs instead of RAW files. (And, hey, why do we always capitalize raw?) Over on Shutterfinger, Gordon Lewis lays out some very useful tips if you’re going to be shooting JPEGs. Most...

Tech Talk

July 13, 2011

Olympian Photographer Admits to Showing Police Unpublished Images

The Olympian has posted a story stating that Tony Overman, their photographer whose home was vandalized a few weeks back, had shown unpublished photos of rioters to police in the past. Overman, according to the story, had repeatedly denied doing this. The act is a violation of the newspapers policies. The issues here are complex. Journalists need to be trusted,...

Ethics & Legal

July 13, 2011

10 Tips For When Your Copyright Has Been Violated

Jeremy Nicholl has posted a list of ten things you should do to combat copyright infringers – and there’s some really good advice in there. Several of them we all probably know, but there’s one you need to make sure you’re doing and that’s setting up a Google Alert for your own name. I have a couple set up that...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

July 12, 2011

The Security of Freelancing

Over at FreelanceSwitch, Matt Heusser is making an argument that having a freelance business may be less risky than a full time job. Just one salient point: When I talk to people about freelancing, the word that I keep hearing back is risk. Yet a typical freelancer might have a half-dozen clients, none of whom represent more than 30% of...

Business & Industry

July 12, 2011

Rube Goldbergian Photo Sequence

Not much to say except … this is pretty cool.

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

July 11, 2011

How Serious Is the AP About Digital Manipulation? VERY

The Associated Press has killed all images in its archive from freelancer Miguel Tovar after it was discovered he had used Photoshop to remove his own shadow from an image. The language that AP’s Director of Photography Santiago Lyon used was pretty direct: There is no indication that Tovar’s other images were manipulated. However, we have severed all relations with...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

July 11, 2011

Over at the Gear Geek …

I’m live over at The Gear Geek for the National Press Photographers Association today talking about how everything I really need to know about audio I learned from Robert Capa, depth of field scales and the inverse square law. Also, cheap lav mics …actually, that’s what I’m really talking about. But the rest sounds more intellectual, doesn’t it?

Tech Talk

July 11, 2011

The Life Balancing Act

Richard Wong over at Black Star Rising has a reminder to all of us that we need to work to maintain the balance between our professional life and our family life. I can count on one or two hands the number of really great photojournalists that I know personally who have managed the balancing act. I think back to my...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

July 10, 2011

If Only Memory Cards Were Like Film

Remember film? When you wanted a different level of quality of different characteristics in your images, you went and bought a different kind of film. Imagine if memory cards worked the same way … you want better quality, get a different memory card. More saturation, lower grain? Swap the card. Well … it doesn’t work like that. At all. And,...

Tech Talk

July 10, 2011

Witness to Tragedy and Recovery

Todd Maisel, the National Press Photography Association’s Region Two Director, is heading up a program at Pace University in September that’s looking back at how photographers covered the September 11 attacks … and dealt with it afterwards. If you’re in the New York City area on September 8 and you care about photojournalism, you need to be there for this....

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism