Visual Journalism – Page 175 – Notes from aside the camera

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

July 9, 2011

No Legs, One Arm: The Challenge is to Shoot Again

C.J. Chivers writes in the New York Times about Giles Dupey, a photographer who lost both his legs and his left arm to a hidden bomb in Afghanistan. There are numerous telling quotes about what happened, how he came to the realization of what condition he was in. But this, from the second page, struck me: ONCE the picture of...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

July 9, 2011

More Shuttle Photos

Yeah, I’m a space nerd – deal with it. Todd Heisler from the New York Times looked at the people who came to watch more than the launch itself. So many of these have the same feel as some of the 1960s galleries that looked at Apollo launches.

Good Work/Photojournalism

July 8, 2011

Getting THE Shuttle Shot

MSNBC.com has a piece up on Scott Adnrews who has been photographing NASA launches for more than 40 years. Watch the time-lapse video at the end … pretty cool.

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video