Visual Journalism – Page 180 – Notes from aside the camera

June 25, 2011

Is Branding Bad?

Gene Weingarten at the Washington Post takes on the idea of building your brand as a journalist. It’s an interesting, idealistic, ingenious read … that I mostly disagree with, which makes me a little sick. I want so badly to go back to where I started, which is maybe a little different from where Weingarten started: When I was a...

Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism

June 25, 2011

Total Geek Out: Web Stats

Steve Yelvington takes a quick look at the latest advancement from Google, Instant Pages, and why it may wreak havoc on your web metrics and your sever load. I am not an expert on this, nor do I really have any desire to become one, but it still seems to me that selling ads based on page views is purely...

Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Tech Talk

June 25, 2011

Twitter Tips for Journalists

Mindy McAdams, the Flash Goddess (her requested title from several years ago, may not be appropriate anymore), writes about what journalists need to get started on Twitter. Many, many excellent tips in there. I fully admit to not using one of the fancier Twitter clients (I use Tweetie, which has become Twitter (which has, um, issues), because Tweetdeck was just...

Journalism/Tech Talk

June 25, 2011

Installing Final Cut Pro X

Getting the occasional question on this … with Apple’s release of Final Cut Pro X, a lot of folks have been picking up the $300 program. Those with an older install may run into some issues if they try and run both on the same drive, so Apple has posted a guide on how to partition a drive to keep...

Tech Talk/Video

June 24, 2011

Heisler on Heisler: Memories From Before He Was Born

Over on the New York Times’ Lens blog, Todd Heisler writes about going through his father’s Kodachrome slides, many from before he was born. (Yes, this is a recurring theme in what I post here as I am fascinated by the photographic archive of our personal lives.)

Craft/Photojournalism

June 23, 2011

The Shot That Nearly Killed Them

The Guardian has a collection of images up from conflict photographers with a short description, from the shooters, of what was happening and how they were almost killed in making the image. There are some very graphic images in here, be aware of that. From Greg Marinovich, talking about an execution he witnessed in Soweto in 1990: The victim was...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

June 23, 2011

Forgot to Focus? There’s a Camera for That

This may change everything in photography … or, um, nothing. The New York Times’ Steve Lohr has an article up looking at a new company called Lytro that is developing a camera that lets you focus after making the image. The Times’ technical explanation is a little lacking, but the company’s web site goes into more detail. Or, you could...

Tech Talk

June 22, 2011

History Made as President Obama Delivers White House Speech

When President Barack Obama delivered the news that Osama bin Laden was dead, the world watched him on television and, the next morning, the world saw photos … shot after the speech while he pretended to deliver his lines. After a Reuters photographer blogged about the evening’s events, an uproar rolled through the news industry. Critics slammed members of the...

Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

June 22, 2011

David Wells on Preparing to Travel

David Wells, whose work I’ve been looking at for years, has a post up on the Olympus web site on Travel Tips for the Busy Season. It’s well worth your time as he goes through how he prepares for a trip and how he handles his shooting time. Why do I like it? He’s as paranoid as I am. He...

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

June 22, 2011

Hip Shots

If it weren’t for the name of this site, I would probably tell all of my kids to read it. And beg them to post more often because, well, they’re damned funny. Most recently they took on the latest style of shooting from the hip. Thankfully, they point out that there’s one guy doing it really well – Scott Strazzante....

Advice & Learning