Visual Journalism – Page 187 – Notes from aside the camera

May 12, 2011

It’s the Image, Not the Effort

Over at The Online Photographer, Ctein has a minor treatise up on why it’s the final image that matters, not the effort you put into it. This is something students grapple with quite a bit – they work really hard and then fall in love with the result because of the effort they put into it. But a viewer doesn’t...

Craft

May 12, 2011

Chromebook Subscriptions Announced

Engadget has a story up about Google’s Chromebook and the various subscription models for it. (Yep, you can buy it or you can lease it for three years.) Quick primer, for those who haven’t followed along: Google has created Chrome OS – an operating system (what Windows and Mac OS X are) and partnered with some hardware companies to produce...

Tech Talk

May 11, 2011

Questions After a Deadly Fire

WKTV photojournalism Tim Fisher talks about covering a deadly fire in Utica, N.Y., where friends and family members have hinted the fire department didn’t do enough to save lives. (Thanks to the NPPA’s Twitter feed for the link.)

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism/Video

May 9, 2011

Finding Samar Hassan

You don’t know her name, but you know her face – she’s the five year old girl Chris Hondros photographer in 2005 after her parents were killed by American troops. Now, the New York Times has gone back and found her, talking with her about that night and telling us what her life is now like. It’s a heart breaking...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

May 9, 2011

Copyright Shakedowns

Dan Frosch at the New York Times has a great article about a Nevada company that is going after copyright violators very, very aggressively. The company, Righthaven, is picking up the copyrights to work from a couple of news organizations and then scouring the web looking for illegal usage of those images and stories. Without warning, they are filing lawsuits...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism

May 8, 2011

Jon Stewart on Releasing the bin Laden Photos

To excerpt: Maybe we should always show pictures – Bin Laden, pictures of our wounded service people, pictures of maimed innocent civilians. We can only make decisions about war if we see what war actually is and not as a video game where bodies quickly disappear leaving behind a shiny gold coin. Worth watching this to the end.

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Video

May 8, 2011

Changing History

With the news last week that Osama bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan, history was made. President Obama’s photographer, Pete Souza, was in the White House situation room as the president and numerous other high level officials watched the attack on bin Laden’s compound. Souza’s photo was made available the following day and has been heralded as an historic...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

May 6, 2011

A Victory

In the war against photos of reenactments, the first victory goes to MSNBC.com who now says they will not run faked photos anymore. Having been prompted to think about this issue this week, our point of view is that there’s no reason for us to show pictures of a re-enactment when we can show you screen grabs of the actual...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

May 6, 2011

New NPPA Business Blitz Workshops Announced

The National Press Photographers Association announced today that they have created a new, traveling workshop for this summer and early fall. The Business Blitz will hit five different cities and feature at least five major speakers in each location. Registration will open up soon. Very cool, some excellent speakers on the list already – get it on your calendar.

Business & Industry

May 6, 2011

Banning Photography in New Jersey

Yep … they’re trying to ban photography of children in New Jersey. I’ll go on record as saying it’ll either never pass through the legislature or, if it does, the courts will kill it almost instantly. (Thanks to Mark Hertzberg on the NPPA listserv for the link.)

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism