Visual Journalism – Page 199 – Notes from aside the camera

March 8, 2011

Banning Photographs of Farms?

I don’t even know where to start … According to the New York Times,, the state of Florida is considering making photographing a farm a felony. I do love the term “croparazzi” though …

Ethics & Legal

March 7, 2011

ICONN

The Intercollegiate Online News Network’s Annual Conference will be held at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communicaiton at the University of Georgia on March 2 and 25, 2011. The schedule is below and you can register online – $15 for students and $25 for professionals. SCHEDULE Thursday, March 24 12:30-1:15 Registration 1:30-2:00 Mark E. Johnson, University of Georgia:...

Journalism

March 7, 2011

Crowdsourcing Visual Journalism

Emphas.is is now online to help tell visual journalism stories via crowdfunding. From their blurb: On Emphas.is you are the gatekeeper. Photojournalists pitch their projects directly to you. You get to decide whether a story is worth doing. By agreeing to back a story, for a minimum contribution of $10, you are making sure that the issues that you care...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

March 7, 2011

Local: Allison Fabella to Speak on SEO Social Media

FYI … Allison Fabella will be speaking in the Drewry Room of Grady College on Tuesday, March 8, at 12:45 p.m. Open to all, will run for 45 minutes. Background: Allison Fabella directs all strategic and tactical SEO and Social Media initiatives for the southeast’s largest newspaper, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (plus accessAtlanta, AJCHomefinder, AJCCars, AJCJobs, and AJCExchange). She began her...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Tech Talk

March 6, 2011

Shooting in a Spray

Chris Gregory put together the video below that takes a short look at shooting on Capital Hill now. I did this sort of work in the early 1990s for a technology newspaper – it is way different now. I had a weekly deadline, not an hourly one. Most of the things I was shooting had, maybe, one other shooter there....

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism

March 5, 2011

We’ve Lost Tom Herde

Happened a few days ago, wasn’t sure what to say … Tom Herde, a veteran of the Boston Globe and Newark Star-Ledger, passed away on Tuesday. He was 62. Early in my shooting career, I would bump into him from time to time. I was stringing for the Associated Press, he on staff for the Globe. I never knew him...

Business & Industry

March 5, 2011

The Photographic Cost of Liquidation

At one point in time, agencies ruled the photography world for magazine work. If you got yourself aligned with one of the good ones, work would flow in and you could travel the world on someone else’s expense voucher, telling important stories. But that agency model has been eroding for the last 15 years. Work-for-hire agreements and technology have obsoleted...

Business & Industry

March 4, 2011

Women on the Frontline

The stories of how Lara Logan was assaulted in Cairo have reverberated through the journalism realm. Now, Julie Dermansky, a freelance photojournalist who was also in Cairo, delivers her opinion on the risks she takes. I choose to risk my safety to document their story. The fear of being assaulted is not something I carry around with me. I am...

At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism

March 3, 2011

F-stops Math Explained

Warning – this is super geeky. Haje Jan Kemps over at Pixiq.com has a post explaining how the numbers on your aperture ring are calculated. It’s a different method than what I learned years ago, but gets you to about the same place. (Thanks to Lawton Howell for the link.)

Tech Talk

March 3, 2011

Storytelling, Seeing and Moments

Short video on Daniel Milnor. Love this quote: When you see an image, you missed it. You have to be five or ten seconds ahead and anticipate and get it. It’s the one that I missed that will haunt me for months. Storytelling Series: Daniel Milnor from Blurb Books on Vimeo.

Good Work/Video