Visual Journalism – Page 2 – Notes from aside the camera

August 4, 2021

Small Town Wyoming, A Century Ago

Sarah Blackwood has a great piece up at The New Yorker looking at a trove of work done by Lora Webb Nichols a century ago. Anyone with an interest in portraiture or documentary work (done on a hyper local scale) needs to take a look. Beautiful compositions help us see what life was like in a copper mining town. (Thanks...

Good Work/Photojournalism

August 3, 2021

Native American Identity Through the Native Lens

From NPR, information on a new effort to take back the visual story of Native Americans.

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

August 2, 2021

It’s the Little Things

Great gallery of images from the Associated Press looking at the details that make up the Olympic competition. It is always the little things that separate out the good from the great, how would you apply this to your own work? Does it manifest itself in your compositions, the way you handle edged and corners? Does it show up in...

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 13, 2021

When a Lens Is Too Sharp

Nice piece by Michael Johnston at The Online Photographer about portrait lenses. I will admit I obsess over sharpness (and nervousness in bokeh, but that’s different issue), but this line really resonated with me: What’s a portrait but a sympathetic presentation of a person’s appearance? In 1989, I bought a used Nikkor 105 mm f/2.5 AI-s lens and it still...

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 4, 2021

On Getting the Shot

Two quotes in this interview with Getty Images’ Elsa Garrison by Hannah Foslien that stood out to me: For me, the way I look at it is, if I didn’t get it, then I wasn’t meant to get it. You can’t let that frustration of a missed picture carry over into your next assignment, because then you’re self-sabotaging. And this:...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

March 30, 2021

Documenting Friendship

I love it when radio leads me to a great documentary project … NPR’s Melody Rowell has a look at Karen Marshall’s 30 year project on a group of friends and how their relationships shifted over time. Someplace in a notebook, I recorded the idea that one image shows what something looks like, two images can demonstrate change but it...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 30, 2021

Charging You to Invoice

This is a new one to me – McGraw Hill is now charging independent contractor to submit invoices. They are deducting 2.2% for an administrative fee when submitting invoices via their platform, which is the only way to bill them. Out of curiosity, what would happen if the contractors added a 10% administrative fee to their invoices? I understand that...

At Work/Business & Industry

March 10, 2021

The Family Business

Touching story by Alix Strauss in The New York Times about the 80 year history of Fred Marcus Studios. Now run by a third generation, they’ve done more than 30,000 weddings since opening in 1941.

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Thoughts & Theory

March 9, 2021

To Be There for Them

Donna Ferraro did an interview with DPReview’s Jeanette D Moses about her new book, Holy. The interview does a deep dive into why and how she works, a lot to learn here. I’m really trying to understand how to make life better for women, and that’s really what I’ve been doing for most of my life. How do we make...

At Work/Craft/Photojournalism

March 3, 2021

Seeing Back in Time

There is something about this story that I just adore. Irish photographer David Killeen buys a photo album of a 1935 trip to Switzerland and then, 75 years later, rephotographs the locations. The video at the bottom of that Macfilos post is just utterly charming.

Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory