Visual Journalism – Page 200 – Notes from aside the camera

March 3, 2011

Prepping for Disaster

A few weeks behind getting this out, but Steven Farrell of the New York Times put together a post on what he took to cover the events in Cairo. Farrell is shooting video for the Times, so he stripped down his kit so as not to look like a journalist.

Journalism/Tech Talk

March 3, 2011

Get (a) Shorty

Damon Kiesow over at the Poynter Institute has a piece up on how our own Atlanta Journal-Constitution is up for a Shorty Award. Shorty Awards are given out to award “the best producers of short real-time content.” How short? Just 140 characters. Kiesow’s piece has a link to a video, complete with silhouetted staffers and digital voice changes, the AJC...

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

March 3, 2011

Join the Army, Learn to Farm?

This came across the university transom this morning … former student Dorothy Kozlowski worked on a short piece for the university about a National Guard unit that spend some time on campus learning how to farm … in Afghanistan. Would love to see a follow up on this.

Good Work/Video

March 2, 2011

NPPA Student Clip Contest Winners

… are up on the National Press Photographers Association’s web site. Take a look, see what other students are doing. The deadline for images taken in February, March and April is May 7. Rules and such are all online. If you’re a student member, why aren’t you entering?

Advice & Learning/Competitions

March 1, 2011

Radio Guy Wins White House News Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year

Who ever would have thought that a radio guy would end up winning one of the top photo competitions? Not me, but it happened – David Gilkey from NPR has been named the White House News Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year. (Aside: I have had several long conversations with a past president of the WHNPA about the use of...

Competitions/Good Work

February 28, 2011

Moving From Snapshots to Story Telling

First, a quick note … posting was light over the weekend as I was in lovely Habersham County for out UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop. Lots of information to share in the coming days from that event. But back to the news … Stanley Leary has a post up about moving from snapshots to images that tell stories. He talks about...

Craft/Photojournalism

February 26, 2011

Scenes From a Workshop

I’ve been quiet the last few days as I was prepping for our sixth annual weekend workshop, this year up in Habersham County. We’re here, have been for 27 hours now. Things are … good. A lot of learning going on, some crying, some wailing, almost no whining. More to come, but a few images from Friday of people at...

Advice & Learning

February 24, 2011

ICONN Conference – March 24-25

It looks like we’ve got all the pieces for the ICONN Annual Conference in place again. After getting weathered-out in January, I’m hopeful that we’ll have some nice spring weather on March 24 and 25 here in Athens. So why should you come? Well, Athens is a great place in spring – especially if you’re coming from the north or...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 23, 2011

ICONN Conference and the Bluejeans Workshop in Athens

This is going to be a great three days … We’ve rescheduled the ICONN Annual Conference for March 24 and 25 here in Athens and are bringing in most of the original lineup of people. And there was a reason for that date – the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will hold its annual Bluejeans Workshop on Saturday,...

Advice & Learning

February 23, 2011

Seeing Home

The New York Times’ Lens blog has a post up looking at the work of Los Angeles-based photographer Thomas Michael Alleman who has been wandering his home town’s streets with a plastic Holga camera for the last nine years. There’s a visual style, a depth to the work, that I really enjoy. I’m not so sure I can go so...

Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism