December 10, 2010 Sign of the Times The Gray Lady is being dropped from the S&P 500, along with Kodak. Netflix is taking one of their places. Categories Business & Industry
December 10, 2010 Getting the Money Shot, British Style Associated Press photographer Matt Dunham made the frame from the rioting in London this week, the one of Prince Charles and Camilla in their Rolls Royce as it is being pummeled by protesters. As we say, f/8 and be there. He certainly was. Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism
December 10, 2010 The Way It Was–Cattle Drives and Contract Shooters Have been trying to catch up on my RSS feeds this morning and came across a link to the video below over on A Photo Editor. It’s a short documentary on David Burnett and a story he shot for Contact Press Images more than 30 years ago. (Yes, it’s a little hokey looking through the prism of time, but it’s... Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Video
December 10, 2010 Ugh … Santa, Again? There are certain times of year that, I’ll be honest, I dreaded as a working photojournalist. While at the (now renamed) Middlesex News in Massachusetts, we covered something like 33 high schools. Which meant a lot of variety for Friday night football (cold or dark or cold and dark) and high school basketball. It also meant we covered 33 high... Categories Good Work
December 9, 2010 Doing the Right Thing The New York Times has decided to put contract photographer Joao Silver, who lost both of his legs while on assignment for them, on their photo staff. Justin Ide, whose tweet tipped me off to this, got it right with his hashtag–#yesvirginia. Nice work, Gray Lady. Very nice work. Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism
December 9, 2010 Singing Telegram for Breaking News: The New Social Media This is totally for entertainment value … or not. Categories Business & Industry/Journalism
December 9, 2010 It’s a Calling Over on Black Star Rising, Northwestern University student Emily Chow talks about how she still believes there’s a future in photojournalism. I do, too, Ms. Chow. I do, too. Categories Business & Industry/Journalism
December 9, 2010 “Long Term” Project Not much journalism here, but it is documentary … a photo a day of their daughter, for ten years. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
December 9, 2010 Tilt-Shift Stop-Motion Was looking through some old notes and there was a link to this video by Keith Loutit. It is shot using a tilt-shift (or perspective control) lens, shot as singles and then edited together to make a film. It is … cool. Categories Good Work/Video
December 6, 2010 Ooooh … wantwantwant The Online Photographer’s Michael Johnston (who, lets face it, I spend too much time reading and would really like to have lunch or dinner with someday) has a post up on an auction of old cameras in Vienna and, included in it, is one I’ve never seen before–an Ilford Witness. As with Johnston, I think this is the greatest name... Categories Tech Talk