Visual Journalism – Page 211 – Notes from aside the camera

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...

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...

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Tech Talk

December 6, 2010

Maybe It Is Time to Stop Teaching Photoshop …

Thinking out loud again, this time triggered by Andrew Goodall’s post on how photo editing (meaning, Photoshopping) is not a substitute for photography skills. Love this graf: I met a man who told me about his visit to Sea World. He took a bunch of photos of his wife, but he wasn’t happy with them because the skies were grey...

Advice & Learning

December 3, 2010

Superhero Therapy

On Thursday we watch the semester long “documentary” projects in my Advanced Photojournalism course. It was, by design, the most loosely defined project I gave them–shoot something, every week, post images online, make an audio slideshow at the end to turn in. Some did quasi-traditional projects, some went really creative, some scrambled at the last minute. But every one of...

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