Visual Journalism – Page 226 – Notes from aside the camera

June 14, 2010

Illustration or Sensationalism?

The Beacon, a weekly paper in the Atlanta suburbs, used an unidentified “illustration” on its cover in late May on a story about a mosque construction project. Yeah, you can see where this is going, can’t you? A civil meeting, a calm discussion, but you need something for the front page, right? Every now and then I question the wisdom...

Ethics & Legal

June 2, 2010

Pay Now or Pay Later

It’s a question every photographer gets: what camera should I buy? Heck, there’s even a variation most established pros ask themselves: what camera do I really want? (I, for the record, have two standard answers right now – Olympus E-P2 with a 17 mm f/2.8 lens or a Leica M9 with a 35 mm Summilux lens. Neither of which are...

Tech Talk

May 26, 2010

Photos That Changed the World

These pop up from time to time – lists of photographs that changed the world – and, someday, someone should start analyzing these lists to see if some sort of consensus can be calculated on what are the greatest/most important/most influential/insert-other-platitude-here images ever shot/printed/published/lost/imagined. Today’s list is of dubious origin (lists two authors from two different publications), but the 13...

Good Work

May 25, 2010

Oil in the Gulf

Boston.com’s The Big Picture blog posted more photos out of the Gulf of Mexico yesterday. We’ve all been reading about this disaster for a month, but some of these photos really bring home the tragedy to wildlife. Seeing the pelicans covered in oil is heartbreaking …

Good Work

May 25, 2010

(Psst … David LaBelle Now Has a Blog … Pass It On)

Don’t know how I missed this, but it’s true … let’s encourage him as much as we can …

Craft/Good Work/Journalism

May 25, 2010

Going Mobile in Philly

Damon Kiesow has a great article up on the Poynter Institute web site about Jim MacMillan, a veteran Daily News shooter who has more Twitter followers than Katie Couric does. Lots of great advice in there, including this: Ideas are a dime a dozen. Everybody has ideas. Go do something. Well said.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism

May 25, 2010

Reminder: Eddie Adams Workshop Deadline Approaching

A quick reminder that the application deadline for the Eddie Adams Workshop is coming up in just three days – May 28. If you haven’t sent your stuff in, do it NOW.

Advice & Learning

May 22, 2010

Job Tips from an Old Guy in New Media

This is an important read not just for our recent graduates but for everyone of our students – Steve Buttry has posted his tips for finding a journalism job in the digital world. I’ve made some semi-random comments about similar thoughts in the past, but that’s one of the best collections of them I’ve seen. My Advanced Photojournalism students this...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

May 21, 2010

Painting, with Moving Pictures

This piece, funded by Stella Artois and produced by Malcolm Murray, hits me in a couple of ways … I am fascinated by the subject matter, painted signs to me are just really cool. (And I have a desire to do a project about them … someday … myself.) And I think this is really well shot and well told....

Craft/Good Work/Video

May 20, 2010

Emerging Vision Incentive from POYi

The Pictures of the Year International program has announced a $10,000 grant for an emerging documentary photographer. Rick Shaw, director of POYi, said: If someone is a security guard, and their whole hope was to become a documentary photographer, but they’re not able to get a foothold because of the current publishing climate and economic realities, this incentive would do...

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