Visual Journalism – Page 234 – Notes from aside the camera

March 9, 2010

Paparazzi For Hire?

I’m not sure if this is brilliant or an unbelievable indictment of where our world has gone – you can now hire a team of paparazzi photographers to follow you around on your night on the town. I am all for finding new ways to generate income to support the journalistic work we know needs to be done, but it...

Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory

March 8, 2010

Self Promo or Die

If you’re freelancing you know you have to do your own promotional work for a while. Hopefully, someday, your reputation grows your business, but when you’re starting out you need to poke folks from time-to-time to get noticed. Casey Templeton, a commercial shooter up in Richmond who’s done pretty well already, decided to go well beyond a postcard mailing to...

Business & Industry

March 8, 2010

Putting Gutenberg and Marconi Back in Their Place

Ever had one of those “ah hah!” moments and realized, suddenly and sadly, that you knew that, somehow, but it hadn’t bubbled to the top of your cognitive functions lately? Had one of those a few moments ago as I read Steve Yelvington’s post on the “participatory revolution.” News is no longer just a report. It’s a conversation, a broad process in...

Journalism

March 7, 2010

10 Easy Steps to Failing at Photography

There are thousands of blog posts out there about how to succeed. “(Insert random prime number) Tips to Making Thousands of Yen in Photography”* … but not many on how to fail, very quickly, at being a professional. Paul Burwell, a wildlife shooter, has posted ten simple ways to completely screw-up your business model. Go read it, then don’t do...

Business & Industry

March 7, 2010

The Kalish Workshop

Have posted about this before, but you can never do it too many times. Deadline isn’t until May, but why wait? The Kalish Workshop is accepting applications: Jason Reed, a globe trotting Reuter’s photographer, describes the Kalish visual editing workshop as “much more than just a workshop for picture editors.” It’s for anyone that’s in the communication industry right now,” Reed, who attended the...

Advice & Learning

March 7, 2010

Best Seat in the House

A little late in posting this, but better than never … Sports Illustrated photographer Robert Beck was featured in a CNN.com article on covering the Vancouver Olympics.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

March 7, 2010

Spider-Man Loses His Photo Job

According to a CNN.com report, Peter Parker is unemployed as of the latest issue of the comic book, Spider-Man. Hearing side stories he was fired for an ethical lapse, will try to track down the comic book and see if it’s true. It’s a tough day when even Parker struggles to work.

Business & Industry

March 6, 2010

The Best of National Geographic, 2009

National Geographic has named their top 10 images from 2009. Some great images in there, and a nice way to spend a weekend hour studying these. And if you didn’t get a chance to see the redwoods photo foldout, you missed something spectacular in the magazine this year. The online version does it no justice at all.

Good Work

March 6, 2010

Co-oping Gear

David Hobby posed a question on his site, The Strobist, today asking whether photographers were starting up their own co-operatives to share equipment. It’s a great question. If you live in a big city you probably have access to rental houses. And, if you live in a smaller community, you can do online lens rentals where they ship you stuff....

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

March 5, 2010

Saving Newspaper

Not a typo – we need to save the newspaper itself and, by extension, the industry. At least according to this panel on The Onion. How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers? (Thanks to David Noah for the link and laugh.) (It’s a joke, you are supposed to laugh.)

Thoughts & Theory