Visual Journalism – Page 238 – Notes from aside the camera

February 2, 2010

Model Photography

You know I have two loves in life, right? Visual journalism and … cars. Kodak’s Jennifer Cisney tweeted about this collection of photos by Michael Paul Smith of his model car collection. It’s really cool. What did you think I meant with that headline?

Good Work

February 2, 2010

FridayPhotoSchool.com

Haven’t heard of this before, but it looks like it could be interesting – an online photo course, new on each week. This Friday is on “Taming TTL for Better Images.” May be worth spending some time with. If you do, let me know how it is.

Advice & Learning

January 29, 2010

The Setting Sun of Las Vegas

It’s a little odd that Flash Goddess Mindy McAdams tweeted a link to this story about the rise and fall of the Las Vegas Sun while I’m in, of all places, Las Vegas. Worth a read. My initial reaction is similar to what I thought of Curley’s work in Florida and Washington – one model won’t work everywhere. What was...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia

January 27, 2010

Reuters Health Reporting Internship

Stolen off of Twitter … Reuters Health Editorial Intern Interns at Reuters Health are expected to write stories for our wires, assist with selecting and obtaining medical studies for coverage, and help post stories using Reuters Health software. Internships are based in our Times Square offices in New York.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

January 27, 2010

Wild Tablet Speculation!

It is T-day – January 27, 2010. In just over four hours, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will walk onto a stage in San Francisco and tell us all … something. No one knows exactly what it will be, or won’t be, or even could be – but that hasn’t stopped anyone from trying to speculate on it. (Here, search “apple...

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

January 24, 2010

College Journalism Workshop at Poynter

I’ve only done one Poynter Institute workshop, almost three years ago now, and it was awesome. Easily one of the best I’d ever been to. They run a lot of things for professionals, and some for academics, but here’s one for the students: Poynter’s 2010 College Fellowship (May 16-28) is an intensive, two-week program in which students work in a...

Advice & Learning

January 24, 2010

Ugh. More Useless “Journalism” About Journalism

Over on the Los Angeles Times’ On The Media column, James Rainey has a long list of the ills befalling creative people – not just us photographers, but writers, graphic artists, musicians and even architects. He talks about outsourcing and cheap stock libraries, too. Which is great, and it’s all true. And, in my opinion, it’s a totally useless piece...

Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory

January 23, 2010

Going Soulless

Since letting my dead-tree edition of the news die several months back, I’ve been searching for comics to brighten a few moments of my day. What the Duck is a daily read, as is Dilbert. But last month I came across Surviving the World, and today’s is a great example. (Go ahead, read them all. I did …)

Thoughts & Theory

January 21, 2010

I Sense Money Heading Out …

Read about this over on The Online Photographer, and now I think I have to have it … The Contact Sheet is a book that contains the outtakes to over 40 famous images and a discussion of what went into making the frames. To see how some of the greats worked their way into their subjects? That’s got to be...

Advice & Learning/Good Work

January 21, 2010

Ethics in the Wildlife Photography Realm

Jose Luis Rodriguez has been stripped of his first place prize in the 2009 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for allegedly using a “model” wolf.

Competitions/Ethics & Legal