Visual Journalism – Page 249 – Notes from aside the camera

November 14, 2009

Video Rolls Online

Sorry, bad pun in the headline … but the New York Times‘ Brian Stetler has taken a look at how online advertising is booming – at least, those that are attached to online video. He brings up that video is expensive, but doesn’t go into much detail on why, so let me hit a few points here: Gear is expensive....

Business & Industry/Tech Talk/Video

November 14, 2009

“The Three Things You Need”

Michael Johnston over at The Online Photographer has a query up this morning asking what “three things you need to enjoy or participate in photography the way you practice it.” I have my answer – An eye, a heart and hope. To see it, to feel it and to believe you can capture it. What are yours?

Advice & Learning

November 14, 2009

An American Soldier

The Denver Post’s Craig Walker spent 27 months documenting the enlistment, training and deployment of Ian FIsher. Great set of images and great, continuing access.

Good Work

November 13, 2009

This New is Old. Again.

It is obvious that I am not a fashion conscious person. Some would argue that I am not even fashion aware. That said, here’s a little something from the New York Times about fashion as they explore the “old is new” theme in men’s clothing – apparently, late 19th century menswear is now fashionable. Which, really, we don’t care about...

Good Work/Tech Talk

November 11, 2009

Don’t Do, Be

Coincidences are wonderful things … after class wrapped up yesterday, two students hung around to return some gear and ask a few questions. Not about class, about what comes after class. One is graduating in a few weeks and had an idea on what she wanted to do – six month internship, then grad school in the fall. A month...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory

November 10, 2009

We Need to Increase Online Profits! Cut the Video!

Seems insane, but it’s what’s happening – as newsrooms trim to save dollars, they let a lot of strong multimedia journalists go. Or, worse, they make weak multimedia folks to mainstream stories. It takes skill, it takes talent and it takes time to tell a story well in video – and if you’ve never done it, you just don’t know...

Tech Talk/Video

November 9, 2009

Goodbye to Google

Or so insinuates Rupert Murdoch, who claims he’ll start blocking Google from indexing his paper’s web sites. Why? Because he thinks they’re stealing revenue – and we all know how much revenue there is to be stolen. (Hint: Not much.) He has a point – if all you’re going to read is the first few grafs of a story, and...

Graphic Design/Journalism

November 9, 2009

Jargon

In prepping the above post, I came across this list of newspaper jargon on the Detroit Free Press‘ site. If you can’t define all of these things, you’re not a newspaper person … if you can, you’re probably an old newspaper person.

At Work/Business & Industry

November 6, 2009

Career Starters … and Enders

Former student Beth Farrar sent this along … Nothing overly shocking in this report, to be honest, as anyone over the age of X will tell you everyone under the age of X is less professional than their generation. But it’s still worth spending some time thinking about how professionalism factors into the hiring process. The word “entitlement” comes up...

At Work/Business & Industry

November 5, 2009

Rules Are Good

The legendary David Burnett writes about rules and how technology has changed the way photojournalists have worked over his 40 year career. How digital imaging (man, I hate that phrase) made so many of our old means seem quaint. And how, now, we have all new ethical dilemmas to obsess over. I’m actually glad the rules exist (such as they...

Craft/Ethics & Legal