Visual Journalism – Page 254 – Notes from aside the camera

August 28, 2009

Why Should You Care About Backing Up?

Because your grandkids may want to know … If you know me, you know I’m paranoid. I am constantly afraid of losing stuff – either stuff I’ve created or stuff that’s happening in front of me. I take pictures of everything I can and then do everything I can to not lose those photos. Andy Ihnatko has a great post...

Tech Talk

August 27, 2009

CoPress on the Web Centric Newsroom

A while ago I posted a link to a CoPress piece on innovation in the newsroom. Which was very fancy, but sort of light on specifics. Turns out, that was just the start – their second piece is now up and it talks about thinks to do and change in your newsroom. The Web-centric newsroom from CoPress on Vimeo.

Graphic Design/Journalism/Multimedia

August 24, 2009

What Are You Tired Of?

Wired magazine has a listing of things in the photo world they believe need to be dumped down a black hole. I agree with most of them, though, as I wrote to Tommy McGahee who sent me the link, watermarks – if done reasonably – don’t bother me much. And I’m getting tired of HDR, too … and the megapixel...

Craft/Tech Talk

August 20, 2009

Other Orange Moments

Every now and then, Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, writes something that makes me want to go enroll at the University of Florida so I can take her classes. Of course, then I realize that my University of Georgia colleagues would execute me on Grady College’s front lawn and my alma mater, the really cool (okay, mostly frozen) Syracuse University wouldn’t...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism

August 20, 2009

CoPress on Innovation

A little video that tells us … well, a lot of what we already know. It does reinforce what we should be doing, though, which is handy. I do wish it listed some ideas on things to try … it’s like you’re doctor telling you to exercise more. Um, okay … but where should I start? A Case for Innovation...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia

August 19, 2009

Because Sometimes We Need a Little Levity

… here’s a story on a photo-crashing squirrel. You can thank Daniel Shirey for this.

Good Work

August 18, 2009

The Financial Woes of Annie Leibovitz

We all know the work – Whoopi Goldberg in a bathtub full of milk, Demi Moore naked, painted and pregnant … the big advertising campaigns, the magazine cover shots … and it turns out she may lose the rights to all of those images next month. We photographers are notorious for being great visualizers and lousy business operators – but...

Business & Industry

August 13, 2009

Shooting Cheap

Our good friend Dave LaBelle was featured on Good Morning Arizona talking about shooting with disposable cameras. Yeah, he’s good enough to beat most of us with high end digitals …

Craft/Good Work

August 13, 2009

Shooting a Magazine Cover

Okay, it’s a bit geeky … but this video by Peter Belanger of how a MacWorld magazine cover gets shot, edited and designed is kind of cool. And you thought the stop, pan, blur assignment took a lot of time …

Good Work/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Tech Talk

August 12, 2009

Virtual Video Workshop – Sat., Sept. 19

FYI … The Virtual Video Workshop – A Workshop you can attend in your pajamas. Darren Durlach The Durlach Attack – essential skills at the speed of news Will demonstrate how “staying in the moment” and being an “active photographer” leads to better sound and pictures. He’ll also show some recent stories he wrote as well as shot. Boyd Huppert...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video