Visual Journalism – Page 254 – Notes from aside the camera

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

August 10, 2009

The Death of Photojournalism (Part 217)

Ahh, it must be a Monday, because someone is writing about the Death of Photojournalism. It seemed for a few years that this headline popped up in the trade and mass market magazines about every six months. Now, it’s about every seven days. Is my beloved photojournalism in trouble? Yes. Is it dead? No. Dying? Maybe – but it is...

At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 30, 2009

Called Out by a Reader … Wrongly

The Reader’s Representative Journal at the Los Angeles Times got a question from a reader pertaining to a photo they had published and suggesting they look into it. Turns out, there’s nothing wrong with the image – it was made with a 400 mm lens and a 2x converter, which means it was shot at a focal length of 800...

Ethics & Legal

July 17, 2009

Video Workshops at Home

We all know friends and colleagues who are worried – will their paper survive, will they survive the next round of cuts … so how do you prepare yourself to either find a new line of work or keep your current one? If you’re a (youngish) dinosaur like me, who grew up with Tri-X, Fujicolor and F3HPs you need to...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video