Visual Journalism – Page 268 – Notes from aside the camera

September 1, 2008

NPPA Flying Short Course – Sept. 26 in North Carolina

Get it on your calendar now – the National Press Photographers Association’s Flying Short Course will be dropping in to Boiling Springs, N.C., on Friday, September 26. That stop is less than three hours from Athens. One of the best in the business on business will be talking – John Harrington. And a whole slate of other great folks, too....

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

September 1, 2008

College Photographer of the Year Competition

Get your entries together … College Photographer of the Year is now accepting student entries for the 63rd annual competition. As the contest is now completely electronic and there is no longer a printed call for entry for us to send you for distribution to your students, you should have found or will shortly find a postcard in your mailboxes...

Competitions

September 1, 2008

Covering Hurricanes

Al Tompkins over at Poynter has an interview with Jane Boulen, a tv photojournalist, about covering hurricanes.

At Work/Business & Industry

August 26, 2008

Local Speaker: Jim Fiscus

FYI … This Thursday, August 28th, the featured speaker in ADPR 3150 will beadvertising and editorial photographer Jim Fiscus. If you’ve been to theNational, you might have seen Jim’s portrait of the hip hop band Outkast in thebar (terrific photo!). We’ll meet at 6 p.m. in room 248 of the SLC. Here’s a bit more info about JimFiscus: In 15...

Advice & Learning

August 22, 2008

"Last Stop"

The New York Times has a neat multimedia feature up on the city’s subway system. But they’re done it with a little twist: Ever wonder where the train goes after you get off? The rode all of the lines to the end, and then did photos, audio slide shows or videos about the areas at the end of the lines....

Audio/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 22, 2008

Killer Multimedia Story Idea

The Poynter Institute’s Al Tomkins has links to great stories about the decline of inner-city grocery stores – I see this as a great college-town story, too. Where are students getting their groceries? Athens, Ga., has a lot of grocery stores, some along bus routes, but is there a subset of students (perhaps international students) who don’t have cars that are...

Multimedia

August 21, 2008

Film vs. Digital

Okay, I admit, I haven’t had this argument in a very long time. And I don’t want to have it. Really, I just don’t care anymore. It has been almost two years since I ran a roll of film through a camera and, as discussed in this post by National Geographic’s Director of Photography David Griffin, I shot film because...

Craft/Tech Talk

August 20, 2008

On Marginalized Women

Outside of the realm of photojournalism, but certainly worth looking at – Women are Heroes is a project looking at marginalized women, photographing them and then displaying their images in their communities.

Photojournalism

August 20, 2008

NPR on Shooting at the Olympics

Short piece on how Michael Steele and Getty Images cover track events in Beijing.

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 18, 2008

Sun-Sentinel Redesign

Wow … this is … different … Images of the newly-redesigned paper are available on the VisualEditors site, and they are a departure from almost everything I’ve ever seen in a newspaper. Will have to follow this closely …

Business & Industry/Graphic Design