Visual Journalism – Page 273 – Notes from aside the camera

April 3, 2008

Thinking of Journalism Grad School?

Then you must read Mindy McAdams’s post on it first. Some semi-random thoughts … Communication theory is really lost on those who haven’t yet experienced a lot of communication … be sure you love journalism before committing more time and money into learning about it … most 30-year veteran copy editors knows more about journalism than anybody I’ve ever taken...

Advice & Learning

April 2, 2008

Guests

Billy Weeks, director of graphics and photography at the Chattanooga Times Free Press, joined the Multimedia Journalism class this week to talk about what they’re doing and where this is all heading. He got the “five things all graduating journalists should know” question and answered thusly: Report — Journalism is all about connecting with subjects, the media doesn’t matter. Young...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia

April 2, 2008

UGAzine Looking for Photo Stories

Passing along … Each semester, ugazine publishes a two-page, color Photo Essay for thedepartment “In A Thousand Words.” All submissions will be reviewed by ourPhoto Editor, Editor-In-Chief and Managing Editor. If your work is selected forpublication, then you’ll be asked to submit a brief (2-3 sentence) summaryparagraph of the story to accompany the photos and captions.To submit your work, please...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Good Work

March 31, 2008

Flip Ultra vs. Canon HD

David Pogue at the New York Times pointed this out … Kirk Mastin, from the University of Washington, shot a story on a Canon high definition camera and a Flip Ultra, then edited them exactly the same way in Final Cut Pro … and the results are, well, surprising … It is not the gear, folks. It is the story.

Multimedia/Tech Talk

March 31, 2008

This American Life and the Ethics of Journalism

I neither watch nor listen enough to Ira Glass’ This American Life, and I really need to. Take a look at this four minute video illustrating one of the stories they did. We’ll be talking about ethics in the intro classes next week, this will come up. Why does the camera (or the pen and paper) become a barrier to...

Ethics & Legal

March 31, 2008

Society of Professional Journalists' Regional Award Winners

Hmmm … let’s see … there are 14 teaching members of the journalism faculty here, one of whom teaches photojournalism. At the Society of Professional Journalists’ regional award ceremony, the Red & Black won 16 awards this year (scroll down to the second editorial) … seven of them for photography. Hmmm … Congrats go to: Richard Hamm – first place...

Competitions

March 30, 2008

NPPA Convergence 08

Info is up on the National Press Photographers Association’s Convergence 08 conference. Held in Louisville, Ky., at the end of May, this is a total immersion program – four days of hands-on learning.

Advice & Learning

March 27, 2008

Adobe Photoshop Goes … Mainframe?

There’s a word you don’t here much anymore. Mainframe. It dates back to the time when all computing was done on a centralized machine and you fed information into it via either punch cards or “dumb terminals.” The 1980s saw the explosion of the desktop computer and, since then, every 18 months computing power has doubled for the same cost....

Tech Talk

March 27, 2008

THIS is TOO COOL

Here’s the scene: You’re a wire shooter, assigned to cover the European Swimming Championships. There’s a guy, Alain Bernard of France, who may set a record. So you know you’re concentrating on him. Of course, every other wire and agency photographer is going to focus in on this guy, how do you do it differently? Well, shoot it from underwater,...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 26, 2008

Chip Simons, Then and Now

In the 1980s, I wasn’t much of a studio/fashion/commercial kind of photographer. I was a journalist, I looked up to people like Stan Grosfeld, Susan Meiselas and Michel DuCille and didn’t think much about the rest of the photography world. Of course, there were a few names we all knew – Mark Seliger, Annie Leibovitz and Chip Simons were high...

Business & Industry/Good Work/Tech Talk