Visual Journalism – Page 274 – Notes from aside the camera

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

March 25, 2008

When Shoots Go Wrong

If you’re freelancing, it pays to have insurance. So says John Harrington at Photo Business News and, well, anyone else who’s thinking … Why? Because things go wrong. In this example, it’s a model who gets injured by a lion. (No gore, a lot of bruising, though.) There are lots of stories of equipment getting damaged out there, but this...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

March 24, 2008

What Does a Multimedia Package Need?

Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, has the answers on her blog now, based on reviewing projects from masters students.

Advice & Learning/Multimedia

March 24, 2008

Al on Colleges Covering College Basketball

The Poynter Institute’s Al Tomkins put up a piece linking to how college newspapers are covering the NCAA tournaments. A little late for us here, but thinking about how to do this as future events unfold is a good idea. Say, the gymnastics championships … (And if you’re not reading Al’s Morning Meeting, what are you doing with your life?)

Multimedia/Photojournalism

March 21, 2008

Photoshop Disasters

Really, a blog totally devoted to Photoshop mistakes. I never get enough of these ….

Ethics & Legal

March 21, 2008

Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War

Reuters has put together a multimedia package looking at the first five years of the war in Iraq. The introduction piece is a nice summation of what Reuters has been doing to cover the war, specifically talking about using local journalists as opposed to parachuting in folks. (The intro runs just under five minutes, watch your audio – the video...

At Work/Audio/Business & Industry/Good Work/Journalism/Tech Talk

March 20, 2008

We Scooped the New York Times

Tech writer David Pogue just wrote a review of the Flip Ultra, something done here back in November. Jeez, no wonder the Times is in trouble … though Pogue does point out that the Flip has captured, ahem, 13% of the video camera market. Which is, well, stunning.

Tech Talk

March 19, 2008

New (to me) Blog: A Photo Editor

Just learned of this (from the rejuvenated MultimediaShooter.com site): Rob Haggert, former photo editor at Men’s Journal and Outside Magazine, is blogging about life at the other end of the phone. I’ve only read a few entries, but I’m feeding it into my NetVibes account. I’m quoting too much here, but under an entry titled “Magazines Behaving Badly” (about slow...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry