Visual Journalism – Page 275 – Notes from aside the camera

March 17, 2008

Job Opening

Those soon to depart Athens looking for photo work, drop me a note – one of our alums has an opening at her paper. (Don’t want to post it all here to keep her boss form being spammed.)

At Work/Business & Industry

March 15, 2008

Photo Booths

The New York Times has a story and video about photo booths and their transition from chemical to digital. Interesting and entertaining.

Business & Industry/Good Work/Multimedia

March 13, 2008

Bad Photo Deals

There are some things that just make me ill. Over on a Flickr forum, Boston Magazine – the highly profitable magazine that’s aimed at affluent readers – is claiming they’re too poor to hire a photographer, but will give credit to whoever they rip-off … Thankfully, the comments are taking them to task, but I bet they’ll get their free...

Business & Industry

March 12, 2008

Baseball Shooter

ESPN has a nice piece up on Gregg Forwerck who shoots for Topps baseball cards. Not very technical, but a nice profile.

Good Work/Photojournalism

March 12, 2008

Pictures of the Year International Award Winners

They’ve announced who’s won, but haven’t posted the photos yet. Keep checking, this, and the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism competition, are always great resources for studying where our industry is.

Competitions/Good Work

March 11, 2008

An Air Disappears into Thin Air

Tech writer Steven Levy over at Newsweek has, ahem, lost his computer – a loaner MacBook Air from Apple. And that’s why I didn’t buy one … plus, it really wouldn’t work for me. Well, it would, but, you know, not without some other things … like a Mac Pro for home.

Tech Talk

March 5, 2008

Odd Photography

Okay, for you slightly-off photographers, be wary of traveling to London. (My generation’s excuse for odd behavior was sniffing the Dektol. What is yours?)

Ethics & Legal

March 5, 2008

We've Arrived! (UPDATED!!)

If you measure your success by whether people are trying to steal your content, at least. Intrepid internet searcher and current student Rusty Bailey stumbled across another Blogger.com-hosted blog that has been lifting content from this blog and posting it on their own site, surrounded by advertising. I’ve begun the notification process to have it taken down, but if you...

Ethics & Legal

March 4, 2008

Guests

I try to bring as many guests into my classroom as possible. For starters, this is an excellent way to decrease the amount of time I need to prepare for any given class … I kid, of course. In reality, I bring folks in to offer up different perspectives, to help flush out something that I’ve discussed or to add...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia

March 4, 2008

5th Annual Gordon Parks Celebration of Culture & Diversity

Legendary photojournalist Gordon Parks’s is remembered through a competition and a workshop in Fort Scott, Kansas, each year. If you’re headed towards Kansas in October, may be worth checking out.

Advice & Learning/Competitions