January 31, 2008 What Color is Your Sky? And what color does your advisor want it to be? I keep checking my calendar to see if it’s April 1, 1919 or something … Categories Ethics & Legal
January 31, 2008 Meta Geek As much as I try to be all about the story, I admit to being fascinated (in cycles) with the tech side of photojournalism and photography these days. Over on The Online Photographer, Marc Rochkind has a fascinating piece on meta metadata and what you can learn from it. Not going to do it myself, but, dude, that is so... Categories Tech Talk
January 31, 2008 South Carolina News Photographers Association Conference – Feb. 9-10 The SCNPA is having their judging and conference next week in Anderson, S.C. That’s about a 90 minute drive, a great opportunity to meet some folks who can get you jobs. Why wouldn’t you take a Saturday and/or Sunday drive? Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Competitions
January 31, 2008 On Blogging Rusty Bailey sent along a link to a comic about two folks who decided to get away from the ‘net for a bit. (Yes, we can blog anything. But should we?) Categories Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory
January 31, 2008 Library of Congress and Flickr The Library of Congress has uploaded around 3,000 public domain images into Flickr as an experiment in how they can let the public gain access to images. Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Good Work
January 31, 2008 Credentialing Bloggers The Los Angeles Police Department may be giving bloggers from BlogHer.com a hard time in getting “media credentials” that they can use to get access to the GOP debate. That’s awkwardly phrased, I know, because it’s not clear if they are blocking them from getting credentials or if they’re putting them through the standard background check procedure or if they... Categories Ethics & Legal/Thoughts & Theory
January 30, 2008 Shooting the SOTU John Harrington has a video up on shooting the State of the Union, including an interview with our friend David Burnett. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
January 29, 2008 Speaker: Dennis Dimick, Thursday, Jan. 31 Dennis Dimick, executive editor at National Geographic, will be in the photo lab from 11 a.m. to 12 noon on Thursday, talking about environmental coverage. All are welcome. This precedes his Charter lecture in the afternoon. Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism
January 26, 2008 "The Capa Cache" This is amazing … 70-year-old negatives, long since thought lost, from Robert Capa have turned up in Mexico, according to a New York Times article. Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
January 24, 2008 Facebook Dangers Everyone knows that you need to be careful of what’s on your Facebook page – employers will look at them and you don’t want them finding anything incriminating. Now, it seems, you need to be careful of what Facebook may do with the images you post. Everyone clicks on those “I agree to the terms of service” links, how many... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal