November 19, 2007 Canon Makes Significant Loan to Grady Okay, I don’t like to brag. Much. But we scored a big loan from Canon this semester, and there’s now a story up on our web site about it. Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk
November 19, 2007 It Pays to Reedit Sometimes. Other times, it just annoys you. But after shooting what will probably be my last football game of the season on Saturday, I sent my 18 photos out to my clients and headed home. Sitting on the couch Sunday evening, I poked through again, just to see what else was in there. Sometimes, you find nothing. Sometimes, you shake... Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
November 16, 2007 More on Bokeh I mentioned this concept of “bokeh” in class the other day – the term for how a lens renders the out-of-focus areas in an image. (I think I likened it to trying to explain to a high school friend why the silence of CDs was important in 1986 … he kept asking why anyone was paying attention to the time... Categories Tech Talk
November 16, 2007 BBQ & Multimedia … … does it get better than that? Mark Dolan, a former faculty member at my old school, has been on the road for two years now telling the story of barbecue in America through his BBQ Pilgrim web site. The collection of audio slideshows is developing into a nice catalog of work. Worth checking out, but you’ll be hungry when... Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism
November 13, 2007 College Photographer of the Year The College Photographer of the Year awards are out – and up. All the photos, audio slideshows and videos have now been posted online. Go, explore, question. Categories Advice & Learning/Competitions/Good Work
November 12, 2007 On Campus From our friends in TeleComm … Dan Goslee, an emerging specialist in Telecine and Digital Imaging will visit Grady College November 14 – 16th. Dan will give a short lecture/demo on Wednesday, November 14th in Room 214 of the SLC from 4:30pm – 6pm. Worth exploring. Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk
November 12, 2007 Joel Meyerowitz on Printing HP has a video on Joel Meyerowitz – shooting and printing for a Paris show. Yes, it’s a puff piece for HP, but there’s some good information in there and he talks about the creative process. Categories Good Work/Tech Talk
November 11, 2007 Sunday Morning Humor My generation believed that “War Games” was about as cool as computer movies could get. Of course, we also thought that “Tron” had the greatest graphics ever, too … so what did we know? But imagine what would happen if some modern shows were done in an earlier time … say, “24” being done in 1994 … Categories Tech Talk
November 9, 2007 Sports Portfolio – John Biever Okay, aside from this being basically an ad for (our excellent and truly supportive friends at) Canon, Sports Illustrated’s gallery of photos by John Biever is worth wandering through. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
November 8, 2007 Filter Ethics I’ve been sitting on this one for a while because I’m not sure how I feel about it. Part of me is angry, part annoyed and part … well, just accepting. CNN.com posted a video several weeks ago about a Scottish farmer who is refusing to sell his land to Donald Trump. Trump wants to build a golf course, the... Categories Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk