Visual Journalism – Page 284 – Notes from aside the camera

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...

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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...

Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk

November 5, 2007

Motion Graphics Talk – Wednesday Night

From David Hazinski in Broadcast, something to think about going to. Meaning, GO!! Motion graphics workshop Wednesday night in the photo lab, room 130. Unless we get too many people, then we’ll probably move to the newsroom. My classes had asked for ‘more’ on motion graphics, so I set this up… then invited Mark Wright. Mark has been the chief...

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Tech Talk

November 3, 2007

Illinois Press Association sues Illinois High School Association

As the headline says, the IPA is suing the IHSA. The IHSA has set restrictions on how photos and video from high school sporting events can be used – limiting still photos to printed newspaper stories only and video to 30 second clips, a maximum of two minutes per game and not to be used for more than two days...

Ethics & Legal/Thoughts & Theory

November 2, 2007

The Smile – and Other – Shutters

Okay, so Sony has a new camera that recognizes smiles. Now I could make some comment about how if the person behind the camera can’t recognize a smile they must be in art school or be a 20-year newspaper veteran, but that just seems cruel. So, instead, I give you the other shutter releases I would like to see on...

Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory