October 13, 2015 Big List of Internships Benjamin Mullin at the Poynter Institute has pulled together a list of 70 internships – a quick search shows the word photo popping 24 times. Get your resume together. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
October 9, 2015 Going Light I hate talking about tea, but I’m fascinated with it, too. It’s this never ending internal battle between the journalist in me saying it doesn’t matter and the geek in me saying yeah, it does, because if it’s right, it disappears … my mind is a loud place, some mornings. The folks at VII Photo Agency asked seven of their... Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 5, 2015 Picture Africa … and Everywhere Else Close your eyes for a moment and picture Africa. What did you see? Where did that image come from? Good thought piece by Jorrit R. Dijkstra on how we have seen the continent over the last century. Now, close your eyes for a moment and picture where you are. What did you see? Where did that image come from? And... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
October 5, 2015 The Pursuit of Technique Mike Johnston at The Online Photographer put up a post on photographic techniques and it’s worth pondering for a while. He started a list of things to know, it barely scratched the surface as he admits: Allow me to name just a very few of the many things you might think you need to know: exposure; focus accuracy and depth-of-field;... Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
September 27, 2015 Overpowering the Sun Nice behind-the-scenes look at PetaPixel on how photographer Dustin Snipes made an image of Anthony Davis dunking the sun. Oddly enough, the same day that was published we were doing a similar exercise in my Advanced Photojournalism course, syncing 15 Canon strobes together to overpower the sun … (Exposure was ISO 50, 1/200, f/22 at 4:00 p.m.) Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
September 24, 2015 Photojournalism Ethics Study Released yesterday by the University of Stirling, the World Press Photo Foundation and the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, a substantial report on ethics in photojournalism drawn from a world-wide sample. I’m still digging through this as there is a lot of data, but I’d start with section 3.4 – that’s the ethics debate and... Categories Business & Industry/Competitions/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
September 22, 2015 Copyright and the Monkey, Phase Two Remember the monkey selfie? That’s come back into the news … PETA has filed a lawsuit saying the macaque monkey should own the copyright to a photo it made. I kid you not. Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
September 16, 2015 Stay Off the Tracks It happened again, another person killed by a train while taking photos on railroad tracks. New class rule: Shoot photos on or near railroad tracks without written permission, you fail the assignment. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
September 9, 2015 National Geographic Enters Partnership Agreement There is a great deal of consternation surrounding the announcement that 21st Century Fox has invested $725 in the National Geographic Society and take a 73% ownership of a new media company called National Geographic Partners. The remaining 27% of ownership will remain with the National Geographic Society. There are many questions here, some of which are difficult to parse... Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
September 9, 2015 The Danger of Drones There has been a lot of talk over the last year about the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (more commonly called drones) for journalism. There’s a conflict between freedom of the press issues, air safety issues and privacy issues – it’s a phenomenally complex situation and difficult to tease out what is legal from what is ethical from what is... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk