Visual Journalism – Page 297 – Notes from aside the camera

May 3, 2007

Portrait Tricks

So, People magazine has a cover story on the most beautiful people (erp), now photographed without make-up or retouching (eck). (Okay, I have NO idea why I’m writing about this, but breakfast is gurgling a bit, so you know.) And I really COULDN’T CARE LESS. But PopPhoto has posted a short piece on how to photograph people and make them...

Tech Talk

May 2, 2007

No Photojournalism Here, But It's Pretty Cool

Monkeehub presents the Torchlight Gallery. It’s a weird interface … but, man, is it cool …

Graphic Design/Multimedia

May 2, 2007

"Get busy living, or get busy dying"

The quote is from “The Shawshank Redemption,” and it shows up in a post by Orlando Sentinel journalist Matt Waite where he talks about training for the new world. (This post sourced from Mindy McAdams, where else?)

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Multimedia

May 2, 2007

Lighting 102 – An Online Lighting Workshop

David over at Strobist has announced their second online lighting workshop, which will start June 4. Partnering the blog and Flickr groups, you’ll be able to follow along and work on your lighting techniques, post them to Flickr and see how other people handle the assignments. Not familiar with Strobist? Go poke around – their moto is “Less Gear. More...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 2, 2007

100 Good Things

Chip Litherland, from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, has put together a list of the 100 things that are completely right with photojournalism jobs.

Photojournalism

April 27, 2007

Insomnia Photo Festival – Friday, April 27

Want a new MacBook Pro, 80 GB iPod and a copy of Aperture? Then plan on being wide awake for 24 hours starting at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 27, for Apple’s Insomnia Photo Festival. Register in advance and at 5 p.m. Apple will give out the info on what to shoot. Pay close attention to the details on how...

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

April 26, 2007

Irreversible vs. Irrevocable

A recent entry by Ray Bacchetti on the Tomorrow’s Professor Blog has had me playing with words. Towards the end of a piece titled “Birthright” he has a simple three word sentence – “Education is irreversible.” And I like that sentiment, but in talking about the line I quoted it wrong to my class today, saying instead, “Education is irrevocable.”...

Advice & Learning

April 25, 2007

Alterations, Again

News Photographer magazine editor Donald Winslow reports on how several publications digitally altered one of the images from the Virginia Tech shooting, allegedly to protect a student’s dignity.

Ethics & Legal

April 24, 2007

What The Duck's 200th strip

Today, Aaron Johnson posted his 200th What the Duck comic – a must read for photo-folks. In addition, he asked others to post their versions of some older strips – his drawings, their text – and they are a riot. (The Ansel Adams-button made me laugh out loud.)

Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

April 23, 2007

Bad Exit Interviews

When you wrap up a job, either of your own volition or your now-former employers, you’ll usually go through an exit interview. Across the transom came this report today: We let a photo intern go today because he was nuts. During his exit lunch he was talking about how he thought he’d improved and his boss here said, “If it...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry