Visual Journalism – Page 298 – Notes from aside the camera

April 3, 2007

Biased photos in Cleveland?

Ted Diadiun at the Cleveland Plain Dealer takes on the question of biased political photos in a recent column. Readers had been complaining that images of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice always seemed to make her look bad, so he asked the photo editor to take a look at the last year’s worth of published images. The results will …...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 3, 2007

Top 10 Web Design Tips

This has been out there for a while, so it’s not really new, but Jakob Nielsen has updated his “Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design.” Good reading if you’re about to build (or rebuild) your web pages. He’s done this for a few years – see the 2005 version, the 2003 version, the 2002 version, the 1999 version and the...

Advice & Learning/Graphic Design

April 2, 2007

Karen Ballard talks about photographing Sadam Hussein's arraignment

Photojournalist Karen Ballard was chosen to photograph the arraignment of Saddam Hussein six months after he was found in a spider hole. In a video posted on PhotographyChannel.tv, she talks about what happened that day and some of her impressions.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

April 2, 2007

Camera wonks or photographers?

Some of you already know of my affection for “elitist” cameras (like my recently departed Leica, the last of my usable film cameras … *sigh*). But I hope I have always stressed the importance of the tool only in relationship to the final product – that the image is what matters most. There’s a comic strip out there and today’s...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 1, 2007

Arm Wrestling

During our UGA Weekend Photojournalism Workshop we heard many of the editors cajoling us to use longer lens, to get away from the wide angle zooms and explore the beauty of the 70-200 mm lens. Scott Lewis has posted an audio slideshow from the 2005 Arm Wrestling Championships that has some great, tight, indoor images – a good model on...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 1, 2007

Gmail Paper

Google has a beta program to print all of your Gmail correspondence and mail it to you. Attachments? Those, too – and if you’re emailing photos around, then you’ll get those printed on high quality paper. Limited time offer, I suspect – just today.

Tech Talk

April 1, 2007

Skills journalism students NEED

I kind of feel bad about stealing so many things from Mindy McAdams’ blog, but she’s so friendly I hope she doesn’t mind too much … So here’s another post of hers that journalism students Must Read – it’s a look at “The Changing Skill Set for Journalists.”

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia

April 1, 2007

How blogs get ranked by Google

Google, if you weren’t aware, indexes and ranks blogs like they do everything else on the web. (Can they rank produce vendors? I can’t find good apples in Georgia.) Mindy McAdams put up a link to a blog entry by Danny Sanchez on how the rankings work. (For what it’s worth, Technorati ranks blogs by popularity – you’re reading the...

Tech Talk

March 31, 2007

Online Journalism Workshops – Blogging, Photos for the Web and Audio

Three workshops, aimed at graduating students, to get you up to speed on “online journalism.” These are FREE! The official blurb: Grady College presents a series of workshops to sharpen your online skills. Three free sessions will be taught by Mark Johnson, Grady lecturer in journalism. Space is limited; register for any or all sessions. Register with Sophie Barnes in...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia

March 30, 2007

Harper's, Peter Turnley invasion of privacy suit dismissed

Photojournalist Peter Turnley, on assignment photographing the funeral of the first Oklahoma National Guard soldier to die in combat since the Korean War, was sued by the soldier’s family for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The US Court of Appeals upheld an earlier decision in the case when it rejected all of the family’s claims.

Ethics & Legal