Visual Journalism – Page 303 – Notes from aside the camera

March 21, 2007

UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop

This weekend marks the second annual UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop – three days of shooting, editing and learning. All of our Documentary Photography students, a group of industrious Introduction to Photojournalism students and lots of alumni are headed out to Walton County to shoot the town. Six professionals are joining us, as well, to help critique the students’ work. The...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

March 20, 2007

Here in Athens …

Two events coming up that you should attend, one sponsored by the university and one by Grady College. On Wednesday, March 28, at 4:00 p.m., Terence Monmaney, Executive Editor of Smithsonian Magazine will be on the University of Georgia campus. He’ll be speaking as part of the Mingledorf-Lorimer Lecture in Print Media series in the Student Learning Center, room 171....

Advice & Learning

March 20, 2007

New York Times Select – FOR FREE!

The New York Times has decided to allow academics and students free access to Times Select. This allows you to read all of the columns and special material, as well as search the archives online. FOR FREE. (Thanks to everyone who shared this with me. You know who you are.)

Advice & Learning

March 20, 2007

Southern Short Course in News Photography – April 13-15

The 2007 edition of the Southern Short Course in News Photography is skedded for April 13-15 in Chattannooga, Tenn. There are a lot of sessions on multimedia storytelling this year, along with sessions on portfolio building and critiques, sports photography, career advancement and building respect. And on top of that, the speakers will include Lisa Krantz, Region 8 Photographer of...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Photojournalism

March 19, 2007

Here's YOUR CHANCE to contribute to this blog!

So, Time magazine decided to illustrate their most recent story about “How the Right Went Wrong” with a cover photo of Ronald Reagan – with an oversized tear running down his cheek. There’s been a bit of buzz on the `net about whether this is ethical or not and the illustrator who did the work was interviewed about it at...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

March 19, 2007

Wrestling – with GREAT natural sounds

The Cherry Hill (N.J.) Courier-Post’s Marcin Szczepanski has put together a four-part (three audio slide shows, one video) look at Camden Catholic High School’s wrestling team. The audio in the second slide show (“Sweat and Sacrifice”) is really well done. Now … when you go to the individual slide shows (done in SoundSlides), they are not embedded in the sites...

Good Work/Multimedia

March 16, 2007

Another recorder option

Mindy McAdams posted my suggestions on cheap audio equipment over on her blog (which you SHOULD BE READING), but another new recorder is out there you may be interested in. Word is the Roanoke, Va., newspaper has been using the Samson H4 Handy Recorder with some success. Has XLR jacks for microphones, which is a big plus, and it stores...

Multimedia/Tech Talk

March 16, 2007

Reuters on Photoshop Usage

After the events last year with altered images moving on the Reuters wire, David Schlesinger, Editor in Chief for Reuters, posted the company’s rules for using Photoshop. Well worth a read as it offers up a good set of guidelines for what is and what is not acceptable. Also gives some insight into how Reuters wants digital images handled from...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

March 15, 2007

Crisis in Darfur Expands – WashingtonPost.com video

Backpack journalist Travis Fox has posted a new series of videos and panoramic images from Darfur. Well worth spending some time with. I like the interface and the image quality is very high. Al Tompkins at the Poynter Institute has posted a brief interview about how the stories were shot, as well.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 13, 2007

Pictures of the Year International winners

Judging has wrapped up on the 64th annual POYi competition and there are links to winners on their site. You have to poke around a bit to find the multimedia winners, but if you go to Complete Winners List, then scroll down to category 39 you’ll see the links. (POYi is one of the two big photojournalism competitions in the...

Multimedia/Photojournalism