Visual Journalism – Page 304 – Notes from aside the camera

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

March 12, 2007

NPPA Multimedia Contest

The National Press Photographers Association began a monthly multimedia competition last fall, run in the same manner as the newspaper clip contests. They are posting the winners on the web each month, a good place to go look at what the state of the art is. (Links along the left rail.)

Multimedia

March 11, 2007

Deal on National Geographic membership

National Geographic is running a membership/subscription special – $15 for a year of the yellow-boxed magazine. That’s, what, three cups of coffee? (I don’t know, I still don’t drink coffee. Working on that.) The magazine is still one of the preeminent photojournalism publications, and you get all kinds of cool maps, too. Why haven’t you clicked over there yet?

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 10, 2007

Inside … well, not baseball

I spent the last couple of days in February at a Poynter Institute seminar on Convergence for College Educators. So, this is really for them – a small collection of photos from the seminar and around the area. Nothing fancy, as this photojournalist wrote and thought more than he shot. And, no, my brain hasn’t slowed down yet. More info...

Advice & Learning/Good Work

March 9, 2007

RSS – Three letters that are (sort of) changing everything

There is a lot of information out there and still just 24 hours in a day, so how do you keep track of it all? One of the more productive features of the Internet is a new-ish technology called RSS. RSS stands for “really simple syndication” (and a few other things, but let’s keep this simple). It allows you to...

Multimedia/Tech Talk

March 9, 2007

Geek alert – Sigma DP-1 announced

There has been some clamoring for a fixed lens, large sensor digital camera and Sigma has just formally announced their DP-1 camera. There is no indication of a price on this, but if it’s priced right, it could be a great camera for street photography or just for knocking around town with.

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 9, 2007

Adobe, Canon working to detect pixel fraud

Wired.com has a short piece about how Adobe is working on software to authenticate images – essentially, to prove if they’ve been manipulated or not. Given some of the instances over the last few years, this may not be a bad idea, though the article does mention the possibility of “false positives.”

Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk

March 8, 2007

No Freedom Fries in France

Remember when the French got picked on a few years ago and everyone stopped ordering “french fries” and went to “freedom fries?” Turns out there really may be a difference. The French government has banned citizens from filming acts of violence. There is an exemption for “professional journalists,” but I wonder how they plan to define a professional. (If the...

Thoughts & Theory