Visual Journalism – Page 44 – Notes from aside the camera

November 28, 2014

Gear Guide: Camera Bodies

Last year, I put together a series of posts on buying gear for my kids. Some things have changes, some have not – this is an update to last year’s post more than a new one, so some of it will seem familiar. Note that prices and links date back to November 2014, camera companies are constantly updating the equipment...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

November 25, 2014

Behind All the Images

The New York Times’ Jeffrey Furticella gives us a really nice look at how seven photojournalists made an image of the catch everyone’s talking about. (Thanks to Cody Schmelter for the link.)

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

November 25, 2014

Gear Posts, Redux

Most years I write a series of posts about buying gear for my kids here at University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. I’ll be doing some updates to the posts later this week, but start with these: Where to Buy New or Used? Full Frame or Crop Sensor? Lenses Some of the prices have shifted and...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

November 25, 2014

See Anew

What if everything you photograph has already been seen? What’s the point? See something new. Everyday.

Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 20, 2014

Poynter-ONA Leadership Academy

This looks pretty cool … and free. The four-and-a-half day program for 25 promising women leaders will include guidance on the business of journalism, individual leadership style, navigating newsroom culture, entrepreneurship and one-on-one coaching. Poynter and ONA will collaborate to build an agile, interactive curriculum led by prominent women faculty in the startup, tech, media and academic fields. Applicants will...

At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 19, 2014

Photos With Words

One of my favorites, Peter Turnley, posted a small piece to one of my favorite web sites, The Online Photographer. It’s a simple set of photos – a train ride through New York on Halloween. Elegant and evocative and, for all my intro kids, with IDs … Love this comment from a gentleman called Paul: His apparent lack of interest...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 19, 2014

Gordon Parks Show in Atlanta

This opened last week and should be a spectacular show: Gordon Parks at the High Museum in Atlanta. Many of these images have never been seen before, including some color images three families in the south. Hours are available on the High Museum’s site. And November is college month – $5 with your college ID to get in.

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

November 18, 2014

The Language of Photography

We talk about the language of the photograph in my classes quite a bit, whether the kids recognize it or not. There’s a parallel language, spoken by photographers, and there’s a dictionary for it … who knew? Future students may have to study this … lots of quiz possibilities there.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

November 18, 2014

Stolen: Where and What

PetaPixel’s DL Cade has a post up about the most stolen camera equipment as tracked by Lenstag. The results are surprising to me – I would have assumed some consumer level camera was the most commonly lost piece of kit, not the high end pieces from Canon that make up the top three. Digging deeper, the data source – Lenstag...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

November 16, 2014

Get a Grip

We don’t deal much with grip equipment in our visual journalism sequence, but some of my kids wander off into commercial/corporate/advertising work where they’ll suddenly have to know what a C-stand is or how to load V-flats for transport. Cinescopophilia has a collection of three videos on what goes into a grip truck. Every photographer who ever leaves their office...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory