Visual Journalism – Page 65 – Notes from aside the camera

January 27, 2014

Anyone Can Do It

Until a few moments ago, I’d never heard of The Guardian’s Roy Greensdale. But then I read his callously and moronically written piece on 10 British photojournalists who are being made, “compulsorily redundant” and now I can feel that little twitch … To wit … No event occurs – fires, fetes, road accidents, cats up trees, whatever – without someone...

Journalism

January 24, 2014

Best Non-camera Camera Review Ever?

When Nikon introduced the Df a few months ago, a lot of us old guys swooned a little … it looked so familiar to us. Of course, it also looked way too cool and obscure, thereby hitting the dual markets of old photographers and young hipsters. So, how does it hold up for the hipster crowd? Lee Morris at Fstoppers...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 23, 2014

Call Me Stodgy, I Guess

The Associated Press recently severed their relationship with a photographer who altered an image out of Syria. It was found that Narcico Contreras took out a video camera from the back of an image he transmitted in September. He also was a co-winner of the Pulitzer last year for images from Syria. From the AP story: “I took the wrong...

Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

January 22, 2014

Hard Drive Failure Rates

Since we tend to buy a lot of hard drives, it’s probably not a bad idea to start looking into reliability rates. Over at Backblaze, an online storage company, they run a lot of drives and have posted their reliability rates online. Short version – they run mostly Hitachi, Seagate and Western Digital drives and the Hitachis are showing the...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 21, 2014

Speed vs. Speed

This is a mini-rant, I suppose … for almost two centuries, we have tried to increase both the quality of the photographic process as well as the speed at which it can be delivered. Sure, there have been times when increases in one decreased the other, but the end goal was always the same – high quality quickly. With the...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 19, 2014

The Big Break

NPR’s Morning Edition has a short piece up on Bill O’Leary’s big break at the Washington Post – an image of Mayor Marion Barry being led in handcuffs.

Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism

January 18, 2014

Southwestern Photojournalism Conference

Another one I need to get to … target=”_blank”>Feb. 28 – March 2 in Fort Worth, Texas, is the Southwestern Photojournalism Conference. Some target=”_blank”>pretty cool speakers lined up for this year.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

January 18, 2014

Festival for Young Photographers

I’m not young, but target=”_blank”>I still want to go to the 4th Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalists. It’s five days in June in Hanover, Germany. From their email … From the 18th to the 22nd of June 2014, the organizers of the festival – the study program Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Hanover, along...

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

January 14, 2014

Creating Sustainability

target=”_blank”>Wonderful infographic by Fotoseeds walks you through the process of moving from amateur to professional … and whether you should.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

January 13, 2014

Capa in Color

Catching up over the weekend I came across a collection of Robert Capa images on CNN’s photo blog. There are lots of Capa portfolios online, but this one was unique – it’s post-war color work. It’s a small set of image, but if you think about the level of expertise to produce them at that point in time, well …...

Good Work/Photojournalism