December 18, 2013 The Photograph Is Only the Beginning Great Proof piece with Marcus Beasdale at National Geographic. What a fantastic series. Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
December 18, 2013 On Multiple Meanings Great piece by Linda Holmes at NPR about Apple’s new holiday commercial and what it means to be disconnected from reality and engaged with technology. A lot to ponder there. Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
December 18, 2013 Why Allen Loves Photography A year or two ago, I got really lucky when Allen Murabayashi agreed to come speak to my kids here in Athens. He’s wicked smart, has more energy than a nuclear reactor and cares, deeply and passionately, about photography. He’s the kind of guy I really want to hang around with. Over at PhotoShelter, he’s posted his 54 Reasons to... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
December 17, 2013 WHNPA Eyes of History Student Contest Opens The White House News Photographers Association’s Eyes of History competition has a student component and you can enter through Jan. 26, 2014. If you want to get your work in front of some of the top people in the industry, this is a pretty good way … There is an entry fee, so be wary of entering too much. Categories Competitions/Photojournalism
December 15, 2013 Once Around Neat piece by The New York Times’ Todd Heisler of a walking tour around Manhattan – 30 miles in a day. How many other places could do a piece like this? Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
December 14, 2013 The End of (These) Times As I am trying to wrap up this semester (still have gigabytes to go …), I really want to start thinking about what we’ll be doing next semester. Before I can do that, though, there’s a little physical and virtual cleaning around the office spaces that needs to get done. Over at ProfHacker, Natalie Houston’s post on 12 Ways to... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Thoughts & Theory
December 12, 2013 PhotoShelter Webinat on Archiving and Metadata PhotoShelter is offering a free webinar on Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 4 p.m. on archiving and metadata, something we all need to pay a lot of attention to. Go register. From the blurb: In this webinar you’ll learn: • 3 great techniques to make image archiving easier & faster • The power of using image metadata • Free tools you... Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
December 12, 2013 Yet More on Visual News Releases Santiago Lyon, vice president and director of photography for the Associated Press, has an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the current White House administration’s restrictive access policies to the president. If it feels like I’m posting about this all the time, it’s probably because I am – and because everyone needs to be aware of it. The... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
December 10, 2013 Shooting in a White Out I’ve done this and it is … entertaining? Over at Pop Photo, Stan Horaczek interviews Michael Perez about covering the Detroit-Philadelphia game on Sunday. This made me laugh: For all of the first quarter and most of the second quarter it was a near whiteout. The AF was getting fooled a lot. I was trying everything. I tried matrix focus,... Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
December 10, 2013 Epic Pictures of an Epic Place Before I headed to the Grand Canyon last year, I was told it’s an epic place and impossible to make a photograph of that conveys it. They were right. But this set of photos from The Atlantic shot by the National Park Service’s Erin Huggins and Erin Whitaker are pretty mind blowing. Now I want to try again … Categories Good Work/Photojournalism