September 4, 2013 If You’re in the Executive Portrait Business … Well, you now have an app as competition. Not sure you have a lot to worry about … yet. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
September 3, 2013 Great Community Journalism Every newspaper does the football previews, how many do a special section on the bands? Now I want to teach a summer session class that focuses on covering marching band camp … (Thanks to AJ Reynolds for the link.) Categories Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism
September 3, 2013 Vandalization Through Colorization A few folks have sent me a link to a site that has colorized versions of iconic black and white images. I have resisted commenting or posting because … well … I don’t know that I could properly explain my feelings toward them. Over the weekend, though, Michael Johnston did a pretty good job with it over at The Online... Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 30, 2013 Bad Caption Leads to Termination Over at the NPPA site, Donald Winslow has the story on how a “misidentified” image lead to the termination of a photographer’s contract. It is not made clear what the misidentification was, but I bet you can read between the lines. Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism
August 30, 2013 125 Years of National Geographic Photography I love it when someone else uses one of my all-time favorite photos – feels like validation. And that’s how I make a New York Times’ Lens blog entry about an exhibit of National Geographic work about me. Who wants to go to Los Angeles to see 501 great images? Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
August 29, 2013 Residents versus Renters The New York Times’ Shaila Dewan and Mac William Bishop have a video story up that looks at the influx of renters into formerly residential communities in the Memphis, Tennessee, area. It’s pretty well shot, but this is an idea every journalist should honor because it is very easily localized. As homes were foreclosed upon, a lot of them were... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory/Video
August 28, 2013 SCOTUSblog Event The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will be hosting a one-day event that focuses on the Peabody Award winning SCOTUSblog. Scheduled for Monday, Sept. 9, in the auditorium of the Special Collections Library, the event will kick off at 8:45 a.m. and is open to the public. Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism
August 28, 2013 The Unforgettable Photograph It’s not often an promo video gets me excited about a book, but this one by George Lange is doing it. I suspect this isn’t about journalism, maybe more about journaling with a camera. Either way, it has me interested. Unforgettable Photograph by George Lange from George Lange on Vimeo. It’s the process of stopping and saying, ahhh, this is... Categories Craft/Photojournalism
August 27, 2013 In Defense of Photojournalism Nice piece by Holly Bailey at Yahoo! News about the Visa pour l’Image festival of photojournalism. Love this quote by founder Jean-François Leroy: “If you are a photographer, you rarely make a picture by accident. You are working, you are making inquiries, you worked to find your subjects, you worked to get into the position where you could make that... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
August 27, 2013 PhotoShelter Webinar on Photo Licensing FYI, PhotoShelter has a free webinar this afternoon titled How to Balance Protecting and Selling Your Photos in the Digital Age, hosted by ASMP President Richard Kelly. You need to register, runs at 4 p.m. Eastern. I think they usually archive these in case you miss it. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism