August 25, 2013 A Passionate Plea for Practice Documentary photographer John Free on why you have to practice photography just like anything else. (Picked up from PetaPixel.) Categories Craft/Photojournalism
August 25, 2013 Learning to Shepherd Every manager I’ve reported to over the last quarter century has helped me become who I am, as both an employee and a person. Many have guided me towards better paths, towards self-learning or self-realizing. Some have guided me towards fits of rage, but even in those moments I have learned. Most of my industry career was spent as someone... Categories Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
August 24, 2013 Reuters Dropping North American Sports Coverage Reuters has begun letting their contract photographers know they will no longer be covering sports in North America effective September 15 according to an article by Donald Winslow on the National Press Photographers Association’s web site. Reuters subscribers will then see images from USA Today Sports Images. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism
August 22, 2013 The Unseen Editors The New York Times’ Lens blog is taking a look at the picture editors behind some of the great photojournalists. We all see the names on the credit lines, but so much of the great work out there was inspired, cultivated and promoted by unknown editors – really happy they are doing this project. (Part two is here.) This is... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
August 21, 2013 Introvert or Extrovert? Which side of the vert do you fall on? And does it matter? Perhaps … over at The Online Photographer, Michael Johnston takes a look at that idea. Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
August 20, 2013 Time for New Ethical Standards? A colleague, Barry Hollander, pointed me to this piece on PBS’ MediaShift where Stephen Ward argues that we cannot modify our traditional journalism ethics codes, we must tear them down and build new ones. Go read it, then have your blood pressure taken and come back here … Among other items, I take issue with this: Ethics of interpretation and... Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism
August 19, 2013 Behind the Lion Story National Geographic’s Michael Nichols and Nathan Williamson were on CBS This Morning to talk about their latest feature on the lions of Africa and some of the technology they used. I wanted way more on the tech, but that’s me being a geek … (Thanks to Andrew Smith for the link.) Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
August 19, 2013 Where Bad Photos Go So, where does bad student photography and painting end up? According to the TV show Portlandia, coffee shops … (Thanks to Hilary Maloney for the link.) Categories Good Work/Thoughts & Theory
August 18, 2013 Protecting Journalism, not Journalists Over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Morgan Weiland looks at the latest version of the Senate’s federal shield law and points out some of the problems with it. The big one is simple – journalism is what needs to be protected, not the journalists who commit the acts. All of the proposed legislation right now seems to be aimed at... Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism
August 17, 2013 Dangerous Drones Many photojournalists are hired to use their skills for weddings and such, which is a good thing. We tend to be good under pressure, flexible and willing to try something new. That’s not always a good thing as one wedding photographer decided to offer a drone video as part of his package … before he learned how to fly it. Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk