Visual Journalism – Page 82 – Notes from aside the camera

July 29, 2013

Stop What You’re Doing, Do Something Else

Eric Maierson over at MediaStorm put up a post about getting better at storytelling. Several good ideas embedded in here, some of which have more to do with changing yourself than your subject matter. Going forward, I want to challenge the notion that the only way to do things is the way I’ve done them in the past. Yes, there...

Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

July 26, 2013

Well, They Got Something Right …

When an Asiana Airlines jet crashed during landing in San Francisco earlier this month, it was major news for fairly obvious reasons. Unfortunately, in an effort to be first (and not be RIGHT), KTVU aired the names of the four crew member son the cockpit as soon as it had “confirmed” them. The “confirmation,” it turned out, came from an...

Journalism/Video

July 26, 2013

NPPA Short Grants Now Taking Applications

From the release: The National Press Photographers Association is pleased to announce the 2013 Short Grants program, six grants of $3,000 each that will be awarded to support photojournalists who are creating compelling picture stories in their communities. The grant is designed for funding projects small enough in scale that the bulk of the work can be accomplished in two...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 26, 2013

Next Generation Video Storytelling Workshop

The National Press Photographers Foundation has opened registration for the 2013 Next Generation Video Storytelling Workshop. This year’s even runs from September 13-15 and is at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. Lots of good people on the program.

Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

July 26, 2013

Out of Eden

National Geographic’s John Stanmeyer has a series of posts up on a story he’s working on that go into the details of what it takes to complete this type of work. Egads. It takes a lot of effort to kill a Toyota Land Cruiser, so to take out several of them … on one assignment … when you’re not in...

At Work/Photojournalism

July 25, 2013

Brand New 200 Year Old Lenses

I know this isn’t aimed at me in any way, shape or form, but you can now contribute to an already-funded Kickstarter project to reproduce mid 19th century Petzval lenses. They look pretty cool and if I wanted a semi-unique way to do a portrait series I’d probably go down this path. Why “semi-unique?” They wanted to raise $100,000 to...

Tech Talk

July 25, 2013

Go Walk Your Newsroom

Jack Limpert writes about his days working in the Detroit UPI newsroom. Which got me thinking about my days in my last newsroom, which was almost as archaic as what he recalls. It does give us a good lesson – you don’t learn much from a screen. Sure, there’s information on a screen, but not a lot of knowledge. As...

At Work/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 25, 2013

Hasselblad’s In Space

Over at Wired.com, Adam Mann has the story behind the Hasselblad cameras that NASA used during Mercury and Apollo missions, including a few details I didn’t know. There’s also a link to all of the photos shot during all of the Apollo missions – an amazing collection of public domain images. (Thanks to Doug Greene for the link.)

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 24, 2013

Crowdsource THIS!

If I were to ever depart academia, one of my first stops would be the Chicago Tribune because I really want to work with Alex Garcia. Today, on his Assignment Chicago blog, he put together a grid of about 300 photos the staff there shot. Last week. Yep, just one week’s worth of images. Go look, go read. You can’t...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 24, 2013

The Ten Most Expensive Photographs

I … well … I don’t get art. There’s just no other way to deal with it for me – what gets collected doesn’t make any sense to me. Take a look at Gizmodo’s collection of the ten highest priced photographs and let me know what you think. (Thanks to Mickey Osterreicher for the link.)

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