Visual Journalism – Page 90 – Notes from aside the camera

May 8, 2013

Adobe Moving to Full Subscription Model

The news came out a few days ago that Adobe will not release a seventh iteration of its Creative Suite software, instead moving to a subscription model called Creative Cloud. And then my email, Twitter, RSS and Facebook accounts all exploded with rage about how THOSE GREEDY BASTARDS DON’T UNDERSTAND I NEED TO PIRATE THEIR SOFTWARE SO I CAN DO...

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Tech Talk

May 5, 2013

Building Connections

The International Center of Photography has announced their Infinity Awards recognizing outstanding achievements in photography. Eight awards were given and MediaStorm produced films on each of the winners. David Guttenfelder’s is a great look into how his work out of North Korea has come about. If you mouse over the right side, you can see the play list and watch...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Competitions/Craft/Photojournalism

May 4, 2013

John Tlumacki Talks About the Marathon Bombing

From a few days ago, but worth a few minutes of your time …

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

May 3, 2013

We’re Done

It’s a little past 5 p.m. and I’ve just closed up the Photo Cave. Spring semester 2013 is essentially done. Well, except for the grading. And conducting exit interviews early next week. And then I’ll start teaching a Maymester class in a little over 10 days … still, the first-semester students have pixel-peeped and clicked their way through final projects...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism

May 3, 2013

Look3 Festival

One of these summers, I’m going to make the run up to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Look3 photo festival I’ve never heard anything but praise for this … and I always have a conflict, it seems. I need to put it on my 2014 calendar … (Thanks to Justin Ide for the reminder.)

Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism

May 2, 2013

When the Drone Becomes the Story

We joke about launching a Drone Journalism program here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and, if we ever did (we won’t), I suppose we’d have to have an ethics and/or business class to deal with what happens when your drone crashes into Lady Justice. (Thanks to Doral Chenoweth for the link.)

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 29, 2013

U.S. Army to Reduce Photobombing

This has almost nothing to do with the war, but … the U.S. Army’s deputy commander of the Public Affair’s Office wants to get soldiers to stop “photobombing” images because of the cost – roughly $125. Annually. Of course, the real cost is to the seriousness and importance of these images, but to put a price on it seems a...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 29, 2013

All’s Quiet in the Courts

Had I been a little smarter when I was a shooter, I bet I could have convinced my bosses that they had to buy me Leica M rangefinders when they sent me to court. According to a Michael Zhang article at PetaPixel, several states use the Leicas as the standard for sound. The video is kind of cool, but a...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 26, 2013

Mexico’s Portrait

Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, Damien Cave has a review of a new book out that looks at the history of portraiture in Mexico. There are modern and vintage photos, individuals and families. It’s days like this that I think I need to increase my book budget … Mexican Portraits is available from Aperture for $72.25.

Good Work/Photojournalism

April 24, 2013

Simple vs. Small

Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, Whitney Richardson has a story up about Paul Kwilecki and his photographs of Decatur County, Georgia. Well worth a read and a walk through the gallery. But it raises a couple of question that, probably, only I can answer … why did Mr. Kwilecki reach out to Duke University to help with...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory