Visual Journalism – Page 90 – Notes from aside the camera

May 13, 2013

Saving Receipts

Every accountant will tell you to save, file and organize your receipts. The George Eastman House takes the cake, though – they have a receipt for a camera purchased in 1840 on file. One Samuel A. Bemis spent a total of $76 for a “daguerreotype apparatus” and 12 glass plates. Including shipping. That’s about $2,128 in today’s money, if you’re...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 8, 2013

That Tree

I had better not ever hear a student say there’s nothing worth photographing … The Denver Post’s Plog looks at a year’s worth of images by Mark Hirsch of the same tree. Yep, 365 photos of one tree, all shot on his phone.

Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

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