Visual Journalism – Page 93 – Notes from aside the camera

April 8, 2013

LUCEO Student Project Award

Info is now up on the 2013 LUCEO Student Project Award competition. The winner gets $1,000 and a year’s worth of mentoring from the group. And that last part is probably worth more than the first part …

Advice & Learning/Competitions/Photojournalism

April 6, 2013

UGA VJ Alums Win All the Things

Word filtered out yesterday that two alums from my program here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication sort of, well, won all of the things in the Georgia Press Association’s January clip contest. Sara Caldwell, a 2011 grad, and Jon-Michael Sullivan, a 2010 grad, are both on staff at the Augusta Chronicle and about...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Competitions/Photojournalism

April 5, 2013

Save One or Save Many?

Donna Ferrato talks about the images of domestic violence made by Ohio student Sara Lewkowicz, and you have to read into the comments. In the comments, someone using the handle union fan takes Lewkowicz to task for shooting and not helping, something that may seem like an obvious choice. It’s a hard choice, but I’d side with the photographer on...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 5, 2013

Presidential Propaganda

Over at the National Journal, Ron Fournier takes aim at the limited press access being granted by the White House. Again, for those not following along, “news” delivered by the White House is not journalism. Information, yes, but not journalism. There will be a test at the end of the semester on this. (Thanks to Susan Walsh for the link.)

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

April 4, 2013

NPPF Scholarship Deadline Approaching

Less than two weeks now until the application dealing for the National Press Photographers Foundation scholarships. You could score $2,000 – why not try?

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 4, 2013

Celebrating 50 Years of the Instamatic

Tom Tobin of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has the story of the fiftieth anniversary of Kodak’s Instamatic, the camera many said changed the shape of photography. The camera, all modern plastics and elegantly simple, launched the first really successful cartridge based film system that eliminated the, ahem, “hassle” of loading film into a camera. The square format lasted for...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 3, 2013

Choosing Your News Source

Technology has changed the way many of us learn information. Used to be, you went to the library or turned to the news. One was old and out of date, the other was in a big building downtown. (Insert rimshot, which one of my students now keeps loaded on her laptop during class … I love these kids.) We do...

Business & Industry/Craft/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 3, 2013

Mini Micro Stock?

The must-read blog, A Photo Editor, put up a post yesterday that is not an April Fool’s Day joke about Getty Images sending out a note regarding sub-penny royalty payments. Reaction 1 – A joke, right? Must be. Reaction 2 – How in the world are they licensing images for less than a penny? Reaction 3 – Taken from the...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 1, 2013

Don’t Play Dumb

I think I want every one of my students to read Peter Iglinski’s Poynter piece on avoiding science writing mistakes. Especially number seven – nothing drives me crazier than when a student closes their $2,000 laptop and puts down their smartphone and says, “Computers and me just don’t get along …”

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

March 31, 2013

New Tascam DSLR Audio Recorder

This looks very, very cool – Tascam is introducing a new audio recorder to mount under DSLR cameras. It has all the bells and whistles and a price that puts it below a lot of the others out there. Wantwantwant. (Thanks to David Simpson for the link.)

Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video