June 23, 2009 Night light Love this image by Scott Strazzante of the Chicago Tribune. Great light is everywhere … now I want to stalk downtown on a Friday. Categories Good Work
June 20, 2009 Ed Kashi: Three Ed Kashi has produced a new book, “Three,” of triptychs that span his career. The three-image panels don’t always relate, story-wise, but do flow very nicely. The New York Times‘ Lens blog has a selection of them, along with Kashi narrating the ideas behind the packaging. Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism
June 10, 2009 Branching out – Live Posters Far afield of what we tend to do in the photojournalism realm, but this mini-documentary shows how Alexx Henry used the Red One camera to shoot an entirely new form of movie poster. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X8dsUGCUjQ&hl=en&fs=1&] Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Tech Talk
June 9, 2009 "Chain of Life" – Video storytelling at its best My good friend Seth Siditsky at the Newark Star-Ledger sent along a link to his staff’s latest project – a look at a chain of kidney donors and recipients. It’s an amazing story, and one that works amazingly well in video. Spend the time watching it. Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video
June 9, 2009 The lost negative of "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" It took more than 57 years, but Rudy Mancuso is at last getting credit for his iconic 1951 image of the Giants winning the pennant. In a story for the Wall Street Journal, Joshua Prager talks about how the amateur photographer took the image, lost track of the negative and then had it returned shortly before his death. Categories Ethics & Legal/Good Work
June 8, 2009 The other side of Polaroids Many of you know that Polaroid has shut down production of its instant films – the days of those white bordered prints are seriously numbered. But there is another, lesser known, Polaroid film that has been a mainstay of photographers for years – Type 55, a 4 inch by 5 inch instant negative film. On the New York Times’s Lens... Categories Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk
June 6, 2009 David Burnett's look at D-Day veterans David Burnett is one of my heroes, and getting to meet him in person two years ago was a great moment for me. His passion for stories is admirable, but it’s his passion for telling ongoing stories I find most remarkable. He doesn’t shoot assignments, he tells stories – and sometimes those stories take years to unfold. Over on Time.com,... Categories Good Work
June 1, 2009 Can you out-shoot an eight-year-old? Maybe … maybe not. Take a look at this story and then ask yourself how does he do it? What do you see in his images that you don’t see in yours? Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work
May 18, 2009 Space Shuttle Silhouette I’ve been a space junkie since I was a kid. I don’t know why, but the space shuttles have always been something really cool. (And I really, really want to be in Florida for a launch …) So I’ve read some and looked at stuff and think I’ve seen a lot of photos – but the third image here just... Categories Good Work
May 7, 2009 NY Times Audio Slide Show on Layoffs Nicole Bengiveno of the New York Times takes a look at the person who has to make the layoff decisions and notifications. While the shooting is clean, it’s the interview that gets to you. It has no natural sounds, but it works – solemn, serious. Categories Audio/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk