Actual Pictures – Page 31 – Visual Journalism

August 22, 2007

Smoky Mountain Stories

Friend and supporter Woody Marshall at the Macon Telegraph sent along a link to Smoky Mountain Stories – a collection of photo stories done last spring by University of North Carolina students. Worth spending some time on.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

August 21, 2007

What A Ride!

David Handschuh at the New York Daily News has a SoundSlides piece on a roller coaster club. This is done with the newer version of SS which allows pans and zooms, which I usually hate. (A.k.a. the Ken Burns effect), but here I don’t mind it quite so much. Make note of how clean and graphic the images are.

Good Work/Multimedia

July 24, 2007

When it all goes "Pear Shaped"

Covering huge events can be a logistical nightmare – access, equipment, technical problems. And then it can all go up in flames.

Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 24, 2007

Henry Wessel video

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a show on Henry Wessel and KQED has produced a short film of him talking about his work. (“Short” may be relative – it’s just under eight minutes in length.) (You’ll need the RealAudio player, worth it because the quality here is really nice.) Some of his work resonates with me, but...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

July 20, 2007

WaPo goes LoCo

Confused? Join most of the newspaper editors around the world. This week, Rob Curley (digital maven and massive bright spot to the news industry) launched LoudounExtra.com – the Washington Post’s (WaPo) new hyperlocal web site covering Loudoun County (LoCo) in northern Virginia. Curley’s the guy behind the Naples News site down in Florida where he went nuts building out massive...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 18, 2007

Shaina Fishman – Pet Photographer

Photo District News has a short piece up on an up-and-coming pet photographer in New York City. (Who happens to be a friend and fellow Syracuse alum.) Fishman has found a way to take what she knows in a direction few would go – and has been finding success at it.

Business & Industry/Good Work

July 17, 2007

Newsweek and the Bad Photo Editor

Every magazine photo editor (and newspaper and wire service editor, too) makes a mistake at some point in their life. At the bad end of the scale are the days when you doctor someone’s teeth or move a pyramid to fit a cover. But the other end of the scale can be just as damaging at times, when it’s minor...

Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Journalism/Thoughts & Theory

June 25, 2007

"That's going to leave a mark …"

Good journalism is good journalism. And when it involves killer flying fish, well, you just have to watch … (okay, not killer, but they could certainly maim you) Thanks to Poynter’s Al Tompkins for the link.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 15, 2007

Grady's (Visual) Anatomy

For the last week I’ve been elbow deep in high school kids. Everywhere I look, there’s another one. Which is okay, because this was the Georgia Scholastic Press Associations’ annual journalism camp – this year called “Grady’s Anatomy.” I’ve helped the GSPA with some workshops in the past, but I did the full tour this year, teaching ten students as...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

June 8, 2007

My Dream Job … Has Been Taken

There is one book that changed my life more than almost anything else. It convinced me to be a journalist, it reenforced my wandering habits. It taught me that good stories don’t come from good writers, they come from great subjects. William Least Heat Moon’s “Blue Highways” was loaned to me when I was a very impressionably 16-year-old and I...

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