Actual Pictures – Page 32 – Visual Journalism

June 8, 2007

Seadragon and Photosynth

Another video presentation from the TED conference earlier this year. A Microsoft initiative, Seadragon and Photosynth can link photos from different photographers of the same place to create hyper-real navigatible views of locations. (Video runs about eight minutes) Okay, so there are some copyright concerns here (they’re scraping photos out of Flickr), but the ability to recreate something lost based...

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June 7, 2007

Twins with Lukemia

Former student Andy McFee has spent the last six months interning at the Chattanooga Times Free Press (one of the best photojournalism internships in the country, but don’t bother applying – it’s only for UGA students …). He worked on a story looking twin boys who were diagnosed with leukemia a few weeks apart. It’s a simple presentation, and it...

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June 7, 2007

A Little Late for This Year …

But bookmark this site for next year – the Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Va. I’ll probably see you there …

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June 4, 2007

Respect at 40

The Detroit Free Press has put together a package looking at the 40th anniversary of the release of Aretha Franklin’s “Respect.” (Which was a cover of an Otis Redding song, which I did not know.) There are a lot of different sources in the main story – from her son to colleagues to academics. It flows fairly well, though (and...

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May 28, 2007

Sky Visions

NPR.org has a nice audio slideshow on Michael Collier, an ariel landscape photographer. The story that aired on Morning Edition has slightly different audio – including the reporter, Howard Berkes, talking about his air sickness patch. Both are worth a few minutes of your time.

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May 26, 2007

Light(ing) Snacks

There are time I miss shooting more than I can tell you, and it’s usually not the big stuff that I miss. Yeah, the championship games and neat places we get to go to are all cool, but it’s the simple stuff I miss. Sadly, I never worked for a newspaper that had a real studio. Which is okay, because...

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May 25, 2007

NYT Fashion Shoot

Ever wondered how the New York Times does a fashion shoot? Check out this three minute video …

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May 20, 2007

11 Tips for Landscape Photography

(Those coming into JOUR3710 pay attention here – your first few assignments will be on pictorials and all of this applies.) Over at The Digital Photography School, there’s a great post talking about landscape photography. Not journalism, but some of the tips apply to seeing something we can all work on. (Thanks to Brother Brian for the link.)

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May 7, 2007

Annie Leibovitz at Atlanta's High Museum

The High Museum in Atlanta has a special event for the opening of Annie Leibovitz’s new show, “Celebrating a Photographer’s Life,” this Friday, May 11. Tickets are only $250 … Or maybe you just want to go see the 175 photos that are on exhibit from May 12 through September 9. I know I do.

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April 23, 2007

VT Student Photojournalist's Images

In the chaos following last week’s shootings at Virginia Tech, police detained a photojournalist shooting for the campus paper. Shaozhuo Cui was detained for two hours and his equipment held for two days. Now, his story and photos are in Newsweek and posted online at MSNBC.com – including him talking about the events and a collection of other images shot...

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