Sports – Page 4 – Visual Journalism

April 25, 2011

Rich Clarkson on His Own Sports Photography

Catching up on my photo blogs … another from the Denver Post with images and commentary from Rich Clarkson, arguably one of the two deans of sports photography over the last 50 years. Clarkson has probably trained more great sports shooters then everyone else combined.

Photojournalism

March 15, 2011

Whoa – Check Out This Sports Photo

Not much to say, but that’s a moment – both in what happened and catching it. Nice work, David Goldman. (Thanks to Michael Johnston at The Online Photographer for the link.)

Photojournalism

March 7, 2010

Best Seat in the House

A little late in posting this, but better than never … Sports Illustrated photographer Robert Beck was featured in a CNN.com article on covering the Vancouver Olympics.

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

September 11, 2009

Football, with a Twist

My good friend Scott Bryant at the Statesboro (Ga.) Herald sent along a link to an audio slide show he did on the first Georgia Southern game of the season. He said he’d been asked to get more fans into the paper and didn’t want to do just another gallery of cheering people. But what do you think? Does it...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

October 24, 2008

UGAPJs on AutoWeek.com

It took a bit of time, but AutoWeek magazine has posted an online gallery of images from our workshop at the Petit Le Mans. We’re starting to look like a real program …

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

October 20, 2008

Reuters at Beijing

Reuters has posted a video of its photojournalists talking about covering the Beijing Olympics. Runs just over six minutes in length, worth spending the time with.

Good Work/Photojournalism

August 20, 2008

NPR on Shooting at the Olympics

Short piece on how Michael Steele and Getty Images cover track events in Beijing.

Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 5, 2008

Joe McNally on Junk Piles and Herschel Walker

Over on Joe McNally’s blog, he talks about a workshop he was teaching and, at the tail end of it, is a little bit about shooting covers for national magazines, this one on UGA’s own Herschel Walker. Probably of more interest locally than non-locally …

Good Work/Photojournalism

March 27, 2008

THIS is TOO COOL

Here’s the scene: You’re a wire shooter, assigned to cover the European Swimming Championships. There’s a guy, Alain Bernard of France, who may set a record. So you know you’re concentrating on him. Of course, every other wire and agency photographer is going to focus in on this guy, how do you do it differently? Well, shoot it from underwater,...

Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 24, 2008

Al on Colleges Covering College Basketball

The Poynter Institute’s Al Tomkins put up a piece linking to how college newspapers are covering the NCAA tournaments. A little late for us here, but thinking about how to do this as future events unfold is a good idea. Say, the gymnastics championships … (And if you’re not reading Al’s Morning Meeting, what are you doing with your life?)

Multimedia/Photojournalism

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