March 12, 2008 Baseball Shooter ESPN has a nice piece up on Gregg Forwerck who shoots for Topps baseball cards. Not very technical, but a nice profile. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
December 26, 2007 Sports Shooter Academy V – March 5-9 Passing this along … I’ve heard from several people that this is well worth your time and money to attend … SPORTS SHOOTER ACADEMY V SET FOR MARCH 5 – 9, 2008 Sports Shooter Academy V will be held March 5-9, 2008 in Orange County, California. This hands-on, 5-day shooting workshop will have the “best schedule of events ever,” according... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
December 26, 2007 Carolina Sports Photojournalism Workshop This has been sitting on my to-post list for a while, but back in November, the University of North Carolina hosted a sports photojournalism workshop. Images from the weekend are posted online for your perusal. Additionally, they have a blog where they’re posting content from class shoot-offs. I like this idea and, if there’s interest, think we’ll incorporate it into... Categories Competitions/Good Work/Photojournalism
December 18, 2007 Flash Duration File under Geek Alert … some of what you need to know about flash duration and sports photography, courtesy of Shawn Cullen over at SportsShooter.com. Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk
November 19, 2007 It Pays to Reedit Sometimes. Other times, it just annoys you. But after shooting what will probably be my last football game of the season on Saturday, I sent my 18 photos out to my clients and headed home. Sitting on the couch Sunday evening, I poked through again, just to see what else was in there. Sometimes, you find nothing. Sometimes, you shake... Categories Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism
November 9, 2007 Sports Portfolio – John Biever Okay, aside from this being basically an ad for (our excellent and truly supportive friends at) Canon, Sports Illustrated’s gallery of photos by John Biever is worth wandering through. Categories Good Work/Photojournalism
October 17, 2007 Stop Talking About Gear And start thinking about how to use it better. Ken Rockwell, who has a ton of information on his site about cameras and lenses, wrote a diatribe a while back about why the camera you use doesn’t matter. Some of his analogies are weak, but this one always rings true: We all know how to play the piano: you just... Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
October 7, 2007 UGA Photojournalism Students at Petit Le Mans On Saturday, October 6, 13 University of Georgia photojournalism students headed out to Brasleton, Ga., for the 10th Annual Petit Le Mans and the Second Annual Motorsports Photojournalism Workshop. What? Yep, for the second year Grady College students spent a day covering the ten-hour (or 1000 miles) sports car race sanctioned by the American Le Mans Series. Three editors worked... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism
September 25, 2007 For the Sports Shooters Slots still available for the SportsShooter Academy Boot Camp in early November. Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Photojournalism
September 10, 2007 Great Relief – Rugby Photo Boycott Lifted I spotted this just recently and was about to blog it … but it all seems to be settled now. Not sure what some of those terms mean, though … Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism