Sometimes I have a theme for the day or I’ve been searching for some specific things, but today a bunch of really different things just seem to come my way. Here we go!
Here’s a cool article about a new software package that allows you to focus the picture after you have taken it! This will [...]
The Chinese National News Agency faked a photo in photoshop (most likely) of a group of antelope running near an elevated train track. Of course this has set off a new round of photo ethics debates. But as a teachable moment, this breakdown of the fake makes a great photo lesson.
Bonus for the day is [...]
This is the web site for the 2nd Annual Masters Cup International Photography Contest. The site has a great section of photojournalism pictures. They range from the dark to the funny, war to children playing. The photos are compelling, interesting, well shot and action packed. It is a great 10-15 just looking through them.
I’ve known for a while what those in secondary and higher education are just now waking up to…that girls rule and boys drool. What I mean is that girls seem more interested in seriously learning something in school at a much higher percentage than boys do. I teach several media classes including Video [...]
As a media teacher I get all the weird requests for help. One of my fellow teachers on my hall teaches dance. She also happens to be a former student of mine and so it is hard to say no when she asks a favor. Most of my former students know that [...]
Here are some cool links as we sit around watching the death cage match that is presidential politics.
Making the Best of Bad Weather for photo – is a great post on why you should reach for the camera and maybe a plastic bag or two when the weather turns foul. I think I need [...]
Here’s a round up of recently found cool stuff on the web.
-Losing The Sticky Race: is a post about how newspapers seem to blame their readers for leaving and how they are not using the right metrics to gauge their online audience.
-Ten Things Journalists Can Do… is a great post about what journalists can and [...]
National Geographic magazine has a cool slide show of 13 great photo moments from both the US and Russian space programs. I think some of the lesser known shots from Venus and Titan are really cool. It is well worth the journey to check out sites few humans will ever see.
It is interesting watching the unwinding of top down journalism. The first casualty was one of the players already on the ropes – newspapers. Newspapers have been around for more than 200 years. Ever since the printing press, news sheets became a staple of the modern world. But as they grew into mega businesses, they [...]
This last week just seemed to be a week of stumbling across a stew of video links. The meat belonged to the DIY Film School at Filmlinker that has giant chunks of tasty tutorials. The site is bubbling over with useful tidbits. The potatoes come from Mediacollege.com which has a great site full of crispy, [...]
