Blackfish Wins and more Visual News – Around the Lens Podcast Episode 17
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/126783/Around%20the%20Lens%20-%20Episode%2017%20-%20Jose%20Alvarado.mp3 This week’s episode featured panelist Jose Alvarado. We discussed Sea World and their changes recently in response to the documentary Black Fish, social media in the age of visual journalism and a cool device from Syrp that allows for timelapse that rotate over time. For our picks of the week we chose fun St. Patrick’s day photos, velcro and the pressure of Sierra Mardre. We also talked about a few documentaries to include Supersize Me, Chasing Ice and the Cove. Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes or YouTube, or via our direct feed, follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. Watch…
Around the Lens Podcast 14 – We Enter The Time Machine
This week’s show featured photojournalists Stacy Pearsall and Ben Weller. We spoke about the recent controversial Valentino ad campaign featuring photography by renowned photographer Steve McCurry. During our Gear Talk segment we discussed the new Canon 80D and its new lens which features a power zoom add on. Then we took a theoretical time machine and gave younger selves career advice. Finally, we took a Reddit question about photojournalism and discussed how we overcome visual blocks. Picks of the Week: Stacy promoted a model release app for the iPhone and Nikon action cameras. Ben promoted the pants he likes to wear while…
Around The Lens Podcast – Photography, News and more
It’s not often that you hear from the people that make the photos and video that go along with the news stories that you read. Photojournalists are a relatively silent group, usually loners (like me) who drop in take their shots and get out to file with their news organization as soon as possible. The few times you even read what we’re thinking come in the form of one or two sentence captions at the bottom of photos. We never get invited on talk shows to get asked how we feel, or what we saw… even though we’re usually the…
A Call To Cameras – More Photographers needed in Indy Media
I was on the Matthew Filipowicz Show last week discussing the need for independent media to have professional photographers on staff. On Matt’s show I discuss why news groups having access to a photographers back catalogue and being able to look at a wider edit of photos is intrinsic to being able to analyze events and stories. Please check it out at his site. http://matthewf.net