Mr Smith’s Peach Seeds – a short documentary shot on DSLR by Stewart Copeland
Guest post by Stewart Copeland One year ago, I came across a picture of Roger Smith, showing him towering over his diorama of a baseball stadium. Spectators lined the balsa wood bleachers and players covered the felt field. Each person – there were more than a hundred in all – was meticulously carved from the...
‘Inside the story’ – Charity E-book aims to be a masterclass in digital storytelling
By Adam Westbrook What does it take to tell remarkable stories on the web? It’s always been a bit of a mystery to me. Some films, slideshows and websites rack up tens of thousands of hits in a week, while others seemingly go unnoticed. What isn’t a mystery is how important good storytelling is. Although...
‘West Away’, a short DSLR film about the search for unridden waves in remote South Australia
Guest post by Mark Tipple Ocean : West Away from Mark Tipple on Vimeo. The idea behind West Away: A number of years ago I used to meet up with my friends Mike and Luke in various remote parts of the country to spend a week surfing, camping in the dirt and telling stories; then...
NAB 2012: Vincent Laforet on judging the World Press Photo multimedia competition
By site editor Dan Chung: I took the opportunity today to speak to photojournalist turned film director Vincent Laforet about the issues around this year’s World Press Photo Multimedia competition. Laforet was the jury chair for the competition and his comments come after criticism from many in the newspaper video industry of the criteria the...
NAB 2012: Dslrnewsshooter panel on ENG shooters ‘Going large’ with Philip Bloom, Den Lennie, Rick Macomber and Matt Allard
By site editor Dan Chung: This is a recording from the last dslrnewsshooter live panel at NAB 2012. I am joined by former and current ENG news shooters Philip Bloom, Den Lennie, Rick Macomber and Matt Allard to discuss how large sensor cameras have helped each of them further their careers. We also talk about...
BBC Panorama use Canon 5D mkII to shoot ‘Homs: Journey into hell’ – an interview with cameraman Fred Scott
Guest post by Christian Parkinson of imagejunkies.com In March I was able to watch the BBC Panorama film called ‘Homs: Journey into hell’ fronted by Reporter Paul Wood and shot by top BBC Cameraman Fred Scott. It was an amazingly strong and powerful piece of film making that also stood out for its use of...
Small Town Newspaper Succeeding by Prioritizing Photojournalism
Glance through the winners list of this year’s prestigious Photography of the Year International awards, and one newspaper may jump out at you: the Dubois County Herald. The small town newspaper doesn’t even have its own Wikipedia article, but its photography has it placed next to big names like the The New York Times, and...
Multimedia practioners reactions to the 2012 World Press Photo multimedia awards
By site editor Dan Chung Last week I sent out a series of emails to friends and acquaintances from the world of photojournalism and multimedia asking them for their reactions to this year’s World Press Photo multimedia awards (originally reported here). I know them all but I didn’t pick them because they adhere to any...
DUTCH PRODUCTION ‘AFRIKANER BLOOD’ WINS FIRST PRIZE IN WORLD PRESS PHOTO MULTIMEDIA CONTEST
By DJ Clark Dan Chung and I attended online roundtables with three of the WPP judges yesterday to discuss the judging process of this year’s contest and some of the issues that arose. Below is the official press release, more discussion to come soon on the blog. The international jury of the 2nd World Press...
Tsunami one year on – by Al Jazeera’s Matt Allard
By technical editor Matt Allard The Invisible Enemy from Matthew Allard on Vimeo. Over the past twelve months, I have spent more than 150 days in Japan covering the initial earthquake and tsunami and the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, which continues to haunt the country today. I was back this time to cover...
TV News shooters can turn their hand to more than just news
By Rick Macomber It’s no secret. TV Photojournalists have known it for years and so have the clients who hire them to produce, direct and shoot corporate videos, promotional films and documentaries: Most good DPs with a solid background as seasoned photojournalists can pull a story together with little effort. And they seem to do...
Fearless French Photojournalist Reveals the Horror in Homs
A French photographer who goes by the pseudonym Mani was recently in Homs, Syria documenting the urban warfare between government forces and rebel fighters. The video above, broadcast by Channel 4 News in Britain, shows the amazing footage Mani was able to capture by fearlessly putting himself in the midst of skirmishes. While the world...
