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The death of newspapers doesn’t mean the end of journalism
Last week I stood in front of a convention of high school journalists and told them a career in journalism was still a solid prospect. I bit neither my lip nor tongue as I said this. For most in the...
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Ten ways to make your photos better
As more and more word journalists learn to produce multimedia, I thought I’d share my top ten list of ways to make your photos better. I give a copy to each of my Intro to Photojournalism students to...
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Will the touch tablet save professional journalism?
Someone should just put a deadbolt on my laptop lid. When I peruse my Twitter feed I see nothing but scary newspaper industry news, which flows like a river of red ink across my pixels. Reading too...
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Looking back at the state of newspaper multimedia in 2009
It’s been a challenging year on the multimedia front. Many newspapers retrenched by refocusing their limited resources back on traditional print products and away from online innovation. This is in...
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Mastering Multimedia useful tips roundup
Many of may old posts that deal with tips about how to do video storytelling and audio slideshows get linked on a lot of blogs used by college professors who teach digital media classes. Most of these...
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Photojournalism in the age of the Internet
I’ve been working on a presentation I will give next month called “Photojournalism in the age of the Internet.” In the process, I’ve been thinking a lot about how much photojournalism has changed for...
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I do have the coolest job ever!
A slap upside the head always comes when you least expect it. “You have the coolest job ever,” said a hockey fan standing behind me admiring one of my photos at the Spokane Arena last night. I was on...
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Video at newspapers needs to improve
I was disappointed after this year’s NPPA Best of Photojournalism Multimedia Contest results were posted . In the News Video category, I won an honorable mention. Great! That’s until I realized my...
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Feedback website “Finding the Frame” launches
Finding the Frame, a website dedicated to giving feedback to newspaper multimedia producers and video journalists has launched. My post in Mastering Multimedia last month, “Video at newspapers needs...
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When Mount St. Helens came to (my) town
Thirty years ago on May 18, 1980, I was a senior in high school in Spokane, Washington. It was Sunday afternoon and I was still feeling the pain from a beer-induced hangover, you know, the only kind...
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Big picture galleries gaining acceptance at newspapers
Newspaper websites historically have never been photo friendly. In the first five years of the active Internet, most photos were compressed to a postage-stamped size of around 15k -30k. They had to in...
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The Nikon D3s is, like, WOW!
My new Nikon D3s arrived last Friday and I’m still kicking the tires. This camera is one bad boy. Yesterday, I set my ISO at 4000 and left it there for three photo assignments. ISO 4000 looks like 800...
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Producing Audio Slideshows with Final Cut Pro
In 2005, Joe Weiss released Soundslides, a killer audio slideshow production program that helped transition many newspaper photojournalists into the world of online multimedia. Audio slideshows soon...
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Photogene and iPad 2: Great tools for photojournalists
Sitting in a lawn chair outside the Spokane Apple Store last week, I pondered the absurdity of my week-long quest to buy an iPad 2. Arriving at 5 a.m. netted me the sixth spot in line and an eventual...
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Time to move to DSLR video
Being a Nikon shooter in a multimedia world has some disadvantages. In 2008, Nikon launched the D90, which was the first DSLR with the ability to shoot video as well as stills. The camera was rife with...
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What I learned shooting my first two DSLR video stories
In the past 24 hours I have produced two news videos that I shot for the first time with my Nikon D3s. The transition for me shooting DSLR video has been slow. I have been quite comfortable with my...
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Part 1: DSLR camera accessories-JuicedLink DT454 preamplifier
As I transition to shooting video stories with my DSLR camera, I have tried to mitigate the shortcomings of doing so. Truth is, a traditional video camera is so much easier to use. When I compare video...
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Tips on making a demo reel
Do you have a demo reel? I found this: Top 20 Tips for Creating A Successful Demo Reel on premiumbeat.com/blog Also, check out these cool examples of professional demo reels on Vimeo.
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Mistakes professional still photographers make when moving to video
Gail Mooney, over at the blog Journeys of a Hybrid, shares these mistakes still shooters inevitably make after they take the leap into the video storytelling game.
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Teaching video storytelling
Having just finished teaching a community college Intro to Documentary DV Production class, I’d thought I would share with you my formula for instructing students on how to shoot a video story in a way...
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