Freelancing and photography
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under freelance
This says it all:
Via: The Freelance Switch Add it to your RSS feed if you have even the slightest of idea of going freelance. The site is much broader than photography, but the same principales apply.
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Joe McNally’s blog
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under lighting
If you’re into lighting at all you’ll enjoy yourself over at Joe McNally’s blog.
Photo by: Joe McNally
The Raw Take - Tim Clayton
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under inspiration, photojournalism
There’s a great interview with Tim Clayton of the Sydney Morning Herald at The Raw Take.
Raw Take is a place where people who think and care about photography talk. Deb Pang Davis and Mike Davis produce Raw Take from Portland, Oregon
Tim says a lot of great things:
The fact that we are rubbing shoulders with like-minded, passionate, dedicated people who live, eat, and breath photojournalism, who are all trying to improve and reach the next level just causes a feeding frenzy of knowledge and desire in a positive sense.
That quote reminds me so much of the environment at OU.
We are like most newspapers, run by word people for word people. Generally they want pictures for ten-year-olds and have little or no understanding of photojournalism at the top level.
Sad, but true of the papers here in the States too. There’s very few places that understand and respect the power of visuals.
What has actually happened is many photographers have evolved beyond the wants and needs of the newspaper. We are shooting stories that don’t get published and shooting personal projects to keep our brains stimulated. The ‘cat sat on the mat’ images pay the bills. In many ways it is a sad reflection of photojournalism today, there are so few places where top end photojournalism can be seen.
Jenn and I were actually talking about that the other day and I think it raises a significant point. Will our industry became nothing but grip and grins and to find our voice we have to explore only personal outlets?
A lot of the stuff I shoot is rarely with a paper in mind, which you can credit to my student status, but even as an intern I never felt as if I’m shooting for the paper. Maybe that’s wrong of me? I guess a lot of it is also the environment. The staff in Roanoke last summer was far more visually savvy than any paper I’ve been at. So in turn much of the credit must go there. I guess one of my biggest fears is having a newspaper suck the passion and life right out of me.
Photography is a universal language. You have to read it every day, and speak it every day and learn it every day. Your passion for photography has to flow through your veins, you have to be driven by a V8 turbo inside you.
Date other photographers who are equally passionate, nobody else will understand and your relationship will be doomed!
Thanks Jenn!
Tim says a lot of great stuff. Go check it out along with the other interviews Mike and Deb have done with Vincent J. Musi and John Moore
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The happy and angry journalist
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under journalism
For those days when your layered moment gets cropped into a headshot there’s the angry journalist.
And for those days when you land a double truck in National Geographic(it’s good to dream.) there’s the happy journalist.
Tags: blog, journalism
The Panoramist
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
Gary O’Brien of The Charlotte Observer has started a new blog called The Panoramist I’m not much into panos myself, but I could see this working nicely into my multimedia project next quarter at OU.
Gary links to pdfs of handouts from his talk at The Flying Short Course this fall that may come in handy for those of you like me that have no idea where to start when it comes to panos.
Tags: blog, photography, photojournalism
