By Mindy McAdams
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I came across this blog again recently — The Panoramist. Photographer Gary O’Brien links to and comments about panoramas he finds online.
Recent panos included View of Sarah Palin’s Speech, with audio (New York Times). It’s a nifty view from the peanut gallery at the convention, with a good view of some VERY long lenses!
O’Brien also [...]
Photo galleries tend to be popular with visitors to online news sites — so it’s common to see these featured at or near the top of the home page. Many local newspapers use wire photos — often ONLY wire photos — in these galleries. (I’m not sure that’s the best strategy, because I can go [...]
Nice idea (see it here):
The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com’s Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm’s MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery — with a [...]
You’ll laugh, gasp, and cry. This is always the best collection, in my opinion — all through December, I look forward to seeing it!
MSNBC.com 2007 Year in Pictures
Make sure your audio is on — the audio is wonderful.
Too many people in the journalism field still don’t get it: Great photography tells a story. And it sells the story too. Here’s an example of how it pays — yes, actually pays, in terms of bigger audiences — to understand that.
“D” is a local magazine for the Dallas - Fort Worth (Texas) area. Usually [...]
In a widespread breaking-news situation such as the recent fires in California, a lot of news organizations would like the public to send in photos, video and reports from the ground. A post at the Veeker blog describes how the Veeker platform made it easy for KNSD-TV (NBC San Diego) to manage 1,704 viewer-contributed pictures [...]
Layers magazine has an interesting article online about creating an online photography portfolio:
The Making of a Great Photography Website: Three Distinct Approaches
Have a look — it’s refreshing to see sites that veer away from the cookie-cutter approach. Matthew Mahon’s site is wonderful — quirky and very different. It’s too abstract to work for a photographer [...]
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