THIS IS IMPORTANT TO READ

Eric Maierson's post over at the MediaStorm blog is money.

Read it.

Print it out.

Read it again.

Then tape the last tip on the base of your monitor and read it every time you sit down at the computer.

Slideshow video app for Mac

If you don't have Soundslides or Final Cut and don't like iMovie you can use this free program, Slideshowmovie, to build quick and easy slideshows to be exported as a video file.

There's a ton of free apps on the Apple Downloads site.

Thursday, May 7

Kingsley's Crossing on MediaStorm by Olivier Jobard - The commitment and ethics of the six-month journey documenting illegal immigration in Africa and Europe.

:: Inciting change and becoming a part of the story ::

Nachtwey's XDRTB.org images
Preston Gannaway's "Remember Me" Pulitzer winning project

:: As you go forward ::

Thoughts and advice from the Magnum Photogs - download the PDF
Remember that making "good stuff" is worth more. Technology won't alter quality.


Some of you might remember the painter in Civic Center Park, Clyde Steadman. He sent me an email the other day, this was a part of his note to me:

So often photographs merely say "I was there" and nothing more. This makes me a little peevish as a painter, since so much of the artistic work is done by the painter at his easel. A painter in a photo establishes that someone thinks there is some aesthetic value to a scene, in a sense transforms the scene. When I paint a trash bin in an alley, folks walking by look at the alley differently. Someone with a camera taking a picture of me in the alley rarely adds anything. It might be a work of art to set up a shot like that, to bring a model to a trash bin in an alley. The distinction is the creative vision, it makes the difference between something created and something stolen.

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