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The Platinum Beach Camper and Motorhome Hire Australia
With the selection that motorhome hire Australia gives you, the Platinum Beach motor home is surely going to leap out at you. For one thing, it’s one of the first choices that you’ll be able to see when you set the filters of your search for campers that sleep four or more people. It’s also the first motor home that works on automatic transmission. After reading that it’s a vehicle with 4 berths and 4 seats, you can click on … Continue reading
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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 limitations. Without an audio mic jack, you could not use an external microphone to gather quality sound. The Motion JPEG codec the D90 recorded in was a nightmare for Final Cut Pro to deal with. My newspaper bought two of these cameras on release. … Continue reading
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 posts are buried amongst my pontifications about the changes facing the newspaper industry. So for anyone interested, here is a roundup of my best multimedia suggestions and useful tip posts in one place… How to make your audio slideshows better Great audio starts … Continue reading
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 newspaper photojournalists. With the rise of the Internet, traditional photojournalists have been faced with a dilemma. Stay a purist to the craft by clinging to their still cameras or embrace the change by venturing out into the online world by adding video and audio to their storytelling … Continue reading
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 deadline preparing to transmit my pictures of a blowout Spokane Chiefs hockey game back to the paper when those six words stopped me cold. “You have the coolest job ever.” Up until that utterance, I’d beg to differ. It had been … Continue reading
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 video was the only award given in the category. What gives? This is the second year in a row I’ve placed in this News Video category. Last year I received a second place, but no third was given. This troubles me. Not because I didn’t place higher, but because the judges didn’t see … Continue reading
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 to improve,” resonated with many people. I received lots emails from producers who vented their frustration at not being able to get feedback on their multimedia stories. After a brainstorming session over a few beers, Brian Immel, a former multimedia producer and programmer at The Spokesman-Review, graciously agreed to build a … Continue reading
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 you can get when your best friend Russ throws an “End of High School” party for the senior class. I grabbed a cup of coffee and went out on Russ’s front porch. Glancing up at the sky, I was perplexed by what I … Continue reading
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 those promising days of 28K modems, where one oversized graphic element would bring a homepage to a screeching halt. I think many photojournalists gave the early Web a big thumbs down as a place to display their work. At my newspaper, us photojournalists’ collectively shrugged our shoulders … Continue reading