Archive for September, 2009

Go check out Strobist: Music vid shot with flash (strobe)

Posted in Music, Photography on September 15th, 2009

David’s got an excellent bts (behind the scene) world debut video up at Strobist.com from the making of a Hypernova music video using a Canon 1Ds Mk III and the Profoto Pro-8a Air strobe.

Joe McNally’s video interview with Miki Johnson at Livebooks.com

Posted in Authors, Business, Journalism, Photography, Photojournalism on September 10th, 2009

Joe McNally with Miki Johnson of LiveBooks.com

Joe McNally with Miki Johnson of LiveBooks.com

In this video interview at Livebooks.com, photographer/author/lighting shaman, Joe McNally, talks about the role of his blog and the difference it makes in attracting new clients. Great information here for photographers from an outstanding photojournalist/teacher. Check out Joe’s blog.

One VC fund founder’s take on the future of reporting

Posted in Business, Journalism, News on September 4th, 2009

Tim Oren, managing director and co-founder of the Pacifica Fund, shared his thoughts on the future of reporting via his blog, Tim Oren’s Due Diligence: Letters From an Inhabited Dataspace.

As Yahoo and AOL morph into media companies that employ both reporters and editors, Oren makes some interesting points on the opportunities and the pitfalls of picking up where MSM is leaving off.