A wonderful picture by Kayla Bowcutt, who is working with this farm family who near Centertown, Missouri.
Haley, 11, checks out an egg from one of their dozens of chickens. Haley and her sister Mallory collect the eggs every night before supper.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Country Fresh
A wonderful picture by Kayla Bowcutt, who is working with this farm family who near Centertown, Missouri.
Haley, 11, checks out an egg from one of their dozens of chickens. Haley and her sister Mallory collect the eggs every night before supper.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Bill Eppridge in Missouri
Bill Eppridge talked with our combined Picture Story classes and did an evening presentation. Jim Curley, MPW co-director and good buddy, made these pictures. Lessons learned from his visit? How to do research on stories, how to fully commit to doing the pictures that define, mean something, and how to follow through on completing a project.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Bill Eppridge will teach class Wednesday
Bill Eppridge will teach the two sections of Picture Story class next Wednesday, discussing his own evolution in multiple picture storytelling.
Photograph of Eppridge by Burton Berinsky; Photograph of Kennedy by Bill Eppridge/LIFE/Time Inc.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Getting started in 2009
Great start to the semester - look forward to the Anne Lamott book discussion by Kayla and Christine on Monday.
We'll also take a little time to share "tips" about working with a blog, in case some of you (like me) have questions. Melissa, how do you get your pictures to display so large? It's terrific!
--David r.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Toning and ethics
This is from the blog On the Other Side, and pertains to a discussion we had about toning and the ethics of the vignette. The following is just a tiny bit of the rich discussion that appears on the blog. Some good weekend food for thought:
"There is a very fine line with toning pictures. Software programs that most photographers use on a daily basis allow them to do some pretty crazy things. I went to journalism school right at the start of the digital age and essentially the end of using film on a daily basis. We mostly shot film, used a minilab to develop the film, and then scanned them into the computer and used a program like photoshop to slightly adjust the pictures.
There is also a gray area about what is ethical and what isn't. There are the biggies that are fundamental--like cloning someone/something in or out of your frame. But to me the big part of ethics has to do with intention and misleading. Statements like "If I can do it in a darkroom, it's okay" or "This is what the scene looked like to me" aren't good enough reasons. I've seen what used to be done in a darkroom ---and you can do some pretty drastic things.
This is why for me it comes down to the intent of the photographer, and whether or not it misleads the reader. "
Click here for more.
"There is a very fine line with toning pictures. Software programs that most photographers use on a daily basis allow them to do some pretty crazy things. I went to journalism school right at the start of the digital age and essentially the end of using film on a daily basis. We mostly shot film, used a minilab to develop the film, and then scanned them into the computer and used a program like photoshop to slightly adjust the pictures.
There is also a gray area about what is ethical and what isn't. There are the biggies that are fundamental--like cloning someone/something in or out of your frame. But to me the big part of ethics has to do with intention and misleading. Statements like "If I can do it in a darkroom, it's okay" or "This is what the scene looked like to me" aren't good enough reasons. I've seen what used to be done in a darkroom ---and you can do some pretty drastic things.
This is why for me it comes down to the intent of the photographer, and whether or not it misleads the reader. "
Click here for more.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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