Six Days

On Friday, January 9, JOUR3610 refires. 

"Error Mimicking" ... or Lens Compression

One of the things I want you to see in your next assignment is the effect of lens compression and expansion - particularly how using telephoto lenses will appear to compress the world into a smaller, flatter realm. 

Over on Mike Johnston's The Online Photographer blog, he has a great post that talks about the illusion of "error mimicking" - in this case, when lens compression leads people to believe an image has been altered through Photoshop. 

Flying Short Course Registration

Somebody broke the interwebs ... but the fine folks at NPPA's headquarters put up an emergency registration page for the Flying Short Course. 

The OTHER Blog

As a reminder, there's another blog I run for all photojournalists, particularly students - the UGA Photojournalism blog. It has info on industry news, local events, tips and tricks of the trade - including info on Thursday night's speaker.

12 Essential Photographic Rules

Pophoto gives some great tips on things ranging from depth of field to freezing motion...

Lab OPEN on Tuesday

Have no fear, the lab will be open Tuesday night, 4:45 to 7:45. Be sure to thank Lab Assistant Caroline for her help.

AJC Sports Photo

Here's a link to the online gallery of Johnny Crawford's coverage of Georgia Tech this weekend for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Crawford will be teaching the spring Documentary Photography class here at Grady, so paying attention to what he shoots would be a good idea. (He's on the Tech beat.)

Welcome

This is here as much for you guys as it is for me. I'll post items of interest to the class, along with updates to deadlines and such if there are changes.

I want you folks to post stuff, too. See a great online photo package? Share the link. Have a question about a photo you saw somewhere? Ask about it. Comment on each other's posts.

As silly as this may sound, being able to understand how a blog works - and how to establish a conversation via one - is important to editors these days.

And don't forget to check out the main blog - http://ugapj.blogspot.com - you're responsible for information posted there as, well.

-mej