Shooting from the Hip
Check out Scott Stranzzante’s photo blog at the Chicago Tribune’s web site, Shooting From The Hip.
Check out Scott Stranzzante’s photo blog at the Chicago Tribune’s web site, Shooting From The Hip.
After a few unfortunate events set me back at work I missed the story I was planning on doing for my column. And now I was under the gun to find a new idea with less than a day to do it. So I was out and about looking around for a photo for our Our Town photo column and was thinking about different column ideas a newspaper could do.
One idea I liked I called Hour Town, a play off of the current column the Tribune does. With Hour Town a photographer would toss a dart at the map of the town and then go to that spot. Once there he or she would have 60 minutes to make a photo. If you are nice you could give them a block or two radius to work on. Or, tell them they can’t move from that spot. The rest is left up to the interpretation and creativity of the photographer.
I liked this idea for a few reasons. One it’s happenstance where the photographer is sent so the likelihood of being put in a place unfamiliar to them is high. Secondly I like that restrictions of time and place which can really drive the creative juices. Third it trades one type of stress, looking for a good idea and procrastinating about it, with another kind of stress, one that perhaps we’re not as much use to.
If you give it a try, let me know.
Just noticed Picture This from the Seattle Times where “photographers offer a glimpse into what inspires their best visual reporting.”
Eyes on Fire explores the story behind photos in the news by Michael Henninger of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
I’m putting together a list of newspaper photo departments using twitter. Here’s what I have so far, including a few photo agencies at the end. If you know of any I am missing please leave a comment. You can also follow the list on Twitter http://twitter.com/gerik/newspaper-photo-depts.
Newspapers
Newport News Daily Press http://twitter.com/dailypressphoto
Austin American-Statesman http://twitter.com/collectivevis
London Telegraph http://twitter.com/TelegraphPics
Boston Globe http://twitter.com/GlobePhoto
Tacoma News Tribune http://twitter.com/Tribphoto
Indianapolis Star http://twitter.com/indystarvisuals
Atlanta Journal Constitution http://twitter.com/ajcphotos
Telegraph Herald http://twitter.com/Thphotodept
Seattle Times Photo http://twitter.com/SeaTimesPhoto
St. Pete Times Photo http://twitter.com/SPTimesPhoto
St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://twitter.com/PDMultimedia
Standard Photo http://twitter.com/StandardPhoto
LA Times Video http://twitter.com/LATimesvideo
Montreal Gazette http://twitter.com/GazetteImages
The Sydney Morning Herald http://twitter.com/smh_multimedia
The Missoulian http://twitter.com/missoulianphoto
Wichita Eagle http://twitter.com/EaglePhotos
Rapid City Journal http://twitter.com/RCJPhoto
Columbia Daily Tribune http://twitter.com/CDTPhoto
Cedar Rapids Gazette http://twitter.com/GazetteVisuals
LA Times Photos http://twitter.com/LATimesPhotos
Orlando Sentinel http://twitter.com/OSPhoto
Arizona Republic Photo http://twitter.com/azcentralPhoto
Denver Post http://twitter.com/denverphotos
Florida Times Union http://twitter.com/FTUphoto
New York Times Photo http://twitter.com/nytimesphoto
New York Times Multimedia http://twitter.com/NYTimesVisual
Detroit Free Press Video http://twitter.com/freepvideo
Sacramento Bee Video http://twitter.com/SacBee_Video
San Jose Mercury News Photo http://twitter.com/mercphoto
Sacramento Bee The Frame http://twitter.com/sacbee_theframe
The Free Lance-Star Photo http://twitter.com/flsphoto
Boston Globe Big Picture http://twitter.com/big_picture
Agencies and Others
Reuters Pictures http://twitter.com/reuterspictures
Getty Images Editorial http://twitter.com/GettyImagesEdit
Associated Press http://twitter.com/AP_Images
National Public Radio http://twitter.com/NPRPictureShow
MSNBC http://twitter.com/msnbc_pictures
Corbis http://twitter.com/CorbisImages
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Just got an e-mail letting me know that the East Valley Tribune’s photo staff is keeping a photo blog.
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