I’ve had the opportunity to help a number of organizations prepare digital pictures for their websites, and I observe that the poor quality of some of those photos has more to do with the way people use their cameras rather than the quality of the cameras themselves. Here are the three most frequent mistakes: 1. [...]
Yesterday I was helping a neighbor make an under-two-minute video for a TV announcement at a community cable station. See it below. Beforehand I had had my friend write a narration, and then asked him to meet me at a local greenhouse, where I knew the light was bright and diffused. I traveled light. [...]
Recently I purchased SoundSlides, a software program designed for photojournalists who want to tell their stories with pictures easily and quickly. You open a folder of .jpeg pictures and an .mp3 sound file in SoundSlides and the program handily makes the slides into a show whose length coincides with the length of the sound file. [...]
