Innovation in College Media » photojournalism http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog a group discussion about the future of student media Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:04:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sometimes, journalism is expensive http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2011/04/sometimes-journalism-is-expensive/ http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2011/04/sometimes-journalism-is-expensive/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:07:07 +0000 Bryan http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/?p=3709
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(Reuters) – Two photojournalists — Oscar-nominated filmmaker Tim Hetherington and Getty photographer Chris Hondros — were killed on Wednesday after coming under fire in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata.

I saw “Restrepo” a couple of months ago. A powerful piece of documentary about war. Sometimes, watching the TV news talkers or seeing the keyboard wizardry of data visualization journalists, it’s easy to forget that there are some journalists who go out into the places where death is a very real possibility. And they don’t get the limelight, they don’t get the big salaries. But they get the story. The important story.

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]]> http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2011/04/sometimes-journalism-is-expensive/feed/ 0 Canon SLR and an RC helicopter: cool video, news potential http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2010/04/canon-slr-and-an-rc-helicopter-cool-video-news-potential/ http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2010/04/canon-slr-and-an-rc-helicopter-cool-video-news-potential/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:11:29 +0000 Bryan http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/?p=2888 My colleague Brian Poulter shared this video with me, and I’m passing it along for any enterprising young video-savvy photojournalists who might find inspiration for some cool storytelling.

Helicam with Canon T2i/550D over Whitefish from Jeff Scholl on Vimeo.

Testing out a T2i with 14mm lens at 720 60P. Rendered with 2.35 bars and 24 frames for fun.

The video was shot using Canon’s new EOS 550D/Digital Rebel T2i attached to a remote-controlled helicopter. (you can see a photo of the rig here) Scholl’s business – GravityShots – promotes his helicam work. The Canon shoots full HD video, and is in the lower price range for SLR cameras.

The video was apparently shot at 60 frames per second, which allows you to do slow-motion video. I don’t know what it took to set up the rig, or how much practice it takes to fly that kind of set-up.

But it did get me to thinking about the news potential for that type of photography. Imagine a breaking news event on your campus that you can’t get close enough to get quality video or stills (like a fire). I wonder if you could enlist the help of a local RC pilot to get closer with something like this? Or fly that thing over a big event like a football game or graduation or concert. Would make for some interesting yearbook photos, as well.

The potential seems pretty wide. Any thoughts or ideas?

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(Photo from Department of Defense)

Sunday’s New York Times featured an interesting article about combat photojournalism and the lengths to which the U.S. military may be going to sculpt the view of the war back home: 4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images.

There’s also a slideshow of images of casualties of war that’s worth a look.

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