In this new age of photojournalism, photographers are not just photographers anymore. With more of an emphasis on using the Web, photographers are using new tools, like digital audio recorders and video cameras, to tell our stories. When I got an assignment to shoot a Cowboy Action Shooting event at the Danvers Fish and Game [...]
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For the past 46 years, the Salem News Student-Athlete Award has been a showcase for the best and the brightest of North Shore high schools. In recent years, it has also been a time for the visuals staffs at the paper to showcase their skills and ideas. Here’s a look at how this year’s played [...]
Covering the State championship basketball tournaments took some preplanning.
The Eagle-Tribune sent six photographers out to cover three state championship games in two states. We had two photographers and a photo editor at all of the games.
Just a couple of years ago we would have only covered it [...]
My assignment was to photograph a Dr. Seuss presentation at Shawsheen School. Students from other Andover schools read books, acted out scenes from poems and showed photos from the well-known books to the Shawsheen students. As one group was performing, four girls from Doherty Middle School sat, waiting for their turn to re-enact “Green Eggs [...]
Behind the scene of a Valentine’s Day fashion shoot.
Posted in The Final Edit on Feb 13th, 2008 Comments Off
I was given the assignment to shoot various outfits that could be worn on Valentine’s Day date scenarios. The idea was to have First Date Boutique in Andover provide outfit suggestions with the themes: “Dinner at a fancy, upscale restaurant”; “Cocktails and conversation”; and “He’s cooking dinner tonight.” When I got to First Date and [...]
I was taking photos of kids who compete in freestyle skiing at Bradford Ski Area Saturday morning. I had all the photos I needed and was walking back down the hill when a snowboarder went off a large jump and wiped out about ten yards from me. His little brother started to yell asking him [...]
Getting the right photo that tells the story still takes the same skills. Digital has made lots of things easier — it’s faster and easier to edit your photos and you have a better idea if you have a strong image before you leave the scene. Like any tool, it’s just that. A tool. So [...]
I had just started at the Eagle-Tribune in the final days of 1977 and just over a month later covered the Blizzard of ‘78, which was a big deal for a rookie. I couldn’t leave my house in Salisbury because the road wasn’t plowed, so I couldn’t get to work. But my cousin plowed for [...]
I got up and looked out and could not believe the amount of snow.
It was three feet deep with drifts covering the cars in the large parking lot of my apartment complex. There was no way I was going to get out of the parking lot. I phoned in to the newspaper to tell the [...]
Hi Jim, thanks for the comment. Jim asked:
What kind of equipment did you bring with you to use? Is there a particular photograph you hope to make while you are at the Super Bowl?
Let’s just say I looked like a pack mule walking through the airport when I came into Phoenix. I actually had [...]
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