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Multimedia
Selling the house for a Canon 5D Mark II
I try my best to not geek out over new cameras when they are released. Honest, I do! Unfortunately, I just can’t shut up about the Canon 5D Mark II. In case you haven’t heard, Canon announced the new camera last week, and photo geeks are bouncing off the walls trying to get all the [...]
High Def Web Visuals Coming Soon
In August, Adobe released a beta version of its new flash player. The player will now support Quicktime H.264 compression.
Online Convergence Award
I’m excited to announce that the mining series that I helped direct, photograph, videotape and multimedia-ize won first place for online convergence in the Associate Press Managing Editors contest for newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. It was a huge group effort, with Mike Belt reporting for LJWorld.com, Brian Powell and Greg Hurd producing [...]
Storytelling Using Google Maps
One of the coolest new features on Google Maps is the ability to create “My Maps.” I geo-tagged photos and 360-degree panoramas to a Google Map from a project that explores the long-term health, environmental and economic-related effects that mining has had on parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Click the image above [...]
Rattlesnake Roundup Resurrection
I’m resurrecting this audio slideshow from a few years ago because, well, it’s rattlesnake roundup season. I photographed and reported this story for the Lawrence Journal-World after thumbing through an events calendar for Kansas. Rattlesnake roundups are under increasing scrutiny by wildlife groups and animal rights activists as studies have found the species [...]
Kansas Wind Energy
Last week I spent a few days traveling around Kansas shooting video and photos for this story for the Lawrence Journal-World about wind energy. When I arrived back in Lawrence, I had put 1,000 miles on my VW Rabbit, clicked more than 1,200 accuations on my Nikon D200, and logged about 5 hours of HD [...]
Time Lapse Photography
Take a peek at three time lapses that I shot a few weeks back for the Lawrence 24 Hour Project.
Massachusetts Street. Total time lapse: 24 Hours. Frames per hour: 60. Total frames: 1440.
My backyard. Total time lapse: 30 minutes. Frames per minute: 60. Total frames: 1800.
Target. Total time [...]
Time Lapse Experiment
If you live in the midwest like I do, you likely experienced 40 to 50 mph winds today. I headed out the Haskell-Baker Wetlands south of Lawrence, Kansas to capture the gusty afternoon sky. The result is 30 minutes of real time compressed into a 90 second time-lapse containing 900 photos.
Watch the time-lapse [...]
Audio Panorama Tutorial
One of the latest additions to my multimedia toolkit is the audio panorama. Click here for an example. Some have requested a tutorial, so here it goes, albeit brief. This tutorial assumes you understand the basics of capturing a printable panorama. Need tutorial on this, visit this Adobe tutorial.
New look for ‘07
I’ve received a few inquiries as to how I’ve built this site. Here is how: I use Wordpress to build and manage my site, a modified version of Unsleepable to theme my site, Monoslideshow for my Photo and Multimedia pages, and the Kimili Flash Embed plugin, which allows me to embed Flash content on [...]
Audio slideshows
Why should photojournalists gather audio?
Combining photos and audio tells a more complete story
Audio enhances the photos; photos enhance the audio
Enables us to get to know our subjects better
Makes photographers better journalists
Encourages project-oriented stories
Keys to Successful Multimedia
Plan the audio. Know the options: Ambient sound, interview, narration, or combo
What is the best way to capture audio? [...]