Tag: Mike Davis
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How do you make life better at a newspaper? – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
Link: I’d be remiss if I didn’t do a follow up to the post about what is a newspaper photograph, offering some thoughts about how to improve life in newsprint.
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How do you avoid making a cliché? – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
Link: Avoiding clichés requires one of two things: An original approach or an unexplored subject matter and ideally, both. In other words, figuring out a new way to make pictures of a tried and true subject is one way. This usually means telling a specific, dynamic story. The other is to discover or conceive of…
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Picture Editor Mike Davis On Clarity of Voice in Today’s Media Landscape
Link: “I think now there is a greater need for picture editors and people who can craft visual narratives [to] help photographers develop [their work],” Davis says, “at a time when there are fewer of us than there have [historically] been.”
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Quick Tip: Mike Davis on Editing Your Work for Competitions | PDNPulse
Quick Tip: Mike Davis on Editing Your Work for Competitions | PDNPulse Mike Davis, chair of the Alexia Grant competition and Syracuse University professor, offers his advice about photo editing for competitions: via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/01/quick-tip-mike-davis-on-editing-your-work-for-competitions.html The Alexia Foundation’s call for 2018 grant applications reminds us how photographers often struggle to edit their own work. We…
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Five Questions for Mike Davis
5 Questions for Mike Davis MIKE DAVIS is the newly-appointed Alexia Tsairis Chair for Documentary Photography at Syracuse University, where he’s teaching, working with the Alexia Foundation and overseeing the Alexia grant… via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/72657021371/5-questions-for-mike-davis Thinking of images – whether they’re still or motion – more completely as three dimensional spaces is the latest iteration…
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Where’s the line on toning photos, especially for contests?
Link: Mike Davis The core determinant, for me, is whether objects were moved, people’s faces were changed, images were combined in a way that altered what anyone would have seen in the setting, or if things were removed from the frame
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If clichés are so bad, why do they win contests?
Mike Davis A photographer asked: “If cliches are so bad, why do so many of them win contests?” Good question.
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What kind of picture taker are you?
Photographers approach their subjects in a similar range of ways. Everyone has a rhythm to the beat of their picture taking. Link: What kind of picture taker are you? – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
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Great talk in Seattle
There I am, talking to photographers at Red Box Studio in Seattle Sunday. Thanks to Karen Ducey for
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What is a newspaper photograph? – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
In the professional photography realm, newspaper photographers tend to fall in the middle to lower levels of quality – though there are some incredibly talented newspaper photographers. Link: What is a newspaper photograph? – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
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How do you keep your eye fresh? – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
Someone asked me this week how to stay fresh when making pictures of the things you’ve photographed many times. The question is a variation of how you avoid burnout, except its applied to individual settings instead of the breadth of what you photograph. The answer to the question can apply to both contexts. Link: How…
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A certain courage – Blog – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
I spent much of last week with tears on my face as I looked at several hundred photographs that Logan Mock-Bunting made of his mother. It took a special kind of courage for Logan to make these pictures. You see, for more than four years he photographed his mother’s serpentine path to what became her…