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.
Tag: Mike Davis
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How do you avoid making a cliché? – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
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 a subject that hasn’t been trampled to stereotype. Do both and you’re a genius.
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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 recently asked Mike Davis, chair of the Alexia Grant competition and a professor at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Communications, for his advice about photo editing. Here’s what said about editing for competitions:
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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 on the purely visual side. Elevating what it is you are striving to say in that space is the other side of that coin.
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Where’s the line on toning photos, especially for contests?
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?
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.
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Great talk in Seattle
Photo editor Mike Davis stops by Seattle
“Light,” photo editor Mike Davis said, “is about more than just the six hours a day that National Geographic photographers work in.” He was joking when he said that, but his…
via Seattle Photographer Daniel Berman | Seattle editorial photographer | (206) 387-3767 daniel@bermanphotos.com: http://bermanphotos.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/photo-editor-mike-davis-stops-by-seattle/
And next, he said that strong photographs are built around adjectives and adverbs. Not verbs. It’s a strange concept written out as a sentence, sure. However it became clearer once we saw photos, even a frame before or after, where a quality, a mood or an essential feeling were highlighted — rather than showing things just as they happened.
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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.
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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.
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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 death, as her body succumbed to cancer.
Link: A certain courage – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis