A Visual Journalism Discussion Network
In a follow-up to our review of the excellent new documentary HOMEGROWN: A Portrait of a Nation Divided, I spoke to the director, Michael Premo. It was a wide-ranging conversation about the film and the politics that led up to it. Homegrown does a fantastic job of summarizing the lead-up to January 6th and the […]
Subscribe to Around the Lens for the INTERVIEW with director Michael Premo releasing this week. Listen to the podcast version of this episode on Spotify or your podcatcher of choice. On the latest Around the Lens REEL review, Dave and Zach discuss the fantastic new documentary HOMEGROWN. Directed by Michael Premo, the film follows three […]
This episode (the first one!) of the Around the Lens Reel Reviews, David and I watch LOVE+WAR a documentary out last month on Hulu and Disney+ directed by Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. The doc follows award winning photojournalist Lyndsey Addario’s life going back and forth between raising two kids and covering the front lines […]
This years Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales have been a bit of slim pickings. Most of the “deals” I’ve seen are regular sales that happen throughout the year, 15-20% off or even lower. The big camera companies aren’t really doing anything big as far as I can find, $100 or $200 off here and […]
Award-winning photographer Yunghi Kim has been warning photographers of posting on Instagram for about a decade now. We should have listened to her. Over the years the photo-sharing site’s terms and conditions have evolved as corporate expectations change. Several years ago, the Facebook-owned Instagram changed their terms and conditions to include specifics on their advertising […]
Zach D Roberts, co-host of the Around the Lens podcast here for another behind the lens episode where we chat with photographers and those in the industry about the issues that we face in a bit more depth than we usually can do on the weekly show. If you’re a fan of these – please […]
The annual World Press Photo Awards have been announced and the winner for the still photo is not too much of a surprise if you have been paying attention to the news in the last 12 months. The story of the year, if there has been a single one is the border. Many (myself included) […]
Zach D Roberts here with my review of the Sony TOUGH SDXC card.
I’ve had the Nikon Z6 for a couple of weeks, tried it out in a couple real-world photojournalistic scenarios and have some thoughts. Over the next couple days and weeks, I’ll be putting the camera through different tests and doing short (shorter than this one) videos with my thoughts. Where I can I’ll also be […]
I just picked up the VILTROX VX-18M Professional Heavy Duty Video Camcorder Tripod from Amazon.com. I’m pretty happy, for only $140 and free shipping I got a pretty decent pro video tripod. I’ll give you all an update once I get to use it for a couple weeks. ‘Til then here’s my open boxing of […]