{"id":573884063,"date":"2012-10-23T23:36:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T04:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884063"},"modified":"2012-10-24T01:10:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T06:10:01","slug":"pictures-lots-of-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/pictures-lots-of-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures, lots of pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did a photojournalism presentation for my class today. I showed the Taylor Morris photo essay I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/573884058\/\">yesterday<\/a>. I handed out some notes. I showed off some audio\/visual slide presentations, silly stuff really. <\/p>\n<p>I talked about all of these photos for an awfully long time:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/14844765?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"521\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:3px\"> <strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/KennySmith\/photos-14844765\" title=\"photos\" target=\"_blank\">Photo samples<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/KennySmith\" target=\"_blank\">Kenny Smith<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been visiting the site  &#8212; or lurking in the <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/\">photo gallery section<\/a> &#8212; over the years you&#8217;ve probably seen many of those.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember, some of the shots in that slideshow are meant to be bad. Most of them are average, at best. I told the students today that I had one photojournalism class with a brilliant professor and another photography class with another talented teacher, but I&#8217;ve had photos sprinkled in newspapers and magazines and on websites and in books here and there over the years. Not because I&#8217;m a great photographer. Click through there, you&#8217;ll see. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m  a serviceable photographer, I told the students. Being there, researching the subject matter, knowing how to tell a story visually, anticipating the action, knowing your equipment, understanding a handful of basic photographic techniques and having extra batteries &#8230; that counts. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Link bait<\/strong> from the school blog: <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/samfordcrimson.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/23\/what-will-the-ipad-mini-mean-for-journalism\/\">What will the iPad mini mean for journalism?<\/a> I wrote that on my phone. Technology is amazing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did a photojournalism presentation for my class today. I showed the Taylor Morris photo essay I mentioned yesterday. I handed out some notes. I showed off some audio\/visual slide presentations, silly stuff really. I talked about all of these photos for an awfully long time: Photo samples from Kenny Smith If you&#8217;ve been visiting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,35,10,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-journalism","category-photo","category-samford","category-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884063"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884069,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884063\/revisions\/573884069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}