Working in the Digital Age- Blogs
Blogs can be used for online journals or for websites that show information, news, images taken and/or written by the owner of the blog. It is a website were you write and others share their views and understanding on certain images and your stories. Every human being has a story of their own to be told. Blogs are being regularly updated with stories or captured images. Blog posts are to have publishing dates, authors, tags within hyperlinks, etc. For photojournalists blogging is popular for the simple reason that they can upload what why want when they want. By having a blog you can also communicate, for example; for this online class we(students) had to create a blog and constantly update blogs every week and this is how we communicate with our professor and classmates.
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| Photo Screenshot By: Nahiomy Martinez |
Blogs can affect photojournalism and/or photojournalists in a good way. In my opinion, Blogs affected photojournalism/photojournalist positively because they are able to post images, tell news, and share with the world the places they have visited, etc. by posting. They are able to get feedbacks on comments. It's takes the process to edit, and upload instead of being published through newspaper or writing out journals or magazines.
Though, it is obvious the difference between Blogs and the Speed Graphic Camera are not very much alike; with the camera you can take images, with blogs you upload images that are taken by a camera. With a camera, the person would have to have a journal near by in order to write their stories to that image, with blogs you update and type out the story. Images and journals can be criticized in blogs but with the camera it cannot be criticized until uploading on a website because we can simple delete an image we did not like on a camera and never see it again. A similarity would be that they both have some sort of storage to save images/videos.
As it was hard to compare between blogs and an actual camera, “The Speed Graphic Camera”. I found some differentials. On the article about blogs, it is mentioned, "Blogs used to be called 'weblogs', created in 1994 by Justin Hall". A blog is by a personal narrative. Blogs can be in multiple forms such as videos, written journals, and captured images. Blogs are accessible to all populations with internet ability and could also be criticized by people with access to them.
On the other hand, The Speed Graphic Camera was made in 1912 by Graflex, in New York (refer to M4 Module for more information). This camera was accessible during the 1930s through 1950’s. In the article, “The Graglex Speed Graphic FAQ”, it was said, “The Speed Graphic has not been manufactured since 1973 and most photographers today are unable to make a direct comparison." Also, in a different article, it was mentioned, "This camera was said to be a very first and last really good camera." The used of this camera, said in the article, “The Speed Graphic was engineered for general purpose commercial photography such as wedding, portraiture, product, documentary, advertising and landscape photography.”
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| Photo By: Kip Praslowicz |
As it was hard to compare between blogs and an actual camera, “The Speed Graphic Camera”. I found some differentials. On the article about blogs, it is mentioned, "Blogs used to be called 'weblogs', created in 1994 by Justin Hall". A blog is by a personal narrative. Blogs can be in multiple forms such as videos, written journals, and captured images. Blogs are accessible to all populations with internet ability and could also be criticized by people with access to them.
On the other hand, The Speed Graphic Camera was made in 1912 by Graflex, in New York (refer to M4 Module for more information). This camera was accessible during the 1930s through 1950’s. In the article, “The Graglex Speed Graphic FAQ”, it was said, “The Speed Graphic has not been manufactured since 1973 and most photographers today are unable to make a direct comparison." Also, in a different article, it was mentioned, "This camera was said to be a very first and last really good camera." The used of this camera, said in the article, “The Speed Graphic was engineered for general purpose commercial photography such as wedding, portraiture, product, documentary, advertising and landscape photography.”
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