The Rule of Thirds is not the Law of Thirds

http://petapixel.com/2016/01/30/10-myths-about-the-rule-of-thirds/

My name is Tavis Leaf Glover, and I’m an artist just like you, trying to create art that I can be proud of and share with the world. Though, something really hindered me in the beginning… the Rule of Thirds.

I want to shed some light on the Rule of Thirds Myths we’ve all been forcefully spoon fed during our creative infancy, which continues to linger as our compositions mature.

Perhaps we can change the future of art together if we help other artists abandon the rule of thirds and introduce them to the invaluable design techniques demonstrated throughout this article. I need your help because I can’t do it alone!

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Washington Post: The image-makers, 2015 in Photos

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/opinions/2015/12/23/the-image-makers/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

The big themes. The best photos. And the stories behind them.
A look back at 2015, as seen through the eyes of photographers who were there.

Greg Ketterman, Baltimore Street Photographer

Greg Ketterman, Baltimore Street Photographer

Greg Ketterman, of 1304 Photos, has been capturing and coloring Baltimore for a few years now, focusing on landscapes, people and urban exploration. His editing with HDR, filters and color makes the post-production process into an art form of its own

VIDEO:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/videogallery/84900576/Entertainment/Greg-Ketterman-Baltimore-Street-Photographer


PHOTOS:
http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2015/11/greg-ketterman-baltimore-street-photographer/#1

Ketterman shared nearly more than 150 images as examples of his work. You can view more at his website 1304 Photos, hisFacebook page and Instagram. If you are a Baltimore Street Photographer (or know one) and would like to be featured in this series, contact series producer Jon Sham at jsham@baltsun.com.

‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/fashion/npr-voice-has-taken-over-the-airwaves.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

The most influential speaker of “NPR voice” is Ira Glass, host of “This American Life.” “Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn’t sound like a news robot but, in fact, sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would,” he said. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

WPost: How copyright is killing your favorite memes

By Caitlin Dewey September 8  

Meme by the Washington Post, photo by George Mobley for National Geographic. Yes, we had to pay to post this Socially Awkward Penguin. (Getty)


Socially Awkward Penguin is arguably one of the most recognizable memes on the Internet. The blue-backgrounded image of the off-balance penguin — superimposed with funny text — has been plastered across every message board, forum and social network on the Web. It’s an inside joke. An icon. A mascot, even.


It’s also the intellectual property of National Geographic, which — awkward! — suddenly wants Internet users to pay up for posting it.


In the past year, the company’s licensing agency, Getty Images, has “pursued and settled” multiple infringement cases involving Socially Awkward Penguin, it confirmed to The Post. All of those actions were carried out in secret, with blogs and other posters agreeing to non-disclosure. Read more at the Washington Post

The Washington Post revamps its video strategy....

... steers clear of imitating TV

The Post is betting on “the right stories for the right platform at the right time,” according to its new video director Micah Gelman.By SHAN WANG @shansquared Sept. 11, 2015, 2:52 p.m.


Settling on a sustainable strategy for online video has been notoriously difficult for publishers. Efforts to produce live video shows have mostly sputtered.

The Washington Post is now betting on “the right stories for the right platform at the right time,” according to its video director Micah Gelman, hired by The Post in April. (He was previously director of digital video strategy and operations at Discovery).




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The Post’s PostTV launched in 2013 with lofty promises to be the “ESPN of politics,” but it lost steam and eventually became a repository for wire content and press briefing footage. Its new efforts, rebranded as Washington Post Video, will extend its investment in video, customizing content for various different platforms and turning away from some longform shows in favor of pointed, shorter clips. It’s making a big hiring push for new video editors — including some to work with Post “franchises” likeWonkblog and The Fix — and plans to integrate video reporters and editors into the Post’s many section teams when the paper moves offices at the end of the year.

“The rest of the Post site has become a much more approachable way to get the news,” Gelman told me. “Whether it’s through Morning Mix or Wonkblog or The Fix, it’s been aggregating smartly and offering a bit of perspective — not a bias, but a perspective, a little bit of that inherent Internet attitude.”

In the past, though, the video team had been “more constrained.”

“They felt locked up by the conventions of traditional television storytelling, with a traditional evening newscast style presentation,” Gelman added. “But we don’t have to be TV. We dropped TV from our name. We don’t have to be constrained by those conventions, and we aren’t opposed to experimenting.”

The “appointment viewing” days of PostTV, Gelman says, are over. The success of a video often depends on the context in which viewers are watching it. The Post intends to keep tweaking content to best fit different platforms — whether it’s the same type of content told slightly differently, or creating slightly different versions of a video —working in coordination with its audience development team.

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http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/in-revamping-its-video-strategy-the-washington-post-steers-clear-of-imitating-tv/