SnapperTalk

Or not… if you work for the Dallas Morning News where 11 out of 24 of their staff photographers now shoot their assignments entirely in video.

This month’s edition of The Digital Journalist edited by Dirck Halstead – a long-time proponent of photographers shooting video – features a trio of articles about the new trend: An editorial by Halstead expressing the belief that changes in technology in the next 10 years will force a seismic change in how “photographers” operate – on a level much greater than the shift from film to digital; and articles about the attitude and ways of working at the Dallas Morning News by its Director of Photography Leslie White and by Halstead himself, plus an image gallery (although I’m not clear if the gallery is all from video, or not)
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