Stock: What I Know
My experience entering the world of stock photography, an examination of the elements necessary, limitations of the exchange and the possible financial benefits.
Reporting in disaster zones – Part 2
When communications fail it’s really hard to deliver your material to your contractors. Yes, digital media helps in capturing and editing material far faster than traditional media, but also consumes an enormous amount of power (laptop and camera batteries) and requires a steady data connection in order to transmit, which was non-existent at the time.
Power, [...]
Chased by light
My primary focus has been documentary storytelling.
I LOVE spending time with people I don’t know anything about and telling their stories.
It’s a great satisfaction to be able to get immersed in an unknown world and be accepted as one more in their lives while taking photos and video of their daily activities.
But sometimes, I find [...]
Canon 5D MarkII Shooting: Advice
A friend of mine is interested in getting into the video world. He’s going to enter the YouTube Project Report Contest. He asked me whether he should use his friend’s Canon that shoots video or rent a video camera. This was my response, detailing some of the things that are helpful to [...]
Result: Flipbooks Galore
So, what happened?
Nicolás Alcalde, from my second presidential project, and I met at the paper at 7, and arrived at the bus stop at 7.30. We began to search for someone going from there to the end of the future metro. We found an individual to follow fairly quickly – a middle aged woman. However, [...]
Laying Multimedia Plans
Santiago’s Metro is expanding. The government opened three new stations (conveniently, days before a tight presidential election) and announced about a week and a half ago that they would begin building an entirely new line, which will connect a heavily working class area of the city with a heavily middle and upper class section.
I was [...]
La Tercera: Project 2 – The Challenges the Candidates Face
I have a new project published in La Tercera. It is part two in my exploration of issues in the presidential elections in Chile. In this part, I examined access for people with disabilities, public transportation and access to affordable housing (vivienda). All of these stories were done with the production help of my collegue [...]
Master vs. Jack… Who am I?
And why is that title not SEO optimized?
The photo is from the third story in my next La Tercera series. The story is about living conditions or housing. This was taken in a small campamento in an area of Santiago called Renca. I will discuss the campamento and the story in a later post. Today [...]
On the bus, with the gear
I am doing another series on issues in the upcoming presidential elections. This time, the issues are people with disabilities(Nacho’s killer photo from yesterday,) living conditions, and transportation. Today I went to a bus depot at the far end of town. With a colleague, Nicolás Alcalde, I interviewed a bus driver. Then we rode with [...]
Gone out shooting
Man it feels nice. Today I went with Eileen while she was on assignment for La Tercera, where she’s shooting some of the topics that the presidential candidates are focusing on.
This time it was “minusválidos” (disabled) and for that she’s following Francisca Mardones (36) who’s 17th in the world tennis ranking for handicapped people. [...]
Elections and Remebering
My Spanish teacher told me that someone had presented one of the presidential candidates here with a great bag of raisins. According to Chilean lore, they are supposed to help you remember.
I’ve been working freelance for La Tercera, one of the major Chilean newspapers. They brought me in especially to produce multimedia projects. My first [...]
Fighting against the tides
Man, it’s been only 3 months, but really long ones.
On one side, I’m really happy to see my family and friends in regular basis but on the other it’s been so hard to make people realize the importance of multimedia usage.
There’s definitely a need for multimedia producers and they (the media industry)know they want multimedia [...]
Our blog needs a name
Our blog needs a name. It needs its own url. To have Nacho’s work under eileenmignoni.com, does a disservice to him. To buy a url, we need a name. We can’t decide on one. Multimedia in the Hyper South, I made up. Nacho says it’s too long. He’s [...]
Stretching our photographic muscles
A few days after we arrived in Santiago, a friend asked us to take just a few stills of a small carnival that was going on in Santiago.
“Why not make a small multimedia piece about it?” we said, so this is the result. Just a couple of hours shooting, having fun and trying to work [...]
Blogging together and the Mapuche protest
Nacho and I decided to start a blog together. More accurately, I decided we should start a blog together, and he didn’t object.
Why together?
1. We work together constantly. I do what I can to help him, he perfects my work. To put up work on separate blogs would really muddle the contributions of each. We’re [...]