I listened to a Tony Vincent podcast today from the Learning in Hand podcast website. You can find a list of Tony's podcasts here.
Tony talked about a lot of things in his latest podcast, but one of the interesting things I learned about was "Chimping."
Tony describes chimping as taking a picture with a digital camera, and then immediately your camera around to look at it. I thought this was interesting, because this is something I do a lot. They call it chimping because you are looking at the picture going "oooh ooooh oooh!" to admire your shot. Meanwhile, you are missing whatever is going on in the scenery that you were just taking a picture of.
As a future journalism teacher, I think it is important to teach students to be aware of their surroundings when they are shooting photography or film, as well when they are taking notes to write articles. It is fine to "chimp" when you are taking personal photos, but you want every chance to get that important picture when you are doing it for an article. I think students need to be aware of their surroundings to be a journalist.
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