Seshu | Editor & Publisher, Author at Tiffinbox

Doing The Right Thing

January 31, 2005 by Seshu | Editor & Publisher Leave a Comment

Via Jonathan Dube

Doing the right thing as a journalist have you up all night? Help is near.

The Great Beyond

January 29, 2005 by Seshu | Editor & Publisher Leave a Comment

Via Melissa Lyttle

Women photographers present their take on beauty at Beyond Compare.

Here is French photographer Brigitte Lacombe's striking portrait of Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi.

The site is sponsored by Dove. “Dove's hope is that this work will increase the number of women who take great care of themselves and who feel truly beautiful every day.”

Out Of The Shoe Box

January 24, 2005 by Seshu | Editor & Publisher Leave a Comment

Managing photographs has never been easy. I have them in plastic boxes, card board boxes, archival boxes, albums, hard drives, canvas bags. They are every where and it drives me crazy.

If you are digitizing all your images, like I am, consider using iView Media Pro. If you are a weekend photographer Apple's iPhoto or Google's Picassa may be better bets.

Read David Pogue's review of both programs here.

Stirring It Up

January 23, 2005 by Seshu | Editor & Publisher 2 Comments

This is old news, but one that I couldn't let go by without some comment.

I think it is terrific that the world has mobilized to help those affected by the tsunami disaster in South and South East Asia. But I find it offensive when organizations of any guise decide to extend a helping hand under false pretenses or under duress.

Do it out of the goodness of your heart but do not expect anything in return. To act in any other way is simply un-Godly.

Fake Photos

January 23, 2005 by Seshu | Editor & Publisher Leave a Comment

Via Steve Outing

Apparently there have been some fake tsunami photos floating around the internet. Hope none made a newspaper.

A trained photo editor with common sense, knowledge of the Internet, and equipped with software to help identify simple fakes may be journalism's best line of defense.

Mr. Outing points to a New York Times article that should put your mind at some ease if you suspect images have been altered.

With those tsunami photos, software wouldn't have done much good. They were real images of people watching a big wave on a Chinese river, not the December tsunami. Editors puzzling over those photos might have saved some embarrassment by doing a careful image archive search, or checking a rumor site like Snopes.com.