Author: Mark E. Johnson

August 14, 2012

How Reuters Covered Track and Field in London

Reuters produced the video below to give us an idea of how they covered track and field at the Olympics. Think about this: for the 100 meter final, that lasted 9.63 seconds, they had 15 photojournalists covering it. The race started at 9:52 and they had their first photo on the wire at 9:55. Egads. (Thanks to Stephen Terry for...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 14, 2012

When Fair Use Maybe Isn’t

Over at the Poynter Institute, Steve Myers has a story about the Portland Press Herald which picked up a woman’s photo off of her Flickr account and then, without attribution or her permission, published it. The paper has agreed to pay the photographer for the usage. The publication claimed they could use the image under the Fair Use segment of...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 14, 2012

Criminalizing Photography

Over at The New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin has an interview with Mickey Osterreicher about the increase in arrests of photographers around the United States. Osterreicher, who is the National Press Photographers Association’s attorney, has this advice for photojournalists working in tense situations: If you’re stopped on the street, stay calm. Be reasonable, be cooperative — as cooperative...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 13, 2012

NPPA Best of Photojournalism TV Files Available

The National Press Photographers Association has announced the the winning entries in the Best of Photojournalism television division are now downloadable from their web site. It’s only open to members and you can burn the files to a DVD for watching on your own set. Guess what I’m doing on the high-speed connection at work today …

Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

August 13, 2012

Typography and Superheroes

I will admit, there’s a typography geek inside of me. When I see some great kerning, it makes me smile … and so did this set of Helvetica letters colored like superheroes designed by René Mambembé. I may need to order a Magneto and Oddjob …

Categories Graphic Design

August 13, 2012

Getting Sued for Copyright Violation

Over at Blogher, Roni Loren runs through what happened when she lifted images from a Google image search and posted them to her blog – and, as photographers, the right thing happened. The post is a warning to other bloggers – that images are copyrighted, no matter where you find them, and she admits that she was in the wrong....

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

August 8, 2012

On Interviewing

Greg Scoblete has a great piece up on Photo District News about interviewing for video and audio, well worth a read. Will be sharing this with all my students this fall. (Thanks to Curt Chandler for the link.)

Categories Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

August 8, 2012

When Grand Central Was a Grand Gallery

In all my youthful travels to New York, I don’t ever recall getting to see these images. But I wish I had … At The New York Times’ Lens blog, James Estrin takes a look back at the giant Colorama images that use to grace Grand Central Station. Shot on large format cameras, these 60-foot wide images must have been...

Categories Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk

August 7, 2012

Nailing the Shot: Practice, Practice, Practice

The Poynter Institute’s Steve Myers has a short interview with the Associated Press’ Greg Bull about his image of Gabby Douglas at the Olympics. The image has gotten a strong response because of its clean background and great moment, but how you make a frame like that is simple: Practice. A lot.

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

August 7, 2012

Ready for Weather

My students get an earful somedays about things they’d never expect to talk about in journalism courses. Step ladders? Snow tires? Rain coats? All fair game as far as I’m concerned. Former-student Daniel Shirey posted a link to an REI page that talks about rain gear and it’s a nice primer on how to be prepared to be out and...

Categories At Work/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk