Mark E. Johnson – Page 110 – Visual Journalism

July 23, 2012

Canon Introduces a New Mirrorless Camera

Dpreview.com has a preview piece up on the new Canon EOS-M camera that has just been announced. Priced at $800 with the fixed lens, is this a serious competitor in the “mirrorless” marketplace? It's hard to say … I have been shooting with an Olympus E-P2 micro 4/3 format camera for almost two years now, which is the same class...

Tech Talk

July 22, 2012

Why My Vacation Photos Suck

A week ago, my step-son and I were on an epic six-day, seven state, 2,000 mile guys’ road trip. Full of cheesy tourist traps and a family reunion, we shot a lot of photos. I didn’t take any of the big Canon cameras with me, just my trusty little Olympus E-P2 and a Canon S100 P&S. And my phone....

Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 21, 2012

Libya, by iPhone

Jessica Bennett has interviewed Benjamin Lowy about his work in Libya shooting with just his iPhone. I don’t have a problem with shooting on smartphones – any tool that works is fine for me. It’s the post processing (through apps like Hipstamatic or Instagram) that bother me. So, of course, Lowy will have a Hipstamatic “lens” released later this year...

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 21, 2012

The Macro and Micro Level of Compassion and Journalism

Over at Wired.com, Jakob Schiller has a post up about the photojournalists who had to cover yesterday's shooting in Aurora, Colorado. In it he talks with the Associated Press' Barry Gutierrez who made several amazing frames of the families who were involved. This quote stands out: “I have to keep the macro view of journalism in my mind at all...

At Work/Photojournalism

July 20, 2012

Safety Courses for Journalists

Columbia University will be offering a three-day program for journalists who are working in combat and high-risk zones in October, according to an article in Photo District News.

At Work/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 20, 2012

Behind Margaret Bourke-White’s Classic Image

Life is doing a series of stories that look behind some of their iconic images and even I am learning some new, neat things. They have the story behind one of Margaret Bourke-White’s iconic images that is often thought to be about the great depression but was actually shot as part of a story about a flood in 1937. There’s...

Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

July 19, 2012

2012 Mountain Workshops Taking Applications

The 2012 edition of the Mountain Workshops in Kentucky is now taking applications – get your package together, this is one of the Big Ones. The workshop will run October 16-20 in Henderson, Kentucky, this year. One of these years, I want to go to this one …

Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

July 19, 2012

Time and Sports Illustrated Turn to Instagram

Two stalwarts of high-quality photojournalism are … turning to Instagram? Yep. Sports Illustrated will have a Leading Off page in the next issue of photos shot by regular contributor Brad Mangin with his smartphone and processed through the social photo network app. It’s a collection of images he made during this baseball season. Time, on the other hand, is working...

Business & Industry/Craft/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

July 18, 2012

“Getting Prepared for Luck”

The Chicago Tribune’s Scott Strazzante talks about the anatomy of a sports photograph. That one-line – “getting prepared for luck” – really says it all.

Good Work/Photojournalism