Author: Mark E. Johnson

January 24, 2012

Campaign Photos

Nice collection of campaign photos from ZUMAs Mark Makela. Clean, controlled, good variety.

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

January 24, 2012

Same Hill, Different Day

Over at the New York Times’ Lens blog, Kristen Joy Watts has the story of Paul Octavious who has been photographing the same hill in Chicago for four years. It’s a neat project, wonder if there’s something near my office I could do the same with …

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

January 24, 2012

One of Our Own

Sara Guevara, a 26-year-old staff photographer at the Gainesville Times, has cancer. I’m sure there are other photojournalists out there who are struggling with this, too. But Sara … Sara is one of mine. In the last two weeks I have lost two dear friends and mentors to the big-C. So, Sara? Listen up – you’re kicking this thing in...

Categories Thoughts & Theory

January 24, 2012

On Kodak and Life

Over at the New York Times‘ Lens blog, David Gonzalez has posted his eulogy (perhaps premature) for Kodak. I loved this segment: And so I became an acolyte in the Temple of Kodak. Like a convert, I embraced the rituals, spending hours under the soft amber lights, holding beakers like chalices, head bowed over trays in worshipful anticipation. There was...

Categories Craft/Tech Talk

January 24, 2012

Illinois to Allow Cameras in the Courts

The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that the Illinois Supreme Court will be announcing today that they are going to allow cameras in the courts on an experimental basis. Excellent news.

Categories Journalism

January 23, 2012

Twitter Chat with the AP on Photo Style

Wish I’d caught this earlier … The @APStylebook folks did an online Twitter chat that focused on photo style stuff. For the Intro students … captions matter. You should read that and see that @APStylebook agrees.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Photojournalism

January 23, 2012

PhotoShelter Guide to Social Media

PhotoShelter has created a two-part Photographer’s Social Media Handbook that you can get emailed to you from their site. It covers Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter and a few other platforms.

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

January 23, 2012

Perhaps Premature …

Categories Journalism

January 23, 2012

Creativity is a Struggle

CNN.com’s Todd Leopold is building a nice little series on creativity, success and failure. This week, he features Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan but also touches on the Xerox PARC lab, Orson Welles and others. Money graf: But it’s not true. Successful people — creative people — fail every day, just like everybody else. Except they don’t view failure...

Categories Advice & Learning/Craft

January 22, 2012

Google Photography Contest

Yep, that Google is putting on a photo contest. A quick look at the contest rules (make sure you read section 11) don’t show anything too horrifying, a nice relief. They have ten categories (Me, Food, Travel, Fashion, Action, Street, Sports, Night, Sound/Silence and Point of View) that you can enter under. (Thanks to David Sutherland at Syracuse University for...

Categories Competitions