Author: Mark E. Johnson

November 23, 2011

The Photographers, Now Online

The 1996 National Geographic film The Photographers is now available for online streaming. This is a great look at a bunch of their shooters and what they go through to get an image. Well worth spending an hour of time watching it. (Thanks to Greg Mironchuk for the link.)

Categories At Work/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism

November 22, 2011

ACA Lists Creators Who Are Owed Money

The Authors Coalition of America has posted lists of copyright holders who may be owed royalty monies from non-U.S. sources. (Thanks to the NPPA site for the link.)

Categories Business & Industry

November 22, 2011

Your Future in Journalism

Not much to say here … “If you don’t like to write, you won’t be happy in journalism.” (Thanks to a slew of people on Facebook and the NPPA Listserv for sending that along.)

Categories Journalism

November 18, 2011

What Photographers Should Care About

Over at GoingPro, Scott Bourne writes about the things we, as photographers, should and should not care about. This … this is a topic I could go on about for days. Here are a list of things I could not care less about: Cameras Lenses Flashes Software Computers Social media Megapixels Filters Plugins Photoshop actions Workflow However, there are things...

Categories Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

November 17, 2011

Funding for Women Media Entrepreneurs

J-Lab is awarding grants to women with an entrepreneurial idea to the tune of $12,000. Got a brilliant new media idea? Check out the guidelines and apply by Jan. 27, 2012. From the release: Washington, D.C. – J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University has been awarded $250,000 from the McCormick Foundation to fund eight innovative women-led news...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

November 17, 2011

Past as Prelude

David Hobby has a great post up over at the Strobist about emulating those who inspire you to help you learn technique. Has me thinking about a whole new class of assignments that look to the past to help teach the present and inspire future innovation.

Categories Craft/Thoughts & Theory

November 16, 2011

Expression Over Perfection

Over at PhotoFocus, Scott Bourne writes about how to relax your portrait subjects. He’s got five tips that will help you get a better expression out of them. I’ll add one more: Whenever I get a reluctant subject who says they’ve never had a picture of themselves they like, I simply respond, “Well, then you haven’t found your right photographer...

Categories At Work/Photojournalism

November 15, 2011

NPPA Grant Winners Announced

Congratulations to Victor J. Blue, Gabriela Busilova, Mary F. Calvert, Matt Eich, and Mark Ovaska who have all won a $3,000 grant to continue work on stories from the National Press Photographers Association.

Categories Business & Industry/Competitions/Journalism/Photojournalism

November 15, 2011

Imagining a Non-imaging Kodak

A little late on this … and that’s a terrible headline, too. But last week, Kodak sold off its Image Sensor Solutions business to an equity firm for, supposedly, $200 million. Which means that Kodak no longer manufactures or sells anything that actually records an image outside of some film stocks. How did this happen?

Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk

November 15, 2011

The Need for Photo Editors

National Press Photographers Association President Sean Elliot wrote in a recent edition of News Photographer about the need for photo editors and a dangerous trend that seems to be spreading – the laying off of them. His column is now on the NPPA web site and worth a read.

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism