Mark E. Johnson – Page 149 – Visual Journalism

October 6, 2011

Why Street Photographers Shoot in Black and White

It’s a question that comes up quite a bit in my class – can we shoot in black and white? My answer has been, and will remain, quite simple – no. My world is in color, we should capture it that way. That’s not to say that photographers who choose to work in black and white are wrong, that’s just...

Craft/Photojournalism

October 5, 2011

Great Audio Piece from NPR

NPR’s Zoe Chace has a story this morning on the protesters who are taking part in the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s an inside look at how they communicate, how they make decisions – and it flows so nicely, really seamless editing on this piece. Worth a listen.

Craft/Journalism

October 5, 2011

Is It About Value?

No, probably not … I love that web site.

Thoughts & Theory

October 4, 2011

Video Storytelling Workshop, Online

The National Press Photographers Association is hosting an online workshop on video storytelling called Lighting, Writing and Surviving on Oct. 15. From the site: Join an all-star faculty on October 15, 2011 for an exciting day of presentations. Best of all, you don’t have to leave home to participate. Available On Line if you’re busy the 15th, all presentations are...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Photojournalism

October 3, 2011

Even More Failure

David Cohn over at the MediaShift Idea Lab wrote about the Seven Barriers to Failure when it comes to journalism and innovation. I cannot stress how important failure is in our current environment. The old ways of committing acts of journalism just don’t work anymore – we have to try new things. And that means some of them, a lot...

Craft/Thoughts & Theory

October 2, 2011

Photos for Video

We’ve all done it … tried to slide a still photo into our video project, but it never works quite right. They get squeezed and stretched, they’re too big or too small … Richard Harrington has a guest post up over at PhotoFocus that walks you through a quick way of getting images ready in Photoshop for use in your...

Tech Talk/Video

October 1, 2011

iPad as Photo Book?

Interesting piece by Olivier Laurent over at the British Journal of Photography about photographers creating custom apps for the iPad as a way to distribute their images. Is this the new coffee table book? It’s an intriguing idea … and now I want to learn how to make an app …

Business & Industry/Photojournalism

September 30, 2011

Arts & Crafts Time: The Homemade DSLR Viewfinder

Photojojo has a little project write up on how to create your own DSLR screen viewer for use in bright sun. Sure, you could go buy one, but here’s a chance to be three-dimensionally creative.

Tech Talk

September 30, 2011

VII is now … 22?

The VII agency, which launched a decade ago, has gone through some pretty big shakeups in the last year. From asking all members to re-apply, to creating and then collapsing subsidiary networks to the loss of founder James Nachtwey, it’s been a wild ride. The British Journal of Photography has a roundup of these changes online now, will be interesting...

Business & Industry

September 29, 2011

Media Law in the Digital Age Conference

FYI … for those in Georgia, this is something you should get on your calendar: October 22 at Kennesaw State University (just north of Atlanta) the Citizen Media Law Project and KSU will be running a Media Law in the Digital Age conference. Great lineup of speakers, including the NPPA’s own Mickey Osterreicher. UGA students, if you’re interested, see me...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

Author: Mark E. Johnson