Author: Mark E. Johnson

March 3, 2011

F-stops Math Explained

Warning – this is super geeky. Haje Jan Kemps over at Pixiq.com has a post explaining how the numbers on your aperture ring are calculated. It’s a different method than what I learned years ago, but gets you to about the same place. (Thanks to Lawton Howell for the link.)

Categories Tech Talk

March 3, 2011

Storytelling, Seeing and Moments

Short video on Daniel Milnor. Love this quote: When you see an image, you missed it. You have to be five or ten seconds ahead and anticipate and get it. It’s the one that I missed that will haunt me for months. Storytelling Series: Daniel Milnor from Blurb Books on Vimeo.

Categories Good Work/Video

March 3, 2011

Prepping for Disaster

A few weeks behind getting this out, but Steven Farrell of the New York Times put together a post on what he took to cover the events in Cairo. Farrell is shooting video for the Times, so he stripped down his kit so as not to look like a journalist.

Categories Journalism/Tech Talk

March 3, 2011

Get (a) Shorty

Damon Kiesow over at the Poynter Institute has a piece up on how our own Atlanta Journal-Constitution is up for a Shorty Award. Shorty Awards are given out to award “the best producers of short real-time content.” How short? Just 140 characters. Kiesow’s piece has a link to a video, complete with silhouetted staffers and digital voice changes, the AJC...

Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk

March 3, 2011

Join the Army, Learn to Farm?

This came across the university transom this morning … former student Dorothy Kozlowski worked on a short piece for the university about a National Guard unit that spend some time on campus learning how to farm … in Afghanistan. Would love to see a follow up on this.

Categories Good Work/Video

March 2, 2011

NPPA Student Clip Contest Winners

… are up on the National Press Photographers Association’s web site. Take a look, see what other students are doing. The deadline for images taken in February, March and April is May 7. Rules and such are all online. If you’re a student member, why aren’t you entering?

Categories Advice & Learning/Competitions

March 1, 2011

Radio Guy Wins White House News Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year

Who ever would have thought that a radio guy would end up winning one of the top photo competitions? Not me, but it happened – David Gilkey from NPR has been named the White House News Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year. (Aside: I have had several long conversations with a past president of the WHNPA about the use of...

Categories Competitions/Good Work

February 28, 2011

Moving From Snapshots to Story Telling

First, a quick note … posting was light over the weekend as I was in lovely Habersham County for out UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop. Lots of information to share in the coming days from that event. But back to the news … Stanley Leary has a post up about moving from snapshots to images that tell stories. He talks about...

Categories Craft/Photojournalism

February 26, 2011

Scenes From a Workshop

I’ve been quiet the last few days as I was prepping for our sixth annual weekend workshop, this year up in Habersham County. We’re here, have been for 27 hours now. Things are … good. A lot of learning going on, some crying, some wailing, almost no whining. More to come, but a few images from Friday of people at...

Categories Advice & Learning

February 24, 2011

ICONN Conference – March 24-25

It looks like we’ve got all the pieces for the ICONN Annual Conference in place again. After getting weathered-out in January, I’m hopeful that we’ll have some nice spring weather on March 24 and 25 here in Athens. So why should you come? Well, Athens is a great place in spring – especially if you’re coming from the north or...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk