Author: Mark E. Johnson

February 9, 2011

I Love My Job, But …

… there are limits. I posted about New York University Professor Wafaa Bilal last year when he announced he was going to have a camera implanted in his head to send images to a Middle Eastern museum. Well, turns out his body had other ideas as it has rejected part of the camera mount. (Thanks to Minla Shields for the...

Categories Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

February 9, 2011

One Month Out – The Northern Short Course

The National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course was the first seminar I ever went to. I remember piling into my car (the most fuel efficient one amongst my friends) and five of us hauled on down to somewhere on Long Island … or New Jersey … maybe it was Philadelphia? I don’t recall … It was a stunning experience...

Categories Advice & Learning

February 9, 2011

Inside the Protestors’ Lives

There have been a lot of images coming out of Egypt the last few weeks. Great news photography, showing us what is happening there. But a lot of it has gotten a bit redundant visually – high angles of lots of people, tear gas hanging in the air, people chanting and stones airborne. Ed Ou has taken a different look...

Categories Good Work

February 9, 2011

Preaching at the Choir – Stop the Megapixel Madness

Scott Bourne over at Photofocus takes on – again – the megapixel madness. Best image quality I’ve ever seen from a DSLR? A tie between the 12.4 in the NikonD200 and the 12.8 in the Canon 5D. My current 5D Mark II, with 22 megapixels worth of resolving power, makes images that look harsher than the original 5D. More noise,...

Categories Tech Talk

February 9, 2011

The Last Roll of Kodachrome

I have written (probably too much) about Steve McCurry getting the last roll of Kodachrome film made and how he took it around the world. Now, the photos have been published in a Vanity Fair slideshow. (Well, I think they’ve been published … the slideshow isn’t actually working right now. Funny, among my now-useless skill set is how to un-jam...

Categories Craft/Good Work

February 7, 2011

Henri Cartier-Bresson Exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta

I can’t wait. I can’t wait. I can’t wait. This has been on my calendar for months and it’s almost here – The High Museum of Art in Atlanta will have the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit open in less than two weeks. I can’t wait. I can’t wait. I can’t wait. Former student Katherine Poss suggested a class field trip, which...

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Photojournalism

February 7, 2011

A Journalist Dies in Egypt

Al-Ta’awun reporter Ahmad Mohaned Mahmoud has died from injuries he received while covering the protests in Cairo last week. The Committee to Protect Journalists has a round-up of journalists who have been harassed, arrested and detained.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism

February 6, 2011

Vlog: Visitors, Workshop Planning, Teaching Workflow and a Software Sale

This week we heard from the Washington Post’s Chris Stanford, The Northeast Georgian’s Alan NeSmith and Lane Gresham, talk about workflow as we teach the intro students Photo Mechanic (which is on sale right now) and make a quick comment on the treatment of journalists in Egypt.

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Video

February 5, 2011

Getty Images Photographer Injured … in Dallas

Getty Images’ Win McNamee was injured when several larger pieces of ice fell off Cowboys Stadium and struck him. McNamee was in Dallas to cover Sunday’s Super Bowl, but will fly back to Washington, D.C., on Saturday for surgery. His left shoulder is broken in four places from the bowling ball-sized pieces of ice that hit him.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry

February 5, 2011

Mobile Apps for Journalists

These come across the wires from time to time, links to lists of needed apps for mobile journalists. The latest is from Mediactive and put together by Josh Sprague, comprehensive if not exhaustive. No problems with most of these, though I’m not sure I’d include Instagram as it is more of an art filter program, but it has been building...

Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk