Author: Mark E. Johnson

January 30, 2011

Tickets for The Flash Bus Go On Sale Monday

Get your credit card out, January 31, Monday morning, tickets go on sale for the David Hobby and Joe McNally national tour. If you don’t want to be a hack who says that they only shoot with available light when we all know it’s because you’re afraid of light, then you need to get yourself to this. I will admit...

Categories Journalism

January 30, 2011

Jazz Legends by a Jazz Legend

In a remarkable feet, photographer William P. Gottlieb left his archive of photographs of jazz musicians to the public – upon his death i 2006, his work was released into the public domain. It’s a wonderful set of images, images that ooze access and style in places, the rawness of the off-stage performers life in other places. The light moves...

Categories Craft/Good Work

January 28, 2011

Covering Dakar

Reuters photojournalist Eric Gaillard takes us behind the scenes and gives a brief glimpse of what it is like to cover the Dakar Rally. On my automotive lists of things to do, at the top would be to compete on the Dakar. I know I’ll never do that, so maybe covering it one year … even that would be an...

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

January 28, 2011

Being Ready

We issued cameras to the intro students this week, so they’re off wandering around Athens, pointing their cameras at completely random things and cursing at the buttons. They sort of hate me now, I think. The one thing I tell every student, every semester, is to make sure you have your camera with you at all times. You just don’t...

Categories Craft/Good Work/Journalism

January 26, 2011

Uh-oh … The Flash Bus Tour is Coming to Atlanta

Joe McNally and David Hobby are pairing up to tour the states this spring in a big bus loaded with flash gear. The Atlanta stop is April 2 … I think I may need to get my kids together and get in there. Egads, the thought of the two leading proponents of small flash units together … I’ve seen McNally...

Categories Advice & Learning

January 26, 2011

Changes in the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Judging

This has been making the photo rounds … the National Press Photographers Association has announced a change in the way judging will be handled for some categories of this year’s Best of Photojournalism competition. I’ve read the post a few times and, well … I’m still unclear of what they’re doing. It sounds like the judges will review images remotely,...

Categories Business & Industry/Competitions

January 26, 2011

Why 3D Movies Don’t Work

This has almost nothing to do with journalism, but it’s a fascinating explanation of why 3D movies don’t work all that well by one of the top movie editors, Walter Murch.

Categories Tech Talk

January 26, 2011

Mantra vs. Mission Statement

Guy Kawaski was the original Macintosh evangelist. I know this because for many years I subscribed to his Mac EvangeList listserv. (Which was, I think, the first one I ever subscribed to in, um … 1993?) In this video from a Stanford University presentation, he talks about wasting time and money on creating a 50-word mission statement. Instead, create a...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism

January 24, 2011

Go Back, Reshoot, Try Again

Scott Bourne over at Photofocus.com has a short post up about a shooter he met at a workshop. The shooter’s great lament was that he didn’t get a photo he wanted of Mt. Ranier and Bourne points out that he should go again, since it was only a four hour drive for him. Love this graf, though I disagree with...

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work

January 23, 2011

Vlog: Introduction to Ethics

In which we talk about licensing journalists, violating the U.S. Constitution and video consumption habits.

Categories Good Work/Video