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July 13, 2010

One For the Kids

I know there’s a fairly large number of college students reading this (meaning, all of mine), so here’s a deal for you … Amazon.com, which has everything you really need to be happy, has a free shipping service called Prime. (You want a three pack of Spiderman toothbrushes? They have it. How about an external battery for your 2001-era Handspring...

Tech Talk

July 12, 2010

Watch Where You Walk. Always.

Being aware of your surroundings is critical in photojournalism. We work in dangerous locations where emotions run high, so knowing your place in space is important. Turns out, the same is true for other photographic realms …

At Work/Business & Industry

July 8, 2010

Converging in Charleston

This week, I’m in Charleston, South Carolina, for the National Press Photographers Association’s Convergence 10 conference. We wrapped up day one an hour or so ago with a great talk on copyright, just 13 hours after we kicked it off with a panel discussion centered around the question of what is journalism now. In between were a dozen other talks...

Advice & Learning/Journalism

July 6, 2010

Energy, Online

I spent this morning posting 16 video pieces my students did this past spring. For my Documentary Photography course, we focused on a theme for their final video projects, a theme based on just one word: energy. From there, I let them have at it. The story topics are all over the place, from recycling to dairy farms, bike groups...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Video

July 5, 2010

Really? The Economist is Now Altering Images?

Damon Kiesow pointed out a New York Times article about The Economist altering a Reuters image for their cover. I mean, really? After everything else that’s happened over the last few years, deleting people from an image is the way to put together a cover on a purported news magazine? Since I don’t subscribe, and the Times article doesn’t say, did...

Ethics & Legal

July 5, 2010

Social Media Down on the Farm

USA Today has an interesting piece online about farmers starting to use social media technology to talk about what they do and network with other farmers. We’ve all been sent the YoutTibe videos of “atrocious” farm conditions but that’s only one side of the story. Now, agricultural workers are stepping up and stepping in with their side of the story....

Journalism

July 4, 2010

Photographing War Memories

National Public Radio has a piece up this morning about fine arts photographer Jennifer Karady and her series of photos on visualizing memory, “Soldiers’ Stories of Iraq and Afghanistan.” It’s an interesting idea, trying to integrate the interpretation of memories in the daily lives of returned troops. Thoughts?

Good Work

July 2, 2010

Learning, with a Side of Self-promotion

A week from now, I’ll be over in lovely Charleston, South Carolina, at the National Press Photographers Associations’ Convergence 2010 conference. It’s not too late to get yourself there, you know – a good friend told me yesterday he’s booking his tickets, has to be there. The line-up is pretty eclectic, if I do say so myself. And I get...

Advice & Learning

June 30, 2010

A Voice of Reason in a Cloud of Insanity

Today, I like Scott Bourne a little more. Which is hard to do, because I liked him quite a bit before. Is it buyer’s remorse? Is it fear of the troll? Whatever causes it, camera/lens hypochondria is a really big issue. Thecure? Avoid the Internet, no one wants to see photos of your computer screen, anyway. (For the record, I’ve...

Tech Talk

June 29, 2010

Ahh, Is it Time for Real Advertising Metrics?

I have said for quite some time now that web sites and the advertisers that support them need to move away from the classic model of page views determining ad revenue. Aside from the design disaster that this entails (do you really like having to click and load 20 new pages to look at a photo gallery?), I believe that...

Business & Industry

Author: Mark E. Johnson