Author: Mark E. Johnson

November 6, 2009

Career Starters … and Enders

Former student Beth Farrar sent this along … Nothing overly shocking in this report, to be honest, as anyone over the age of X will tell you everyone under the age of X is less professional than their generation. But it’s still worth spending some time thinking about how professionalism factors into the hiring process. The word “entitlement” comes up...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry

November 5, 2009

Rules Are Good

The legendary David Burnett writes about rules and how technology has changed the way photojournalists have worked over his 40 year career. How digital imaging (man, I hate that phrase) made so many of our old means seem quaint. And how, now, we have all new ethical dilemmas to obsess over. I’m actually glad the rules exist (such as they...

Categories Craft/Ethics & Legal

November 5, 2009

R&B: Parkour @ UGA

A look at the “Jam of the Century” on the UGA campus …

Categories Advice & Learning

November 5, 2009

Why We Matter Outside of Journalism

Andrea Jones (who bills herself as, “an ink-stained-turned-pixel-stained wretch,” which I love) tells us the Five Reasons You Should Hire a Photojournalist. To her five I’d add what Laurie Moot said in class last year: “Other people just aren’t as good at doing things as we are.” Which closely ties into Jones’ fourth reason: “Photojournalists are problem solvers.” And, really,...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

November 5, 2009

Welcome Note

Categories Thoughts & Theory

November 5, 2009

Amy Vitale on Shooting Video

The Poynter Institute’s Al Tompkins talked with photojournalist Amy Vitale on her new work in video. Vitale, whose still credits include National Geographic, Newsweek and Geo, has this comment towards the end: This is the best time to be a photo journalist. We have more tools available than ever before and we also have an audience bigger than anytime in...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk/Video

November 5, 2009

Digitizing Memory

I do it as much as anyone else. There’s a camera with me all the time and, much to my family’s dismay, I use it. I shoot short videos to embarrass them with later. My phone has a little program called Evernote that lets me store snippets of information for later retrieval, and it’s synched to my home and work...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

October 15, 2009

Prior Restraint or Patriotism?

The U.S. military in Afghanistan has changed the rules which members of the media must follow when embedded with a unit. The key change is in section 14: 14. Media will not be allowed to photograph or record video of U.S. personnel killed in action. Thoughts?

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal

October 7, 2009

McNally and Kelby: Just One Light

Love this …

Categories Tech Talk

October 5, 2009

Big Trees

This has popped up in a few places from a few people, and I’ve been just enough out of it to not remember who has sent it to me. So, whoever you are, um, thanks … This month’s National Geographic has a cover story on redwoods – the massive, ancient trees. And there’s a foldout image that will blow your...

Categories Good Work/Tech Talk