Author: Mark E. Johnson

March 21, 2009

Juggling on Assignment

Adam Westbrook, a reporter for a British radio station, talks about balancing the needs of audio, stills and video while on assignment. (Thanks to Koci at Multimedia Shooter for the link.)

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Audio/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video

March 19, 2009

Flash Day in DocPhoto

Categories Tech Talk

March 17, 2009

Pictures with Purpose Workshop

FYI … The 2nd annual Pictures with Purpose workshop will be held again in Oak View, California, about 70 miles north of LosAngeles, 30 milessouth of Santa Barbara. This year’s workshop will begin Sunday, July 12, at 2 p.m. and runthrough Sunday, July 18th. We cut the days in half and lowered theprice. This year we will be focusing even...

Categories Advice & Learning

March 14, 2009

On Audio Slide Shows …

I love audio slide shows. They are wonderful journalistic creations, able to mix the depth of still images with the power of a subject’s voice. I teach all my students how to do them – and they do them well. The wire services have started to push them out, as well, which is fantastic. There are so many stories that...

Categories Multimedia/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

March 14, 2009

Gear Guides

We’re getting close to that time of the year, the time when many of my students will start fretting about graduating. And it’s not so much the Becoming a Real Person Dilemma as it is what do I need to buy? I say it often – we do a great thing here at UGA in providing gear to our students....

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

March 10, 2009

UGA PJ Alumni on Verve Photo

Kendrick Brinson, a 2005 UGA PJ alumni, is the current featured photographer on Verve Photo’s New Breed of Documentary Photographers project.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry

March 10, 2009

Networking to Survive

Over on BlogHer, Kim Pearson has a piece up on, “Survival Tips for Journalists in the New News Economy.” Two of her main ideas – that everyone is now a potential entrepreneur and that networking matters – are things students can easily latch on to and do something about.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry

March 10, 2009

"Sex, Lies and Photoshop"

Jesse Epstein has an opinion piece – done as a video – on the New York Times site about, “Sex, Lies and Photoshop.” It comes from a proposed law in France that would require magazines to delineate how much retouching has been done on the photos. Not overly deep, but worth five minutes of your day.

Categories Ethics & Legal

March 7, 2009

Hey Dave, How's the Workshop Going?

Categories Advice & Learning

March 5, 2009

Administrivia

File this under ego … today marks the second anniversary of the UGA PJ blog. While there was one experimental post in February, on March 5, 2007, the first two real posts went online – a look at the Faces of Rochester and another on low angle sports photography. There won’t be a cake, but a simple nod to surviving...

Categories Thoughts & Theory