Mark E. Johnson – Page 258 – Visual Journalism

October 10, 2008

Okay, Maybe Palin's Not Supposed to be Pretty?

After the last post about how evil Newsweek was for not retouching a photo of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin comes this post about whether using Palin’s legs as a framing device is sexist or not … Note the number of comments – more than 14,000 as of Friday morning. This is reminiscent of the photo of a Navy wife published in the...

Ethics & Legal

October 9, 2008

Newsweek Gets Blasted for NOT Retouching a Cover

Well, this is an entertaining turn … Fox News had a segment where Newsweek was taken to task for its cover photo of Sarah Palin … and it is just bizarre … They claim that the cover photo should have been retouched because that’s what the fashion magazines do. Umm … yes, they do. But Newsweek is not a fashion...

Ethics & Legal

October 6, 2008

UGA Photojournalism at the Petit Le Mans

The American Le Mans Series has posted photos from our weekend workshop at the Petit Le Mans. After spending 16 hours at the track, the Advanced Photojournalism class had captured 55 gigabytes worth of data, totaling somewhere over 25,000 photos of the 10-hour-long endurance race at Road Atlanta. Four professionals came in to help for the day – freelance Robin...

Good Work

October 3, 2008

James Nachtwey's TED Wish

Last year, James Nachtwey won the TED Prize – $100,000 to, essentially, do whatever he wanted to do. He’s now done it – a story that looks at Extreme Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. Warning: These are not easy photographs to look at.

Good Work/Photojournalism

September 25, 2008

NPPA Flying Short Course

See us and be seen – looks like we have more than a dozen UGA photojournalism students heading to the Flying Short Course stop in Boiling Springs, N.C., on Friday. Look for us there and say hello. Flying Short Course schedule, for those heading there … 7:30 a.m. Registration opens 8:00 a.m. Exhibits open 8:30 a.m. Welcome 8:40 a.m. John...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

September 23, 2008

Don't Take my Kodachrome Away

I admit, it’s been years since I ran a roll through a camera, but this AP story on whether digital imaging has killed off Kodachrome has me thinking of ordering up a few rolls. For you young’uns, if you’ve never shot a roll of film, once, just once, borrow your parents’ (or grandparents’) camera and run a roll of Kodachrome...

Craft/Tech Talk

September 21, 2008

"Homeless in Atlanta"

John Spink at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has published an audio slide show looking at a homeless woman who lives by the CSX train tracks. All told through her voice in just over two minutes, pay special note to the opening image and the signs in the background. I would kill to make an opening image like that …

Audio/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

September 21, 2008

Sounds of the Red Carpet

Ever wonder what it sounds like to be a celebrity photographer at a big red carpet event? Well, Max Rossi and Dennis Balibouse let you see and hear what the Venice Film Festival is like.

At Work/Business & Industry/Multimedia

September 18, 2008

UGA PJ Alumni in the Wild

One of the featured stories on the Grady College web site this week looks at former student Rebecca Hay who spent the summer as the photo intern for the Atlanta Braves, which turned into a job with the Big South Conference this fall. From the May graduates, Sara Guevara is working for the Gainesville Times, Lindy Dugger is at the Rome...

At Work/Business & Industry

September 17, 2008

Newark Star-Ledger Threatens to Close

Yep, they sent a notice to their employees yesterday and posted it to the web – if the Newark Star-Ledger can’t get a new contract with the driver’s union by October 8, the paper will be put up for sale or close by January 5, 2009. The Star-Ledger has been doing some innovative online stuff and isn’t a small paper...

Business & Industry

Author: Mark E. Johnson