Author: Mark E. Johnson

November 3, 2007

Illinois Press Association sues Illinois High School Association

As the headline says, the IPA is suing the IHSA. The IHSA has set restrictions on how photos and video from high school sporting events can be used – limiting still photos to printed newspaper stories only and video to 30 second clips, a maximum of two minutes per game and not to be used for more than two days...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Thoughts & Theory

November 2, 2007

The Smile – and Other – Shutters

Okay, so Sony has a new camera that recognizes smiles. Now I could make some comment about how if the person behind the camera can’t recognize a smile they must be in art school or be a 20-year newspaper veteran, but that just seems cruel. So, instead, I give you the other shutter releases I would like to see on...

Categories Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

November 2, 2007

The Mundane Becomes Cool

One of the things I love about newspapers moving into new storytelling modes is the ability to make a seemingly mundane thing more interesting. Had I ever told my staff to go to a football game and cover the chain gang – the volunteers who move the first down markers around – they would have had a fit. But the...

Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

November 1, 2007

Okay, I Know It's for Charity …

But, still, this just doesn’t seem right – Harper’s Bazaar is auctioning off a one-month internship at the magazine. It’s bad enough so many places aren’t paying interns, but to have to pay for one …

Categories Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

November 1, 2007

Geek Alert – Eye-Fi

So you think downloading your cards takes too much time? Wish you could “live post” images to the web as you shoot them? Without having to spend hundreds of dollars on wireless bits from Canon or Nikon? Check out the EyeFi – a SD card that acts as a wireless transmitter, moving images from your camera to computer to the...

Categories Graphic Design/Tech Talk

November 1, 2007

Playing with Light

See, photography can be fun …

Categories Tech Talk

November 1, 2007

"Media & Public Life" lecture – TODAY

The Peabody Awards will present its inaugural Peabody-Smithgall Lecture on the theme of “The Media and Public Life” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, November 1, in the University of Georgia Chapel. Author and journalism professor Michael Schudson will be the first speaker at what is scheduled to become an annual event. His lecture will focus on the news media, but...

Categories Advice & Learning

October 31, 2007

Dilbert and Journalism

Scott Adams must have had a bad experience with a journalist based on today’s comic strip.

Categories Ethics & Legal/Journalism

October 30, 2007

"The Shot" on VH1

Karlee Baumann sent this link along … VH1 has a new reality show based on … fashion photographers who want to make it big. Ten wannabes will live together, shoot against each other and be deemed worthy or not … You know, I may have to DVR this … just for, you know, fun.

Categories Competitions/Good Work/Tech Talk

October 29, 2007

FREE PIZZA – And Pictures of Bugs

How can you pass up that combination? You can’t, you just can’t … On Friday, November 2, Professor G. Keith Douce from the Department of Entomology on the Tifton campus, will be in the Photojournalism Lab at noon to talk about the Bugwood Network – an image archive of pests, plants and problems around the world. The photo archive is...

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk