Mark E. Johnson – Page 28 – Visual Journalism

April 20, 2015

Getting Your Internship

The Associated Press Photo Managers will be hosting a Google hangout on Wednesday, April 22, at 1 p.m., to talk about getting an internship and making the most of it. Great group of people will be on it: Emily Bogle (NPR), Danny Gawlowski (Seattle Times), Andrea Morales (Freelance) and Adam Wolffbrandt (Western Kentucky). Get it on your calendar now.

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Photojournalism

April 20, 2015

“If you don’t see it, I don’t believe the impact truly hits you.”

CBS News’ 60 Minutes aired a piece this week on the 2013 sarin gas attacks in Syria which used some extremely graphic video from the scene. Al Tompkins put together a piece on it for the Poynter Institute, well worth going through. That quote above is from Scott Pelley who explained why they used the video. The piece is online,...

Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 20, 2015

Seats Still Available at Multimedia Immersion

FYI, there are a couple of seats still open for the National Press Photographers Association’s Multimedia Immersion workshop which runs May 12-16 at Syracuse University. From the site … What You Will Learn: Effectively planning and developing your story to save time on your workflow and increase the quality of your pieces Professional audio recording techniques in the field from...

Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

April 14, 2015

The Processes of Ansel Adams

This is a nearly 60 year old short documentary on Ansel Adams, but it’s still relevant – the level of preparedness comes through nicely. Of course, now I want a battered limousine with a shooting platform on it …

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 13, 2015

Preserving and Protecting a President’s Image

Get your DVRs ready … according to David Gonzalez at The New York Times’ Lens blog, HBO will have a documentary on the Kunhardt family’s collection of Abraham Lincoln images, reportedly 68,000 frames deep. Scheduled for 9 p.m. tonight and, if you have an iOS device and don’t have HBO, you can get a 30 day free trial of the...

Craft/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

April 10, 2015

Stories Are Everywhere

One of my students, Rachel Eubanks, sent me an email this morning with a link to this short video about a Sixth Star Award for an Uber driver. It’s a simple piece, not really journalism, but it was Ms. Eubanks’ comment that resonated: Just reminded me that stories are everywhere…even in business. And no matter what, they revolve around people....

Craft/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

April 7, 2015

Scott Simon on Storytelling

Was looking for something else entirely, but I am happy to have found this …

Craft/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 6, 2015

Formalizing Copyright Infringement Notices

Entomologist Alex Wild has created an FAQ to deal with people who have received a legal notice that they have infringed upon his copyright. Well worth a read.

Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

April 6, 2015

Nick Ut Talks About the Napalm Girl Photo

Very nice piece by Mark Edward Harris at Vanity Fair about the day Nick Ut made the iconic image of Kim Phuc, naked and burning, outside of Trang Bang, Vietnam.

At Work/Ethics & Legal/Good Work/Photojournalism

April 3, 2015

Going Wide

Actor Jeff Bridges has carried a Widelux camera on to movie sets with him for the last quarter century. A book of this work was published several years ago, but it’s pretty pricey. Now there’s a nice gallery of it online.

Good Work/Photojournalism

Author: Mark E. Johnson

Getting Your Internship

“If you don’t see it, I don’t believe the impact truly hits you.”

Seats Still Available at Multimedia Immersion

The Processes of Ansel Adams

Preserving and Protecting a President’s Image

Stories Are Everywhere

Scott Simon on Storytelling

Formalizing Copyright Infringement Notices

Nick Ut Talks About the Napalm Girl Photo

Going Wide