Author: Mark E. Johnson

May 30, 2007

Visual Literacy

Flash Goddess (her preferred term, I believe) Mindy McAdams has been pondering how to teach visual literacy at the University of Florida. Those of us teaching in a word-heavy journalism program wrestle with this a lot – how do you break 14 years worth of training that says “we communicate with words” when, in fact, we communicate in lots of...

Categories Advice & Learning

May 28, 2007

Sky Visions

NPR.org has a nice audio slideshow on Michael Collier, an ariel landscape photographer. The story that aired on Morning Edition has slightly different audio – including the reporter, Howard Berkes, talking about his air sickness patch. Both are worth a few minutes of your time.

Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

May 27, 2007

Updates

You’ll notice the template has changed … while the black backgrounds made photos look good (generally), white-on-black gets hard to read after a while. Hopefully this’ll be a little easier on the eyes. Of course, I suspect many of you aren’t actually here reading this as you’re using an RSS reader of some sort … right? Also note over there...

Categories Graphic Design/Tech Talk

May 26, 2007

Light(ing) Snacks

There are time I miss shooting more than I can tell you, and it’s usually not the big stuff that I miss. Yeah, the championship games and neat places we get to go to are all cool, but it’s the simple stuff I miss. Sadly, I never worked for a newspaper that had a real studio. Which is okay, because...

Categories Good Work/Tech Talk

May 25, 2007

NYT Fashion Shoot

Ever wondered how the New York Times does a fashion shoot? Check out this three minute video …

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Tech Talk

May 25, 2007

Don't Delete – So Says Avedon. Sort Of.

If you’ve sat through one of my classes, you know how paranoid I am. I show up early, I stay late, I have backup gear and escape plans. Need to transmit? I find two or three ways of doing that. I’m like that. On top of that, I never delete files. Not at home and, absolutely, never in the field....

Categories Business & Industry/Tech Talk

May 25, 2007

Oh, the Email I Get

Across the transom this morning came this … I am a graduate student at UGA, and have an impending wedding on July 29th. Due to the budgetary constraints I face, I am unable to hire a professional photographer for the wedding. I talked to a few of my friends who went through Grady for their undergrad and they suggested that...

Categories Business & Industry/Thoughts & Theory

May 21, 2007

Schoolhouse – Homework Managing Software

This got plugged on MacBreak Weekly (a great podcast looking at Mac issues) and it looks like it could be handy – Schoolhouse is a free (Mac-only) software program that will help you keep all your assignments lined up. You can keep all your notes together (including rich text format stuff), PDFs, other files, due dates and grades. Looks pretty...

Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

May 20, 2007

11 Tips for Landscape Photography

(Those coming into JOUR3710 pay attention here – your first few assignments will be on pictorials and all of this applies.) Over at The Digital Photography School, there’s a great post talking about landscape photography. Not journalism, but some of the tips apply to seeing something we can all work on. (Thanks to Brother Brian for the link.)

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 19, 2007

Job Opp

MediaStorm.org is looking for an interactive designer and a developer. For those living in a cave, Brian Storm is one of THOSE REALLY BIG PEOPLE in the industry. His company has produced some of the most amazing pieces over the last few years, and he speaks at conferences seemingly constantly. MediaStorm packages are not about technology, they’re about great storytelling....

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Multimedia