Author: Mark E. Johnson

May 3, 2007

Geek Alert – Lego Cameras

Lindy Dugger found a web site that explains how to build a medium format camera out of Legos. Or how to build a 35 mm camera, again out of Legos, if you want a more, er, compact camera … Where can I find black legos?

Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

May 3, 2007

Flickr Photo Sales

Photo District News has a short piece on the rise of Flickr as a stock photography site. Though the terms of service prohibit using Flick to market products, lots of folks are getting found and, the smart ones, are making some money.

Categories Business & Industry

May 3, 2007

Portrait Tricks

So, People magazine has a cover story on the most beautiful people (erp), now photographed without make-up or retouching (eck). (Okay, I have NO idea why I’m writing about this, but breakfast is gurgling a bit, so you know.) And I really COULDN’T CARE LESS. But PopPhoto has posted a short piece on how to photograph people and make them...

Categories Tech Talk

May 2, 2007

No Photojournalism Here, But It's Pretty Cool

Monkeehub presents the Torchlight Gallery. It’s a weird interface … but, man, is it cool …

Categories Graphic Design/Multimedia

May 2, 2007

"Get busy living, or get busy dying"

The quote is from “The Shawshank Redemption,” and it shows up in a post by Orlando Sentinel journalist Matt Waite where he talks about training for the new world. (This post sourced from Mindy McAdams, where else?)

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Multimedia

May 2, 2007

Lighting 102 – An Online Lighting Workshop

David over at Strobist has announced their second online lighting workshop, which will start June 4. Partnering the blog and Flickr groups, you’ll be able to follow along and work on your lighting techniques, post them to Flickr and see how other people handle the assignments. Not familiar with Strobist? Go poke around – their moto is “Less Gear. More...

Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk

May 2, 2007

100 Good Things

Chip Litherland, from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, has put together a list of the 100 things that are completely right with photojournalism jobs.

Categories Photojournalism

April 27, 2007

Insomnia Photo Festival – Friday, April 27

Want a new MacBook Pro, 80 GB iPod and a copy of Aperture? Then plan on being wide awake for 24 hours starting at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 27, for Apple’s Insomnia Photo Festival. Register in advance and at 5 p.m. Apple will give out the info on what to shoot. Pay close attention to the details on how...

Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

April 26, 2007

Irreversible vs. Irrevocable

A recent entry by Ray Bacchetti on the Tomorrow’s Professor Blog has had me playing with words. Towards the end of a piece titled “Birthright” he has a simple three word sentence – “Education is irreversible.” And I like that sentiment, but in talking about the line I quoted it wrong to my class today, saying instead, “Education is irrevocable.”...

Categories Advice & Learning

April 25, 2007

Alterations, Again

News Photographer magazine editor Donald Winslow reports on how several publications digitally altered one of the images from the Virginia Tech shooting, allegedly to protect a student’s dignity.

Categories Ethics & Legal