Author: Mark E. Johnson

April 24, 2007

What The Duck's 200th strip

Today, Aaron Johnson posted his 200th What the Duck comic – a must read for photo-folks. In addition, he asked others to post their versions of some older strips – his drawings, their text – and they are a riot. (The Ansel Adams-button made me laugh out loud.)

Categories Advice & Learning/Thoughts & Theory

April 23, 2007

Bad Exit Interviews

When you wrap up a job, either of your own volition or your now-former employers, you’ll usually go through an exit interview. Across the transom came this report today: We let a photo intern go today because he was nuts. During his exit lunch he was talking about how he thought he’d improved and his boss here said, “If it...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

April 23, 2007

NBC Logo – To Alter or Not

Jim Romenesko asks whether NBC’s act of stamping their logo on the photos and footage they received from the Virginia Tech shooter is the same or different from Allan Detrich altering a photo for the Toledo Blade last month.

Categories Ethics & Legal

April 23, 2007

Eddie Adams Workshop – Barnstorm XX

For twenty years, some of the best editors and young photojournalists have gathered for a fall workshop in upstate New York for Barnstorm – the photo shooting seminar organized by the late, great Eddie Adams. Resgistration is now open, deadline is May 14. Tuition is free, though you need to get yourself up there for the week of October 5-8....

Categories Advice & Learning

April 23, 2007

VT Student Photojournalist's Images

In the chaos following last week’s shootings at Virginia Tech, police detained a photojournalist shooting for the campus paper. Shaozhuo Cui was detained for two hours and his equipment held for two days. Now, his story and photos are in Newsweek and posted online at MSNBC.com – including him talking about the events and a collection of other images shot...

Categories Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

April 23, 2007

A Prayer for Father Tim

Jim Gerhz and Maura Lerner at the Minneapolis Star Tribune teamed up for a story looking at a military chaplain who was injured in Iraq. Note the use of audio – subtle and effective. Look at the variety of images – no two ever look similar. Thanks to Lindy Dugger for the link.

Categories Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

April 20, 2007

Correction needed

In a comment appended to a story out of Syracuse University about a member of the university community having contracted tuberculosis … Please correct the following error in your article the test is a TB test not a TV test as stated in your paper.

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism

April 19, 2007

From Laos to Barrow

Su Anderson, the newest staff photographer at the Gwinnett Daily Post, has the first in a three-part series of audio slide shows looking at a the Hmong population in Barrow County, Georgia. Pay close attention to how she helps the reader identify who’s speaking – by cropping in on a group photo, then fading to the full version, the viewer...

Categories Multimedia/Photojournalism

April 18, 2007

Photo Manipulations Through History

Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, has a good listing of manipulated images (and seems to be updating it continually). A good resource.

Categories Ethics & Legal

April 18, 2007

Virginia Tech Student Photojournalist Detained, Equipment Held

According to an article on the Student Press Law Center web site, Collegiate Times photojournalist Shaozhuo Cui was detained by police on Monday because he matched a description of the possible shooter on the Virginia Tech campus. While the student newspaper isn’t objecting to his being detained given the circumstances, the authorities have not returned his cameras or identification cards...

Categories Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism