Author: Mark E. Johnson

October 23, 2014

Updating Sideline Policies – Monopods Are Allowed, Stop the Hysteria

Oklahoma University has updated their sideline police following an incident on Saturday where a player was injured after leaving the field and landing on a $10,499 lens. There are many posts in other forums complaining about the banning of monopods used to support long lenses – THERE IS NO SUCH BAN. Read the statement from Oklahoma University: No tripods are...

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

October 22, 2014

MediaStorm Internship Applications Due November 1

MediaStorm, one of the top multimedia production companies, is looking for spring interns. You won’t create, but you will help produce.

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Photojournalism

October 20, 2014

The Dangers of Sideline Work

On Saturday, Mike Simons of the Tulsa World had a $10,499 lens destroyed. Today, he apologized for hurting Oklahoma’s Sterling Shepard. Simons is a class act, folks. Let this be a warning to all shooters on the sidelines – if you watch the video, you’ll see him move out of the way easily. Why? He was on his knees, not...

Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

October 20, 2014

Slivers and Shadows

So, here’s my native New Englander coming out … but I’d love to see someone try this at other fields, chasing slivers and shadows of light like the Boston Globe’s Stan Grossfeld did at Fenway Park this season. Having spent some later afternoon time inside the University of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium, there’s a cool project just years away from my...

Categories Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

October 20, 2014

Pictures From a Road Trip

I used to think Scott Strazzante’s Common Ground project, which was shot over 14 years, was a big investment. Then I heard about Gunther Holtorf who, while not a photojournalist, used photography to document an epic road trip. How epic? Think about this: he visited 177 countries over 26 years using the same vehicle, which he put 550,000 miles on....

Categories Photojournalism

October 18, 2014

Internships and Fellowships, A List

Over at the Poynter Institute, Benjamin Mullin has compiled a list of 33 journalism fellowships and internships with upcoming deadlines. Some very good leads in there, worth poking through them.

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

October 16, 2014

“You Can’t Hide Hell”

Agence France-Presse’s Roland de Courson posted a chilling piece about their photo editors who have to look through all of the images coming out of the Middle East. Reading this gives you an entirely new perspective on hell. Commenting on how the job has changed since the start of the Iraq war more than a decade ago, photo editor Marina...

Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism

October 13, 2014

And Over at PBS …

… there’s me prattling on about matching sights and sounds on the EducationShift blog.

Categories Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

October 13, 2014

A Fair Day at the Fair

For the last nine years I’ve lead some sort of a workshop every semester for my advanced photojournalism students. This past weekend, we tackled something new – a 16 hour day at the Georgia National Fair and the Macon Telegraph posted a massive gallery of 265 images in addition to a section front (seen at left). There are really two...

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

October 10, 2014

New Photojournalism Movie

Opening later this month is 1,000 Times Good Night. The synopsis: Rebecca (Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche) is one of the world’s top war photojournalists, but she’s also a wife and mother, leaving behind a husband and two young daughters every time she travels to a new combat zone. After a near-death experience chronicling the ritual of a female suicide bomber, husband...

Categories Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory