Mark E. Johnson – Page 46 – Visual Journalism

July 7, 2014

Self-centered Selfies

I’m waiting for the first obit of someone killed while taking a selfie. Why would you get yourself out and into some obscure location to watch the Tour de France and then turn away from the racers? Please note: You are not doing something important or heroic.

Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 6, 2014

The Letters of Dublin

Neat video on the sign painters of Dublin … Gentlemen of Letters – A Dublin Sign Painting Film from Colin Brady on Vimeo. (Thanks to Khoi Vinh for the link.)

Craft/Graphic Design/Journalism/Tech Talk

July 5, 2014

Art After Death

Arthur Lubow has a deep piece up on The New York Times about a posthumous retrospective of Gary Winogrand’s work now on display at the Museum of Modern Art. It’s a very posthumous show – when Winogrand died in 1984, he left some 2,500 rolls of film that hadn’t even been processed. Lubow’s piece wrestles with some deep questions about...

Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

July 3, 2014

Two Days in the Bubble

Ben Garvin of the Pioneer Press gives us a sense of what it’s like to join the president’s pool for a couple of days. The camaraderie and support he talks about is nice to hear, very easy to become self absorbed on that beat.

At Work/Photojournalism

July 2, 2014

A Good Eye Doesn’t Make You a Good Photographer

An old piece by legendary photo editor John Loengard rumbled into view on the Nieman Reports web site and it included this gem that I’d lost along the way: Before I became a picture editor, I assumed that “good photographers” took “good pictures” because they had a special eye. What I found was that good photographers take good pictures because...

Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism

June 29, 2014

Widgets for Smartphone Video

I’m recently back from a week of teaching teachers at the Poynter Institute where I did a pair of sessions on using your smartphone for video journalism. As part of those sessions I showed off a bunch of widgets I’ve found useful … Stability A big issue with shooting small is getting stable video – the light weight of smartphones...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

June 27, 2014

Diving In

This is pretty wild … photographer Clark Little specializes in photographing surf, from inside the waves. (Thanks to Sara Quinn for the link.)

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 26, 2014

Four Photographers Named as National Geographic Explorers

The National Geographic Society has their first set of visual storytellers to be added to their Explorers program. Previous Explorers have come primarily from areas of science, research and innovation. David Guttendelder, Lyn Johnson, Cory Richards and Brian Skerry will spend two years, “sharing their visual expertise with diverse areas of the National Geographic Society and with the public, producing...

At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Photojournalism

June 17, 2014

Something to Hold Over Their Heads – Education

Three years ago, independent journalist Phillip Datz was ordered to leave a public street where a police stop was occurring. After moving, he called the Suffolk County Police Department’s public information officer who told him, essentially, he was fine. When he started to record again, Suffolk County Police Sergeant Michael Milton arrested him. Earlier on the recording Sergeant Milton said,...

At Work/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

June 14, 2014

Copyright Terms: Get Them Right

Good post by Jonathan Bailey on the terms tossed about in regards to copyright that most folks get wrong. (Thanks to John Harrington for the link.)

Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

Author: Mark E. Johnson