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Four Days Left to Apply for MediaStorm One-day Workshop

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 25, 2012

Applications for the upcoming MediaStorm One-day Workshop will close at 11:59 p.m. EST this Friday, September 28. This one-day workshop provides an overview of multimedia storytelling approaches while engaging participants in discussion about the most appropriate ways to create a multimedia story. Through real world examples, MediaStorm founder and executive producer Brian Storm will share tips and techniques to improve reporting, editing and distributing your multimedia project. This workshop is designed for anyone interested in multimedia storytelling, no experience is necessary. The workshop will look at multimedia methodology and theory — not the technical aspects of using audio and video recording devices. In this workshop participants will be asked to look deep into the when and why of different storytelling techniques and approaches. Our next One-day Workshop will run October 20, 2012. Applications due September 28. What You Will Learn Narrative Storytelling Developing the best approach for creating effective multimedia stories Pre-production…

Attend the Smith Grant Ceremony

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 20, 2012

The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund extends an open invitation to attend the ceremony for the 33rd Annual W. Eugene Smith Grant in the Humanistic Photography and Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism. W. Eugene Smith Grant Ceremony October 17, 2012 Doors 6:30 pm | Event 7:00 pm Reception will follow Free admission, limited seating The School of Visual Arts Theatre 333 West 23rd St. New York, NY 10011 The program will include presentations of photo essays by this year's grant and fellowship recipients and finalists, a unique tribute to the work of W. Eugene Smith, a special keynote speech, and the announcement and presentation of the 2012 jurors' discretionary grant, the 2012 Howard Chapnick grant, and the 2012 W. Eugene Smith Grant. About The Grant The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is presented annually to photographers whose work is judged by a panel of experts to be…

Salvi Danés - Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya

College Photographer of the Year Call for Entries

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 19, 2012

It's time to pull together the best of your images for entry in the annual College Photographer of the Year competition. There are important changes in the portfolio and multimedia categories this year as well as the addition of two new interpretive categories. Entry fee: Free, courtesy of Nikon Inc. Deadline: Oct. 7, 2012, 11:59 pm CST Apply: entry.cpoy.org This year's awards include a Nikon Digital SLR camera set, an internship at National Geographic Magazine, National Press Photographers Foundation scholarships, and post-production collaboration with MediaStorm, among others. Judging will be Nov. 8-15 on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. You are invited to attend, or, watch the judging sessions via either screencast on the CPOY website or on iTunes starting Nov. 8th. Fore more information email info@cpoy.org. Learn more and apply at entry.cpoy.org.

Rick Robinson speaks at Luminance. Photo by Michael Treola.

TimeWarpers: Evoking an Emotional Response, Last Session of Luminance

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 14, 2012

Rick Robinson, division vice president of marketing for Vision Research opened the last session of the conference with a stunning video by Variable shot using high speed imagery. He said there is an "undeniable appeal of high speed imagery." The high-speed cameras that Vision Research makes can shoot up to 1.4 million frames per second. Earlier this year they released a small 2500 fps camera for about $40,000. Up until that time their cameras cost a minimum of $125,000. High speed photography is often used in science and engineering, functioning like a "time microscope." But high speed photography has an important place in photography as an art as well. He pointed out the emotional response that people have to images played back in slow motion. "When you see it in slow motion you see it again for the very first time," he said. Check out some other stunning videos that use high…

Tyler Shields speaks at Luminance. Photo by Michael Treola.

The Instigators, Luminance Session Seven

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 14, 2012

Gary Morgan, CEO and co-founder of Splash News--which was bought by Corbis last year--opened "the instigators" session on day two of Luminance. He spoke about the change that celebrities have brought to news photography. News used to be about issues, it's now firmly about people, he said. He used the recent photos of Prince Harry in Las Vegas as an example. He pointed out that the photos that were sold to TMZ, then later sold to Splash are awful photos, in that they are shot poorly with a phone camera. But the photos made the top headlines and were well paid for because they were the first images to break news. It doesn't matter what kind of camera you have, it matters if you have a picture and you get it out first and fast. This is what is driving the entertainment news market now, he said. The democratization of media creates…