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Final Portfolios

Lab hours:

• Dec. 7 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Dec. 10 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Dec. 11 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Dec. 12 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Dec. 13 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Dec. 14 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Don’t push the deadline. Be paranoid - no portfolios will be accepted after 5:00 p.m. Remaining time will be announced throughout the day as shown on the clock on computer 0.

Deadline: Friday, December 14, 5:00 p.m. SHARP

You must turn in your equipment with your portfolio. Be sure that all filters are in good condition, all lens caps are present, hoods are there, synch cords, audio recorder, microphone and adaptor are in your bag. If anything is missing or broken, you’re responsible for replacing or repairing it. If you don’t, your account will be flagged and you won’t graduate.

Portfolio requirements:

20 single images, shot during this semester
1 photo story
Intellectual Photographer Paper

DITL project folder should be on the CD, as well

Color laser prints of all the images, as well as one CD with high resolution versions of the images, to be placed in a 9x12 manila clasp envelope with your name and section on it.

All images must have complete, AP style captions, proper credit lines and correct file names.

To print photos with captions:

• When you are done toning, cropping and captioning, go to File -> Print with Preview
• Make sure “Center Image” is checked
• If a horizontal, click on “Scale to Fit Media”
• If a vertical, set height to 7.5 inches
• Click on “Description” to get captions to print
• Click on “Labels” to get file name to print
• Do not rotate prints in Page Setup
• Send to the HP 4600 printer

DITLs

Two past DITLs for you to look at:

Colin Smith on John Rawlston

Katie Monroe on W.A. Bridges

light kit for sunday

Hey-
I need a light kit for use on Sunday--is anyone going to be able to part with theirs by then?
thanks!
-Rene
raquenivy@gmail.com
(706) 340-5033

Things To Do ...

By next Wednesday, Nov. 7, please drop the ALMS and football images you want to contribute onto the server. Inside of the 3710 folder are two more - named ALMS and CCHS - for your images. (There are copies of the rosters in the glass office.)

Hearst entries need to be to me by tomorrow, Nov. 2, and noon. Two portraits/personality images, two features - one has to have been published. Need a tearsheet of the published image.

If interested in the Terry shooting gig, let me know and I'll pass along your name.

Join us for pizza and bugs tomorrow at noon, too.

Lit portraits

It was asked, and here are some more links to portraits, both executive and environmental. Pay attention to the way the light is balanced between ambient and the flash, as well as the quality of light.

Ed Carreon, Los Angeles based photographer

Chris Ware, New York based photographer

Notes ...

About notes. Have you done yours yet?

UPDATE - Executive Portraits

To upload your portraits, save all your HTML and images into a folder named "071023" - there isn't a link for that yet on your sites, but I'll add one this evening.

Forgot to do that in my rush out the door last night, my apologies.

Plan on uploading or re-uploading at the start of class on Tuesday. I clicked something wrong and ovewrote any files that had been uploaded. I'll make it up to you next week, somehow.

Photo Opp

Prof. Jim Biddle in Telecomm is looking for someone to do a shoot in Atlanta on Friday, October 19. A local will be interviewed on CNN, he'd like some stills shot. No immediate payment, but the images may be used for a future TV production, so there could be some later.

Let me know if you're intrigued.

Future Assignments

A quick run-down, always subject to alterations:

• Tuesday, October 16: Practice audio
• Thursday, October 18: Health and Medical, first edit (3-10 images)
• Tuesday, October 23: Executive portrait (2-5 images)
• Thursday, November 1: Environmental portrait (2-5 images)
• Thursday, November 8: Health and Medical, final package
• Thursday, November 15: Conceptual portrait (2-5 images)
• Tuesday, November 20: Day in the Life of a Photojournalist (8-12 minutes)
• Thursday, November 28: General News (3-5 images)

Assignment: Audio

For Tuesday, October 16: Two separate mini projects ...

First, choose a subject and do an interview with them. You'll need to be able to edit together a brief piece where they introduce themselves, tell us their hometown and major and then say something about their hometown.

The second part is to practice recording natural sound. Look for an opportunity to record ambient, background (long) sound and several instances of close-up/detail sound. Subject matter isn't as important as identifying good sound from a given situation.

We'll be working with Audacity, the audio editing software, on Tuesday.

Story Proposal

Second draft is due on Tuesday. No photo requests needed this week.

Petit Le Mans photos

All the laptop files have been moved to the server in the lab. You can log on, open the 3710 folder, then the Petit folder and you'll see your images (broken into folders by shooter).

Ask the lab attendant for the DVDs that are out back to burn onto - will take too many CDs for most of you. (You can do about 4.5 GB on a DVD.)

For Thursday, please have 5-10 images from the workshop posted. We'll be reviewing features and portraits on Tuesday and starting to talk about audio.

Also Need a Carpool

I need a carpool too! I somehow missed how this worked in class, or something (did we even get around to talking about it, other than the "there are limited passes" speech?)

I'm looking to carpool Friday and Saturday, but I have to be back in Athens to shoot something at 8 pm on Friday night. Saturday is whatever. I don't mind driving if someone wants to kick in for gas. I drive a truck so I can take two other people max (if one is skinny), and I have a steel toolbox in the back I can lock valuables in if that's a worry.

lindydugger@gmail.com or 706-767-2852

Shooting Opportunity

Passing this along ...

My name is TJ Adeshola and I am a graduate student/teaching assistant in Grady. I had the pleasant opportunity of speaking with you last Thursday regarding photography for a live jazz/poetry event entitled "Soul Libations". The event will be on October 18th at the Winery downtown, from 7-9 pm. I am writing you in hopes that you would do us the honor of informing any students interested in doing freelance photography for the event ... Anyone interested can reach me any time before October 10th at soul.libations@gmail.com, or taylor34@uga.edu. They can also call me at (423)255-1884. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to speak with me and I look forward to the opportunity of working with your students.

carpool

I'm looking for a group to carpool with to go to the ALMS...

My photoblog, finally

Well I finally got some stuff up on my photoblog. Check it out if you get a chance and post some comments.

www.rhammphotojour.wordpress.com

I have the 2-light kit if any group needs it

Hey all-

Kelly had the 2-light kit checked out of the lab so you couldn't have gotten it Thursday, but since she won't be in town this weekend, she left it at my house. My group already has a kit checked out, so if any groups need the 2-light kit for their project for this coming Thursday, you can get it from me. I live just outside of campus. I'm shooting football tomorrow but otherwise will be around all weekend, just give me a call and come pick it up.

Lindy

Flash Group Project

Here's the deal ... to get everyone more comfortable with the light kits, you're going to be broken into groups. Each group will need to produce a portrait of each member of the group and have it posted by 10:45 a.m. on October 4. (No class that day, we'll review the following Tuesday.)

Each member of the group needs to shoot one of the portraits - so, if there are three of you, one is the subject, one the shooter, one the assistant, then rotate.

These should be fairly formal images - good light, clean backgrounds.

The groups:

Group A: Ashley, Lindy, Becky, Richard
Group B: Kristen, Sarah, Josh
Group C: Tyler, Emily, Sara
Group D: Waites, Rene, Jenna

Examples:

Freed Photography
Kit Noble (go to portfolio, then corporate)
Gary Parker

Post questions, comments and concerns ...

Greenville News and American Le Mans Series Visitors

Jam-packed Thursday ...

Chris Weston, managing editor at the Greenville News in Greenville, S.C., will with us for the first hour. They are doing lots of high quality multimedia stuff - check out the video galleries and the restaurant guides. Be prepared to ask questions - specific questions.

After Mr. Weston, Jamie Sellers, Broadcasting & Public Relations/Media Services Manager for the American Le Mans Series will join us. Go run through the ALMS web site so you have an idea for what they're doing. (And, btw, they are desperate for video editors there - and I cannot get any telecomm kids interested. Learn to edit. Fast.)

Assignment: Feature 2

For Thursday, September 27, please have on the server three stand-alone feature photos. These should be from found situations that talk about life in Athens.

A few notes ... proof your pages after publishing, to make sure everything made it up there ... please be on-time ... keep shooting well - there's been improvements across the board already, keep at it.

* I will be on the road for the next few days and without Internet access, I'll send out critiques Sunday evening or Monday morning. Sorry for the delay but I can't alter this schedule.

Assignment: Story Proposal

For Tuesday (in lieu of photo requests), please have your first draft of an in-depth story proposal ready. We're going to use the Alexia Foundation's standards for this - so 750 words maximum length, the first 25 as a summation.

About the foundation:

Alexia Tsairis, an honor photojournalism student at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, was a victim of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. She was returning home for the Christmas holidays after spending a semester at the Syracuse University London Centre. Alexia was known by her peers and professors as one of the most promising photo-journalism students at SU.

During the summers of 1987 and 1988 she interned for the Associated Press Graphics and Photography departments in New York City. Alexia was a dedicated supporter of Amnesty International and Greenpeace. She had a deep commitment to world peace.

The family of Alexia Tsairis has established the Alexia Foundation for World Peace, Inc., a non-profit foundation. Alexia's abiding beliefs were in the capacity and responsibility of individuals to shape and advance peace in our time. The Alexia Foundation is dedicated to providing students and professionals the means to do so.

And about the competition:

The Alexia Competition was not created with the purpose of rewarding the best picture takers -- this is not a portfolio competition. The awards will go to students who can further cultural understanding by conceiving concise, focused, and meaningful story proposals. There is no mathematical formula for determining the winners, but the story proposal is the most important part of the application. All proposals are read and ranked by the judges before any portfolios are reviewed. You are encouraged to have your application reviewed and proofread for accuracy, clarity and conciseness. You may confer with your teachers on topic selection and proposal writing.

You are also encouraged to consider stories that explore cultural understanding in or near you local community. While we do not discourage proposals on foreign topics, the judges give no extra weight to foreign topics, and indeed, think that you are more likely to complete a story near home than one abroad.

When evaluating your portfolio, the judges consider your technical ability, your ability to work with your subjects and your style. The winning entries will be those that provide strong story proposals with portfolios that exhibit the photographic ability to execute a story at a high level.

National Press Photographers Association Student Chapter

The National Press Photographers Association (which you are all members of, right?) has an option for creating student chapters on campuses with photojournalism programs. There has been an NPPA "club" on campus in the past, but I don't believe there has been a formal chapter.

Why would you do this? Given that there are only four active student chapters at the moment, creating a new one would garner some attention - and attention is a good thing when you're looking for jobs and internships. It would get you some money from the NPPA for individual programs (speakers, shooting events, etc.). It may also allow you to go to SGA for more money to fund, say, trips to the NPPA's Flying Short Course in Washington, D.C., in October. (HINT HINT)

Work Opp. - Georgia Magazine

Got an email from Kelly Simmons ( simmonsk@uga.edu ) at Georgia Magazine, she's looking for some folks to shoot for the magazine. They have some writing interns but don't have enough work to keep a shooting intern busy, so she's looking to hire some folks to shoot from time to time.

If you haven't looked at the magazine, find a copy and take a look. They light a LOT of portraits, so getting those skills down will be a huge help to you.

Assignment: Story Proposal

We're going to postpone the story proposal due date from Sept. 20 to September 25 (and it will be in lieu of photo requests for next week). We haven't talked about it enough yet, we'll do that this week.

Hey Getty, how about not hurting the industry?

Getty Images apparently just drastically reduced the prices of many of their images as much as 90% for licensing purposes. The main problem with this is that they apparently don't actually own the rights to many of the images they dropped the price for.

Read more here:
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9776022-1.html

DITL Project

As mentioned in class, the deadline for notification by your photojournalist is this Thursday, Sept. 13. I've only heard from about half thus far.

So ... chime in down in comments with who you're doing and I'll let you know if I've heard from them yet.

FYI - Guest on Sept. 18

Next Tuesday, Jim Alred, New Media Director for the Rome News Tribune will be joining us in class. Please poke around their web site and be prepared to talk about what they're doing.

Health/Medical Project

As discussed we'll be working with Prof. Pat Thomas' graduate health and medical reporting class. She's a little undersubscribed with just six (!) students, so we'll be double and triple teaming them.

They have created a class blog where they've identified different areas they'll be reporting on - along the left hand side are the six topic areas. Take a look at what they're talking about and see what interests you. By Monday morning, please email me your top three choices and then Prof. Thomas and I will work on pairing you guys up.

Also, remember we'll be meeting with her class at 9 a.m. on Wednesday in room 205 - note that's different from where I told you before.

Post questions here, comments there - start the discussion.

Student Discounts

Rusty Bailey asked in the comments yesterday if there were any software discounts for things like Adobe Photoshop CS3 and the answer is yes, big ones.

The university's eMSD program said they were going to offer Adobe discounts, the R&B reported that, then eMSD said the R&B was wrong. Yet ... they still have it listed on their FAQ page (What products are available?: University of Georgia students may purchase Adobe or Microsoft products.) ... so that's not really an option.

Regardless, Apple and Adobe both offer significant discounts on their software and hardware packages for students. The bookstore has the best prices I've seen, believe it or not. Perhaps the volume they're selling gets them a better deal, but I'd look there first. For Apple stuff, if you go to the Apple Store, look along the right hand side for education links and you'll find their discounted stuff. Again, check the bookstore first - I don't know why, but buying iWork and Final Cut Pro HD last year was cheaper on campus than online.

Some camera manufacturers have discounts, too, on gear. I get listings of those from time-to-time and post them in the lab.

(Sorry for the cross posting, but people need to know this stuff ...)

Thirdsies

On the bandwagon... I've got a photo blog thing too. Been keeping it up since April. I try to update a few times a week.

LindyShoots: http://lindyshoots.wordpress.com

It's not exclusively photos. As described, "LindyShoots: Photos, the business of photojournalism, and occasional musings on trying to hack it as a p.j. student in the South."

I have fun with it. I'm always trying to improve, so I whole-heartedly welcome any comments or critique on the photos or on content and functionality blog itself. No one likes a boring blog...

Thanks for looking :)
Cheers,
Lindy

Me too (Photoblog Link)

I guess I'll throw out my photoblog as well.

http://www.desktopcadence.com/photoblog.

Feel free to leave comments/critiques/etc...

-Josh

Check out my blog

Well, after months and months of procrastination, I've finally posted something on my photo blog
It's nothing fancy...yet.

Lab Hours - UPDATED

The photo lab is now open for business - enrolled students in either 3610 or 3710 can use the lab to work on their assignments. Hours as follows:

Monday - 3:30 to 6:30
Tuesday - 4:45 to 7:45
Wednesday - 3:30 to 6:30
Thursday - 8:00 to 10:45 (a.m.)
Friday - 10:00 to 3:00

Main Page is Up

The main page for links to each of you is up at:

http://mejohnso.myweb.uga.edu/f07_3710.htm

Share at will.

Weird little event - Insectival!

Description:
Join us for the 13th annual Insect-ival!. This year’s theme is ‘6 Legged Immigrants’! Not all immigrants to the U.S. are people. Many are plants and animals. Quite a few are six-legged insects. Come to the Insectival to meet some of these new and old six-legged Americans. Through games and activities discover where they came from and how they got here. Learn who is helpful and find out who is harmful and what you can do about them. At 11am we will host our 2nd butterfly release on the lawn of the International Garden. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to view dozens of native butterflies flap their wings above your head! The Insect-ival is sponsored by the Garden, the Lund Club of the UGA Department of Entomology, and the Georgia Museum of Natural History. Pre-registration is not required. Pricing-- $3 per person, $10 per family, children under 2 are free.

For more information, contact Marianne Robinette, Dept. of Entomology, UGA (Entomolo@uga.edu) 706-542-1238.

Paul Watson on Fresh Air

In case you missed it today, Fresh Air's Terri Goss interviewed Canadian photojournalist Paul Watson, whose photo of the dead American soldier being dragged through the streets of Somolia won the '94 Pulitzer for Spot News.

He's also covered Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and according to Watson, he's now suffering from chronic PTS. Recently he was named head of the L.A. Times bureau in Indonesia.

In the interview he speaks pretty frankly about the photo and how it's impacted his life and the lives of his family, and it's impact on politics.

Anyway, interview is worth a listen.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13970206

Out of curiosity ...

For the spring semester, there will be two (TWO!!) visual communication courses offered. Documentary Photography (JOUR5370) will be on the books, as always, as well as a new capstone-esque course - JOUR5990, Multimedia Journalism.

Since I'm limited in how many classes I can teach, we'll be hiring an adjunct to teach the 5370 course so I can do the new, experimental course. Because Doc will be done by an adjunct, the scheduling will be different - probably, probably, Tuesday OR Thursday evenings from 5-8. We're talking with a couple of staffers from the AJC about it so the adjunct will have a lot of experience at high level story telling.

Would anyone see a problem with doing an evening class? I know there would be R&B conflicts, but those should be easily worked out as not everyone would be in the class. (I hope some would choose the new course ...)

Let me know ASAP.

Thanks.

-mej

business cards

Just wanted to confirm what information we're putting on here

Name
Photojournalist
Real Home addres (not local)
Phone number
email
Univeristy of Georgia?
website? Mark, would you recommend me using georgiadogs.com?
Anything under company name?

I dont know why I'm making this so complicated... it semi-bothers me that I'm asking people about what to put for MY information

New Media course

A lot of this may be redundant with things we'll be doing, but some of it will be helpful. If you've got time and space, do it.

NMIX4490 Digital Media Skills (1 hour) – MW, 10:10A – 11:00A
In this class, students will learn a host of digital media skills:
web-building, portfolio creation, digital imaging, digital audio,
powerpoint, and even a little podcasting. Now this class is not a
substitute for the in-depth New Media Production (NMIX4110). This class
will provide rudimentary basics that every student should have. Let’s
put it this way – if this were a language class, you could find a
bathroom, take a bus, and locate your luggage. New Media Production
NMIX4110 makes you a native speaker. In Digital Media Skills, the
instructor will present a topic on Monday and the students will work
with the instructor on tasks Wednesday. We need some bright students to
see how much we can accomplish in a 1-hour course!

Contact Dr. Scott Schamp at sshamp@uga.edu .

Camera settings

Remember what I said in class about always resetting my camera to the same place? So I'd know where I was if something happened? Now there's a comic for it ...

First Post

Welcome back!

This blog will be a little different from the UGA Photojournalism blog in that I expect you guys to post information here. Links to online photo stories, multimedia packages and industry items of note can go in here. I may assign you a couple of regions to look in so we don't end up with too many repeats.

Each of you will be able to post and comment and, while this will be publicly viewable, no one from outside will be able to post info. They will be able to add comments.

You can post photos, too, that may not fit into your assignments if you like.

Off to finish the syllabus ...