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The Atlanta
Photojournalism Seminar
2006 Optional Friday
Workshops
You
must be registered for the Seminar
to be able to sign up for the workshops.
Workshops
are Thursday, November 30
Workshop Leaders Subject to Change
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For
an additional $50 (professionals
and students) your seminar registration
will allow you to pick three
workshops from a selection of five offered
on Friday. Workshops offer an opportunity
to learn from workshop leaders in a
smaller, informal setting.
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These
are 2006 Workshop Leaders.
2007 Leaders should be
announced late summer 2007.
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NEW
MEDIA Meredith
Birkett/ MSNBC.com
Online and broadcast news organizations
open up new possibilities in shooting for
photojournalists because of the volume of
images that can be published, the
possibility of pairing photography with
audio, video and maps, and the potential
for interactivity with your
audience.
Take a
tour through multimedia projects published
by MSNBC.com and learn about how projects
get published, who is paying for
multimedia and how much, and about the
different ways photojournalism projects
can be approached and produced for an
online and TV audience.
Meredith
Birkett is a senior multimedia producer at
MSNBC.com, a general news web site seen by
an average of 30 million unique users each
month. Birkett has worked at MSNBC.com for
six years.
In this
role, Birkett works with freelancers,
picture agencies, staff multimedia
journalists and wire services to create
multimedia content across all sections of
MSNBC.com. Birkett also produces popular
multimedia features such as The Week in
Pictures and the Year in
Pictures.
Birkett's
projects have earned recognition from
organizations such as the Online News
Association, Pictures of the Year
International and the National Press
Photographers Association.
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FREELANCE
BUSINESS ISSUES
Blake
Discher and Eugene Mopsik /ASMP
Take the mystery out of pricing, become
search engine savvy, learn how to
determine your target audience and how to
negotiate. This workshop, hosted by
Detroit photographer Blake Discher, will
provide valuable information and tips to
ensure your business survival and growth.
Learn how to use the Web as a marketing
tool, understand the value of your work,
learn how to justify your fees, and how to
prepare an estimate that sells.
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LOCATION
LIGHTING
Greg Foster/ Freelance
Foster will show a selection of his
photographs and talk about the lighting in
each of them, and will conduct a
demonstration using various lighting
sources. The emphasis will be on quick,
simple, adaptable lighting in a wide
variety of situations.
Greg
Foster is a long time regular contributor
to Sports Illustrated, and he has also
worked for other publications such as
Fortune, Time, ESPN Magazine, The New York
Times, and many others. His corporate
client list includes The Coca-Cola
Company, Kodak, Royal Caribbean, The NBA,
HBO, and a variety of other companies, and
his photographs have appeared in in books
such as The NBA at 50, The NBA's Best
Shots, and A Day in the Life of the NHL.
He has won awards in the Pictures of the
Year Competition, The Communication Arts
Photography Annual, The Atlanta
Photojournalism Seminar Competition, and a
variety of others, and he has been named
Georgia Photographer of the Year. His
ongoing personal photography projects
include a series of portraits of blues
musicians in Texas, Georgia, and the
Mississippi Delta, and a series of
roadside scenes throughout the
South.
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NEW
MEDIA AUDIO
Jim
Seida/ MSNBC.com
Learn the skills you need to gather edit
and add broadcast-quality audio to
accompany your photojournalism reports.
Topics will include interview techniques,
location selection, the art of natural
sound, equipment suggestions and final
production issues.
This
training will help photojournalists and
editors better reach online publications
and broadcast outlets with their work,
thereby reaching more news consumers and
reaping additional licensing
fees.
Since
joining MSNBC.com in 1996, Jim Seida has
specialized in advancing the use of audio
combined with still and moving images for
an internet audience. In addition to
traveling to Russia and Antigua on
assignment, reporting trips closer to home
include covering the national political
conventions in 1996 and the Olympic Torch
Relay in 2002, where he filed multimedia
slide shows each day for two months. Most
recently, Seida covered the launch of
SpaceShipOne and extensive coverage of
Hurricane Katrina and its
aftermath.
In
addition to his responsibilities at
MSNBC.com, Seida also teaches audio
reporting to photojournalists. Seida
attended the photojournalism programs at
University of Alaska, Fairbanks and
University of Missouri,
Columbia.
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SPORTS
Scott
Strazzante/ Chicago Tribune
Scott Strazzante was born and raised a
White Sox fan on Chicago's Far Southeast
Side. Strazzante first became interested
in photography while attending Ripon
College in Ripon, Wisconsin. Now into his
fifth year at the Chicago Tribune,
Strazzante combines a strong documentary
sensibility with a sports photography
background to capture athletics as life
not just as a game.
Named
National Newspaper Photographer of the
Year in 2000 while working at The Herald
News in Joliet, Strazzante, a 4-time
Illinois POY, recently worked his second
Olympics for the Tribune. In 2004,
Strazzante was awarded 1st place in the
POYi Sports portfolio division. In 2005 he
started Heart and Soul, a weekly photo
column on high school athletics in
Chicago. A single father of two children
(Betsy,11; and Cameron,9), Strazzante
lives in Frankfort, Illinois.
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