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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

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.

These are 2006 Workshop Leaders.
2007 Leaders should be announced late summer 2007.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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