1pm to 4pm: Photography Meetings
Greg Yamamoto, Honolulu Advertiser photographer, gyamamoto@gmail.com
Thursday, August 13:
Greg Yamamoto, Honolulu Advertiser photographer, gyamamoto@gmail.com
Andrew DeVigal, New York Times multimedia, andrew.devigal@gmail.com
Ben De La Cruz, Washington Post multimedia, bendelacruz@mac.com, bendelacruz@me.com
10:15am – 11:45am
Title: Self Promotion
Summary: Now that you have your stories and content and ready to show it to the world, how do you do that on the cheap. This session will expose you to the best web tools out there to get you started. Do you use a blog tool? How to best embed video and slide shows? How do you get a Web site and promote it?
Title: Shooting video and Final Cut Pro/Express editing
Shooting tips – New gears – Show videos – FCP and FCE Beginners to Intermediate. Getting the best of audio for your piece.
3:30pm – 5pm
Title: Final Cut Pro advanced
Using filters and stuff. Magic bullet Looks etc.. watch short films.
noon to 1:30pm:
Authors Showcase
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Friday, August 14:
10:15am – 11:45am
Three photography students will have their photo portfolio critiqued by a panel of photo editors and photographers (names TBA). Panelists and students will be picked a few weeks before the convention.
Kii Sato, Associated Press Ohio photo editor, ksato@ap.org
Greg Yamamoto, Honolulu Advertiser photographer, gyamamoto@gmail.com
International Photography
Chang Lee, New York Times photographer, changlee@nytimes.com
Rick Rocamora, Oakland documentary photographer, rbrocamora@gmail.com
Rick Rocamora, documentary photographer from Oakland. Rocamora has photographed heavily in his native Philippines. He also has documented El Salvador and South Africa. He was working on projects about immigrants and civil liberties including Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during WWII, Muslim-American after 9-11, and Filipino Diaspora. He has finished a book on Filipino veterans, “Second-Class Veterans”.
Matt Lee, Boston Globe mjlee@globe.com; Susan Choi susanchoi@datasign.com Vino Wong vwong@ajc.com, Kii Sato ksato@ap.org; Greg Yamamotogyamamoto@gmail.com
Campaign ‘08
The 2008 presidential campaign was the longest and most ground-breaking in history. See the campaign through the eyes of photographers who traveled with the candidates on planes and buses, from coast-to-coast, for weeks and months up to election day. See and hear the inside stories on the candidates and the media pack that followed them.
Stan Honda (moderator), Agence France-Presse- New York stanhonda@netzero.net, stan.honda@afp.com
Panelists: Charles Dharapak, Associated Press- Washington cdharapak@ap.org, apdharapak@yahoo.com
Brian Snyder- Reuters- Boston
Kim Chapin- Boston Globe photo editor kimchapin@aol.com
Silent Photo Auction
Corky Lee, freelance New York, kzhou181@gmail.com, corky@expedi.com
Photography Luncheon (Susan Choi, James Yee, Matt Lee moderator)
Paul Sakuma
psakuma@aol.com