Its a new school year on our many campuses, and accordingly a new Monthly Image Competition. Trice Megginson starts off the competition with a bang with this crazy shot of Wyoming's Mollee Ramsay taking one to the face during a recent game. Check out the winners page to see the rest of the great images from the competition: 2012 MIC Summer Winners
Kodak just announced that they will stop production on T-Max 3200 Black and White film. As a freshman student at Salt Lake Community College in 1997, I first used 3200 to shoot the colleges basketball games in a very dark gym. I still remember how amazing it was to be able to shoot action in such unfavorable conditions. T-Max 3200 was a crazy emulsion that you could push and pull like crazy and it had a really cool grain structure. Yet one more relic of a forgotten age that will be sorely missed.
And here is another one from Dot Paul at the University of Georgia:
After a long and busy summer, it is nice to have the students come back to start off another year. Here is a roundup of photos and videos welcoming students to the start of the 2012-13 academic year:
(click on photos to jump to photo galleries or videos)
University of Ottowa - Orientation Week - Matthew Hicks
Baylor University - Robbie Rogers and Matthew Minnard - Traditions Rally
Brigham Young University - Jaren Wilkey - Freshman Time Lapse
University of Portland - Jeff Kennel - Gallery of fashion from the first week of school
SUNY Geneseo - Keith Michael - Freshman Time Lapse
Western Illinois University - Larry Dean - Freshman Time Lapse
Chicago 2013 Preview
The 2013 UPAA Symposium will be held at Elgin Community College on June 17-21. Elgin is located about 40 miles northwest from downtown Chicago. The schedule is far from complete but I am happy to announce that Chicago based photographers Sandro Miller (sandrofilm.com) and Paul Natkin (natkin.net) will be part of the line up. Please check out their websites and read their bios. I am still working on more speakers will let everyone know as things develop. (pun intended)
The Nikon Shootout will be held in downtown Chicago. We will bus everyone downtown for the shootout. You will be able to explore the city as you wish as you search for your winning photo.
FOOD! Deep-dish pizza, Italian beef sandwiches, and Chicago style hot dogs will be on the menu during the week as with lot of other great food. I will also make sure that vegetarian options will be available at every meal.
The cost of the symposium will be under $400. The main hotel is all suites and will run $80-$90 a night. A few other options will also be available.
It is hard to believe the week is already over! Below is a list of all of the winners for the Print and Publication Competitions…
Click here to see the winning photos from the 2012 Print Competition.
Click here to see the winning entries in the 2012 Publications Competition.
The 2012 Photographer of the Year is Mark Philbrick from BYU.
Best of Show comes out of the Sports Features category this year and also goes to Mark Philbrick.
The winner of the Nikon Shootout is Bruce Fox, Buffalo State College
2012 Print Competition
Things must be busy in Ohio as the 2012 Symposium comes to an end, because we haven't seen many new photos from the group. Here are a few that made their way to the UPAA Facebook page:
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David Tejada Lighting Workshop - Photo by Andrew Daddio
Sounds like the gang is busy in Ohio. Bill Bitzinger has posted a gallery from Wednesday's Nikon shootout at the National Air Force Museum:
The second day of the UPAA Symposium is under way in Ohio, check out this cool Panoramic of the Print Judging Competition from Benjamin Munson
And here are some photos from Robert Jordan recapping the day:
The University of Mississippi embarked on an ambitious project to create both 3D video and stills. Robert Jordan had to learn quickly how to create and reproduce 3D imagery. This is his story:
At the time there were no affordable 3D digital still or video cameras commercially available, so Matt and I each cobbled together a rig so we could capture Ole Miss sports in 3D. Ideally, the lenses on a 3D camera should be about 2.75” or eye-width apart. Matthew’s video was to be the centerpiece with my photography playing a supporting role in the Ole Miss 3D experience. We each started on different, but similar paths, but ironically ended up coming to the same conclusions and solutions in the end.
Check out this great feature on Annie Griffiths that aired on the Today Show this past week. Annie will be our featured speaker at the Symposium, and it looks like we are in for a real treat. Check out the Symposium Site to learn more about Annie or preorder one of her books here so you can get it signed at the Symposium.
There are some amazing images in the April Monthly Image Competition. The winners gallery is now up. With one month to go we have a tight competition between Jim Stroup, Mark Philbrick and Eric Bronson for the most total points and a shiny new camera. Stay tuned!
We're excited to announce that Radiopopper has decided to become a sponsor of the 2012 UPAA Symposium. RadioPopper makes wireless flash control systems that allow you to have ETTL control of your flashes wirelessly, without line of sight. Our own Mark Carriveau recently did a review of the RadioPoppers in the Contact Sheet.
For the Symposium they will be providing loaner units to test out during David Tejada's lighting workshops. They have also provided a $250 door prize so that one lucky member will be able to pick up one of their flash systems. Check out their products at:
UPAA Members,
We are now just a little over one month away from the UPAA Symposium that takes place June 18-23, 2012 at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio. It’s not too late to signup, but the deadline for registration is May 27.
I was excited to see that we have several members that will be attending their first symposium. Whether this is your first symposium or 20th we all have something to contribute and it is important for all of us to attend. Like I have stated before the UPAA symposium has become an annual reunion of professional university photographers who help each other grow and succeed, and it needs you to accomplish this mission. So I hope you will be attending.
I also wanted to remind everyone that the deadline for the print competition has been moved up to June 5, 2012. Make sure you read the rules for this years contest because some things have changed. As I mentioned before this years print competition will be held at the Miami University Art Museum. . The images will be on display for public viewing from June 14 - July 3. This is an exciting opportunity for UPAA photographers to have their work in a Museum gallery show open for public viewing.
Track and Field is not generally viewed as a dangerous sport, but every once in a while crazy things happen. That was the case a few weeks ago at the Robison Invitational when BYU's Katy Andrews was competing in the 3000 Meter Steeplechase and got tripped up while attempting to jump the water barrier. She went head over heels into the water pit, hitting her head and bruising up pretty much everything else. I just happened to be there with a GoPro HD Hero 2 waterproof camera shooting video for a review I'm writing of the camera, and it caught the whole crash in High Def.
I was also shooting stills with my Canon 1D Mark IV at ten frames a second, and I love how the still images give you a different perspective on the crash.