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.
The votes are in for the March Monthly Image Competition, check out the winners gallery.
With the 2012 UPAA Symposium just around the corner, we thought it would be nice to hear a fresh perspective on what it is like to attend the Symposium for the first time and the great benefits that it can have for a University Photographer:
By Patrick Wright, Clemson University
First, a little background: When I first got out of college, I worked at a daily newspaper for about 9 years. I photographed the usual staple that was expected: the car wrecks, the Friday night football games, the store ribbon cuttings, the politician podium speeches and anything else that editors wanted. Nine years of that and I was ready to move on. Enter Clemson University, South Carolina. They were looking for a photographer with some photojournalism experience and I was looking for a change. So 23 years later and I desperately need new motivation before I burn out.
In Jan. 2009 I joined the UPPA and it’s been a motivator ever since. And this year, I finally did more than just enter the Monthly Image Competition; I flew to my first UPPA Symposium.
June 20, 2011 – Greenville – Atlanta – Denver – Salt Lake City
By Matthew Minard and Robert Rogers / Baylor University
This project took seven days from the first day we began shooting until the last day of editing. Quite an undertaking considering this is the busiest time of the Spring semester for everyone, especially as SING, itself, opens this week. All-University SING is one of the largest productions outside of Broadway. About 10% of the student body is involved with putting it on every year. You can learn a little more about it here:
http://www.baylor.edu/studentproductions/index.php?id=54617.
This being the 60th year - we wanted to produce something a little unique.
by Jim Dusen/SUNY Brockport ret.
The stereoscopic photos shown with this article are anaglyphs. Each photo is comprised of two images of the same subject, each from the different perspective of the left and right camera lenses. The two views are superimposed and are assigned red or cyan, which are chromatically opposite. When viewed with the red/cyan glasses only the left (red) eye sees the left (cyan) image and the right (cyan) eye sees the right (red) image. The color matching of the image will help determine the amount of ghosting of what you view.
In the beginning God created Man, Woman and a whole slew of other creatures. And for a great many of them He gave them two eyes and stereoscopic vision. OK, spiders have eight. So why the two eyes? It’s to give the View Master Company a reason for being, of course!
When I was a little kid the world of 3D opened up to me with the gift of a View Master and some of those circular reels of photos. Wow! Suddenly what we take for granted as natural vision was captured in a little box with two eye pieces! View Master could take you around the world in life like three dimensional photographs.
The winners have been announced for the February Monthly Image Competition, check out the great photos at: http://www.upaa.org/mic-archived-galleries/february-2012
By Dot Paul and Andrew Davis Tucker - The University of Georgia