IHSA rules for photography released
UPDATE from Rob Dicker on listserv:
Greetings all,
I have finally assembled our recommendations for the IHSA. The News Media Advisory Committee meeting will be on August 23, so there is still some time to make changes.
If you would like to take a look at the report, please let me know and I can email you a .pdf copy.
Rob Dicker
Staff Photographer, Pioneer Press Newspapers
—
From Rob Dicker, Staff Photographer at the Pioneer Press Newspapers and IHSA representative:
Here are the 2005-06 IHSA Rules for photography. Please read through them and comment as to any (realistic) changes you would like to see:
30. Policy Regarding News Media/Spectator Photography
This policy applies to both regular season and state series competition conducted by IHSA member schools.
Equipment Storage:
No equipment other than that which is hand carried by the photographer is allowed on the playing surface or adjacent to it. All carrying cases, computer equipment, photography equipment and/or other not being carried by the media representative is not to be on the playing surface or adjacent to it.
Photographer Shooting Zones:
The local manager will determine photographer shooting zones for events hosted by the manager’s school. It is the responsibility of the local manager to insure the safety of participants in the event(s) hosted by the manager’s school. The local manager has the responsibility to coordinate the working location(s) for photographers and other media representatives covering the event. Photographers shall be allowed to work the game/meet under reasonable conditions, as determined by the host school (principal or designee for regular season and contests in state series prior to the state final) or IHSA Office (state finals), and the nature of the activity. Spectator use of electronic lighting shall not be permitted.
Authorized news media representatives, who have identified themselves to the host school principal (or designee) may be permitted to use electronic lighting equipment throughout the course of a given activity. Such electronic lighting can be either: 1) strobe lights mounted to fixed positions and/or 2) electronic attachments mounted to a camera.
Host principals (or designee) should confer with the coaches of the teams participating in a contest before giving permission to authorized news media photographers to use strobe lighting mounted to fixed positions.
Host principals (or designee) should confer with game officials and authorized news media photographers before requiring photographers to cease use of electronic attachments because such equipment may be allegedly causing interference with the conduct of the contest.
Newspaper Photographers. Requests to the IHSA Office for photographers credentials shall be honored dependent upon the following criteria and priority:
1) Space available at the facility
2) Wire service and daily newspapers with Sunday editions
3) Daily newspapers without Sunday editions
4) Headquarters office of weekly chain
5) Multi-weekly newspapers with teams/individuals competing
6) Weekly newspapers with teams/individuals competing
7) Multi-weekly and weekly newspapers without teams/individuals competing
The number of credentials to be issued to a single outlet shall generally be one (1) per newspaper unless space available, geographic locations of teams advancing to state final, previous coverage of the state final or other circumstances deemed acceptable to the IHSA can permit issuing additional credentials.
Photo Limitations:
Photographers shall be allowed to work the tournament/meet under reasonable conditions as determined by the IHSA in conjunction with the News Media Advisory Committee and the nature of the activity.
Electronic flash equipment is not prohibited for game action at outdoor State Finals unless the number of photographers using the equipment does interfere with the conduct of the competition. Electronic flash equipment use at indoor State Finals must be approved in advance by the IHSA. The IHSA, in conjunction with the Local Manager and photographers covering the event, shall have the authority to require photographers to cease using electronic flash equipment because of its interference with the conduct of the competition, or facility lighting is previously deemed adequate.
Equipment Storage:
No equipment other than that which is hand carried by the photographer is allowed on the playing surface or adjacent to it. All carrying cases, computer equipment, photography equipment and/or other not being carried by the media representative is not to be on the playing surface or adjacent to it.
Photographer Shooting Zones:
The local manager will determine photographer shooting zones for events hosted by the manager’s school. It is the responsibility of the local manager to insure the safety of participants in the event(s) hosted by the manager’s school. The local manager has the responsibility to coordinate the working location(s) for photographers and other media representatives covering the event.
Basketball State Final Limits:
All photographers wishing to shoot a game in the state final basketball tournament must report to the photo supervisor on the floor of Carver Arena in the Peoria Civic Center (Boys Basketball) and/or Redbird Arena (Girls Basketball) to receive clearance to shoot the game(s) desired. A limited number of shooting spaces is available, and shooting locations on a game-by-game basis will be assigned according by the IHSA credential policy. Only those photographers approved by the photo supervisor and displaying proper credentials, shall be allowed to shoot under the basket(s) during each game.
Missed IPPA photonight in Belvidere? Scott Bort, Daniel Williams and Sebastian Szyszka has you covered
Belvidere Photo Night 2006
http://www.ippaonline.com/images/ippaevents.html
Chris Hankins’ summer bbq, whiffleball and photonight has come and gone, but Scott Bort, Daniel Williams and Sebastian Szyszka have hooked us up with photos of the festivities. If you didn’t know, it ws held on Saturday, July 22, 2006 at Hankins’ home in Belvidere, Illinois.
Highfives all round to these guys for sharing their photos:
Check out Scott’s SportsShooter porfolio
Check out Daniel’s SportsShooter porfolio
Check out Szyszka’s SportsShooter porfolio
(Please thank them all!)
Want to view more photos of IPPA events?
Click here for more photos
Have any photos to share of this or any other IPPA events? Or other photo news or events?
Please let us know! -email-
Chicago photo and live music benefit event to help teach photography to underprivileged youth in Chilie
Scott Strazzante passes on the note:
Come to Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western in Chicago on Sunday August 13th at 9pm, for a benefit for Voluntarios de la Esperanza, a non-profit organization serving underprivileged youth in Santiago, Chile. There will be 4 bands and a print auction to help subsidize Chicago’s own Christine Mladic who will be traveling to Chile to teach photography at a Santiago orphanage.
It’s not too late to donate one of your prints for sale at the benefit. Send your print to:
Christine Mladic
1628 S Prairie Ave,
Chicago, IL 60616
All prints will have a set fixed price, and any unsold prints will be donated to the photo program for educational purposes.
For more details, visit:
http://www.alucinora.blogspot.com
Or email:
-email-
Remembering Chicago: The Boomer Years looking for historical photos and movies for WTTW documentary
IPPA member Karen Kring, shares an interesting project on Chicago’s history:
This in recently from WTTW-11 Jamie Ceaser.
I think this sounds like a worthy project that might be fun to contribute too.
Jamie’s deadline is end of August, but if she’s got a lead on something very special, she’ll stretch that to Sept. There’s no monetary compensation, but you can get a screen credit. (I’d ask for a copy of the show too.)
Best,
Karen Kring
—
Hi everyone:
If you’ve gotten this email, it’s because you’ve spent at least 5 minutes Of your life in chicago–and hopefully, you can clean out your closets And help me at the same time!
I’m producing a documentary for Ch. WTTW/11 called REMEMBERING CHICAGO: The Boomer Years. I’m looking for your home movies, snapshots and great memories of those years to include in the doc. OR if you know anyone who might have aforementioned items–please HELP!
Here’s a little memory jog/a kind of guide of what I’m looking for:
Streetcars; Wrigley Field/Comiskey Park; Chicago Blues; Beaches; Drive-ins; Neighborhood Shopping Centers; Airports; Chicago TV Shows; Car Fins;Returning Vets/GI Bill; Junkmen in horse-drawn wagons;3-D Movies;Jet Magazine; Queen Elizabeth II Visits Chicago; Polio Shots; Polk Bros; Playboy Magazine; Washington Park/Arlington Park/Hawthorne/Sportsman¹s Park/Maywood; Rainbow Ice Skating; Chicago Newspapers; Demolition Derbies;Old Town; Beatles in Chicago; White Castle/Henry¹s/McDonalds;Soda Foundations/Dove Candies/Margie¹s; Woolworths; American Bandstand/Shindig!/Hootenanny; Collage All Star Game; Public School/Catholic School;School Field Trips to the Zoos; Civil Rights Movement; Prudential Building/Marina City;Park District Pools/Day camps; Riverview/Kiddieland/Adventureland/Santa¹s Village;Sock Hops; WLS vs WCFL; 60s Chicago Bands: Buckinghams; Ideas of March;Hippie Scene/¹The Seed.² Hula Hoops; S & H Green Stamps; Old TV Commercials; “Kiddie a gogo”
If you have home movies or snapshots from these years that include any of the following imagery or more, please email:
-email-
Or call me, Jamie Ceaser, at
773-509-5534
Or send footage to WTTW,
5400 N. St. Louis,
Chicago, IL 60025,
ATTN: Remembering Chicago.
BIG THANKS!!
IPPA Photonight in Belvidere is very soon
Here’s the official word from Chris Hankins, the host:
Hi there-
Here’s another reminder about the homerun derby/photo night coming up in two weeks! It’s July 22nd at my house in Belvidere (think Rockford but a bit closer to Chicago) As with past years, we’ll start with whiffle ball at 4 pm, work our way into a barbecue and then show pictures after dusk on the outdoor “screen”. If you plan to come out and stay for the show, please bring a CF card with images to add to the show. Anything is fair game… work related pictures or not, whatever flips your switch!
I’ll provide the food and grass seed (to repair “homeplate”) but please bring your own beverages.
You can mapquest some directions to my place at 1715 Foxfield Drive, Belvidere IL 61008 or just call my cell @ 847-331-2756
Please shoot me an email if you plan to come so I can judge how much food to pick up… thanks, and see you there!
Chris Hankins
ctadhankins [at] yahoo.com
IHSA News Media rep wants your feedback
Rob Dicker, Staff Photographer at Pioneer Press Newspapers and the new rep for the Illinois High School Association is looking for some feedback from Illinois photographers.
Here’s his call on SportsShooter.com:
“Greeting fellow Illinois photographers (please, others just cover your eyes). I’ll be sitting on the IHSA News Media Advisory Committee for the next three years. The IHSA wanted an IPPA member to do this and it fell on my shoulders.
That’s my job, now for yours:
I need specifics: issues that have arisen in the past couple of years that made doing your job at IHSA events difficult or impossible. I need recommendations: if it is broken how can we fix it?
Everyone seems to have a horror story: “don’t stand here,” “don’t do that.” If you ask why they’ll say “cause I said so.”
I’m tired of that and I’ll bet you are too, and more importantly, I want that to end. We act professionally doing our job - I’d like officials to do the same.
I want to purpose updated rules regarding field access, remotes, strobing and credentialing. But the best thing that I can do when I walk in to a meeting is to come prepared and that is where you come in.
Please assist me. The first meeting will be held sometime in August, but at this point I don’t know when. I’d like to start compiling and preparing for it now.
Thanks in advance for your assistance, together, I know that we can make thing better.
Rob Dicker
Staff Photographer, Pioneer Press Newspapers”