Please take our IPPA survey on high school photo rights
At the convention this year, as our first event Saturday March 10, we’re going to have a discussion of the issue, with panelists including Rob Dicker of the Pioneer Press and a member of the the IHSA News Media Advisory Committee; Vincent Johnson of www.ihsfw.com; maybe an IHSA official and hopefully Mark Hertzberg of the Racine Journal Times.
Please take our quick 3-question survey to help us in the discussion:
Click here to take survey
All this relates to the discussion we’ve been having on IPPA-L about the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association trying to control sales of images from their games.
More background:
Wisconsin High School Athletics, Newspapers, Fight Over Photo Rights
Wisconsin newspaper editors and photographers are in a dispute with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association over who controls the photographic and video rights to images from the state’s high school regional, sectional, and championship games.
http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2007/02/wisconsin.html
http://www.wnpaonline.com/
Special IPPA rate for the conference hotel ends this week (Feb. 23)! Book now!
The conference hotel is the Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave., Evanston, 847-475-6400. Ask for the Illinois Press Photographer Association Room Rate of $135 for King or Double. The rate is available until 2/23/2007, so book soon! The Hilton will be the site of Friday’s hospitality suite.
IPPA Convention schedule is all ready to roll! More speakers and discussion on high school sports photo rights featured!
All location addresses and maps/directions available here!
Friday, March 9
9 am - 6 pm — Judging iBOP — McCormick Tribune Center Forum (1st floor, the big auditorium)
2 pm — Judging iSBOP —McCormick Tribune Center Room 3-107 (3rd floor, end of the hall on the right side)
7 pm — Dinner — Location to be announced
8:30 pm — Hospitality in Presidential Suite/Room 625, Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave., Evanston.
Saturday, March 10
10 am — Breakfast and sponsor showcase in the McCormick Tribune Center Forum Lobby (1st floor) including displays and representatives from:
- Digital Railroad and their new stock photo system
- Robert’s Distributors showing Canon, Nikon and other gear
- Camera checks from Quality Photo Service, etc.
11 am - 5 pm — Speakers & presentations — McCormick Tribune Center Forum (1st floor, the big auditorium)
11 am - Round table discussion - high school sports and photo rights
11:30 am - Robert Cohen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
12:45 pm - Steve Jessmore, Flint Journal
1:45 pm Break - last chat with vendors, retrieve your clean camera
2:15 pm - iBOP and Multimedia contest winners and awards
3 pm - Chicago Tribune’s Charles Osgood & Rick Kogan, “Sidewalks”
3:45 pm - Barbara Davidson, Dallas Morning News
7 pm — Dinner — Dave’s Italian Kitchen, 1365 Chicago Ave., Evanston
2007 IPPA Convention judge and presenter Barbara Davidson of The Dallas Morning News announced
Introducing 2007 IPPA Convention Judge and Presenter:
Barbara Davidson - The Dallas Morning News
A native of Montreal, Canada, Dallas Morning News photographer Barbara Davidson started her path towards photojournalism in 1990 when she received a BFA in Photography and Film studies from Concordia University. Her first job was as a staff photographer for The Record in Southern Ontario before crossing the border to work for the Washington Times in D.C.
Since arriving in Dallas, Davidson has coached at the Mountain Workshops and spoke at the Women in Photojournalism seminar.
In March 2006, Davidson was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year at the 63rd Annual Pictures of the Year International (POYi) Competition, from a field of 1,700 photographers from 45 countries — an award that was overshadowed a month later when she and seven colleagues received the highest honor in American journalism, the Pulitzer Prize, for their coverage of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
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Illinois photographers place at World Press Photo competition
Congrats!
Jon Lowenstein
2nd Place for Daily Life Stories
Stephanie Sinclair
3rd Place for People in the News
May 2006 IPPA ClipNotes now available
The latest edition of ClipNotes has been completed. And thanks to Tom Sistak for getting an update from photographers around the state for his Illinois Poop column.
Download May 2006 ClipNotes here:
http://www.ippaonline.com/download.php?list.1
Click on the disk icon next to the newsletter in the list or direct to: http://www.ippaonline.com/download.php?view.74
A request from Steve:
THE IPPA NEEDS YOU. We’re looking for a volunteer to take over our monthly publication sharing clip winners with the membership. Will Sullivan is planning on creating a system to present the winning images on the web. We’re looking for a new person to take over the month-to-month task of presenting the winning images. I’ve been doing ClipNotes for oh so long. First the copy-n-mail version and then the PDF version. I’ve been elected Vice President of the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, and I want to shift some of my volunteer time to help build houses. Contact me ( -email- ) if you’re interested. I’m going to finish out the rest of the 2006 clips, but we need someone to take over starting with the 2007 contest.
November results from the IPPA monthly clip contest
NOVEMBER results, IPPA monthly clip contest
NEWS
1st Margie Barnes / The Telegraph / God’s Got Raevin
2nd John Badman / The Telegraph / Shooting
3rd Jonathan Kirshner / State Journal Register / Field of Heat
Overall, there weren’t a ton of news photos, but the winners definitely stood out–Especially first place, it was a clearcut winner:the photographer has a great way of seeing.- clean,powerful and storytelling. second place really worked as a two picture package. Both add to each other to really tell the story.Third place was a nice pictoral of a news event:would have liked to see the firefighter’s name.
HM Kendra Helmer / State Journal Register / Polls Closing
We loved the last voter shot:showed thinking outside the box
HM John Badman / The Telegraph / Auto tire fire
The lead/dominant image was great, but the other shots pulled it down to an HM. It would have been third place.
SPORTS
1st John Starks / Daily Herald / Larkin soccer loss
2nd Craig Watson / Aurora Beacon News / Football kiss
3rd Katy Mull / The Times / Girls basketball collision
Overall, sports gave us the biggest challenge to judge:we were all over the place! First was slightly clichĂ©, but it really worked in this case. We would have liked to see the football kiss run larger–it really got lost, but when you study it there is a lot going on in this photo. It’s a quiet moment, but very different. You don’t expect to see a big football player being so sentimental. We thought third was the best action of the bunch.
HM Adam Gerik / Peoria Journal Star / Volleyball reaction
Was one person’s choice for first for great faces, emotion, composition.
HM Matt Marton / Daily Southtown / water dumped on coach
We wished this had a better facial expression, but it was still a nice photo.
FEATURE SINGLE
1st Adam Gerik / Peoria Journal Star / A heaping help of kindness
2nd Heather Eidson / Aurora Beacon News / Quizno sign and fire
3rd Clay Stalter / Jacksonville Journal Courier / Moving experience
Overall, this category was average. We loved first because it shows the photog stayed until the very end. They always say that you get great photos when you show up early and stay late:this is proof of that! Second was funny and creative and we all liked it despite the photographer’s silly commentary. Third really shows the photographer was thinking and working the situation. It’s a little busy but really tells the story well.
HM Eric Sumberg / Peoria Journal Star / Holiday lights
We all likes this image, but felt it could have been cropped down from the top so the little girl popped out quicker-still a great picture
HM Clay Stalter / Jacksonville Journal Courier / tea time
Tea time was a simple clean photo that fit the topic well.
FEATURE MULTIPLE
1st David Zentz / Peoria Journal Star / Life with Asperger’s
2nd Brian Loeb / Joliet Herald News / Battling poverty
3rd Craig Watson / Aurora Beacon News / Undying faith
Great category- nice to see papers still giving good space to long term projects. First was edited tightly with great images and done well, with three subjects. We would have gone dominant with the basketball shot on Eric’s section. Second had some powerful images but was hard to judge because it wasn’t taped in accordian style fashion. We weren’t crazy about the shot of her working and we wished the shot of her rubbing her face ran larger. Hard subject to shoot and the photographer nailed it! Third had a lot of wonderful very sad photos, but way too redundant. Definitely needed an edit.
HM Craig Watson / Aurora Beacon News / End of an era
End of an era was a sweet tightly edited well told story.
HM Heather Eidson / Aurora Beacon News / Inmates get growing
This story had some good images but didn’t quite hold up to the rest.
JUDGES
From the The Muskegon Chronicle
Greg Dorsett, Photo Editor
Staff photojournalists Cory Morse, Ken Stevens, Kendra Stanley-Mills, and photo intern Ben Fredman
TOP 17 through NOVEMBER’s results (Please note: OCTOBER’s tally failed to include Watson. Gardner)
462 Ron Johnson / Peoria Journal Star
387 Shannon Kirshner / State Journal Register
377 TJ Salsman ,/ State Journal Register
362 Fred Zwicky / Peoria Journal Star
343 David Zentz / Peoria Journal Star
282 Jonathan Kirshner / State Journal Register
269 John Henry / Peoria Journal Star
258 John Badman / The Telegraph
227 John Starks / Daily Herald
222 Jim Bowling / The Telegraph
214 Justin Fowler / State Journal Register
207 Adam Gerik / Peoria Journal Star
195 Tom Sistak / The Daily Times
182 Danielle Gardner / Sun Publications
180 Steve Lundy / Daily Herald
177 Craig Watson / Aurora Beacon News
157 Steve Warmowski / Jacksonville Journal Courier