IPPA February clip contest results
Illinois Press Photographer Association February CLIP RESULTS
Judged by the The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, VA Stephanie Klein-Davis, photographer, Josh Meltzer, Photographer, Seth Gitner, online editor.
NEWS-
1st-Steve Warmowski, Jacksonville Journal Courier, Suspended Deputy-2/6/07
comments: Fantastic timing and a great way to get inside a very tense encounter. We love how the Deputy Sheriff is confronting the county sheriff who we can’t see but can only imagine his reaction. Photographer was in the right place at the right time!
2nd-John Badman, the Telegraph, Handcuffing Freeman as he attempts to flee. 2/8/07
Comments: Photographer was righ there and even got down to street level when Freeman was cuffed. You can feel him hitting the pavement.
3rd-Peter Hoffman, Aurora Beacon News, 4Teens Killed 2/12/07
Comments -Beautiful Composition- almost B&W w/spots of color. Great patience for the right people grieving. Also non-imposing. Shows a private moment.
HM-David Zentz, Peoria Journal Star ,Mourn Pekin Teenager. 2/21/07
Comments- Beautiful composition and flow of repetitive had gestures that mimic emotion of grief. We had to keep it in the winners list.
Overall comments-Overall, lots of hugs- but we liked the emotion photographers were seeking in each situation. The hard news went beyond the surface, giving a greater sense of the tension in many of the situations.
FEATURE Single-
1st-Craig Watson, Aurora Beacon News, Merry Heart Clowns Prep backstage 2/24/07
comments-WE like the dark hallway with the light at the tunnel-like middle of the frame illuminating the two clowns as they adjust their hats. It’s a touching moment, caught in the nick of time. The clown’s red hair completes the frame.
2nd-Fred Zwicky-Peoria Journal Star-Coma Teen Cries out-2/26/07
Comments-Nicely composed with the grip of the hands on the left and the mom’s face close to her son as he cries out, very, very heart-wrenching image ,makes you want to cry.
3rdScott Bort, The Courier News, Still Young at Heart 2/15/07
comments-Nice moment as the couple kiss and others look on from the right-draws your eye to the left where the story is told.
HM-Ron Johnson, Peoria Journal Star. Windmill at sunset.
Comments-Stark, striking great use of silhouette and color from the sunset.
Overall comments-Some very nice images. This category is kind of a catchall .Many great shots that any paper would love to publish on any given day, but the strongest stood out compositionally and/or in the mood they evoked or emotion displayed.
SPORTS-
1st-John Starks, Daily Herald Chargin Chargers 2/2/07
comments-Crazy Suspension, great action.
2nd David Zentz, Peoria Journal Star, Fight on Ice 2/8/07
Comment-Impact action. Photog was right there and you can feel ther pain in the face.
3rd-Steve Johnston, The Doings Swimmer reacts 2/22/07
comments-Very nice moment from a swimming event. We like the subtle reaction and the way his fingers are framed by the light on the water.
Comments-Most of the pictures were typical. The best were those that were different, something we haven’t seen before or a new way of looking at an ordinary situation.
FEATURE MULTIPLE-
1st- David Zentz, Peoria, Lure of the Ice 2/18/07
comment- Loved the way photographer handled the assignment. Wish there was color on both pages. Great variety of well-executed images.
2nd-Danielle Gardner, Sun Times News Group. 2007 Mayoral Primary 2/23/07
comment-Hard assignment for jazzy images. Loved the campaign sign image. Great sense of space, weather, feeling of rural campaign. Low budget. Super way to shoot a great variety of moments. Well edited, well designed.
3rd-Annie Christie, Lake County Journals, Living homeless 2/2-2/23/07
comments-Shot like daily assignments, but theme carried through .each situation looked different and had a different style photographically. Photographer seemed sensitive to sensitive to situations. The Images were strong. The design of the section didn’t win this, the photographers images did. The design was a little stagnant.
Category comments- Several mayor series. Best stood out. Overall some nice entries. Some entries showed multiple images but could be edited tighter. We like variety of shots.
FEBRUARY CLIP LEADERS
1ST–149-DAVID ZENTZ
2ND–104-FRED ZWICKY
3RD–99- JOHN BADMAN
4TH–84-DANIELLE GARDNER
STEVE WARMOWSKI
6TH–64-RON JOHNSON
7TH–57- JON KIRSHNER
8TH–54- JOHN STARKS
CRAIG WATSON
10th–47-ADAM GERIK
11th–44-RYAN RAYBURN
12th–34-SCOTT BORT
STEVE JOHNSTON
MATT DAYHOFF
15th–32-ANNIE CHRISTIE
PETE HOFFMAN
MIA ARGOTTI
Winners, please remember to send a file of your winning pic to steve warmowski.
thanks, robin
THE CHICAGO REPORTER John A. McDermott Documentary (short) Film Competition and Festival
Karen Kring sends this note:
THE CHICAGO REPORTER John A. McDermott Documentary (short) Film Competition and Festival
The Chicago Reporter John A. McDermott Documentary (short) Film Competition and Festival seeks documentary shorts that examine Chicago-area social issues using a race and/or poverty lens.
Entry forms can be downloaded at
http://chicagorepor ter.com/2007/ FilmCompetition/film.htm
ALL ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5:00 P.M., THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2007.
*ONE WINNING ENTRY WILL BE AIRED DURING WTTW11
CHICAGO’S “IMAGE UNION”.
*Top three entries will be shown at a public screening in October 2007.
*Honorable mentions may be featured on The Chicago Reporter website and at community-based events in late ‘07 and early ‘08. A panel of judges will screen the entries and select three winners from each of the following categories:
*Professional
*Amateur
*Community/Youth Group
The decisions of the judges are final.
ELIGIBILITY
The competition is open to all Chicago-area (city, burbs, collar counties)film and media artists, professional and amateur, submitting original works. Entries can be excerpts pulled from longer works. However,films/ videos that have had a regional or
national television or theatrical release prior to the Festival are not eligible.
GUIDELINES
This is a short documentary film contest: films should not exceed 15 minutes, including credits. Filmmakers must produce a
film that examines racial and economic disparities, as the filmmaker sees them.
Films must be submitted in DVD format. Subject matter must focus on issues/residents in the Chicago-metropolita n area (Yes, that does include the ‘burbs and collar counties).
All films/videos must be an original work, created by an individual or team.
Limit TWO submissions per individual filmmaker. Youth and community media centers may submit up to THREE films.
Need inspiration? Reading back issues
Submission fees:
$25 per film for professionals,
$15 per film for amateurs and
$10 per film for youth and community groups.
To enter, please mail or drop off two DVDs of each film being submitted, along with the entry application and entry fee by 5:00 p.m., August 16, 2007 to:
John A. McDermott Film Festival
c/o The Chicago Reporter
332 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60604
For further information please contact:
Venita Griffin
312.427.4830
All entries will be acknowledged. The Chicago Reporter does not assume responsibility for submissions.
More IPPA conference photos!
The IPPA Conference 2007 gallery has been updated!
Thanks to Brian D. Wallace for sharing these!
Video Workshop — Application deadline April 30, workshop June 22-24
Introduction to Video for Newspapers Workshop
Application deadline Monday April 30
Workshop dates Friday - Sunday June 22-24
At the University of Illinois — Urbana-Champaign College of Communications
$50 fee, payable once application accepted, 30 people will be selected from application pool
- Event sponsored by the Illinois Alumni and Friends Chapter of NPPA, the IPPA, UIUC Journalism, Apple and Canon.
- Workshop attendees will have to pay for rooms at a hotel to be arranged.
- Some meals will be provided.
- Students need to bring two miniDV tapes, at least five blank DVD-R disks and eight AA batteries.
- Bring a video camera if you have one. Bring tripods, mics and video lights if you have them too. BUT you do not need any equipment to come — it will be provided for you.
- Attendees must come all three days.
There are 15 workstations and more than 15 people have expressed interest. Once you apply, a mix of applicants from various papers will be selected. Applicants will be put together into teams of two and will share workstations. Attendees will be paired with others from their newspaper; lone photographers will be paired with others attending by themselves.
The workshop will start Friday Evening at 6 p.m. and end Sunday by 5 p.m.
You will learn the basics of telling a story with video, how to work with audio and microphones and how to edit video and export it for the web. We will cover a lot of ground, so you need to come motivated and enthusiastic. Consider this your first video workshop, not your only video workshop.
Schedule — Friday orientation, Saturday shooting and editing, Sunday, editing and review
We will edit on Macintosh G5 and Mac Pro computers using Apple’s Final Cut Pro 2 video editing software.
Want to come? E-mail this info April 30 to Brian K. Johnson
APPLICATION INFO
Name:
Organization:
Phone:
Email:
Experience with video?
What equipment (if any) do you have available:
Brian K. Johnson
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Journalism
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
119 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-2103 office
(217) 244-5069 lab
-email-
Free Apple Aperture photo training in Champaign and Carbondale
Steve Warmowski alerts us:
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April 10, 2007
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Illini Media Building
4th Floor Conference Room
512 E Green St
Champaign, IL 61820
Seminar I - 10:00am - 11:30am
Seminar II - 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Registration 9:30am & 1:30pm
April 11, 2007
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Student Center
Mississippi Room
1255 Lincoln Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901
Seminar I - 10:00am - 11:30am
Seminar II - 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Registration 9:30am & 1:30pm
January 2007 IPPA clip contest results
JANUARY IPPA CLIP RESULTS
Judged by the Waterloo(IA) Courier, Brandon Pollack , Photo Editor
NEWS-
1st-John Badman, Alton Telegraph, Overturned Car Carrier, 1-6-07
2nd-Fred Zwicky, Peoria Journal Star, Last Respects-1-18- 07
3rd-Fred Zwicky, Peoria Journal Star, Waiting for Bush 1-31-07
HM-Kent Kriegshauser, Register Mail,Prayer Service. 1-29-07
HM-John Badman, Alton Telegraph, Fire Reaction. 1-30-07
Comments-Strong category overall. Our first place pick may seem an odd choice given it wasn’t maybe the peak news moment, but we were impressed that the photog stuck around to get it. The overall composition caught all our eyes right away. We thought it sad that soldier funerals have become common enough that you have to find a really standout angle.
FEATURE Single-
1st-Jonathan Kirshner-State Journal Register, “I’m Too Old For this Crap” 1-07
2nd-Adam Gerik, Peoria Journal Star, Kid tripped snow feature. 1-22-07
3rd-Matt Dayhoff, Peoria Journal Star, Embassy Suites Construction. 1-27-07
HM-TJ Salsman - State Journal Register, Harvest-1-5- 07
HM- Jonathan Kirshner, State Journal Register Easter Service 1-5-07
Comments-Again, strong category with an immediate unanimous pick of the old man cutting trees as first place, There were some great moments as well as images with a very strong graphic design, particularly the hotel construction. Although ultimately it did not place, we give bonus points to TJ Salsman for the computer shot. How many of those do we get sent to only to come away with something as boring as it sounds.
SPORTS-
1st-David Zentz, , Peoria Journal Star, You can’t win em all, 1/15/07
2nd-Ryan Rayburn, Northwest Herald, Robbie Gould Game winning Kick, 1-15-07
3rd-Steve Warmowski, Jacksonville Journal Courier, Basketball dive 1-14-07
HM- -Adam Gerik, Peoria Journal Star , Kevin Fay trapped bball. 1-13-07
HM- Ron Johnson, Peoria Journal Star. Pas deflection Bears. 1-15-07
Comments-Excellent Peak Action high school basketball and many really good moments.3rd place had tech issues that prevented it from going higher. Very good stuff overall.
FEATURE MULTIPLE-
1st- Ron Johnson, Peoria Journal Star Peoria’s Wildest ER. 1-7-07
2nd-Danielle Gardner, Sun Times News Group. The House that Love saved. 1-07
3rd-Mia Algotti-Freelance- Surrogate Mother 1-23-07
comments-Another good category with strong place winners. Each photg gained good access to their subjects and made the most of it. 1st place was particularly concise and yet had a nice variety of images despite being all in one place.
JANUARY CLIP LEADERS
72-FRED ZWICKY-
57- JOHN BADMAN
RON JOHNSON
JONATHAN KIRSHNER
52-DAVID ZENTZ
47-ADAM GERIK
42-DANIELLE GARDNER
RYAN RAYBURN
32- MIA ARGOTTI
MATT DAYHOFF
STEVE WARMOWSKI
Illinois Best of Photojournalism 2006 winners gallery available now!
The Illinois Best of Photojournalism 2006 winners gallery is up:
Photo by Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune from his first place Photographer of the Year Portfolio
iBOP Judges:
Robert Cohen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Barbara Davidson, The Dallas Morning News
Steve Jessmore, The Flint Journal
Judged March 9, 2007 at Northwestern University during the IPPA Conference
You can help! We’re looking for a volunteer to make award certificates for the iSBOP winners. If you have a design programs and can make awards featuring the winning images, contact Steve - at - ippaonline.com. All you have to do is make PDFs of the awards and Mark Black can make the prints using the printer on loan from Canon.