IPPA Clip Contest makes on-line switch
Clark Brooks of Photo News in Champaign reports that the switch to on-line submission and judging for the IPPA clip contest has been made.
Effective immediately, the site is ready to receive uploads for the January clip contest.
The login page is here:
http://www.iphotonews.com/IPPA
If you haven’t already created your login follow this link:
http://www.iphotonews.com/cgi-bin/IPPA/imageFolio.cgi?account=register
If you created one during the beta testing phase it is still active.
If you have forgotten your account go here:
http://www.iphotonews.com/cgi-bin/IPPA/imageFolio.cgi?account=lostpw
Instructions for uploading images for the clip contest can be found here:
http://www.iphotonews.com/IPPA/Upload.html
Questions? Contact Clark Brooks.
And, thanks to Canon for sponsoring the contest. The 2009 winner will once again receive a prize camera thanks to their generous support.
First IPPA Convention Speaker, Judge announced: Lisa Krantz
Our first IPPA conference speaker and Illinois Best of Photojournalism judge has been confirmed:
Lisa Krantz from the San Antonio Express-News
Scenes from Suburbia - Miss Helotes Teen contestants Katie Eller, from left, Michelle Dawson and Maggie O'Brien put vaseline on their teeth so their lipstick doesn't stick to them before the Miss Helotes Pageant on Saturday April 19, 2008.
BIO:
Lisa Krantz has been a staff photographer at the San Antonio Express-News since March 2004. Previously she worked at the Naples (FL) Daily News for five years. Krantz attended Florida State University, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and earned her Master’s degree in photography from Syracuse University.
During her years at the San Antonio Express-News she has had the opportunity to cover stories both near and far including the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the selection of the new Pope in Rome and HIV/AIDS issues in Africa. Most recently she spent close to two years documenting life in the small city of Helotes, TX, as it struggles to maintain its identity in the face of explosive growth.
She is the National Press Photographers Association 2005 Region 8 Photographer of the Year and runner-up for 2004 and 2006. Her work has also been honored by POYi, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, the Southern Short Course in News Photography and the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. She has served on the faculty of several workshops including the Southern Short Course and the Eddie Adams Workshop.
More info:
- More info and photos from Krantz are available at http://www.lisakrantz.com/main.php
- More info about the IPPA convention, including contest entry forms is available here
Scenes from Suburbia — The O'Connor High School cheerleaders, Golduster dance team and band wait for the Cornyval parade to begin in Old Town Helotes on Saturday, May 3, 2008.
2008 IPPA iSBOP rules ready
Rules for the IPPA’s annual student contest, the iSBOP, are now available for download here:
http://ippaonline.com/ippa/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2008-isbop-rules.pdf
(It’s a PDF file, so right click and save, or be prepared to wait a minute while it downloads and opens Acrobat)
Important Deadlines:
Still contest: Entry must be mailed Feb. 18
Multimedia contest: Entry must be mailed by Feb. 4 (The rules/form is available here)
Thanks to René Eddie of reddephotography.com for taking over the contest!
Nikon is once again sponsoring the contest and will give a prize to the winner. And, thanks to the donors to the IPPA’s Chuck Cass Memorial Scholarship Fund, $500 in scholarships will go to photographer of the year winners. The second place winner will receive $300 and the third place winner gets $200.
Please spread the word to all students! The contest is open to all full-time students at Illinois schools, Illinois students attending out-of-state schools and out-of-state students interning at Illinois papers (during the internship). There is no fee to enter the contest, but you have to pay your annual $10 student dues to be eligible.
Direct questions to René Edde at isbop@ippaonline.com.
2008 IPPA iBOP rules now available for download
Note — The original upload file had the incorrect Zip code. It should be 60026. The file has been updated, but please check the zip code before you mail. (One entry made its way with the old Zip code, but you never know with the Post Office.)
Change — deadline switched to mailed by Monday Feb. 9th.
Rules for 2008 iBOP contest can be downloaded here:
http://ippaonline.com/ippa/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2008iboprules_forms.pdf
(It’s a sizable PDF file, so right click and save it or be patient while it downloads).
Deadline for entry is mailed by 9 February 2009. Thanks to Nikon for sponsoring the contest, with a camera going to the winner. New at the helm this year is freelance photographer Stacie Freudenberg. Thanks for volunteering! The iSBOP student contest is being run by René Eddie, and rules for that contest will be out shortly.
The IPPA’s iBOP contest is modeled after the NPPA’s BOP contest. If you are entering the national contest, few changes are required to prepare your entries for our state contest. Calibration, file size and other major attributes are the same. They require more info than we do for IPTC fields; but it’s not necessary to delete excess information. Some major differences:
— file naming is completely different
— contest categories were changed this year to match the BOP. But pay attention for some categories have an over/under split for big and small newspapers in their contest (Enterprise Picture Storage and Photographer of the Year) which we don’t do. We also changed some of our contest names (General News now DON for Domestic News; Election now RTO for Road to Office, Feature now ENT, Portrait now LPP, Illustration now CPI, Nature now NAH, and story changes to EPS and RTS) to better get along. We just plum made Photographer of the Year PY so people at papers big and small have to pay attention.
Remember that when you enter iBOP your fee to the convention is paid up. We also kept our contest and membership fees steady.
The contest will be judged on Friday 20 March 2009 at the joint Illinois Press Photographers Association/Wisconsin News Photographers Association conference in Madison. Hotel and other details will be posted here later as well as http://www.wnpaonline.com/
So get to editing! And pass along the word to your fellow photographers that the rules are up! Thanks for your patience.
Steve Warmowski
IPPA Secretary-Treasurer
IPPA 2009 Multimedia Contest Rules & Entry Form
2009 Multimedia Contest Entry Form & Rules:
- The online entry form is available at the bottom of this post (Scroll down to enter, but please review the rules). Please make sure to scroll to click submit and wait for confirmation that your entry was received.
- Entrants must pay the IPPA contest entry fee. Forms are available here (PDF file, so right click and save or be patient).
- You may enter up to 10 pieces plus a multimedia portfolio (comprised of 5 pieces).
- Judges reserve the right to move an entry to a different category if it is entered wrong. When reasonably possible, please remove all branding, bylines and credits from the project.
- Entries must be submitted with a live URL that works. Entries that malfunction or don’t work will be disqualified.
- Questions or problems? Email ippa@ippaonline.com
Deadline Feb. 4 (extended!) Feb. 9, 2009
**** STUDENT CONTEST CATEGORIES ****
STUDENT - SLIDE SHOW:
Includes all student-produced slideshows and audio slideshows. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
STUDENT - VIDEO PIECE:
Includes all student produced video pieces. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
STUDENT - MULTIMEDIA PROJECT:
Includes all student produced multimedia projects. This could be a series of audio slideshows, a series of video pieces, a Flash project, panoramas, 3D renderings, holograms or any mix of these elements – anything goes. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
**** PRO CONTEST CATEGORIES ****
PRO - INDIVIDUAL SLIDE SHOW
Includes all single slideshows and single audio slideshows.
Entries must have been created by one individual and no others. We believe there is special merit in the extra work it takes producing a piece solo from start to finish. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
PRO - INDIVIDUAL VIDEO PIECE
Includes all single video pieces. Entries must have been created by one individual and no others. We believe there is special merit in the extra work it takes producing a piece solo from start to finish. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
PRO - INDIVIDUAL MULTIMEDIA PROJECT
Includes either of the following: a series of pieces or mixed online media experience. This could be a series of audio slideshows, a series of video pieces, a Flash project or any mix of these elements. Entries must have been created by one individual and no others. We believe there is special merit in the extra work it takes producing a piece solo from start to finish.
PRO - TEAM SLIDE SHOW
Includes all single slideshows and single audio slideshows. Entries will be created by more than one individual. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
PRO - TEAM VIDEO PIECE
Includes all single video pieces. Entries will be created by more than one individual.Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills. Entries must be submitted in working order on a CD or with a live URL that works. Entries that malfunction or don’t work will be disqualified.
PRO - TEAM MULTIMEDIA PROJECT
Includes either of the following: a series of pieces or mixed online media experience. Entries will be created by more than one individual. This could be a series of audio slideshows, a series of video pieces, a Flash project, panoramas, 3D renderings, holograms or any mix of these elements – anything goes. Entries will be judged on the overall storytelling experience based on the quality of the content, editing, design, visuals and content capturing skills.
ILLINOIS MULTIMEDIA PORTFOLIO OF THE YEAR
Awarded to the individual producing the highest quality multimedia storytelling portfolio. Up to pieces may be entered and they may be of any variety or combination.
STUDENT & PRO ILLINOIS BEST OF MULTIMEDIA CONTEST ENTRY FORM:
Ready to enter? Just fill out the form below and click submit:
2009 IPPA IBOP, ISBOP and IBOM entry deadline set
The joint IPPA / WNPA conference is fast approaching and we’ve set Feb. 4, 2009 as the ‘must be mailed by’ deadlines for the:
- IPPA Illinois Best of Photojournalism (IBOP)
- IPPA Illinois Student Best of Photojournalism (ISBOP)
- IPPA Illinois Best of Multimedia (IBOM)
We have new IBOP and ISBOP chairs (Stacie Freudenberg for IBOP and René Edde for ISBOP) who are working on getting the rules/forms together as we speak. Will Sullivan is still at the helm of the IBOM contest, which will go completely digital this year and also add a new category — Multimedia Journalist of the Year — for, obviously, the crowning of the best multimedia portfolio in Illinois.
The contest entry forms, rules and more info will all be posted later this week here at IPPAonline.com. As always, we’re going to follow the NPPA BOP format for the most part, so once you finish your entries for their deadline on Jan. 30, you’ll have an easy time submitting your work to the IPPA.
Network with us in the new IPPA LinkedIn group
Connect and network with other IPPA members on our new IPPA LinkedIn Group.
