Great ASMP series of FREE webinars.

We invite you to attend this free webinar series:

The Future of Art & Commerce: what creators and users of visual content need to know in these rapidly changing times

A series of ten free webinars jointly produced by the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to educate creators and users on copyright, licensing and monetization of content. The series will open an honest dialogue about conflicting pressures for both content creators and users; while exploring a variety of mutually beneficial suggestions and solutions.

Live attendance is limited but all registrants receive a free recording after the event. To see the full listing of these FREE events, CLICK HERE

Coming Up Next:

Understanding Fair Use – This Tuesday!
With Fred Haber & Vic Perlman
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
1:00 – 2:00 pm, eastern
THIS SESSION IS FULL.
Please register to receive a free recording of the program.
FULL DETAILS & REGISTRATION

What Everyone Should Know About Licensing
With Susan Carr
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
1:00 – 2:00 pm, eastern
Live attendance is limited. Register today!
FULL DETAILS & REGISTRATION

How to Write (and Read) Licenses
With Jeff Sedlik
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
1:00 – 1:45 pm, eastern
Live Attendance is limited. Register today!
FULL DETAILS & REGISTRATION

About ASMP: The American Society of Media Photographers is the premier trade association for the world’s most respected photographers. ASMP is the leader in promoting photographs’ rights, providing education in better business practices, producing business publications for photographers and helping to connect purchases with professional photographers. For more information, visit www.asmp.org

About CCC: Representing copyright holders from nearly every country in the world, CCC is a global rights broker for millions of the world’s most sought after materials, including in- and out-of-print books, journals, newspapers, magazines, images, blogs and ebooks. For more information, visit www.copyright.com

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ASMP Lecture | Working for Nonprofits

DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD: Working in the Non-profit/NGO Market

An Evening with Jamie Rose / Momenta Workshops
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

In the work-a-day world, it’s rare to find a path where you can both make a living and make a change. Helping to tell the story for Non-Profits and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) is one of those paths. Whether creating still imagery or video/multimedia documentaries, working with these organizations is a viable way to exercise your creative muscle and build a business.

Join us to hear Jamie Rose speak about what it means to shoot for non-profits, what the work looks like, and the practical in’s and out’s of working for these organizations.

Jamie Rose is an international award-winning photojournalist based here in Washington, DC. She has worked in 5 continents, won awards and grants for her documentary photography and has been a contract photographer with some of the world’s largest nonprofit organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and The Global Fund. Jamie’s work has been published in National Geographic Books, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Newsweek, and others. She has been internationally recognized for her long term documentary projects on volunteer health care providers and humanitarian issues.

In 2009, Jamie joined Momenta as the Director of Workshops and creates the curriculum for that division. In 2011, she was awarded the United Nations’ ICP Photographers Leadership Award in New York City for her devotion to the field of documentary photography.

Don’t miss this important evening.

When:
September 14, 2011
6:30 pm Social & Refreshments
7:00 pm Program

Where:
Weschler Auditorium
American University
Washington, DC

Fee:
ASMP Members: $10
Non-Members: $20
Students: $5

Students: (With valid ID) $5

ASMP Members: $10

Non-members: $20

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ASMP shares the love…

By spreading the word about social media with photogs. This is a GREAT service by our ASMP brethren and I am so happy they did this! Great job! -Jamie

From the ASMP blog…

Getting the Most Out of Social Media

The new social media landscape offers great opportunities to promote your way to a strong, successful business – if you know how to navigate it. ASMP’s new Social Media Tutorial provides just the help you need to guide you through the ins and outs of the sites, blogging, posting images and video, legal considerations, developing a marketing system and more. Make the new media work for you! Learn from the experts how to connect with clients and show your creativity to prospects at asmp.org/tutorials/social-media-tutorial.html

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I’m off to the United Nations!

I am so proud, humbled and flattered to be selected by the board of White House News Photographers Association for the United Nation’s IPC Professional Photographer Leadership Awards. I cannot thank WHNPA for giving me this honor and allowing me to represent the organization as your 2011 recipient.

Past winners include legends Nancy Andrews, Carol Guzy, Michael Williamson, Diana Walker, Dennis Brack, Pete Souza, Manny Garcia, John Harrington, Marty Lavour, Mary Calvert and Jon Elswick. I feel very small standing in the footsteps of such giants.

It’s an overwhelming honor to be given this award. While I love that I’ve been honored by the association for my photographic projects, I am especially proud you think I am a leader in the industry. I will continued to work hard to keep fighting for the rights, and education of documentarians in our industry. I cannot thank you all enough for this. I feel on top of the world!

http://blog.whnpa.org/post/3732858306/whnpa-nominates-jamie-rose-for-2011-ipc-leadership

http://www.ipc-un-ngo.org/awards.php

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POYi Launches $10,000 Emerging Incentive Program

RE: http://www.poyi.org

COLUMBIA, Mo. – For some it might be a passion, for others an avocation and to a few, maybe a dream not yet accomplished. Now, with the assistance of a new project from Pictures of the Year International (POYi), a program of the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI), semi-professional, student, and early-career photographers will have the opportunity to do work of a global significance.

POYi, the oldest photojournalism program in the world, has announced the “POYi Emerging Vision Incentive.” The incentive will fund and showcase documentary work on social issues or political trends by aspiring documentary photographers. The Emerging Vision Incentive recipient will receive up to $10,000 to assist in developing a photo story that reflects daily life, social issues, cultural trends or news events.

“We are excited to be able to provide the environment and inspiration for emerging photographers to do work of worldwide importance,” said Rick Shaw, director of POYi. “We hope this program will help educate and motivate the next generation of social-conscious photojournalists and allow them to explore and expand avenues of publication that are currently unavailable to them.”

In addition to financial assistance, the recipient will have the opportunity to have his or her work displayed at RJI and The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles during their exhibit of winning images from the 67th Annual POYi Competition which opens in June 2010. The Emerging Vision Incentive recipient will also receive a full day of career-development during the annual POYi Education Seminar and Awards Program.

The POYi Emerging Vision Incentive program is made possible through financial support from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and the Annenberg Foundation. For more information, please download the Emerging Incentive Guide and the Application Form.

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Model Releases: a few resources

Since someone just asked me what I thought about model releases, I thought I’d post some discussions on the subject for you all to peruse that I found while looking up the answer:

http://asmp.org/tutorials/property-and-model-releases.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_release

http://www.photosource.com/psn_full.php?type=FPNews&id=108

For a more legal take on it: http://www.simslaw.com/model/model_releases.htm

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A complete list of Speakers @ PhotoPlus…

…for Booth #967 (Camera Bits/Photo Mechanic)

Schedule and topics of speakers at the Camera Bits booth (#967) during PhotoPlus:

Jamie Rose, Photographer & Director of Momenta Workshops

Thursday Oct 22nd 1:00 pm
Friday Oct 23rd 1:00 pm
Saturday Oct 24th 11:00 am

“Basic Mechanics: Using Photo Mechanic in the Field & on Assignment”

Jamie Rose will be presenting a demonstration of how she uses Photo Mechanic while in the field and on assignment. She will demonstrate the basic but most important features of Photo Mechanic, such as ingesting, tagging, batch renaming, applying IPTC, watermarking and other features that are essential to a photographer’s workflow. She takes you through the invaluable ways that Photo Mechanic can speed up your workflow and make any photographer’s editing process quicker, more streamlined, and altogether less demanding

John Harrington, President of the White House News Photographers Association

Thursday Oct 22nd 11:00 am
Friday Oct 23rd 12:00 pm

” Using Photo Mechanic To Boost Your Profits”

Join photographer John Harrington as he shows you how he’s uses Photo Mechanic when seconds count to get images out from assignments worldwide. Whether it’s traveling with the President, or in the middle of the Baltic Sea, Photo Mechanics’ tools mean fast access to the selection, editing, and transmission process. How does this translate into profits? Photo Mechanics’ e-mailing and direct transmission to client FTP destinations and services like PhotoShelter generate “transmission fees” as well as their templates for metadata and emailing mean lightning-fast delivery to serve fast-paced client demands. In addition, John’s use of Photo Mechanics’ browsing window onsite when doing executive portraits gives subjects fast and easy previews of their portraits moments after being taken.

David Riecks, founder of ControlledVocabulary.com

Thursday Oct 22nd 2:00 pm
Friday Oct 23rd 11:00 am

“Structured Keyword Catalog and the CVKC”

David will demonstrate how the Structured Keyword Catalog in Photo Mechanic uses a controlled vocabulary, which is a managed set of hierarchical terms for keywording images so that others can easily find the image they need when searching. Version 3.0 of the Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog (or CVKC) contains approximately 11,000 keyword terms, including a broad range of people, lifestyle, and concept themes ˜ all organized in a hierarchical structure with segregated synonyms. Use of the CVKC insures consistency in selection and spelling of specific keyword terms and helps guide the keyworder to appropriate synonyms.

“How to use the Code Replacement Feature to Add a Set of Keywords to a Folder of Images”

David will demonstrate how the Code Replacement feature can take a spreadsheet containing filenames and keywords, to populate the keyword field as a batch process to a folder of images. This is important for any photographer or image collection manager (stock agency) that outsources their keywording, and needs to move that information back into the original image files (to feed into a DAM system, or to share with a distributor, or other collection).

John Supra and Jon Moeller from DigitalFusion

Thursday Oct 22nd 12:00 pm
Friday Oct 23rd 10:00 am
Saturday Oct 24th 12:00 pm

” From Shoot to Online – From Photo Mechanic to DF Studio”

Learn how use the DF Studio LINK Upload Template built into Photo Mechanic to upload images from Photo Mechanic to DF Studio (www.dfstudio.com). Once uploaded, DF Studio enables you to deliver the job to your client in a consistent, professional and secure way using DF Studio’s Messenger feature. To market your photography to new clients, DF Studio’s Web Portfolios provide an easy-to-use and engaging approach to online portfolios. And DF Studio’s archiving tools integrate the experience with a safe and cost-effective long-term archive storage service. DF Studio delivers a complete solution to manage your images, online, anytime that begins directly from Photo Mechanic.

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David Alan Harvey San Fran workshop discounts!

Momenta announces the David Alan Harvey workshop happening this September 25-28, 2009 in San Francisco is still open for registrations.

To ease the burden of tuition in these rough economic waters, Momenta is offering a discount of 15% off to anyone belonging to professional or student organizations (NPPA, WPOW, WHNPA, ASMP, ASPP, SBPPA, etc.) for this workshop.

Email our staff at info@momentaworkshops.com directly to get your discount code for this amazing hands-on workshop with Magnum legend, David Alan Harvey.

Feel free to visit our website for more information and to register online at: http://momentaworkshops.com/sanfran09.php

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Harrington’s lighting, gear and location tips

Check out John’s What We Use series on here about what gear he uses, how they light, how he travels and more. Good good stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/user/johnhharrington

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Great website!

I just stumbled upon this website and it’s a great way for a photographer to make an impact, promote good works and get the Photo Love (as Mark Dolan would say) spread around the world:

http://www.photosecrets.com

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