Following is a description of only a few seminars attendees can experience at PhotoPlus Expo this year:
Thursday, October 24
1:30 -- 3:30 p.m.
James Estrin, Ben Lowy, Diana Markosian
Making A Living as a Young Photographer
James Estrin, co-editor of the New York Times Lens Blog will moderate a panel of young photographers who will discuss the different approaches they’ve taken in trying to forge a career as an editorial and documentary photographer today.
4:00 -- 6:00 p.m.
Cliff Mautner
Creating Texture, Dimension and Mood with Light
It's all about light. Natural light, artificial light, directional light, harsh light, flat light, dim light, no light, too much light. Knowing how to use various types of light is the key to creating texture, dimension and mood with your images. Join Cliff Mautner as he empowers attendees with a crash course on creating dramatic images in various lighting conditions and share a range of techniques that you'll be able to take with you and implement right away.
4:00 -- 6:00 p.m.
Corey Rich
Evolving Your Craft: The Path From Still to Motion
Corey Rich provides a step-by-step explanation of how to transition your career from still photography to motion, and discusses the skill sets you can use from still photography to build a creative approach to motion storytelling, along with the equipment and technical skills needed to enter the filmmaking world. The goal of this presentation is to help attendees build a profitable business based on the foundation of still photography with enormous growth opportunities in the filmmaking world.
Friday, October 25
1:30 -- 3:30 p.m.
Lynn Goldsmith
Rock and Roll Stories
Lynn Goldsmith shares how her career took shape and what it takes to build a successful career in portraiture, especially celebrity portraits. In stories to accompany her images, Goldsmith takes you into the photo studio, the tour bus, the concert hall and the streets. Her photographs, her reminiscences and observations are filled with tips about how to get the subject to do more than what’s expected. Come armed with questions—at the end of the session there will be time for a question and answer session with the audience.
1:30 -- 3:30 p.m.
1:30 -- 3:30 p.m.
Ed Kashi, Glen Ruga, Amy Yenkin, Michelle Bogre, Ron Haviv
Photography and the Struggle for a Better World
Sponsored by socialdocumentary.com
Matthew Brady, Roger Fenton, Robert Capa, W. Eugene Smith and more recently Jonathan Togorvnik, Sebastiao Salgado, Donna Ferrato and Lynsey Addario are just some of the luminaries of photojournalism and documentary photography who have changed our perception of the world, and therefore the world itself. While the Internet has made it easier and less costly to disseminate work to a global audience, it has also decimated the commercial market for these images. The presenters on this panel discussion will each talk about how socially conscious photographers are embracing the challenges of new technologies and a new economy to continue to inform the public about injustice and, in many cases, using this awareness to change the world.
1:30 -- 3:30 p.m.
Tyler Stableford
Mastering Video: Storytelling Essentials for Cinematography
Sponsored by Canon
At its heart, great cinematography is all about creating emotion. In this fast-paced seminar, Tyler Stableford reveals the essential elements of shooting compelling short films, commercials and social media videos. Light, framing, camera motions, storyline and interview techniques are critical components for building a story. Using detailed examples from his award-winning films and commercials, Tyler shows how to use these techniques to truly connect with your audience. This seminar is designed for shooters of all levels including those making the transition from stills to video.
4:00 -- 6:00 p.m.
Chris Boot
Aperture Foundation: Fine-Art & Publishing, What's in it for Photographers?
Sponsored by Aperture Foundation
Chris Boot, executive director of the Aperture Foundation, gives an illustrated talk about changes in photography publishing and addresses the changing role of the photo book and magazine publisher in the digital age. He will explain how Aperture is responding to the changing publishing environment, how photographers can present work to Aperture’s editors and how the foundation is creating new opportunities for photographers to join its community.
4:00 -- 6:00 p.m.
Lou Jones
Speedlights & Speedlites
Lighting for photography has finally entered the modern era. Along with digital cameras and postproduction software, Speedlights have finally made professional looking lighting easy, practical and affordable. Lou Jones, author of Speedlights & Speedlites: Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed (second edition, summer 2013), offers attendees a step-by-step demonstration built upon mastering a single Speedlight, and then showing each stage from the simple to the elaborate. The skills necessary for every style of photography, such as bouncing, modifying, filtering and controlling each light, will be discussed.
Saturday, October 26
8:45 -- 11:45 a.m.
Zach Arias
Social MEEEEEEEdia
Sponsored by Fujifilm
Zack Arias joined twitter in 2009 because his wife was on twitter and some guy named Carlos was talking to her there and he wanted to see who this Carlos guy was. Since then, Zack has built a community of nearly 60,000 followers on that social media platform alone. Zack's blog averages more than 150,000 unique views per month and he averages more than 100 comments per blog post. Zack will give examples of building signal instead of noise; how to deal with personal vs. professional updates, how to find and interact with clients, and how to manage a healthy relationship with the numerous social media outlets available to us.
8:45 -- 11:45a.m.
Alex Buono
The Art of Visual Storytelling
Sponsored by Canon
The Art of Visual Storytelling delivers an intense educational overview of the artistic elements and core principles of cinematography. Taught by Oscar nominee Alex Buono, DP of the Saturday Night Live Film Unit, this session features training that will dramatically increase the impact of your films. Designed for both DSLR and Cine-style camera users, you will learn advanced techniques of visual storytelling, as Buono introduces concepts such as space, line, shape, tone, color, movement, and rhythm. Buono will show you how he uses these visual components in his own work, as well as discussing how the great filmmaking masters have used these elements.
1:30 -- 3:30 p.m.
Brian Storm
Multimedia Storytelling at MediaStorm
The digital age is giving documentary photographers and photojournalists extraordinary new ways to tell stories. With this new ability, you can also exercise a greater level of authorship with your work. Learn how to disseminate your work to create an impact on the subject, issue and hopefully society. Brian Storm, founder and executive producer of MediaStorm, will show how some of the top photojournalists have redefined their storytelling capabilities to include audio reporting and an eye towards publication in multiple media.
General Seminar and Keynote Information
Conference passes may be purchased in a variety of options: A la Carte Conference seminars ($85-$99 each online thru Oct. 22/$149 each onsite); One Day Conference Pass ($199 online thru Oct. 22/$249 onsite); Full Conference Pass October 24-26 ($499 online thru Oct. 22/$549 onsite). Any 2013 conference pass, WPPI University Pass or VIP Expo Pass includes free admission to all three keynote presentations, the PhotoPlus Expo show floor, Test Drive: New Product Preview + Networking Event, and the PhotoPlus 30th Anniversary BASH. Special discounts are available for students with a valid student ID or proof of enrollment. Restrictions may apply.
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