SJSU NPPA is holding an Alphabet Hunt photo competition on our flickr group page. Everyone is welcome to participate, just take a picture of something that looks like the letter for the day.
You have until midnight to upload today’s (02.23.07) letter; C.
Many thanks to Shmuel Thaler, Nhat Meyer, Paul Sakuma and Norbert von der Groeben for making it out to our discussion on ethics in the digital darkroom. The talk seemed to bring up some key points that are either subjective in nature or have yet to be answered. Differences in opinion seemed to sprout up when comparing those who work at a large publication or for a newswire with those who work in smaller market papers.
When working for a large paper or a newswire, the staff exists to post-process images for you and/or little post processing is done because the photographer does not know where the photograph will end up. In the case of a photographer working at a smaller paper, that photographer is aware of any subtleties that may exist in printing for that particular paper. He/she can adjust tones to compensate for uncalibrated monitors, poor presses, cheap paper, etc.
A few interesting suggestions came up, including a system to either track changes made to an image throughout its “life,” the embedding of a thumbnail of the raw file within the photograph’s data, and a scaled back version of photoshop that would limit the ease in which photographs can be manipulated and more closely simulate wet darkroom characteristics.
In the end, it seemed like both sides were striving for the same goal; to present to their viewers an honest a truthful view of reality. Whether that reality is what is seen by the eye of the photographer or what can be captured by a digital sensor remains a question.
Just a little reminder to those people who are interested in the NPPA student chapter at SJSU but who either do not receive our emails or don’t pay attention to them (of course, you could always subscribe to the rss feed of our SJSU NPPA flickr group, or view our google calendar to stay up to date).
Tomorrow we will be holding a portfolio review in the photo room of the Spartan Daily beginning at 6pm. Bring a loose edit of images so that we can sit down and prepare entries for CPOY, Chips Quinn and other upcoming internships.
Also, on Thursday, Sept. 28 Shmuel Thaler and Nhat Meyer will be speaking at SJSU. They will be discussing the firing of Patrick Schneider, the ethical guidelines that are followed at their respective papers and toning sample images.
I am pleased to post our list of guest speakers for the semester (full list of events to come).
Thursday, Sept. 28 – Shmuel Thaler, staff photographer of Santa Cruz Sentinel and president of the California Press Photographers Association. Nhat Meyer, staff photographers with San Jose Mercury News. They will talk on ethics in the digital darkroom age.
Tuesday, Oct. 10 – Michael Grecco, Los Angeles freelance photographer from editorial to advertising.
Thursday, Oct. 26 – Frederic Neema, a San Francisco based freelance photographer, will discuss business practices and marketing yourself.
Thursday, Nov. 9 – Marcio Sanchez and Jeff Chiu, staff photographers with Associated Press.
Thursday, Nov. 30 – Brad Mangin, freelance sports photographer and founding member of Sportshooter, will be showing his work from the World Series.
Where: SJSU Journalism building Dwight Bentel Hall room 133
When: All meetings start at 6 p.m.
Here are links to a map of campus (DBH is located in C2) as well as directions to the campus. For more information you can email sjsunppa@gmail.com.
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