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Congratulations to board member Jim Ober for being inducted into the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame!
Left to rIght: 2016 Inductees Tracy Valenta and Larry Ragland, ORMHOF Chairman Mark McMillin, 2016 Inductees Jim Ober, Bud Feldkamp and Don Amador.
Congratulations to PPAGLA student member Jose Lopez for winning an Award of Excellence in the Spot News category of this year's CPOY contest. Lopez is also the PPAGLA 2015 Student Photojournalist of the Year.
By Louis Gabriele
During Oktoberfest and before Halloween
SMPTE, celebrating 100 years, staged their Conference and Exhibition
at the Loew's Hollywood Hotel on Hollywood and Highland
One could not help running into someone you know like George Hamilton, Jim Keller, Ron Becker, John Brooks, Richard Friedel and Jerry Isenhower..
Three days of the conference was filled with different speakers reporting on subjects related to old and new technology like "Return Loss: What, Why, How, and Where".
Marc Walker spoke about how return loss was important in analog television systems over 45 years ago. It is still an important parameter in today's digital transmission systems.
The Suitcase is a short 20 minute film created at USC by Abi Corbin as a test. Joshua Kolden, Michael Malgeri and Nancy Silver spoke on how "today's" television and motion picture production workflows make it incredibly challenging to preserve and manage data throughout the production lifecycle. “The Suitcase,” is about a Logan Airport baggage handler who comes across one of the suitcases of a 9/11 hijacker. Joshua Kolden said, "The idea with ‘The Suitcase’ was to test whether we could create a technological pipeline that provides benefits to the production without negative impact that is also relatively invisible in the production process.”
The Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE) was created in 1916 under the leadership of C. Francis Jenkins, an inventor from Washington, D.C. “T” was added in 1950. SMPTE standards development work has been recognized by the Motion Picture and Television Academies often including this century milestone. AMPAS awarded SMPTE with a Special Awards Plague: “For one hundred years, the Society’s members have nurtured technology, provided essential standards, and offered the expertise, support, tools and infrastructure for the creation and post-production of motion pictures."
With the average age of SMPTE members increasing, the entertainment industry needs to attract and retain younger engineers to strengthen the ranks and the future. The Big Question: "Is the entertainment industry properly equipped to recruit, manage, mentor and retain the new generation?" Join SMPTE today
“Richard Phibbs travels the world photographing models and celebrities for publications including Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly and Vogue China.
When Phibbs is home in the U.S., he turns his camera lens on more unlikely subjects: rescue dogs at The Humane Society of New York who are in need of homes.”
“The Chicago Cubs finally won the World Series last night after 108-year drought. But what has some photojournalists talking are the cover photos published by two of Chicago’s biggest newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.
As you might remember, the Sun-Times (the 8th largest paper in the US by circulation) laid off its entire staff of photographers back in 2013 and then sent a memo to its reporters about training them in iPhone photography.
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Photo by Amy Gaskin
We are saddened to bring news that PPAGLA member and Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Bill Mochon has passed away at 74 after a short battle with cancer.
Bill will have a Military Service with honors at Miramar National Cemetery this Weds. October 12 at 3pm. The address is 5795 Nobel Drive, San Diego, CA.
A writeup on his life can be read here - http://www.arcadiaweekly.com/featured/they-shoot-horses-dont-they-2/
You can also view his Lifetime Achievement Award video below -
“Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., has vetoed several bills related to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), as well as signed one into law.
According to a Sept. 29 veto message, A.B.2724 would have required UAS hobbyists to be covered by “adequate liability insurance” and required manufacturers to include geofencing software on their GPS-equipped drones.”
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“DARKER THAN BLUE
Please join us for an intimate conversation with Photographer Mathieu Bitton during our popular Lecture Series: COFFEE, CAMERAS & CONVERSATION. Mathieu will also be signing his New Book DARKER THAN BLUE (Ltd Ed 250). Available at Leica Gallery Los Angeles $50.
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Saturday, October 15 All Day 9-5
FREE for Students!!!
Attend event and receive 1-year FREE membership to PPAGLA!
REGISTER HERE:
http://www.meetup.com/Canon-Hollywood-Professional-Technology-Support-Center/events/233976535/?rv=wm1&_af=event&_af_eid=233976535&https=off
PPAGLA provides fantastic networking, mentoring and real-world advice for students of all genres. By joining, students also become eligible to enter the Student of the Year contest and win a camera and $1500 in prize money.
Today's program will explore various subjects and technical demonstrations to help your work reach the next level. You don’t need to be Canon shooter to attend.
This all-day intensive will cover important topics for the student, emerging or mid career photographer covering events and news in LA today. This day will be filled with inspiration, education, and great networking opportunities.
Doors open at 8:30 for registration, light breakfast and networking. FREE for Students with ID and upon registration will be given a free one-year membership to PPAGLA. $10.00 suggested donation (general public)
Lighting the 10-Minute Portrait; Hands on Demo with Dan MacMedan, USA Today
Careers — What’s Your Path? Panel Discussion
The Photostory: Francine Orr, Los Angeles Times
Advice from the Editors: What We Look For: Panel Discussion
***Photographers and editors from: Getty, Reuters, USA Today, LA Times, AP, EPA, and others!
Canon Hollywood is located at 6060 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
“The new dual-lens camera of the new iPhone 7 Plus is possibly the most significant upgrade to an iPhone camera ever.
The iPhone 7 camera’s 28mm wide angle lens now has an aperture of f1.8, which allows 50% more light to reach the sensor. And the additional 56mm lens, Apple says, will have a number of implications for photo quality.
The improved aperture and the new lens, taken together, make the iPhone 7 Plus camera a far more capable tool for both amateur and pro photographers. But they also make it a more complex one. So we went to photographer Brooks Kraft for help testing the performance of the camera’s new features. Kraft covered the White House for Time from 2001-2011 (spanning both the Bush and Obama administrations) and was named International Photographer of the Year in 2013.”
“CNN announced this week that it became the first organization to be granted a waiver by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly unmanned aerial systems over people in the United States. The FAA continues to work on overall rules for drone flight over people and expects to issue a proposal for comment this winter. In the meantime, CNN said it received a certificate of waiver to operate the Fotokite Pro, a tethered platform that weighs less than two pounds, over uncovered people who are not directly participating in the UAS operation. As part of the waiver approval process, CNN also said that it demonstrated to the FAA that its operations could be conducted safely. ”
“Every day, you see the toll of the campaign trail in the eyes of Hillary and The Donald. But it’s equally as grueling for the security details, the journalists, and the campaign staffers who accompany them. From the beginning of campaign season (which now stretches to more than a year before Election Day) until a winner is declared in November, a rotating cast of reporters and photographers shadows the candidates as they travel the country. Yes, it sounds glamorous to hop on private jets with a person who may soon be president. And, yes, after doing that for months, the sheen wears off.
We spoke with Andrew Harnik, an award-winning Associated Press photographer who this year has been assigned to the Hillary Clinton campaign, and previously has covered the White House and the 2012 presidential race. He gave us some insight on what it’s like to be on the road with a presidential hopeful.”
“Brooks Institute, a visual arts school whose alumni include Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winners, is permanently closing Oct. 31.
The school blames “changes in economic and regulatory conditions” for the closure, attorney Aaron Lacey told a group of roughly 85 students, faculty and staff who attended a meeting Friday called by owner Gphomestay.”
The Los Angeles Library has published a book of photos by the Herald-Examiner photographers' work at the 1984 Olympics. The book is due for release Wednesday, Aug. 10 at the library and begins at 12:15PM. Hope to see you there!
Click the link for more information-
“For decades, the pollsters at Gallup have been asking Americans if they trust their media. In 1974, the year Woodward and Bernstein brought an end to Richard Nixon’s presidency, 69 percent of them did. In a poll released last year, that number was at a historic low. Today, the only institutions Americans have less faith in than television news (21 percent) and newspapers (20 percent) are Congress and “big business.” That’s pretty damn low — humiliatingly low, especially for a group of people who fancy themselves members of “the Fourth Estate.” (For those of you who have never worked in the media, which is basically the only place anyone would still use that 18th-century term: It refers to the power of the press to balance that of the three estates — clergy, aristocracy, and the well-to-do — in the British Parliament.) The other three estates don’t really exist in 21st-century America, but the fourth’s high opinion of its role in the body politic has been pretty constant.”
Congratulations to PPAGLA member Arturo Quezada of KMEX for winning an Emmy in Outstanding Editing - News!
View the list of winners here - http://www.emmys.com/news/press-releases/68th-los-angeles-area-emmy-awards-announces-individual-achievement-winners
“David Gilkey, an NPR photojournalist who chronicled pain and beauty in war and conflict, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday along with NPR’s Afghan interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna.
David and Zabihullah were on assignment for the network traveling with an Afghan army unit. They were in an armored Humvee driven by a soldier of the Afghan National Army. All three were killed after the Humvee was hit by rocket propelled grenades in an apparent ambush.
NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and producer Monika Evstatieva were also in the convoy, traveling in a separate vehicle. They were not injured.
Tom reports that when the journalists’ remains arrived by helicopter at Camp Shorab in Helmand Province — where the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division has a training mission — an honor guard of “dozens and dozens” of U.S. soldiers stood at attention and saluted.
David was 50 and Zabihullah, who for years also worked as a photographer, was 38.”
“Paris-based Photojournalist Maya Vidon-White on Saturday called it “good news for photojournalism.” But in a New York Times article, she is quoted as saying: “I don’t feel a total sense of relief.” Vidon-White was facing criminal charges in France for a photo she took of a victim of the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, which was then sold to United Press International (UPI), a news agency, which in turn sold it to a French news agency. The image was ultimately published in a French magazine. The victim’s family pressed charges under the nation’s privacy laws, which are much stricter than U.S. laws.”
“San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies announced Tuesday they arrested a man they believe attacked a Daily Press photographer while he was on assignment last week at Hesperia Lake.
Steven Andrew Mancillas, 20, of Hesperia, turned himself in to the Hesperia Sheriff’s Station on Tuesday afternoon. Deputies said a woman, identified as Erika Aliyah Ochoa, 21, of Hesperia, also was arrested in connection to the incident, while a third suspect remains at large.”