 | Ohio News Photographer |
| December 1998 |
| Ohio News Photographer |
| December 1998 |
The 1998 ONPA still photography contest has added the category Student Photographer of the Year to the annual competition.
The student POY title will be awarded to the successful entrant based on portfolio. First and second runner-ups will be awarded at the discretion of the judges.
Winner(s) will be announced and recognized at the annual awards dinner during the 1999 convention to be held in Fairborn, April 9-10.
You must be a full-time student (high school or college under graduate) and be an ONPA member to participate in the Student Photographer of the Year competition.
Complete rules are contained in the December Newsletter mailed to all members.
The deadline is the same as the general contest and all entries must be in the hands of the contest chairman by January 30, 1999.
The Larry Fullerton Photojournalism Scholarship was established through contributions by the Fullerton family and friends at the Dayton Foundation to assist students pursuing careers in photojournalism. Larry Fullerton was a long time member of ONPA as a photojournalist and later as assistant managing editor of The Hamilton Journal News.
The Larry Fullerton Photojournalism Scholarship is a $2,000 scholarship available to cover undergraduate tuition and lab fees for the 1998-1999 school year. Additional scholarships may be available at the discretion of the ONPA and the Dayton Foundation.In order to be eligible, a student must meet the following criteria:
Applications and portfolios must be received at the photo department of the Dayton Daily News postmarked no later than February 7, 1999.
The decision on the scholarship winners will be made by the ONPA board based on the portfolio and financial need. This decision will be submitted to the Dayton Foundation for final approval.
Your portfolio will be returned provided you provide a pre-paid self addressed shipping container. Those who do not choose to provide return shipping materials may pick up their portfolio following the awards dinner.
The scholarship recipient also will receive a plaque from ONPA and will be honored at the annual awards banquet in April.
For further information contact:
The 1998 still contest will be judged February 12-13 at The Fawcett Center Hotel and Conference Center in Columbus, Ohio. The Fawcett Center is located at 2400 Olentangy River Road just north of Lane Ave. The hotel offers plenty of free parking for those attending.
Rooms are available Friday and Saturday for those wishing overnight accommodations. Room rates are $82 for single or double. To acquire this rate please make your reservations by January 12, 1999. For reservations call 1-800-637-2316.
A closed judging will take place Friday, February 12. No one will be admitted to the closed judging. Picture stories, the Ohio Understanding Award and picture usage categories will be judged at this time.
The open judging will take place Saturday, February 13 beginning at approximately 9 a.m.. The remaining individual categories will be judged at this time concluding with the portfolio category.
The number of awards in each category past the first place award will be at the discretion of the judges. A category with less than 15 entries can be eliminated at the discretion of the judges.
The traditional meet the judges mixer is planned for Saturday evening at the hotel for those of you who wish to lavish praise on these astute minds who have deemed your work worthy of an award. It goes without saying that these same brilliant minds will be condemned by others at this time as well. Please keep the bashing to a minimum, those who won might get offended.
Merchandise moved well and several new members in the form of Ohio University students have now seen the light.
Hats off to Phaedra Singelis (then of The Plain Dealer) for putting together a great party in the Flats. I guess even the NPPA knows to get an ONPA member to throw a good party. Only thing missing was Ed Suba.
Mike Munden of The Columbus Dispatch reports the light is bright and even. Shooting with a digital camera he reports shooting 500 at f2.8/4 and even f5.6 with ASA at 800. Some have been shooting with ASA at 640 and 500.
The light goes back several rows from the floor so benches are lit nicely. Film shooters report 500 at f2.8 at ASA 800. A 300 mm lense covers the opposite basket well.
Set-up is similar to Gund Arena with high price seats close to the floor so photographers must stay low. There are no assigned positions so itıs first come, first served.
Shooting positions are on the right side of the basket on both ends. Ear plugs may be an option on one side of the court where the band is very close and very loud.Parking is in the northwest corner of the arena and the media work room is on the arena level, (AL in elevator.) Go down one floor after getting on elevator and have your credential in hand to obtain access to the floor.
Construction for the $38 million project will start in April in two stages and will be completed in the summer of 2001.
The newspaper's Editorial, Advertising Circulation departments as well as business and executive offices and most pre-press operations will be located in the new facility.The Plain Dealer has been printed at the Tiedeman Production and Distribution Center in Brooklyn since 1994. The paper is assembled downtown and transmitted to the production center via fiber optic cable.
The current downtown office has been newspaper's home since the 1950ıs when the company moved into the existing Cleveland News building from its long-time home at E. Sixth St. and Superior Ave.
The twice-a-year magazine treats AIDS as a disease and as a social and cultural force. It calls on artist to "explore symbols/semantics pose/prose in the age of HIV/AIDS."
"The central quality of the pictures is isolation," says Ackerman. "AIDS isolates you in ways that poverty isolates you or mental illness isolates you."
The magazine "features the work of people who have been socialized in the Age of AIDS," according to associate editor Erin Hosier.
Scott was responsible for creating the Soap Box Derby in 1933 while working for the Dayton Daily News. It was then that he found some boys coasting down a big hill on hand made carts. He told the boys to return with their friends to the site in two weeks, when heıd arrange prizes for the fastest racer.
The newspaper sponsored the first event which attracted 360 children. The following year the first national Soap Box Derby was sponsored by Chevrolet, Scott's new employer, and attracted entrants from 34 cities.
While working for Chevrolet in the public relations department, Scott was credited with naming the Corvette.
He is survived by his wife Clara Jane Scott.
December 15, 1998