Breakout Sessions
Workshops
Lighting for Stills
Saturday @ 10:30am Pape Forum
Leah Nash and Christopher Onstott
Leah Nash and Christopher Onstott are a photo & video team based in Portland, Oregon specializing in commercial, editorial, corporate, education, and travel photography. Both originally photojournalists for magazines and newspapers around the world, take a moment-driven approach to our imagery. The result is colorful, authentic, storytelling photography that makes you look like you are having your best day ever.
“The 4 P’s of Storytelling”
Saturday @ 2:30pm Pape Forum
Amina Moreau
Devoted to purposeful storytelling, Amina Moreau is the co-founder of Stillmotion and Muse, two companies that are committed to the meaningful impact of storytelling. Stillmotion has been entrusted in very notable circles to tell some pretty darn influential stories, while Muse dedicates itself to educating people of all types about the most effective way to get their word out. http://www.stillmotion.ca/#stillmotion
Panels
Multimedia – What is Multimedia?
Saturday @ 10:30am room 346
Moderator: Wes Pope
Wes Pope, co-director and assistant professor in the Multimedia Journalism master’s program at the George S. Turnbull Portland Center, is a sixth-generation Northwesterner who considers his professional role “custom-made for my skill set—and in one of my all-time favorite cities.” Pope has worked as a photo, video, and multimedia journalist for more than 15 years, garnering experience at the San Francisco Chronicle, Rocky Mountain News, Chicago Tribune, Santa Fe New Mexican, Times of Northwest Indiana, Tri-City Herald, and Tacoma News Tribune. Before coming to the SOJC, he taught photojournalism and video courses at Northern Arizona University.
Panelist: Erika Schultz
As a staff photographer for The Seattle Times, Erika Schultz tells stories through photography, video and social media. She believes photojournalism has the power to put the viewer in someone else’s shoes, bridge differences, and spur social change. Schultz was raised in Wyoming and attended college at Northern Arizona University and Syracuse University London. She loves the American West, well told tales, Spanglish and to travel. Her work has been recognized by the Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, Pictures of the Year International, National Edward R. Murrow Awards, The Alexia Foundation, Best of Photojournalism, Society of Professional Journalists and was a finalist for the 2010 ASNE Community Service Photojournalism award. She also was part of The Seattle Times’ 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning team for Breaking News Reporting. http://www.erikajschultz.com/#1
Panelist: Mitch Pittman
Mitch Pittman works as an MMJ and photojournalist for KOMO News in Seattle, Washington. His storytelling has earned him four regional Emmy awards and two first-place finishes in the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism competition. Mitch previously worked as an MMJ in Burlington, Vermont and Minneapolis, consistently placing near the top of the Solo Video Journalist category in the Quarterly Clip Contest. While not at work, Mitch takes his visual storytelling to the mountains and encourages more people to experience the outdoors through his role as a social media influencer.
Andrew DeVigal
Andrew DeVigal is the inaugural Chair in Journalism Innovation and Civic Engagement and the first professor of practice in the School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC). Previously, he served as the multimedia editor at The New York Times, where he helped guide the newspaper’s print-driven format into the multimedia era and integrated new approaches to interactive storytelling into The Times’ long tradition of journalistic excellence to help shape the industry with techniques still in use today. With Laura Lo Forti, DeVigal co-founded A Fourth Act, an interdisciplinary collective of storytellers, facilitators, researchers, designers, and technologists using stories and technology to empower audiences in becoming agents of change in their communities.
DeVigal is an Emmy-award-winning innovative strategist who builds bridges by connecting ideas and people to produce meaningful and interactive stories. With his exceptional knowledge of possibilities and deeply innovative forward thinking, he has consistently demonstrated his ability to lead teams, engage audiences through purposeful user experiences, and invent creative new approaches to interactive storytelling.
Freelance Business Practices
Saturday @ 2:30pm Thompson Lab
Leah Nash & Christopher Onstott
Leah Nash and Christopher Onstott are an award-winning photography & videography duo based in Portland, Oregon. They specialize in real people commercial, editorial, corporate, education, and travel photography. Both originally photojournalists, Leah and Christopher take a moment-driven approach, capturing authentic imagery whether in life, at work, or on set. The result is graphic, storytelling, portrait and lifestyle photography that is full of color, light and intimacy. Not averse to dancing (her), telling bad jokes (him) or listening intently (both), their goal is to leave their subjects a little bit better than they found them. All the while creating a wealth of images that look and feel spontaneous. They feel darn proud to work for brands like Apple, Charles Schwab, Microsoft, Chase Bank, Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, The Oregon Symphony, Marriott, and Portland State University. They also shoot for a variety of editorial clients including National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, NPR, and AARP.
Craig Mitchelldyer
Craig is a commercial, editorial and wedding photographer specializing in sports and corporate people. He has been a professional photographer in Portland, OR for the last 15 years. His work has been featured nationally and internationally in various publications including the USA Today, Getty Images, Reuters, Associated Press, the New York Times, Newsweek, Outdoor Life, Globe and Mail, Daily Mail, Golf World, Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Athlon Sports Annuals, and nearly every newspaper in the Pacific Northwest. His clients include the Portland Timbers MLS team, adidas, Nike, Intel, law firms, financial companies, and hundreds of magazines you may have never heard of. Prior to becoming a full time freelance photographer he worked as a staff photographer for Community Newspapers, a chain of newspapers serving the metro Portland area from 2000-2004.
Rod Mar
Rod Mar is an acclaimed sports photographer whose career spans 25 years. He is currently the team photographer for the Seattle Seahawks and counts among his clients Sports Illustrated and ESPN. He has photographed every major sporting event in the United States as well as numerous Olympic Games. After nearly 20 years as a photojournalist at the Seattle Times, he left for a freelance career in 2009. He has won many awards for his work, including first place in the prestigious Pictures of the Year International competition. Rod works at the forefront of social networking, and as team photographer for the Seattle Seahawks, he provides a continuous stream of compelling images through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram that engage fans while expanding virally. His “Eye on the Hawks” photo essays on Seahawks.com garner nearly a half-million views per week. Rod is a popular lecturer and workshop leader and has taught at seminars all over the United States and in Canada. http://rodmar.photoshelter.com/index
Drones – Everything You Wanted to Know About Flying Drones Legally
Sunday @ 10:30am Pape Forum
Moderator: Wes Pope
Wes Pope, co-director and assistant professor in the Multimedia Journalism master’s program at the George S. Turnbull Portland Center, is a sixth-generation Northwesterner who considers his professional role “custom-made for my skill set—and in one of my all-time favorite cities.” Pope has worked as a photo, video, and multimedia journalist for more than 15 years, garnering experience at the San Francisco Chronicle, Rocky Mountain News, Chicago Tribune, Santa Fe New Mexican, Times of Northwest Indiana, Tri-City Herald, and Tacoma News Tribune. Before coming to the SOJC, he taught photojournalism and video courses at Northern Arizona University.
Panelist: Brian Dalrymple
I graduated from Oregon State with a business degree and a focus in entrepreneurship in 2010. I have been flying UAVs commercially since 2010, and have flown a wide range of models and payloads. I have been a very active pilot and currently have 2,650 hours of flight time. I started a business called Birdie Eye in 2011 where I flew golf courses and started an app to show video flyovers to golfers. I flew several hundred golf courses on the west coast until I sold my shares in 2014 and started working freelance as BD Aerial Video. I have a new website that I am about to launch for that business and I am awaiting my 333 exemption. With BD Aerial Video I have been extremely active the last several years and have worked heavily in commercials and TV shows. Some of my clients include National Geographic, Discovery Chanel, Disney, Nike, Intel, ESPN, Subaru, Purina, Snoop Dogg, etc. I also started an inspection company in 2013 and have been building it slowly with a few other partners since the utility industry was much slower moving than the production industry. The name of that company is Aerial Inspection Resources, and we do have our 333 exemption. We have been very active the last year and have specialized in utility infrastructure and LIDAR mapping. We have worked with clients such as Excelon, PECO, PGE, Georgia Power, Southern Company, Eugene Water and Electric Board, ODOT, Pacific Corp, Skagit Tribe, etc. I have a lot of industry connections and have been making a strong effort to be 100% compliant with the FAA. I got my private pilot certificate a year ago and have been operating UAVs legally ever since.
Panelist: Andy Johnson-Laird
Johnson-Laird trained as a professional photographer in London, England back in the early 1960’s but did a career change when he became severely distracted by mainframe computers. He’s been a systems programmer ever since. Andy is also a pilot. He has a private pilot’s license with glider and self-launching sailplane rating, and, as of 2012 has been actively involved in the small Unmanned Airborne Systems field, producing some of the first educational DVDs for the assembly, testing, and flying of Freefly Cinestar professional multi-rotor helicopters. He donates aerial footage to Oregon Public Broadcasting for use in such programs as Oregon Field Guide. Since 2012, he has been a multi-rotor copter pilot and volunteer moderator on the Freefly Systems forum supporting the Freefly ALTA 6 and 8, the MōVI gimbal, and the Cinestar/Mikrokopter line. He is also a fixed-wing sUAV builder and pilot and writes Rather Good Guides® for how to program flight controllers and radio control transmitters. He also works on the ASTM International F38 standards committee developing standards that the FAA uses to guide its regulation of sUAV. He is the lead author of the standard on commercial flight operations over people, a co-author of the standards for sUAV pilot knowledge, extended and beyond visual line of sight operations, and is about to start work on the design, construct, and test standards for both fixed-wing and rotary wing sUAV.
Panelist: Bruce Ely
Bruce is the lead photographer for the Portland Trailblazers. Bruce was previously a photojournalist at The Oregonian from 2000-2015. Before landing in Portland he worked at the newspaper in Evansville, Indiana and he is a proud alumni of the University of Montana. Bruce specializes in sports photography, but also loves to find new ways of using technology to capture images.
Presentations
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sports Photography But Were Afraid to Ask
A Q&A session on Technique, Tools and Storytelling
Saturday @ 10:30am Thompson Lab
Rod Mar
Rod Mar is an acclaimed sports photographer whose career spans 25 years. He is currently the team photographer for the Seattle Seahawks and counts among his clients Sports Illustrated and ESPN. He has photographed every major sporting event in the United States as well as numerous Olympic Games. After nearly 20 years as a photojournalist at the Seattle Times, he left for a freelance career in 2009. He has won many awards for his work, including first place in the prestigious Pictures of the Year International competition. Rod works at the forefront of social networking, and as team photographer for the Seattle Seahawks, he provides a continuous stream of compelling images through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram that engage fans while expanding virally. His “Eye on the Hawks” photo essays on Seahawks.com garner nearly a half-million views per week. Rod is a popular lecturer and workshop leader and has taught at seminars all over the United States and in Canada. http://rodmar.photoshelter.com/index
Passion Projects and Personal Vision
Saturday @ 2:30pm room 346
Johnny Andrews
Johnny Andrews is a staff photographer with The Seattle Times. He prides himself on making a personal connection with whomever he meets and enjoys the conversations just as much as the making of the actual image. Andrews is a strong proponent of pursuing projects that can fuel the internal fire and bring to light those stories that might otherwise go unnoticed. The Atlanta native worked as a staff photographer for major metropolitan newspapers in North Carolina, Florida and Missouri and as a photo editor for Microsoft before returning to his roots, and first love, as a daily shooter in Seattle. His photography and video work has been recognized with numerous awards including a Racial Justice Fellowship from the University of Southern California.
http://www.johnnyandrewsphoto.com