Journalism and Photography Workshop—12 May
Who Should Attend the Four Sections?
PA, SR, CS, FC
You are Cordially Invited to Attend The First Annual
Division Seven Journalism and Photography Workshop
On Saturday, May 12, 2012
In the Conference Room (Training Deck)
Of Marine Safety Unit Portland
Beginning at 0830 - What You Need to Know about Publishing
At 1000 - How To Write Good...
At 1300 - How to See
At 1445 - You and Your Camera
Who uses writing in the Auxiliary? Everybody!
We all read and write emails, reports, letters, newsletter and blog articles, participate in
classes, etc.. Who could benefit from that writing being easier to do and more effective to
boot? Everybody, of course!
If you don’t have a position of responsibility just now, you will have one sooner or later, and how cool would it be if you
already had the tools to write when you first needed them.
Who uses a camera? Again, just about Everybody. How many of us have ever taken photographs at an Auxiliary activity?
In time, that will be just about Everybody.
Pop Quiz!: Which is more fun, writing a good paragraph or taking a good photo? Easy, the photo. If I offer training to improve everybody’s photography. Our program should appeal to just about every Auxiliarist who hears about it, and our attendance should soar. If some of them also pick up the writing sessions all the better.
So, the First Session — What You Need to Know About Publishing will cover the technical aspects of writing for Auxiliary blogs, publications, etc.; including publishing and image processing software, legal issues such as copyright, model releases, personal data restrictions and operational security issues.
The Second, or Late Morning Session is titled:
“How to Write Good…” Here you will find good recipes for staff and leadership reports, newsletter articles, emails, blog and website pieces will be quite liberally sprinkled with writing hints and tricks to make anybody’s life easier. Still challenged by the title above?
Come and see. You’ll also learn which key on the keyboard is absolutely the most useful.
The Third, or Early Afternoon Session is: “How to See” and it begins the shutterbug’s sessions with lots of tricks and rules to improve what the photographer sees and can then capture in his image. The Auxiliarist/shutterbug will discover why and how in the past some of their photos looked better than others and how to improve all their images.
The Fourth, or Last Session is: “You and Your Camera” where we delve into all the technology, jargon, myths and voodoo of selecting and operating a modern digital camera. We will have on hand a number of experts, including many accomplished and published professionals in fields from videographer to camera repair, and a number
of highly advanced amateur photographers with some amazing talents to discuss. Practical information will be available to unravel the mysteries of shutter speeds, f/stops, ‘film’ speeds (or ISO) and Exposure Value (or EV); focal length, focus, depth of field and autofocus; spot, center weighted and field metering regions and how to get an incident meter
reading; automatic, programmed, aperture priority, shutter priority and manual exposure settings; telephoto, normal, wide angle and macro lenses; fill, bounce and direct automatic or manual flash; accessories like tripods, the chain-pod and hand-clamping; sunshades, UV, IR and Polarizing filters, and as much more as anybody can stand. We will have at least two professional level videographers on hand to offer insight on video do’s and don’ts. We’ll suggest how to safely clean your optics. We’ll even reveal the best, and also the cheapest camera accessory to make all your photos look better.
You can pre-order a paper copy of the entire presentation, with definitions of all the above terms, priced to cover the cost of printing.
