CPOY Director Rita Reed discusses the history and educational focus of the College Photographer of the Year competition. Interviews with Liz Baylen, Patty Reksten, Eric Seals and Joe Weiss are posted below. Melissa Wiley will be joining CPOY on Thursday for the judging of the multimedia categories. Biographies for all the judges may be found here.
Joe Weiss prepares to be interviewed prior to the start of judging. Video interviews with the judges will be posted to the blog as they are completed.
Judging for CPOY 65 starts at 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 8th with the Sports Action category and continues through the Multimedia categories on Saturday, Nov. 13th. CPOY judging is open and entrants are invited to attend. Judging takes place in Tucker Forum of Gannett Hall at the Missouri School of Journalism on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus.
If you are unable to be with us in person, please keep an eye on the judging via the podcasts on the cpoy.org website. We will be updating this blog with behind-the-scenes content from the contest judging period. Check back soon for more updates and make sure to follow @CollegePhotog on Twitter for updates during the judging week.
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After a few technical delays we have posted the screencasts for today's Sports Action, Sports Feature, Spot News and General News categories. Click on the image below to visit the screencast page.
Judging in the 64th College Photographer of the Year competition begins tomorrow morning on the University of Missouri campus with the sports action category. If you can't make it to Columbia this year you will still be able to keep track of the judging progress and additional behind-the-scenes features on this blog.
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Make sure that you tune into the CPOY screencasts or subscribe to our iTunes podcast channel to watch the semi-final and final rounds of judging.
Check back for more. The judges arrive Saturday evening and we will be posting video introductions sometime on Sunday.
Tear down of the CPOY setup in Tucker Forum. It is amazing how much stuff (and especially how many cables) are needed, just to see a few pictures.
The final moments of the 63rd College Photographer of the Year contest on Saturday, November 15, 2008 as judges watch the Winners' Slideshow and the cpoy.org website goes live.
Rita Reed sends out a press release Saturday evening. (Photo by Katie Barnes).
Judges watch the Winners Slideshow. (Photo by Katie Barnes).
Home page photos are chosen and the cpoy.org webpage goes live. (Photo by Phoebe Sexton).
More of the same, but I think that these are interesting to demonstrate the sheer number of images viewed in a day during CPOY judging. Today we viewed over 50 multimedia video projects, and over 1,600 portrait submissions. This timelapse consists of 1,439 images taken over an 11hour period and compressed into 29seconds and 22frames.
Tucker Forum at the University of Missouri after a late night of judging Thursday. (Click for full size image).
A time lapse consisting of 1,216 still images from the judging on Monday, November 10, 2008. (Photos by John Hook).
Monday's judging screencasts (and associated iTunes / Podcast stream) are now avaliable at www.cpoy.org/?=Podcast. We will continue to post our screencasts as the week's judging continues.
Steve Rice (Minneapolis Star Tribune). (Video produced by Samantha Clemens).
Travis Fox (Washingtonpost.com). (Video produced by Samantha Clemens).
Melissa Farlow (National Geographic Magazine). (Video produced by Samantha Clemens).
Tammy Lechner (Freelance). (Video produced by Samantha Clemens).
CPOY Director, Rita Reed makes introductory remarks at the start of the 63rd College Photographer of the Year contest. (Video produced by Samantha Clemens).
