United States Navy Combat Camera Group Pacific / Pictopia

Join Host Scott Sheppard and his guests Chief Petty Officer Michael A.
Strand with the United States Navy’s Combat Camera Group Pacific and
civilian digital photography training expert Vincent Versace. Chief
Petty Officer Strand is the Training and IIS (Imaging and Information
Systems) Department Head. Chief Petty Officer Strand and Inside Digital
Photo host Scott Sheppard talked about what kind of equipment and
software the Navy’s Combat Camera Group Pacific uses. Vincent Versace
and Scott Sheppard talked about what kind of training he provides the
Navy’s Combat Camera Group Pacific. The United States Navy’s Combat
Camera Group Pacific combat photographers provide photographic
documentation covering air, sea, and ground operations of armed forces
engaged in combat, combat support operations, humanitarian efforts,
scientific research, and related peacetime activities. For more
information about Chief Petty Officer Michael A. Strand and the United
States Navy’s Combat Camera Group Pacific go to…
http://www.mediacen.navy.mil/vi/comcam.htm For more information about
Vincent Versace go to… http://www.versacephotography.com and
http://www.acmeeducational.com

Also on this program was Joel Miller the Vice President of Content and
Business Development for Pictopia. They talked about Pictopia services
and how they are working with National Geographic. For more information
about Pictopia go to… http://www.pictopia.com

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Dirck Halstead - The Digital Journalist

Dirck Halstead the Editor and Publisher of The Digital Journalist and
renowned photojournalist joins host Scott Sheppard and Inside Digital
Photo to share details of his background, award winning work and
experiences as the first photo bureau chief for United Press
International working the Vietnam War in Saigon. Working with UPI led
Dirck on an amazing journey as a roving staff photographer covering a
breadth of stories including Richard Nixon’s historic trip to China in
1972. He ultimately was appointed Time Magazine’s Senior White House
Photographer covering the Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton
administration. He has contributed a record 51 covers to Time over a
period of 29 years. Dirck’s commitment to photojournalism in the digital
era led him to founding Video News International predicated on the
concept of training photo journalists in the new High 8 and digital
technologies to revolutionize television news gathering that was
acquired by New York Times Company. He also created the Platypus
Workshops and the Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for
visual journalism.

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