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Two of my interests are photography and public speaking, which is why I follow the blogs of Both Darren LaCroix , who won the world champion of public speaking in 2001, and Jared Polin (aka the Fro) , who is the most amazing photographer and teacher out of Philidophia. MORE
I could also add the photographer to give him or her credit. People with visual disabilities may use a screen reader to read the screen to them. PowerPoint has features that work with screen readers and you can help to ensure that this experience is useful for people with visual disabilities. MORE
I’ll be there to photograph the event, provide free portraits (digital) to participants, and make the “Why I Relay” photos. On April 12, I’ll be in Spotsylvania donating my time and talent to the Relay For Life of Spotsylvania. It’s a good distance, but it’s part of my commitment to, no matter how much business I do or don’t have in a year, that I give to worthy causes like this. If you’re in the area, come join the fight against cancer. MORE
The next time a newspaper photographer takes your photo, remember the 8 things they hate: 1. Never tell the photographer whom to photograph. Know-it-all photo subjects, usually amateur photographers, who think they know the correct angles, lighting and backdrops. MORE
Much has been written (in this blog and elsewhere) on ways to improve the quality of slide presentations by, for example, reducing the number of words on a slide, using good visuals, going easy on the bullet points, turning the screen black from time to time, etc. MORE
I forgot to bring my equipment photographs which would have gotten the point across to the manager immediately whether he spoke English or not. Have photographs of the equipment you need. I've talked about this tip before, but ran into the same situation again this month while doing a public speaking engagement in Morocco. The primary languages there are Arabic and French. Just arranging for an overhead projector was very difficult. MORE
Substituting an icon for a photograph isn’t a typical task. The Change Picture feature in PowerPoint is very powerful because it lets you substitute another picture but keep the most of formatting. MORE
Hosted by Peter Legge and the photograph is from our evening at Joe & Rosalie Segal's. Just left the Speakers Roundtable meeting in Vancouver. Now packing the same fancy clothes for NSA! Here I am with Dan Maddux, Executive Director of the American Payroll Association. MORE
They are always simple, which can give them an advantage over a photograph which might contain extraneous content. That explains why you should crop photographs and remove their background when possible.). Iconography is hot in design now. Here is an example from one of my websites. MORE
With that said, I did receive some critical feedback from a then-friend & professional photographer from Frederick, MD. In our last conversation, he claimed I don’t think about exposure-related EXIF data because, as he put it, he’s a professional photographer and I’m not. No, I’m not a professional photographer. Yes, I am an amateur photographer. Yet, when it’s all said and done, I am a photographer. MORE
Uncategorized alec baldwin photographer punchAlec Baldwin has punched another journalist on the steps of city Hall. I say Baldwin should forget about ever running for Mayor. Instead, he should run for president! The Democrats have long been plagued with weak-willed namby-pamby politicians who seem to melt away the first time a conservative media figures shout “boo.” MORE
Photographs. Photographs. It is common to see a slide with a single photograph and minimal—if any—text. Dominant photographs are here to stay for three reasons: Focus is on the presenter to provide the narrative. This is a guest post by Mike Parkinson. MORE
You can also create your own textured images by photographing water, stone, tree bark, sand, etc. You can create a background that changes colors when you change your theme’s color set. It’s really cool to watch. I’ve written about this before here , in an example that include a few objects on the slide. In this case, I wanted to show you a slightly different concept, which is a semi-transparent rectangle over a grayscale textured image. MORE
Seeing photographs of the venue also allows speakers to visualize themselves addressing the audience, much like athletes such as skiers who visualize themselves racing down the course before they actually do it. So what insights can speakers glean from these photographs? MORE
According to the people who made this creative work, they took 60,000 photographs, developed 9,600 prints and reshot 1,800 photos. But don’t worry, nobody is expecting you to take 60,000 photographs!). MORE
Then he compiled the footage with our photographs to make this. We like photography. We also like fun, and Saturdays, and San Francisco, and sunshine. And we really like each other. Recently we went on a Photo Field Trip, and had the chance to enjoy all of these things, simultaneously. I know. MORE
Photographer Camille Seaman’s daughter was watching Storm Chasers on the Discovery Channel one day, when Camille stopped what she was doing to admire the storm’s light. Camille’s documentary-style photographs reflect some of nature’s most breathtaking phenomena. MORE
Apple started the “cameraphone” trend with the iPhone, offering customers a more convenient way to shoot pics and non-professional photographers switching to mobile photography. Customer centricity is a buzzword you can hardly escape these days. MORE
In PowerPoint 2010 and earlier, when you chose Insert > Clip Art, you could specify that you wanted only photographs. I just gave a webinar on upgrading to PowerPoint 2013, explaining all the new features and how to use them. MORE
The posing took a while since this professional photographer Spencer Worthley was experimenting with a 1940s type camera his boss allowed him to use this weekend. MORE
But where can you find images – photographs, logos, graphics – that illustrate your subject and match the theme of your presentation? In my previous posting, I discussed how to save, crop and resize image files. Google Image Search An obvious place to start is with a simple Google search and select ‘Images’ from the top menu bar. [.]. MORE
AP reports that this media property is laying off all photographers, saying readers prefer video content. Will this become a trend, putting photographers out on the street, along with journalists? Those in the visual arts might have figured they were sitting pretty, at least relatively. After all, both the web and mobile have become the platform for photos and video. Well, for Sun-Times Media, only the video is creating value. MORE
– Oded Wagenstein – Travel photographer and writer [link] under: General. A day without learning something new is a wasted one. General MORE
To me, there is still nothing like the still photograph to convey emotion and the significance of a particular moment. Obviously, photographs are not just for print. With that in mind, I'd like to point you to a 13-minute slideshow by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Renée Byer. MORE
Duncan Davidson, a professional photographer at the O’Reilly tech conferences, has some great advice on how to look good on stage. He’s based this on his experience watching thousands of speakers over the years. Check out the growing list of comments which supplement the main article. I liked: …slowing down is a great thing to do. A [.]. MORE
Take a photograph of something that has a nice texture. Drag a rectangle across the slide so that it leaves a border around its edges, showing the textured photograph. Do you want an interesting background but fret that it is distracting from you message? MORE
In the Daily Mail, Keith Griffith reports that a photographer: " unleashed the stricken dog from the pole and brought it out of the water.;" During Katrina, part of the tragedy was that many struggling to survive had to leave their animals. MORE
TED, the technology/education/design conference, hires a photographer to capture its dynamic speakers, and James Duncan Davidson offers this "dear speakers" essay on everything from taking off your name tag to how to move effectively around the speaking space. MORE
If you want to use photos, come learn from Dick Durrance, one of the world’s top photographers who now uses that background to add impact as a professional speaker. He’ll show you how to better create or select photographs for your use. However, you’re not a professional photographer. with Dick Durrance. A speech or presentation is in part a visual experience for the audience. MORE
I have particularly noticed the effect of eyes in a photograph. I see lots of presentation files and have started to notice that when people start designing slides, they go into a formal mode that makes the presentation less personal — and less effective. MORE
I photographed them with my digital camera and uploaded the photo to my computer. A great way to emphasize and draw attention to an object on a slide is to circle it. Of course, the easy way is to insert a circle, and use the Appear or Fade entrance animation. MORE
Anthony Weiner struggled to explain how a picture of somebody’s bulging underwear briefly appeared on his Twitter account, claiming in a back-to-back string of interviews that he was clearly hacked — but hinting the photograph could have been an image of him. [link] [link] Rep. MORE
In it, Dave Paradi explains why photographs in a presentation can be more effective than reams of text when it comes to getting a message across to our audiences. Tags: PowerPoint Dave Paradi font size looking at pictures and text photographs I recently came across this short video. Dave uses an example from a presentation on which he worked. He shows the original slide that was full of text and the slide that he developed to replace it. MORE
Unlike plain text, a memorable photograph adds to a talk without distracting from the speaker. At a recent Toastmasters Club meeting Tevis encouraged us to appreciate the impact of adding pictures to PowerPoint presentations. It was obvious from the discussion that some Club members did not know the basics of how to find, save and manipulate [.]. MORE
The DailyMail indicates: " [This] will allow photographers to register work that they can license and then receive payment. Therefore, Kodak is enhancing its brand by providing photographers security for both their work and their income. MORE
The next time a newspaper photographer takes your photo, remember the 8 things they hate: 1. Never tell the photographer whom to photograph. Know-it-all photo subjects, usually amateur photographers, who think they know the correct angles, lighting and backdrops. MORE
This site seems to attract more quality photographers and photographs than other sites I've visited, especially flickr. Lately, there's been a lot of noise in the photography community around 500px.com. This is another free (with upgrades available to those willing to pay) social photo sharing site that sort of fits between flickr and Smugmug. The big differentiator (at least for now) is the quality. MORE
In court, the young photographer said: “I am very, like, remorseful for what I did.&#. Tags: Speaker Support Trends conference managers conferences flipping burgers McDonalds nude phone photographs As if in response to this afternoon’s post on public apologies, this story popped up. A 21 year old McDonalds manager at a island resort conference took phone shots of her 48 year old room mate sleeping naked and showed them around the next morning. MORE
Here's a case of an iPhone app creating a new line of work for photographers. One photographer found, reports Lauren Indvik on Mashable , that "even the darkest and least remarkable photos are transformed into art with Instgram's and Camera+'s filters." MORE
New York Public Library Public Domain Images :: Over 700,000 photographs, maps, posters and prints including a collection of images of New York from the 1870s to the 1970s. Unsplash :: Stunning, high resolution images from contributing photographers. MORE
Go around your office and ask people if you can photograph them. A client of mine needed images of people to make his presentation come alive. But he couldn’t find the diversity he needed. And he’s in the field of education, which has many more females than males. MORE
Fear of rejection because other photographers are better than me (guess what, no matter how good you are, somebody’s better than you). The other day, I read an article about Because I Said I Would. This gave me the swift kick in the rear end that I needed. MORE
Photographer Related Topics Thoughts On Presenting And Design
DECEMBER 27, 2010
With that said, I did receive some critical feedback from a then-friend & professional photographer from Frederick, MD. In our last conversation, he claimed I don’t think about exposure-related EXIF data because, as he put it, he’s a professional photographer and I’m not. No, I’m not a professional photographer. Yes, I am an amateur photographer. Yet, when it’s all said and done, I am a photographer.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 9, 2018
The DailyMail indicates: " [This] will allow photographers to register work that they can license and then receive payment. Therefore, Kodak is enhancing its brand by providing photographers security for both their work and their income.
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The Shy Speaker's Guide to Succes on Stage
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Oded Wagenstein – Travel photographer and writerFiled under: General. General
TJ Walker Interactive
DECEMBER 3, 2012
Uncategorized gun photograph referee tim duncan tony parker
TJ Walker Interactive
JUNE 20, 2012
Uncategorized alec baldwin photographer punchAlec Baldwin has punched another journalist on the steps of city Hall. I say Baldwin should forget about ever running for Mayor. Instead, he should run for president! The Democrats have long been plagued with weak-willed namby-pamby politicians who seem to melt away the first time a conservative media figures shout “boo.”
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 27, 2017
In the Daily Mail, Keith Griffith reports that a photographer: " unleashed the stricken dog from the pole and brought it out of the water.;" During Katrina, part of the tragedy was that many struggling to survive had to leave their animals.
Great Public Speaking
JANUARY 4, 2013
I forgot to bring my equipment photographs which would have gotten the point across to the manager immediately whether he spoke English or not. Have photographs of the equipment you need. I've talked about this tip before, but ran into the same situation again this month while doing a public speaking engagement in Morocco. The primary languages there are Arabic and French. Just arranging for an overhead projector was very difficult.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
Here's a case of an iPhone app creating a new line of work for photographers. One photographer found, reports Lauren Indvik on Mashable , that "even the darkest and least remarkable photos are transformed into art with Instgram's and Camera+'s filters."
Great Public Speaking
JUNE 18, 2010
The next time a newspaper photographer takes your photo, remember the 8 things they hate: 1. Never tell the photographer whom to photograph. Know-it-all photo subjects, usually amateur photographers, who think they know the correct angles, lighting and backdrops.
Great Public Speaking
MARCH 10, 2010
The next time a newspaper photographer takes your photo, remember the 8 things they hate: 1. Never tell the photographer whom to photograph. Know-it-all photo subjects, usually amateur photographers, who think they know the correct angles, lighting and backdrops.
The Eloquent Woman
MARCH 8, 2009
TED, the technology/education/design conference, hires a photographer to capture its dynamic speakers, and James Duncan Davidson offers this "dear speakers" essay on everything from taking off your name tag to how to move effectively around the speaking space.
Manner of Speaking
JULY 4, 2010
In it, Dave Paradi explains why photographs in a presentation can be more effective than reams of text when it comes to getting a message across to our audiences. Tags: PowerPoint Dave Paradi font size looking at pictures and text photographs I recently came across this short video. Dave uses an example from a presentation on which he worked. He shows the original slide that was full of text and the slide that he developed to replace it.
Pivotal Public Speaking
MAY 28, 2011
If you want to use photos, come learn from Dick Durrance, one of the world’s top photographers who now uses that background to add impact as a professional speaker. He’ll show you how to better create or select photographs for your use. However, you’re not a professional photographer. with Dick Durrance. A speech or presentation is in part a visual experience for the audience.
Can You Hear Me Up the Back?
SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
In court, the young photographer said: “I am very, like, remorseful for what I did.&#. Tags: Speaker Support Trends conference managers conferences flipping burgers McDonalds nude phone photographs As if in response to this afternoon’s post on public apologies, this story popped up. A 21 year old McDonalds manager at a island resort conference took phone shots of her 48 year old room mate sleeping naked and showed them around the next morning.
Thoughts On Presenting And Design
JULY 16, 2011
This site seems to attract more quality photographers and photographs than other sites I've visited, especially flickr. Lately, there's been a lot of noise in the photography community around 500px.com. This is another free (with upgrades available to those willing to pay) social photo sharing site that sort of fits between flickr and Smugmug. The big differentiator (at least for now) is the quality.
Professionally Speaking...
OCTOBER 25, 2016
New York Public Library Public Domain Images :: Over 700,000 photographs, maps, posters and prints including a collection of images of New York from the 1870s to the 1970s. Unsplash :: Stunning, high resolution images from contributing photographers.
The Shy Speaker's Guide to Succes on Stage
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
– Oded Wagenstein – Travel photographer and writer [link] under: General. A day without learning something new is a wasted one. General
Thoughts On Presenting And Design
APRIL 6, 2014
I’ll be there to photograph the event, provide free portraits (digital) to participants, and make the “Why I Relay” photos. On April 12, I’ll be in Spotsylvania donating my time and talent to the Relay For Life of Spotsylvania. It’s a good distance, but it’s part of my commitment to, no matter how much business I do or don’t have in a year, that I give to worthy causes like this. If you’re in the area, come join the fight against cancer.
Manner of Speaking
MARCH 24, 2012
According to the people who made this creative work, they took 60,000 photographs, developed 9,600 prints and reshot 1,800 photos. But don’t worry, nobody is expecting you to take 60,000 photographs!).
PowerPoint Tips
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Take a photograph of something that has a nice texture. Drag a rectangle across the slide so that it leaves a border around its edges, showing the textured photograph. Do you want an interesting background but fret that it is distracting from you message?
Craig Strachan - Keep Talking!
JULY 4, 2012
Two of my interests are photography and public speaking, which is why I follow the blogs of Both Darren LaCroix , who won the world champion of public speaking in 2001, and Jared Polin (aka the Fro) , who is the most amazing photographer and teacher out of Philidophia.
Manner of Speaking
APRIL 11, 2011
Seeing photographs of the venue also allows speakers to visualize themselves addressing the audience, much like athletes such as skiers who visualize themselves racing down the course before they actually do it. So what insights can speakers glean from these photographs?
PowerPoint Tips
MAY 24, 2019
I could also add the photographer to give him or her credit. People with visual disabilities may use a screen reader to read the screen to them. PowerPoint has features that work with screen readers and you can help to ensure that this experience is useful for people with visual disabilities.
Thoughts On Presenting And Design
MARCH 22, 2014
Fear of rejection because other photographers are better than me (guess what, no matter how good you are, somebody’s better than you). The other day, I read an article about Because I Said I Would. This gave me the swift kick in the rear end that I needed.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
Unlike plain text, a memorable photograph adds to a talk without distracting from the speaker. At a recent Toastmasters Club meeting Tevis encouraged us to appreciate the impact of adding pictures to PowerPoint presentations. It was obvious from the discussion that some Club members did not know the basics of how to find, save and manipulate [.].
Presentation Zen
APRIL 18, 2010
To me, there is still nothing like the still photograph to convey emotion and the significance of a particular moment. Obviously, photographs are not just for print. With that in mind, I'd like to point you to a 13-minute slideshow by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Renée Byer.
PowerPoint Tips
AUGUST 18, 2012
You can also create your own textured images by photographing water, stone, tree bark, sand, etc. You can create a background that changes colors when you change your theme’s color set. It’s really cool to watch. I’ve written about this before here , in an example that include a few objects on the slide. In this case, I wanted to show you a slightly different concept, which is a semi-transparent rectangle over a grayscale textured image.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
But where can you find images – photographs, logos, graphics – that illustrate your subject and match the theme of your presentation? In my previous posting, I discussed how to save, crop and resize image files. Google Image Search An obvious place to start is with a simple Google search and select ‘Images’ from the top menu bar. [.].
PowerPoint Tips
NOVEMBER 8, 2015
They are always simple, which can give them an advantage over a photograph which might contain extraneous content. That explains why you should crop photographs and remove their background when possible.). Iconography is hot in design now. Here is an example from one of my websites.
PowerPoint Tips
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Substituting an icon for a photograph isn’t a typical task. The Change Picture feature in PowerPoint is very powerful because it lets you substitute another picture but keep the most of formatting.
PowerPoint Tips
JUNE 30, 2013
Go around your office and ask people if you can photograph them. A client of mine needed images of people to make his presentation come alive. But he couldn’t find the diversity he needed. And he’s in the field of education, which has many more females than males.
PowerPoint Tips
JUNE 1, 2019
I photographed them with my digital camera and uploaded the photo to my computer. A great way to emphasize and draw attention to an object on a slide is to circle it. Of course, the easy way is to insert a circle, and use the Appear or Fade entrance animation.
Duarte Blog
AUGUST 18, 2011
Photographer Camille Seaman’s daughter was watching Storm Chasers on the Discovery Channel one day, when Camille stopped what she was doing to admire the storm’s light. Camille’s documentary-style photographs reflect some of nature’s most breathtaking phenomena.
Duarte Blog
JULY 1, 2011
Then he compiled the footage with our photographs to make this. We like photography. We also like fun, and Saturdays, and San Francisco, and sunshine. And we really like each other. Recently we went on a Photo Field Trip, and had the chance to enjoy all of these things, simultaneously. I know.
PowerPoint Tips
DECEMBER 11, 2011
I have particularly noticed the effect of eyes in a photograph. I see lots of presentation files and have started to notice that when people start designing slides, they go into a formal mode that makes the presentation less personal — and less effective.
Fripp THE Executive Speech Coach
JULY 13, 2010
Hosted by Peter Legge and the photograph is from our evening at Joe & Rosalie Segal's. Just left the Speakers Roundtable meeting in Vancouver. Now packing the same fancy clothes for NSA! Here I am with Dan Maddux, Executive Director of the American Payroll Association.
PowerPoint Tips
MAY 14, 2013
In PowerPoint 2010 and earlier, when you chose Insert > Clip Art, you could specify that you wanted only photographs. I just gave a webinar on upgrading to PowerPoint 2013, explaining all the new features and how to use them.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 31, 2013
AP reports that this media property is laying off all photographers, saying readers prefer video content. Will this become a trend, putting photographers out on the street, along with journalists? Those in the visual arts might have figured they were sitting pretty, at least relatively. After all, both the web and mobile have become the platform for photos and video. Well, for Sun-Times Media, only the video is creating value.
Manner of Speaking
AUGUST 30, 2010
Much has been written (in this blog and elsewhere) on ways to improve the quality of slide presentations by, for example, reducing the number of words on a slide, using good visuals, going easy on the bullet points, turning the screen black from time to time, etc.
SlideModel
MAY 14, 2020
Apple started the “cameraphone” trend with the iPhone, offering customers a more convenient way to shoot pics and non-professional photographers switching to mobile photography. Customer centricity is a buzzword you can hardly escape these days.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
MARCH 13, 2009
Duncan Davidson, a professional photographer at the O’Reilly tech conferences, has some great advice on how to look good on stage. He’s based this on his experience watching thousands of speakers over the years. Check out the growing list of comments which supplement the main article. I liked: …slowing down is a great thing to do. A [.].
TJ Walker Interactive
JUNE 2, 2011
Anthony Weiner struggled to explain how a picture of somebody’s bulging underwear briefly appeared on his Twitter account, claiming in a back-to-back string of interviews that he was clearly hacked — but hinting the photograph could have been an image of him. [link] [link] Rep.
PowerPoint Tips
DECEMBER 15, 2014
Photographs. Photographs. It is common to see a slide with a single photograph and minimal—if any—text. Dominant photographs are here to stay for three reasons: Focus is on the presenter to provide the narrative. This is a guest post by Mike Parkinson.
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