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Oversaw production of Northern News Services publications, during which times the papers won numerous community newspaper awards. Tasks: page design, cutting stories to fit, re-writing heads and writing front pointers.

As a graphic designer for the Ottawa Chamber Music Society, created a series of ads for the Ottawa Citizen; produced promotional brochures. Tasks: graphic design, photography.

While working at the Graphic Advocate, organized the production of four monthly publications: Atlantic Fisherman, Southender, Bedford Magazine and Dartmouth Laker. Tasks: managing freelancers, editing, photography, writing.

At the Halifax Daily News, worked to strict deadlines in a high-pressure newsroom. Tasks: page layout, headline writing, copy editing and choosing stories and photos for publication.

Currently work in new media developer at Northern News Services. Shoot, edit and skin Flash video for web. Created the NNSL motion graphics introduction for news videos.

For Xtra.ca, created a series of news stories with quick turnarounds. Tasks: research, storyboarding, shooting and editing.

Work in Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Flash.

Arctic Apocalypse Zombie Walk 2009

Folk on the Rocks 2009

George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, B.C.

Vancouver Pride 2008

For the online division of Northern News Services I designed microsites and maintained existing pages using CSS, HTML, and JQuery.

Developed/redesigned/implemented:

• Mailchimp email marketing system
• Redesigned bloggers page and added dynamic content using RSS feeds and various social media channels
• Designed Ad Contests page
• Created and maintained page for Yellowknife’s 2009 civic election (page no longer live). Coding/design and creation of 20+ Flash videos with interviews of candidates.
• Designed alancoatm.ca

My portfolio website is at ehargreaves.com

Published in Globe and Mail, National Post, Vancouver Province, Victoria Times Colonist and the Halifax Daily News.

View recent work on Flickr channel.

Zoomify lets you post high resolution photos to your website and creates panning style navigation.

Most times when you post photos online you try to make the files fairly small to ensure that viewers won’t wait too long to load the images.

But Photoshop’s Zoomify command lets you create pages with high resolution and panaromic images that are composites of smaller, faster loading jpegs, which greatly improves load time.

And it’s so simple to use.

Simply go to File>Export>Zoomify. The template field allows you to pick a colour for your interface.

The Base Name will be the name of the html file Photoshop creates for you.

Make a folder and select it to save your zoomified files in. Set jpeg quality – keep this high, you want your image to look good.

Set what size you want your browser interface to be (maximum width is 1000 pixels).

Make sure the Open in Web Browser box is checked to see your new creation immediately.

That’s all there is to it, just hit OK and your files will be created ready for upload – a zoomify viewer swf file, the tile group of small jpegs, an image properties xml file and the html file.

The interface will look something like this shot of a spring commute on Great Slave Lake. (You can zoom in and see a guy on the houseboat – is that Adrian?)

And lastly – don’t forget to add a target=”_blank” attribute unless you plan to add navigation to the page!

I just watched a wonderful 2 minute video on pocket-size video journalism in which BBC multimedia trainer Ramaa Sharma provides tips on how best to use a small camera (such as a Flip, Kodak or iPhone).

A few of her key points are:

• Keep the camera still. Try to use a tripod – or natural support – whenever possible
• Hold each shot for at least 10 seconds
• Shoot from different distances – wide to establish, medium gives more detail, and a close up
• Avoid zooms and pans
• Try to get in close and find quiet spot for best sound
• Avoid backlighting where possible

And special for those headed to music festivals this summer (Folk on the Rocks and Vancouver Folk Fest are next weekend!), check out the embed below to see how to shoot a video of a live music performance.