May Meeting Speakers: Huth & Booth

What were those Judges thinking?

Betty Huth, M. Photog. Cr., CPP, API, FSA
and Edward Booth, M. Photog. Cr., CPP, API, FSA

May 30th, 6pm at Bella Bella on Monroe Street
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Betty Huth & Edward Booth

In this fast paced program, Ed and Betty discuss the twelve elements plus one that are used by judges when scoring your prints. They will discuss the scoring ranges and how they are used to determine the score category in which to place a print. They use examples of good and bad prints to illustrate their points. You will have the opportunity to score prints and give critiques on the images. This process will help make you a better photographer and better judge of what judges are looking for in merit prints.

Edward Booth, M.Photog.Cr, CPP, API, FSA Ed has been a professional photographer for 50 years earning 100% of his income from the profession. He has been active in photographic associations in California and Florida and nationally. He and Betty have taught internationally .

Betty Huth, M.Photog. Cr.,CPP, API, FSA Betty has been working as a professional photographer for thirty years, She also has been involved in associations in Florida, California, and Nationally. With Ed, she has taught at many of the affiliate schools and been a mentor to photographers around the country. Betty became a PPA Juror in 1990.

This is the perfect meeting to attend to help you prepare for our upcoming Salon! Don’t forget to bring up to 4 prints for our monthly print competition!

And finally, please remember we will be voting on our Bylaws at the next meeting. Lots to do and talk about this month!

April 2013 Print Competition Winners

Print of the Month, Portrait of a Woman
Linda Long, Long’s Photography

Social Function
Ashley Daniell, Ashley Daniell Photography

Portrait of Two
Linda Long, Long’s Photography

Commercial
Linda Long, Long’s Photography

Portrait of a Man
Linda Long, Long’s Photography

Portrait of a Group
Olyn Long, Long’s Photography

Illustrative/Open
Kira Derryberry, Kira Derryberry Photography

Portrait of a Child
Beth Johnson, Beth Johnson Photography

April Meeting Speaker: Dana Heisler, CPP

Dana Heisler, CPP

Join us at 6pm on April 25th at Bella Bella for our monthly TPPG Meeting and Print Competition. This month’s speaker is Dana Heisler! Here are some details about Dana’s program:

Customers are harder to find these days but they’re still out there! Dana will teach you creative ways to find customers in today’s market. She’ll go over what you need to do to avoid common pitfalls of group buying sites like Groupon. Armed with this knowledge you will be able to successfully use these types of services to bring in customers. Some marketing ideas are extremely powerful but the time involved can be overwhelming. Learn the value of partnering and working with a local charity. Do you still exclusively use flash or slideshow galleries? If so they may be hurting your opportunity for your website to work even harder. Dana will talk about why competing your images and selling your fine art can impact your portrait photography. Today’s clients are looking for you so stop hiding and get out there with these great marketing ideas!

Some samples of Dana’s work:

Don’t forget to bring your prints for monthly print competition! We look forward to seeing you there!

March 2013 Print Competition Winners

Portrait of a Woman, Print of the Month
Kira Derryberry, Kira Derryberry Photography

Social Function
Ashley Daniell, Ashley Daniell Photography

Open
Ashley Daniell, Ashley Daniell Photography

Portrait of a Child
Ursula Page, Ursula Page Photography

Portrait of Two
Ryan Gay, Kylene & Ryan Studios

Portrait of a Group
Kylene Gay, Kylene & Ryan Studios

Portrait of a Man
Kira Derryberry – Kira Derryberry Photography

March Board Meeting Minutes

Download March 2013 Board Minutes [PDF]

Download February 2013 FPP Delegate Meeting Report [PDF]

March Speaker – Damon Fecitt

Money in Maternity

Damon Fecitt

Thanks to Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair, maternity photography has become mainstream and can be a lucrative part of your portrait business – especially if you do a lot of children’s portraits. Maternity photography happens all year round so it’s not seasonal income and it is time sensitive so you don’t have clients putting you off till next year like family photos. Just like children’s photography, parents value the new life that is entering the world and are willing to spend money on this special occasion to capture it! Damon will talk about targeting this market with your website, defining a style and how to create beautiful images with those magnificent bellies!

Join us for this and our monthly print competition
6:00pm March 28th at Bella Bella!

February 2013 Print Competition Winners

Portrait of a Woman
Linda Long, Long’s Photography

 

Portrait of Two
Kylene Gay, Kylene & Ryan Studios

 

Portrait of a Man
Linda Long, Long’s Photography

 

Portrait of a Child

If you were a winner in this month’s print competition and your image is not shown, please email it to info@kiraphoto.com so that we can post it. Thanks!

Join Us for Marty’s One Day Seminar On March 1

Marty Grivjack is staying one more day to teach a full day of Lightroom here in Tallahassee! He’ll be teaching at Long’s Photography Studio located at 702 W. Tharpe St, Tallahassee FL. The class will take place from 9-5pm with a break for lunch. It is open to members and non members of TPPG. The fee for this class is $89. Please email Olyn Long for more information and to register or call (850) 339-5799.

If You Don’t Get Layers, Get Lightroom!

…The Ultimate Workflow Tool

Marty Grivjack, Cr. Photog., FSA, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom™ Instructor

If you’ve been interested in understanding what Adobe Lightroom™ is all about, this is the program for you. Marty Grivjack, who has been teaching Lightroom™ since its debut in 2006, will explain how this robust made-for-photographers image editing system can revolutionize your photographic workflow, save post-processing time, and best of all, make you money!

Find out how easy it is to:

• Quickly white-balance every image, even if you don’t own a gray card*.
• Protect your valuable photo assets with copyright metadata and easy watermarking.
• Quickly find and organize your images using simple collections and keywords.
• Solve every-day location lighting issues using easy gradients.
• Efficiently batch-process virtually any adjustment to every image that needs them.
• Track EVERY image you take and edit you make while saving tons of drive space too!
• Perform almost 95% of your editing in Lightroom™.
• Create emotional and impactful slideshows with music in minutes.
• Make websites and online galleries easily and without using Dreamweaver™!
• Learn how to fail-proof your image storage inexpensively
• Reduce your image storage requirements using the universal DNG format.

The full-day program will consist of a hands-on workshop exploring the Develop and Slideshow modules in-depth. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops (and power cords) with Lightroom 3 or 4 loaded, along with images to import and process.

February Meeting Speaker: Marty Grivjack talks on Lightroom

Don’t miss this month’s meeting and print competition featuring guest speaker, Marty Grivjack! We’ll be meeting on February 28th at 6pm at Bella Bella. Details on his program below.

If You Don’t Get Layers, Get Lightroom!

…The Ultimate Workflow Tool
Marty Grivjack, Cr. Photog., FSA
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom™ Instructor

Witness the robust power of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 as Marty Grivjack, Florida-based Lightroom Instructor and PPA Photographic Craftsman demonstrates the awesome capabilities of Adobe’s premier designed-for-pros image editor and management.

In this two-hour program, Marty will color balance images using a simple gray card, use gradients to fix skies and flash blowout, batch-crop hundreds of images in seconds, and show how you can locate any image in seconds using keywords.

Bring your questions, a note pad and a pen, as you will be shown the critical shortcuts to incredible productivity in your workflow process. You won’t want to miss this information!

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Marty Grivjack, a PPA Photographic Craftsman, is a professional photographer and Lightroom instructor residing in Jupiter, Florida, with a summer studio on Lake George, New York. He is the past-president of PPGPB, The Professional Photographer’s Guild of the Palm Beaches, and member of PPA, ASP, FPP, PPSNYS and CCPPSNYS. Marty conducts Lightroom™ and Photoshop™ workshops, PPA Super Monday programs, seminars and schools. For more information or to schedule a workshop in your area, call him at 561-846-1237; email is magriv@aol.com.

 

January 2013 Print Competition Winners

Portrait of a Child, Print of the Month
Kira Derryberry, Kira Derryberry Photography

Portrait of a Man
Linda Long, Long’s Photography

Portrait of a Woman
Kira Derryberry, Kira Derryberry Photography

Portrait of Two
Linda Long, Long’s Photography

Social Function
Lee Howell, Lee Howell Photography

Open
Kira Derryberry, Kira Derryberry Photography

If you were a winner in this month’s print competition and your image is not shown, please email it to info@kiraphoto.com so that we can post it. Thanks!