The November TPPG Meeting will be held at the Keller Williams Office on November 19th at 6pm.
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Overall Print of the Month Winner: Port. of a Woman: Kylene Gay
Port. of a Man: Kylene Gay
Port. of a Child: Kylene Gay
Environmental: Linda Long
Group: Wayne Denmark
Open: Lewis Johnson
Retouch/Restoration: Wayne Denmark
Social Function: AJ Abellera
Commercial: Wayne Denmark
Album: Linda Long
October’s Tallahassee Professional Photographer’s Guild meeting will be held on Thursday, October 22nd at 6 p.m. at Keller Williams Real Estate (map). Please plan to come, as October’s meeting will be very important, we’ll be:
Conducting a general meeting and discussing the 2010 board members: President-Elect, Cindy Strickland, will announce next year’s board and asking for nominations for two Members at Large. We will be VOTING on next year’s board, so please plan to attend.
Reviewing the survey results: Your time spent on the survey was certainly appreciated and the board would like to share our first impressions with you. Cindy Strickland will be putting together some ideas based on the surveys that you’ll want to hear.
Having a mini-print critique: One item of particular interest in the survey was the membership’s questions about print competition and salon. After reviewing the survey results, the board feels that maybe the rules and standards are not clear. We will spend some time at this month’s meeting having a round-table discussion about the state and local rules and looking at some images from this year’s state competition. We will talk about what makes a merit print and what doesn’t and tell you what the judges said about some of the images from photographers who did well (and not so well) at state. Competing at the local and state level is exciting but daunting, so we hope to take some of the mystery out of it all.
Print Competition: We will have print competition as usual this month. Please submit your images! Entries must be presented on 11×14 or smaller paper with 8×10 being the standard size. If you have any questions whatsoever, please feel free to contact Cindy, our Print Competition Chair: cindy@amomentcaptured.com
The following prints were selected as “Print of the Month” at the September meeting:
Open and Overall Print of the Month: AJ Alberra
Portrait of a Woman: Linda Long, Long’s Photography
Portrait of a Man: Kathy Burcham
Portrait of a Child: Linda Long, Long’s Photography
Portrait of a Group: Kellie McLanahan
Environmental Portrait: Wayne Denmark
Social Function: AJ Alberra
Restouching/Restoration: Wayne Denmark
Commercial: Wayne Denmark
Album: Linda Long, Long’s Photography
The following images were selected as “Print of the Month” at the August Meeting:
Commercial and Overall Print of the Month: Wayne Denmark
Portrait of a Man: Wayne Denmark
Portrait of a Woman: Kylene Gay, Forever Photography by Kylene
Portrait of a Group: Linda Long, Long’s Photography
Social Function: Kylene Gay, Forever Photography by Kylene
Environmental Portrait: Kylene Gay, Forever Photography by Kylene
Open: Linda Long, Long’s Photography
Restoration/Retouching: Wayne Denmark
Album: Linda Long, Long’s Photography
Portrait of a Child: Martin Gudz, Tudor Rose Photography
The TPPG Board met on September 14, 2009 at Wayne Denmark’s studio. Present were: AJ Abellera, Martin Gudz, Cindy Strickland, Robin Adams, Wayne Denmark, Ron Gardner, Frank Feliciano, Kathy Bircham and Linda Long. The meeting was called to order at 6:45pm.
This month’s Tallahassee Professional Photographer’s Guild meeting will be held on Thursday, August 27th at 6 p.m. at Keller Williams Real Estate (map) with Carrie Viohl of Studio Viohl as our speaker. Hope you can make it!
Mark your calendars for future Guild Meetings: September 24, October 22, and November 19. Details for the Annual Holiday Party coming soon.
The following images were selected as “Print of the Month” at the July Meeting:
Social Function and Overall Print of the Month- Kay Meyer, Kay Meyer Photography
Portrait of a Women- Wayne Denmark
Portrait of a Group- Linda Long, Long’s Photography
Restoration & Retouching- Wayne Denmark
Open- Wayne Denmark
Commercial- Wayne Denmark
This month’s Tallahassee Professional Photographer’s Guild meeting will be held on Thursday, July 30th at 6pm.
Participating in print competitions is probably the best and fastest way to improve the level of your photography! But we know competition can be intimidating, and learning the “rules” can be confusing.
Please join us on July 30th for an in-depth look at print competition. Qualified print judges will review your images and talk about their strengths as well as how they can be improved. This may sound scary but it is just us, folks!
Not interested in participating in print competition? Watching critiques of your work and the work of other professionals not only improves your ability to do well in competition, but more importantly it improves your craft. There is a wealth of information available simply by learning what the judges see and don’t see in an image. By incorporating this knowledge into your work, your clients will begin to see a difference in your product and will recognize a distinction between a professional photograph and images captured by those with less training.
TO PARTICIPATE: Find four of your very best images you would like to have reviewed. Two images will be chosen to be critiqued at the meeting. Please submit your four digital files to Robin Adams – robinsportraits@yahoo.com on or before Monday July 27th. At the meeting, the judges will critique the images for the entire group. If you have any questions about this process, please contact Robin by email or by phone (997-5391).
TO PREPARE: Go to the FPP website to view a lot of information on competition, and even view winners from last year’s state competition. NOTE: DO NOT REGISTER through this site… that is for the state competition in August. But do take advantage of the information such as the 12 Elements of a Merit Print. http://fpponline.org/members/?page_id=5
This month’s meeting is being held one week later than usual, falling on July 30th. Members of the Guild pay the standard $25 meeting fee, which includes dinner. First time visitors pay $35, which also includes dinner. If you have already attended a guild meeting as a visitor, please consider joining the guild at this month’s meeting. For more information, please visit our blog at: www.tallahasseephotographers.com.
We are looking forward to an amazing meeting!
