Newsletter of the Pierce County Professional Photographers Association (PCPPA) March 2001
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Newsletter of the Pierce County Professional Photographers Association (PCPPA) March 2001 |
Tuesday April 24th, 2001
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Professional Event Videographers Association Northwest will be presenting some of their work and conducting a round table discussion to promote cooperation and understanding between the our professions. Pevan members want pro photographers to know that we are doing a job and that they know that photographers are doing the same and can actually support each others activities. Also they want to set up networking so that if customers ask for certain things, they have referral capabilities and can count on the professional attitude and products.
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Inside this Issue
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Next Meeting: Tuesday April 24th, 2001All regular PCPPA monthly meetings are held on the forth Tuesday of the month at Eddie's Catering, 7112 6th Avenue, Tacoma (253) 565-6310
Meeting Schedule: 5:30PM Roundtable Discussion, 7:00 Dinner, The Meeting Follows Reminder: Normally non members are welcome with a $20 guest fee applicable to their membership.
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The night was magnificent. Everyone there was filled with anticipation. The ballroom was filled with 200 people and the PPW 2001 Salon Awards were presented personally by Matthew Weston. The top three images were projected on a screen behind the presenters. The winning image was large enough for all to see. When the winners name was announced, the trophy was ready for the winner to claim. Time and again Judy Horn rose to her feet and made the all too short journey to receive her awards. Magnificent job Judy!!!!!! This absolutely crowning achievement brings me to reflect on the value of membership in PCPPA. Do you remember Judy's very colorful boats on a dock picture entered into last falls PCPPA print competition? That's the print that won most of her awards. It really is a magnificent image. If you'd like to see it, it is called "Rainbow Fleet" and it is on our website. No one knows how much her membership in Pierce County played in the making of that image, I'm sure some of the knowledge gained helped.
Take another example, Eric Rehn had an image accepted by PPA that was
originally
entered into competition in one of our contests. And take another example,
Russ Rogers
winning wedding albums at PPW competition allowed him to claim to be the
best wedding
photographer for
five years while he was also a member of PCPPA. The list
could go on
and on, proving our organization is truly a professional organization, able
to compete
successfully in any arena. There are many, many benefits to a membership in
PCPPA. As
you're talking to people who may be interested in the PCPPA remember the
business
knowledge you've gained, along with the gentle nudging to be sure to charge
enough.
Think of the knowledge you can tap through a phone call to another member.
Our
profession is truly an apprenticeship, think of who you'd like to stand
beside and see how
they do things, then ask, you'd be surprised, they'll arrange some way for
your to shadow
them. Got a problem marketing? Ask
some of the more successful members how they got out of the doldrums and
began getting
calls for work.
Our association is so much more than a meal and a program. Put someone to the test and you'll see. Don't be too surprised if you receive requests, also.
PPW Convention Brad Bogue The Professional Photographers Convention in Spokane early this month was educational, entertaining, enlightening and excellent. Actual Photographic Safaris included photographing cars with models and Senior photography with personalized 1:1 instruction with models. Program topics such as wedding photography with an excellent slide show, family and child photography by a couple from Quebec that introduced paint mediums right onto the print for a dramatic Victorian look and graduation photography how to and what not to do.
The convention was held in a first class hotel and the program was planned
to meet the
needs of most photographers. The trade show was the best I'd
been to in 
many years. Food? Wow, Professionally prepared meals that looked
and tasted
superb (many times there was too much food). The organizers and the hotel
staff kept
things moving at a livable pace.
The auction was sooo much fun. Craig Brubaker stole the show. Over $5,000 was raised for education. Mike Elwell was the MC so you know it was fun. The parties following the days events proved that photographers know how to party. The best part of the parties was providing time to talk to the presenters person to person with other photographers also discussing (and occasionally joking) about the way to handle parts of the business. Next year the convention will be the end of March in Bellingham. The cost is tax deductible. Start planning now. If you reserve your room before Thanksgiving you can get an ultra fantastic rate just ask me, I'll tell you how. Then pack your bags, take your camera and go. You'll be so happy you did.
So, you think you ain’t got to show no stinking badges? Well that’s fine, but to reward those who do wear their badge to our monthly meetings, a door prize will be draw and awarded only to those members who have one on. If you don’t have one, bug one of the board members to get a replacement.
Jonie Atkinson and Brad Bogue were the two winners of the photographic education scholarships awarded from the applications last December.
Kodak has just introduced “Kodak Professional Color Metallic Paper” - a premium product that offers new creative opportunities for photographers. The pearlescent, almost 3-D quality of images printed on the Color Metallic Paper creates a dazzling look for a wide range of professional imaging applications. Derived from Kodak Duralife Paper, Color Metallic Paper uses a patented combination of five film laminates to produce the metallic/pearlescent effect. A traditional portrait emulsion set provides extreme sharpness, brightness and color saturation. Market research suggests that a majority of consumers within the wedding, sports and seniors would purchase metallic images as add-ons to your existing package, with premium pricing over and above your normal ala carte prints. This paper is processed the same as normal paper and is suitable for optical or digital printing. See some samples at the April meeting at Eddy’s.
K & K Color Lab introduces their new account executive. With a BA in Fine Arts and a long work history in professional photography in her background she knows her way around a portrait and wedding studio. She’s a member of several associations in Oregon and has won several top honors for her images.
>Over here, "painting with light" is a multiple flash technique >used to photograph certain areas of a landscape or >architectural subject in darkness with the shutter open. I was >wondering what the guests would be doing sitting in the dark
>while tho photog ran about with a metz!!!!! :) just about anything creative with lighting seems to be referred to as 'painting with light"
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The first time I heard it was in Jr college photography. In the days before softboxes, and sophisticated flash, commercial photogs would photograph shiny objects by taking a flood light on a stand and waving it around, back and forth, up and down. Over a 30 second exposure it gave you an effect of a large diffusive light source, just like a softbox, well sorta. And the teacher called it painting with light, as the strokes he used, the way he demo'd it, it was like painting a house. Then in a PPA class on portrait lighting, where you learned to use the direction and of your lighting to affect the perception of the shape of a subject's face (ala Hurrel) was also called painting with light. And then Paul Tumason who taught the large diffusive wall of light method, practically the exact opposite of the above, also referred to it as painting with light.
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In an art store I see a book from some guy in Arroyo Grande who has these photo parties where they run around in the desert or some beach with flashes, flashlights, sparklers and laser beams, most of them with various color gels, and make some very surreal images.
Then one day I'm looking at some very strange commercial style still life images, lighted by something called a "hosemaster" which is a long fiber optic wand that you can use upclose and literally paint the product, emphasizing what you want. And they called it...
One of these days someone is going to copyright the phrase and then lawyers will get into it...
(the above was an article first posted on the mailing list z-prophoto which you can find at yahoogroups .com or join by sending a blank message to: z-prophoto-owner@yahoogroups.com
The board authorized past pres David Lobban to purchase a locking cabinet to store all the videos in our lending library. Soon, you will be able to check out some of the many interesting and expensive educational tapes and books without having to call the psychic hotline to divine what is available. Also, If you write a printable review of a tape in the collection for publication in this newsletter, your next rental will be free. The list of tapes will be posted online at pcppa.org, our website, and eventually printed in the newsletter as well.
(more filler from the z-prophoto mailing list @yahoogroups.com)
I was shooting a small wedding in an old community center, had those northern European style exposed beams, huge hearth fireplace, etc. And these hanging light fixtures that looked like suspended birdbaths, or punchbowls. Rather art deco. When I shoot portraits, which is how I cover a wedding, portraits on location, I like to use a slow shutter to pick up ambient light in the background, with flash on the subject and an on the ball lab, the faces will be normal and the background may pick up a nice warmth. I put my softbox up, kept the power down so I could use f/5.6, which is perfect for my soft lens. The background was ten feet behind, the dark brown bricks around the fireplace. But instead of incandescent lights, those fixtures must of had those mini florescent bulbs in them. Thank you Polaroid. the background wasn't a totally neon toxic waste green, more like a cold tone, but it didn't give me the warmth of the 100 years of cigarette smoked dark stained wood and bricks of the background. I guess we will be seeing a lot more of those hidden neon nightmares in the future.
An election will be held at the April meeting to select a Vice President for the remaining term of 2001. Vice Presidents are handy to have cause you never know if your current president may decide to leave the state.
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