INFOCUS 2 017 WELLINGTON
SUNDAY 18 - MONDAY 19 JUNE 2017
INFOCUS WE LLINGTON 2017
10am
WELCOME
10.10am
The Anonymous Man – Birth to Evolution – Lisa Saad
DAY 1
SUNDAY 18th JUNE
AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Lisa Saad will take you on a journey of how listening to inspired thought helped her develop and create her award winning ‘The Anonymous Man’ series. Lisa will take you on her journeyon how the series was born, how it developed and how it is continually evolving by itself. • ‘The anonymous Man’ – who is he? • Creating through inspired thought – what is it? why its important • How the series was born – where it came from • How it evolved – the process of the style and series development • How it’s evolving by itself – continuation and development of the series 11.15am
The Patron Saint of Depression and Other Stories – Esther Bunning
Esther will share how a considerable part of her inspiration comes from the people she photographs, and images from her major project work over the last few years. The stories. The people. The brainstorming. The inspiration. The how-to. The finished products. And how she creates her layered imagery. 12.15pm
LUNCH
1.15pm
Posing to flatter anyone – Lindsay Adler
It is our job to flatter every subject that steps in front of our lens by showcasing their strengths. When photographing the everyday person instead of models, however, we will often be asked to photograph and flatter more challenging features. Challenging does not mean “bad”, but instead that you must understand the photographic tools available to you to help their best-side shine. These features could be a pronounced nose, large forehead, large chin, glasses, round face, double chin, asymmetrical features, bald head, defined wrinkles and more. It is imperative when you photograph them that you are able to do so with confidence! This course will cover many challenging features and show you how posing, camera angle, lens choice, lighting and photoshop work together for successful imagery 2.35pm
The Mindset of a Professional Business Owner – Mark Rossetto
Be inspired and understand the mind-set, skills and personal development needed to be a successful business owner. As a qualified life and business coach, Mark will challenge and help you learn valuable techniques to overcome barriers and get “un-stuck”, gain clarity and direction and discover what a successful business looks like for you, your family and your lifestyle 3.30pm
AFTERNOON TEA
4.00pm
(Breakout 1) – We Trust our eyes too much – Simon Devitt
Devitt’s career spans over 20 years of picture making specifically within the world of Architecture. He will discuss some of his experiences and how they have had a profound affect on how he views the world. or
(Breakout 2) – Joining the Dots – Esther Bunning Esther will delve into her layered imagery in more depth, and explain the ‘how to’ of how she creates: from brainstorming and joining the dots drawn from client conversations – through to image construction in camera and in post production. Be taken on a journey of creative intrigue with her effective methods. Often simple ideas, but complex in construction. Forget automation – this is all manual, from technical to technique. And leave your pre-disposed ideas on what a photograph is, at the door. 5.15pm
Shooting the Dramatic Portrait – Chris Knight
If you want to create memorable and dramatic portraiture, this session is a ‘must-see.’ Chris Knight will cover six essential tips to transform your lighting techniques to create drama. He’ll cover topics as diverse as personal style, ratios, cutting light, tightly controlled modifiers, painting broadly and mixing different qualities of light. After taking this class you’ll be prepared with new tools and techniques to take your portraiture to the next level. 6.20pm
HAPPY HOUR
7.25pm
Six60 – PhotoBooks and Publishing
Simon Devitt, Mike Hill with Jake Thomas, Glen Howey, Mike Langford, Nathan Madigan, Craig Wetjen Join top photographers as they take us on a journey into the world of photobooks and publishing. A jam packed hour of practical tips, inspiration and behind the scenes stories. 8.30pm
END OF DAY ONE
INFOCUS WE LLINGTON
DAY 2
2017
MONDAY 19th JUNE
8.00am
Day 2 Commences
8.00am
Confidence,Trust and Kickass Wedding Photography – Kelly Tunney
Creatives always want to try new ideas and extend their creativity just about every single day. But how do you find creative confidence and how do we hang on to it for the long haul? Finding what will work for you is important – maybe it’s not through awards, but it’s other forms of experimentation or reinventing yourself and your brand. Maybe you want to expand your business and experiment with new business models. 9.05am
(Breakout 1) Surviving the Niche – Amber Griffin
You’ve got a passion for image-making but are you still accepting every job that comes your way? Establishing and dominating your niche is the key to thriving in this industry. With a busy commercial business and two World Photographic Cup medals under her belt dance photographer, Amber Griffin, will unveil how she transformed her life and career. Learn how to think outside the square, unleash your creative beast and survive in your very own photographic niche. or
(Breakout 2) Foundations for Success – Mark Rossetto In this session you will discover the essential foundations you need to set up, refine and move forward as a successful portrait and wedding business. You’ll gain a greater understanding of the three main business models, systems and procedures and branding within the portrait industry. 10.00am
MORNING TEA
10.30am
Men and Their Sheds – Craig Wetjen
A photographic journey transforming a negative into a positive. ‘Men and Their Sheds’ – Personal projects and their importance to an artist as method of therapeutic health benefits through the use of photography as a visual narrative in to the life of my project and a man’s shed. 11.35am
My Crafted Life – Sharon Thompson
Living an authentic life is a dream for many, yet for some people it is their reality. Have you ever looked at those living life differently and wondered how they achieved it? Sharon Thompson is one of these women. A documentary photographer by trade, she has also made a name for herself as a sensitive stillbirth photographer. In addition to this, she volunteers at an orphanage in Vietnam. Hear Sharon talk about turning tough times into triumph, fears into fortitude and how to put your heart back into your art. 12.30pm
LUNCH
1.35pm
It is the Idea That Counts – Denis Smith
Stop using gear as a crutch! Let’s look at what you really need to make compelling images and tell great stories. Do you really need 50 megapixels? Does noise really matter? It is time to look at what really matters. 2.40pm
Love, Unscripted – Huy Nguyen
Huy Nguyen, an experienced newspaper photojournalist, accomplished wedding photographer, educator, and founder of Fearless Photographers, will lead a deep exploration into the style of authentic wedding photojournalism. He will offer his insights on how you can nurture your own photojournalistic mindset and help improve your real, unscripted images. 4.00pm
END OF DAY 2
INFOCUS WE LLINGTON 2017
Print Judging
15 -17 JUNE 2017
15-18 JUNE 2017
18-19 JUNE 2017
SPEAKERS
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Huy Nguyen
Lindsay Adler
Chris Knight
Lisa Saad
Mark Rossetto
Craig Wetjen
Kelly Tunney
Denis Smith
Esther Bunning
Amber Griffin
Simon Devitt
Sharon Thompson
NZIPP INFOCUS CONFERENCE 7pm, Friday 16 June 2017 Shed 6, Wellington
MASTERS OF CEREMONY RACHEL CALLANDER | MC Bio written by Clinton Lloyd
Rachel is irresistibly genuine and infectiously passionate about all of the love, the loss and the open doors that life throws her way. Always up for chats into the night and dancing until morning, it’s impossible to talk to her without feeling the warm embrace of a soul truly alive. As the author of the “Super Power Baby Project” she is internationally sought after for her thought leadership and ability to reshape the cultural narrative on disabilities into a life affirming , hope enabling paradigm. Coming all the way from Perth this year to MC conference, because she couldn’t face missing out on seeing all your beautiful faces. When she’s not on stage you are bound to find her in deep conversation with someone probably in tears, getting messy on the dance floor or seeing the best in every Iris entry.
CLINTON LLOYD | MC Bio written by Rachel Callander
Do not be fooled by the cool, calm, rugged exterior of this tall, handsome total legend of a person, he’s a big softy underneath. Clinton loves people, and as soon as you meet him, you feel seen, heard and valued. He really is interested in a person and their story, and this is reflected in the work he makes, whether this is at a wedding celebrating love, or on a commercial job where he captures the essence of a brandit’s all about people for Clinton. He is incredibly talented, and extremely humble. He has been part of our community for not too long a time, but he made an instant impression with his imagery celebrating same sex marriage, dynamic architectural wedding imagery, and his ability to capture whimsey and gentleness within his bold and strong frames. Plus, he’s just ridiculously awesome company. He is impeccably stylish, quick to laugh and even quicker to give a hug. He is fun, funny, kind and he really cares about celebrating others. My personal favourite moment that I have shared with Clinton, is last year, at the Iris Award Gala dinner, where our amazing president Katherine Williams was named NZIPP Photographer of the Year- he was a complete mess of tears, laughter, happiness and joy. This moment alone was worth being there. Who knows what will happen this year! But I sure want to be around this gem rock when it does. You do too!
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SIX60 PHOTOBOOKS AND PUBLISHING Infocus Day 1 straight after happy hour… Join seven top photographers as they take us on a journey into the world of photobooks and publishing. A jam packed hour of practical tips, inspiration and behind the scenes stories.
GLEN HOWEY Award-winning professional photographer Glen Howey grew up in Christchurch, and as a boy he played rugby at Lancaster Park, now AMI Stadium, which was damaged by the 2011 earthquake and is now closed. A full-time professional photographer, he specialises in documentary, travel and landscape photography and also teaches at the Photo School in Wellington. In his own time he’s always loved photographing uninhabited buildings, finding an ‘eerie beauty’ in abandoned sites. “I genuinely felt like I was walking through an unseen history. History that has been hidden from us, not deliberately, just for safety reasons – but it’s a story that needs to be told. I feel exceptionally privileged to have seen the things I saw. It’s sad, it’s fascinating… I was moving around inside their world and that’s why I walked very delicately. I was very gentle in the way I approached things because they deserved that, they needed that. I was walking around in people’s memories.” www.glenhowey.co.nz
NATHAN MADIGAN “Nathan is a photographer and story designer, and the founder of Self Titled Studios, a magazine design business that wraps your everyday moments, and your epic lifetime events, into something tactile, accessible, and beautiful. He has a small team of creatives who never say no to new ideas or impossible concepts, and are all disturbingly passionate about typography. Nathan is art over science, and people over profit, and believes we all have exceptional life stories to tell. www.selftitledstudios.com
MIKE LANGFORD (APP.L GM.Photog FAIPP, GM. Hon F. NZIPP) Is New Zealand born, multi-award winning travel and landscape photographer. He is a Canon Master, a Grand Master of both the Australian Institute of Professional Photography and the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography. Mike has 35 years’ experience as an international professional Photographer and an international awards judge for 20 years and has lectured and given workshops to professional photographers for over 30 years. He has published over 26 books. mikelangford.co.nz
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SIMON DEVITT Simon Devitt ( b.1973) is a photographer born on a bed of pine needles to a high priestess. He is based in Auckland, New Zealand. His practice focus is Architecture. Simon will talk about photo-book making and publishing, citing his experiences making Portrait of a house and his latest self published photobook Rannoch for which he recently won NZ Photo Book of the Year. Simondevitt.com
CRAIG WETJEN Craig Wetjen initiated the Men’s Shed Photography Project in 2010. Its aim is to increase awareness of men’s health issues—mental and physical—by documenting how the iconic backyard shed is a space not only for fixing things but also the men inside them. Most of the men captured in these images struggled to articulate what their sheds mean to them. In these cases images can speak more powerfully than words. The Project has now been published and titled ‘Men and Their Sheds’.
JAKE THOMAS Jake Thomas is a bogan Aussie, who married a kiwi beauty and has 3 amazing kids, who to his frustration consider themselves kiwis kids! Back in 2011, Jake moved to Waihi New Zealand from Newcastle Australia, to make ice-cream but ended up back in the wedding industry. In 2012 and 2014 he was awarded NZIPP Creative Wedding Photographer of the Year. For past year he and his family have been volunteering at a freedom business in Kolkata India. A business that provides freedom to women through employment that were trapped in the sex industry of Kolkata.
MIKE HILL Somewhere between being a Dad, playing squash, chain-sawing down trees, managing a farm and volunteer work for both the police and St johns Ambulance I have managed to fit in the odd wedding and portrait. I have some how turned my profession as a photographer back into a hobby allowing me more time to think about donuts and KFC and what style to wear my hair in.
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AMBER GRIFFIN “When you grow up learning to dance competitively, the discipline, physical power and mindset required to achieve a level of artistry that can be appreciated by a discerning audience makes you very aware,” says award-winning photographer, Amber Griffin. Amber applies her personal dance awareness with meticulous sensitivity to craft vividly inspiring photographic artworks that are receiving repeated international recognition. Creating strikingly beautiful imagery has always been her ambition. Amber loves to collaborate with professional dancers and other artists, and has succesfully developed her own photographic niche by elevating both their vision and her own, through shared association and experimentation. Line, light and movement are her pimary focus when photographing dance, and Amber’s sensitivity to balancing these three crucial elements is what defines her awardwinning style. Amber’s style has developed through years of studio-based dance portraiture for both professional and developing dancers; often shooting portfolio work for pre-professional dancers as well as a multitute of performancebased dance events throughout New Zealand. After winning the 2015 WORLD PHOTOGRAPHIC CUP Gold Medal for Commercial Photography in Montpellier, France, (also the Highest Scoring Print that year), Amber held her first solo fine art exhibitions in Wellington and Auckland. In 2016, she was named both Commercial Photographer of the Year and Wellington Regional Photographer of the Year at the NZIPP Iris Awards. Amber is again a finalist in the Commercial Category of the 2017 World Photographic Cup, due to be announced in Yokohama, Japan, at the end of February. While the awards and creative outlet of holding exhibitions are wonderful, Amber also enjoys working with a variety of other long-term commercial and corporate clients. “I believe in measuring photographic success by my clients’ satisfaction. We’re all only ever as good as the last job we’ve undertaken, so I strive to approach every new challenge with the ambition that it will become my best work yet,” says Amber.
AMBER GRIFFIN SURVIVING THE NICHE You’ve got a passion for image-making but are you still accepting every job that comes your way? Establishing and dominating your niche is the key to thriving in this industry. With a busy commercial business and two World Photographic Cup medals under her belt dance photographer, Amber Griffin, will unveil how she transformed her life and career. Learn how to think outside the square, unleash your creative beast and survive in your very own photographic niche.
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++ Breakout session | 9.05am | Day 2 | Monday 19 June
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CHRIS KNIGHT
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CHRIS KNIGHT SHOOTING THE DRAMATIC PORTRAIT If you want to create memorable and dramatic portraiture, this class is a ‘must-see.’ Chris Knight will cover six essential tips to transform your lighting techniques to create drama. He’ll cover topics as diverse as personal style, ratios, cutting light, tightly controlled modifiers, painting broadly and mixing different qualities of light. After taking this class you’ll be prepared with new tools and techniques to take your portraiture to the next level.
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++ 5.15pm | Day 1 | Sunday 18 June
Chris Knight was born in Wiesbaden, Germany and hardened by the sweaty, nearly chewable, humidity of Florida. He combines his unconditional love of art history with his conditional love of technology, topping it off with a flare for the cinematic and an uncompromising eye for detail. His work has appeared in or on Vogue, People, MSNBC, ABC, Ocean Drive, GQ and others. Chris is an instructor at Pratt Institute as well as the New York Film Academy.
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CRAIG WETJEN Craig Wetjen is a professional photographic artist and author with 30 years experience. He began his career at the age of 16 as a photojournalist photographing for the local Newspapers in the tiny state of Connecticut USA. Moving to Santa Barbara Ca. where he received his Bachelors degree in Photography. His career highlights are shooing for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories documenting the Mars Pathfinder and Cassini projects. He moved to Australia 21 years ago to play a pivotal
role in establishing Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) digital imaging photography course. He has gone on to become a national and international award-winning photographer, and has self published two books of images of man’s best friend and their owner. He is now sharing his wealth of knowledge, passion and creativity teaching photography at Photography Studies College (Melbourne).
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However, the journey his photography now takes him on is far more personal. He has initiated the Men’s Shed Photography Project in 2010. Its aim is to increase awareness of men’s health issues—mental and physical—by documenting how the iconic backyard shed is a space not only for fixing things but also the men inside them. Most of the men captured in these images struggled to articulate what their sheds mean to them. In these cases images can speak more powerfully than words. The Project has now been published and titled ‘Men and Their Sheds’.
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CRAIG WETJEN MEN AND THEIR SHEDS A photographic journey transforming a negative into a positive. ‘Men and Their Sheds’ - Personal projects and their importance to an artist as method of therapeutic health benefits through the use of photography as a visual narrative in to the life of my project and a man’s shed.
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Denis Smith bought his first camera in 2009, and during the same year a huge life change saw him leave his home town of Auckland to make a new start in Adelaide, South Australia. The move away from Auckland and a high flying corporate life allowed Denis the time and space to deal with the depression, alcohol abuse and lifestyle that almost killed him. Photography quickly became the creative outlet that allowed him to replenish both mind and soul.
Within his remarkably short photography career, Denis has established a successful commercial photography and video production business, and has become an integral part of the global light painting community. He is renowned as one of the worlds most prolific light painters, and continues to inspire photographers of all ages and experience to explore and push the boundaries of their own creativity. Denis is super passionate about spreading the light around the globe, holding workshops across
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Australia and Europe, with plans reaching into North America and Asia. With an uncompromised openness about his own mental health issues, he brings art, nature and people together whilst influencing mental health acceptance and equanimity.
leading them into the night to create ethereal and mind blowing images. He believes photography should be inclusive and that we live in an incredible age where everyone, young and old, can create stunning images that spark joy and enthusiasm deep within.
“Gear Doesn’t Matter” is the mantra Denis preaches. He loves working with beginner photographers with the most basic equipment and
This will be Denis’s first trip back to New Zealand since leaving 8 years ago. An emotional homecoming.
DENIS SMITH IT IS THE IDEA THAT COUNTS Stop using gear as a crutch! Let’s look at what you really need to make compelling images and tell great stories. Do you really need 50 megapixels? Does noise really matter? It is time to look at what really matters.
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ESTHER BUNNING THE PATRON SAINT OF DEPRESSION AND OTHER STORIES Esther will share how a considerable part of her inspiration comes from the people she photographs, and images from her major project work over the last few years. The stories. The people. The brainstorming. The inspiration. The how-to. The finished products. And how she creates her layered imagery.
++ 11.15am | Day 1 | Sunday 18 June
JOINING THE DOTS Esther will delve into her layered imagery in more depth, and explain the ‘how to’ of how she creates: from brainstorming and joining the dots drawn from client conversations - through to image construction in camera and in post production. Be taken on a journey of creative intrigue with her effective methods. Often simple ideas, but complex in construction. Forget automation - this is all manual, from technical to technique. And leave your pre-disposed ideas on what a photograph is, at the door.
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++ Breakout session | 4pm | Day 1 | Sunday 18 June
Esther grew up on a dairy farm in Taranaki, New Zealand, and her love of atmospheric & soft, dreamy realities is surely a throwback to this rural world. Her portraits may have soft lines, chalky hues and moody enigma, or bright pops of colour to show humour and energy. Esther’s striking style unites her creative eye, her fluid use of colour and her knack of capturing people with a hint of mystery and layers of life. She draws her inspiration from the people she photographs and while she’s a sucker for a smile with her day-to-day work, she’s at her happiest when she can introduce a touch of blur, movement or layering to an image. Her strength is being able to join the dots using people’s stories as a starting point. Esther’s self-confessed shyness is undoubtedly a part of her reflective imagery however years of photographing weddings (not to mention having three younger sisters!) have taught her how to gently coerce and boss people around, when required, for a great photograph.
I remember picnics, blackberry picking and making huts under hedges - I never had trouble filling my time.
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Before founding Fearless Photographers, a wedding photographers directory for couples who truly love photography, Huy Nguyen was a successful newspaper photojournalist and wedding photographer in Dallas, TX. His photography photography style emphasized delightfully quirky moments that are authentic and surprising. Huy is also the founder and director of the Foundation Workshops, the world’s most challenging photography workshops for wedding photographers since 2002. He is a strong believer in environmental responsibility and in community activism.
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KELLY TUNNEY
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Born and raised in Canberra, a current hotbed of fine photography in Australia. Kelly Tunney originally followed a traditional path, but a couple of years working as a public servant soon cured her of that. After deciding that the clarinet was not her way to fame and fortune (no, that realisation didn’t come on band camp), Kelly decided that photography was her way to be awesome, and it’s been her life ever since.
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Her images embody the way she relates to the world – they’re candid, honest, fearless and warm; and they always manage to find the amazing in everyone. Kelly relishes in the agony and ecstasy of imagining and creating contrasts to play with in her images. She secretly enjoy the rush that comes with the fear of pushing boundaries as far as they can be moved. She is the co-founder of All Grown Up Photography Group with
fellow photographer and mate, Dan O’Day. Even though she’s kind of short, don’t let that fool you, it just means that she gets a better angle on the world than everyone else. Kelly is also the current 2016 ACT Professional Photographer of the Year and also, the 2015 AIPP Australian Wedding Photographer of the Year (the first Female to ever win the prestigious award in it’s 40+ year history)
KELLY TUNNEY CONFIDENCE, TRUST AND KICKASS WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY Creatives always want to try new ideas and extend their creativity just about every single day. But how do you find creative confidence and how do we hang on to it for the long haul? Finding what will work for you is important - maybe it’s not through awards, but it’s other forms of experimentation or reinventing yourself and your brand. Maybe you want to expand your business and experiment with new business models.
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++ 8.00am | Day 2 | Monday 19 June
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Fashion photographer Lindsay Adler has risen to the top of her industry as both a photographer and educator. Based in New York City, her fashion editorials have appeared in numerous fashion and photography publications including Marie Claire, InStyle, Elle, Rangefinder, Professional Photographer and dozens more. As a photographic educator and having been named one of the top 10 best fashion photographers in the world, she is one of the most sought after speakers internationally. Lindsay enjoys teaching on the industry’s largest platforms and most prestigious events. She has worked with some of the top brands in the photographic and related industries such as Canon and Adobe. Her client list consists of Grey, Edelman, Microsoft, Saatchi & Saatchi and more. A clean, bold, and graphic style has become the hallmark of her work, whether shooting advertising campaigns, designer look books, jewelry, hair campaigns, fashion editorials, or professional athletes. Lindsay is renowned for her creativity and collaborating with designers and stylists in order to create fresh looks. Lindsay’s energy and enthusiastic teaching style showcase her excitement to share her passion and knowledge with others, whether it is world-wide through prestigious platforms such as CreativeLive, KelbyOne, and the industry’s largest conferences, or through her blog, DVD videos, online tutorials or her five books. She is located in Manhattan shooting fashion full time. She is honored to have been named a Canon Explorer of Light.
LINDSAY ADLER
LINDSAY ADLER POSING TO FLATTER ANYONE It is our job to flatter every subject that steps in front of our lens by showcasing their strengths. When photographing the everyday person instead of models, however, we will often be asked to photograph and flatter more challenging features. Challenging does not mean “bad�, but instead that you must understand the photographic tools available to you to help their best-side shine. These features could be a pronounced nose, large forehead, large chin, glasses, round face, double chin, asymmetrical features, bald head, defined wrinkles and more. It is imperative when you photograph them that you are able to do so with confidence! This course will cover many challenging features and show you how posing, camera angle, lens choice, lighting and photoshop work together for successful imagery
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++ 1:15pm | Day 1 | Sunday 18 June
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LISA SAAD Lisa Saad is an accomplished Advertising and Commercial Photographer as well as a shooting DOP with over 29 years experience in image development, creation and delivery and is always on the hunt for unique photographic briefs. Lisa Saad owns and operates two photographic businesses from her studio in Melbourne. The first Lisa Saad Photographer - lisasaad.com, is aimed at high end Advertising and Corporate clients wanting remarkable new and groundbreaking imagery, whist the second, Gotham Studios - gothamstudios.net, is an on-line prepaid photography service that is unique and serves to be placed as a market leader in the supply of functional high-end photography to B2B clients across Australia as well as a learning and mentoring portal for those wanting to increase their skill set in photography and maintain and run a photographic business. Lisa has always believed that good quality photography should be accessible to everyone and that no one should miss out the opportunity to work with a professional photographer. Her experience in all platforms of digital and analogue media
has made her an expert in producing imagery, digital manipulation, branding and campaign requirements and old school techniques. Lisa’s in depth knowledge of all levels of client briefs, pre- & post-production, casting, lighting & camera requirements, crews, locations, retouching, composites, layered effects, cinematography, video editing and delivery has been proven over and over again and without fault hitting each and every brief, every time. Over the years Lisa has won some 200+ awards for her commissioned and conceptual personal work, both locally and overseas which now allows her the honour of being a rare true master dedicated to the art of photography. Lisa is the 2016 AIPP Australian and Victorian Professional Photographer of the Year, the AIPP 2016 Australian Professional Advertising Photographer of the Year, the AIPP 2016 Victorian Professional Commercial and Illustrative Photographer of the Year. An ILFORD Master, the Australian Professional Ambassador for Manfrotto and is sponsored by Epson.
LISA SAAD THE ANONYMOUS MAN - BIRTH TO EVOLUTION AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Lisa Saad will take you on a journey of how listening to inspired thought helped her develop and create her award winning ‘The Anonymous Man’ series. Lisa will take you on her journey on how the series was born, how it developed and how it is continually evolving by itself. Including: • • • • • •
Little history and a couple of images – Intro and Background ‘The Anonymous Man’ – who is he? Creating through inspired thought – what is it? why its important How the series was born – where it came from How it evolved – the process of the style and series development How it’s evolving by itself – continuation and development of the series
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++ 10.10am | Day 1 | Sunday 18 June
THE ANONYMOUS MAN Create an intriguing delve into the constructions of our urban existence. Combining an interest in minimalist lines and dichotomies, the fleeting figure in each creates a narrative full of intrigue. Without the figure, each image reconstructs the space of our urban framework, asking the viewer to acknowledge the structures that support this existence. The addition of the figure enables the viewing experience to become personal, as we imagine our own journeys through urban space, and the mysterious journeys of all those whom pass us by. As we build higher and denser within the urbanised world we forget that we remain small and some what insignificant to what we are building. This is a series of images based around the idea that we become more and more anonymous within the urbanised world not only with what we build, where we work but also how we communicate. The series depicts the pressures, the freedoms and the unexpectedness of of our urbanised worlds shown through the arresting and simplicity of the architecture and the insignificance of life pushed to the very corners of the frame.
GO PRO ++ Hero 3 ++ Hero 4 ++ Hero 4 Black Edition
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EPSON ++ Epson Pro 3880 printer ++ Epson Pro P800 printer
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Professional Tripod058 Tripod - 055 XPRO3 Tripod - 190XB Tripod - 755CX3 Head - 229 Head - 701HDV Head - 804RC2 Head - MHXPRO-3W Boom - ART025 Bag - MBAG80PN Bag - Large110 Bag - Lino PRO Vll Roller Black Background Kit - 1314B with bag
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500CM camera body A12 film back A12 film back A16 film back Polaroid Back Pro Shade with 60 Adaptor Extension Tube 8 Extension Tube 16 Extension Tube 32E 60/80 Lens Hood f4/120mm Macro/Planar Carl Zeiss Lens ++ f2.8/80mm Planar Carl Zeiss Lens ++ f4/50mm Distagon Carl Zeiss Lens
DJI ++ Phantom 2 ++ Phantom 4 pro ++ Accessories: gimbals, monitors, modifications
BOWENS CAMBO ++ 2 x Pro Lites 60’s ++ UST Studio Stand
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D5 fx body D3 fx body D800 body 70-200mm AF–S f2.8 G ED VR ll 80-200mm AF f2.8ED 17-35mm AF–S f2.8 D 24-70mm f2.8 D-AFS 105mm AF Micro f2.8D 14-24mm AF-S f2.8ED 50mm AF- f1.8G 85mm f1.4 SB-900 Speedlight Flash SB-900 Speedlight Flash SB-900 Speedlight Flash
++ 30” Cinema HD Display Flat Panel (DVI) ++ Apple Mac Pro QuadCore Intel Xeon 2.8GHz with 24MB of RAM ++ Apple MacBook Pro 17” 3.06GHz/4GB/1TB SSD ++ Apple iMac 21.5” 2.7 HHz Intel Core i5/12GB/1333 MHz DDR3
WACOM ++ Intous 3 Graphic Tablet-Wacom PTZ-631W 11” x 6.5”
MARK ROSSETTO Mark Rossetto is a qualified Life and Business Coach and practitioner of NLP, also a Master Photographer with the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP). He has won over 50 international, national and state photography awards, and also founded and was president of the Melbourne Wedding Group. At the age of 25, Mark had a dream of running his own photography studio. However, he quickly realised that he needed far more than just great photography skills to run a successful business. Mark hired a coach to help him develop the mindset and strategic direction needed to turn his
passion for photography from a hobby to a home business, then into his Melbourne studio all within 18 months. Mark and his team were photographing approximately 500 family portraits per year and they capped their wedding bookings to only 20 weddings per year. 7 years later, Mark successfully sold his studio and took a sea-change to QLD with his wife and two children. He is passionate about helping people succeed in life and business, and he personally knows the difference that having a coach can make. So much so, that he has now become one himself! A photography business coach.
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MARK ROSSETTO THE MINDSET OF A PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS OWNER Be inspired and understand the mind-set, skills and personal development needed to be a successful business owner. As a qualified life and business coach, Mark will challenge and help you learn valuable techniques to overcome barriers and get “un-stuck”, gain clarity and direction and discover what a successful business looks like for you, your family and your lifestyle.
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FOUNDATIONS FOR SUCCESS In this session you will discover the essential foundations you need to set up, refine and move forward as a successful portrait and wedding business. You’ll gain a greater understanding of the three main business models, systems and procedures and branding within the portrait industry.
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++ Breakout session | 9.05am | Day 2 | Monday 19 June
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From Christchurch, Sharon Thompson is known for her real, honest and emotive photography. She specialises in documentary family and birth photography, capturing raw moments that are full of human connection. Her work is personal and intimate, and she draws inspiration from her unique and varied life in New Zealand and Vietnam. Five years ago Sharon designed a life for herself that previously she had only dreamed of living. She wanted to use her creative and photographic skills to give back to others, and now Sharon describes her life as a diverse and ‘heart centred’ existence. She dedicates 2 months a year to look after her beloved and special children at an orphanage in HCMC Vietnam. In New Zealand, Sharon is a Manager for Heartfelt Memorial Photography, photographing families who have suffered the loss of still birth, and organising similar shoots with photographers all over the South Island. Sharon is also a Life Skills Tutor at Polytech and has a small start up clothing line that funds her charity work. Sharon is as real and honest as her photographic work, and loves to share with others the beauty she sees in the unexpected.
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SHARON THOMPSON MY CRAFTED LIFE Living an authentic life is a dream for many, yet for some people it is their reality. Have you ever looked at those living life differently and wondered how they achieved it? Sharon Thompson is one of these women. A documentary photographer by trade, she has also made a name for herself as a sensitive stillbirth photographer. In addition to this, she volunteers at an orphanage in Vietnam. Hear Sharon talk about turning tough times into triumph, fears into fortitude and how to put your heart back into your art.
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++ 11.35am | Day 2 | Monday 19 June
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100 year old BSA bike to ride to hospital High heels and bright colourful dress Canon lens bag (used as make up bag) Chocolate for bribery and energy MOO business cards Essential oils for me to keep calm and centred Vintage camera for children to play with and 'help' me take photos Note book for quotes from labouring mothers so that they can look back and laugh about what was said. Â I also take notes of dad's encouraging words of support.
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SIMON DEVITT
SIMON DEVITT WE TRUST OUR EYES TOO MUCH Devitt’s career spans over 20 years of picture making specifically within the world of Architecture. He will discuss some of his experiences and how they have had a profound affect on how he views the world.
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++ Breakout session | 4pm | Day 1 | Sunday 18 June
Simon Devitt ( b.1973) is a photographer born on a bed of pine needles to a high priestess. He is based in Auckland, New Zealand. His practice focus is Architecture. As part of his photography practice Simon travels extensively throughout Australasia and further afield. His work is published in numerous national and international magazines including Elle Decor (Italia), Architectural Digest (Germany), Dwell (USA), Habitus, InDesign (Australia), Architecture NZ, Urbis, Interior (NZ). Devitt’s images also feature in many books including Julia Gatley’s Auckland University Press published Long Live the Modern (2009), Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture
(2010) and Athfield Architects (2012). In 2011 Devitt collaborated on a book with Andrea Stevens and published by Penguin, Summer Houses (2011) and in 2013 he launched his first self-published book on the Athfield residence in Wellington Portrait of a House. Simon lectures in Photography of Architecture at the University of Auckland. Devitt has exhibited in both group and solo shows and is currently represented in New Zealand by McNamara Gallery, Whanganui.
Image: International Space Station, Nikon D4, 2014
A CENTURY OF CHASING THE LIGHT
PRICING BOOK NOW! Gala Dinner Tickets............................................................................................................. $170
EARLYBIRD INFOCUS TICKETS ++ General Admission 1 day.................................................................................................................................... $395 2days.................................................................................................................................... $695
++ NZIPP/AIPA/AIPP Infocus Tickets 1day..................................................................................................................................... $295 2 days................................................................................................................................... $495
++ PSNZ Infocus Ticket 1day..................................................................................................................................... $345 2days.................................................................................................................................... $595
++ Student Infocus Tickets 1day..................................................................................................................................... $175 2days.................................................................................................................................... $295
WORKSHOPS ++ The Client Experience for Business Growth – Mark Rossetto Non Member Ticket.............................................................................................................. $95 NZIPP/AIPA/AIPP Member ticket......................................................................................... $75
++ Retouch like an F’n boss – Chris Knight Non member ticket............................................................................................................ $225 NZIPP/AIPA/AIPP Member ticket....................................................................................... $175
++ Living Light Workshop – Denis Smith Non Member Ticket............................................................................................................ $245 NZIPP/AIPA/AIPP Member ticket....................................................................................... $195
++ The Creative Process – How to Successfully Create and Design an image – Lisa Saad Non Member ticket............................................................................................................ $225 NZIPP/AIPA/AIPP Member ticket....................................................................................... $175
!! S E IC R P D IR B LY R A E R O F E C N A LAST CH LIMITED TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE. EARLYBIRD FINISHES MIDNIGHT MAY 29TH
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