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Cover Story ........................................................ 8 Last Month’s Meeting .................................. 9 - 10 Print Comp Results .......................................... 11 Board Reports ................................................. 12 New Members ................................................. 13 Buyer’s Guide ................................................... 14
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The Bulletin Staff Editor: Kimberly Sayre, Cr.Photog.,CPP 415/515-6370 Art Director: Lise Smith Advertising: Kimberly Sayre kim@millcottagebridal.com Articles and comments are invited; publication is subject to editorial approval. Editor reserves the right to edit all manuscripts for brevity and/or clarity of content. Articles are the opinion of the author and do not represent the position of PPGBA. No responsibility is assumed for unsolicited contributions. Submissions will not be acknowledged or returned unless they are accompanied by SASE. Deadline is the 20th of the month. Submissions may be shipped to PO Box F, San Mateo, CA 94402, or emailed to kim@millcottagebridal.com 2011 PPGBA Officers and Board President: Paul Tsang, M.Photog.Cr. First Vice President: Mischa Purcell Second Vice President: Alexis Cuarezma Treasurer: Paul Salcido Secretary: Nano Visser Directors: Jeanne dePolo, CPP(‘11); Eliot Khuner(‘11); Joe Valenzuela(‘12); Lori McIntosh(‘12); Robert Ash(11); Ruel Cordero(12) Past President: Marc Benjamin, M.Photog. Cr., CPP
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Committees Audiovisual: Alexis Cuarezma Competition: Mischa Purcell Membership: Jeanne dePolo, Photographer: John Spicer, Jr. Programs: Mischa Purcell Webmaster: Marc Benjamin PPGBA Business Manager: Fred English PO BOX F San Mateo, CA 94402-0018 T: 650/367-1265 fredenglish@ppgba.org www.ppgba.org Golden Gate School Director: Martha Bruce PO BOX F San Mateo, CA 94402-0018 T: 650/367-1265 goldengateschool@yahoo.com www.goldengateschool.org
President’s Message
In order to achieve high scores in print competitions you need to combine exceptional skills with the knowledge of what the judges are looking for. Judges of competitions on the national level have witnessed the change from negatives to digital photography. They see so much that unless your print excites them, they will not award it a high score.
Think outside of the box and be aware of how the world of art has changed. As in design, fashion and hairstyling, the styles that are popular in photography do not remain static. These changes will date your work if you don’t keep up. Even photographers who do not enter competitions must move forward to please their customers. There is money to be made with young customers, not just with the baby boomers. Keep in mind that you still need a good technical foundation to be able to modernize your work. Without it you are just another fish in the ocean of photographers. I strongly recommend this before attempting to use the journalism style.
Remember, in this ever changing world, you must continue to evolve to avoid being left behind. If you maintain the status quo waiting for things to come to you, they won’t. To succeed, you must continuously update yourself and your business. My business picked up a little because I did not slack off during my slow period. I changed my displays often, used the extra time to update my skills by trying new methods and contacted my former customers. I also came to the meetings early and spent time networking with other photographers. It is a great way to brainstorm and get new ideas to grow your business.
Mission Statement PPGBA exists to support and encourage the professional, artistic and educational growth of its members; to promote public awareness of the profession; and to provide a forum of fellowship and exchange of ideas in an open and friendly atmosphere.
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This Month’s Meeting Secrets of Great Portrait Photography
Celebrity portrait photographer Brian Smith will share the lessons he’s learned over the past 30 years capturing the faces of the famous, infamous and un-famous as a top magazine portrait photographer. He will discuss his approach to editorial and commercial assignments from concept to final images, detailing his approach to lighting and problem-solving on productions small and large and share his secrets of working quickly to capture the personality of the people he photographs. Smith will also discuss how personal projects can be used to generate editorial and commercial assignments and allow your personal style to evolve and grow while generating assignments you love to shoot.
About Brian:
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Smith is the luckiest guy on the planet. He’s told Bill Gates exactly what to do for an entire hour, had an exhibit at the Library of Congress, dined with the President and 3,000 of their closest friends, had cupcakes with Anne Hathaway, gotten drunk with George Clooney and married the most beautiful woman he ever laid eyes on…
For the past 30 years, his bold, graphic portraits of famous celebrities, athletes and executives have been used in advertising, by corporations and have graced the covers and pages of hundreds of magazines. His first magazine photograph appeared in LIFE Magazine when Smith was a 20-yearold journalism student at the University of Missouri. Five years later, Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for his photographs of the Los Angeles Olympic Games. He was again a finalist for the Pulitzer for his photographs of Haiti in Turmoil. His photograph of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the Seoul Olympics won first place in both World Press Photo and the Pictures of the Year competition and he was named as one of American PHOTO magazine’s New Faces in Photography. continued next page
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This Month's Program His work has been exhibited at the Library of Congress and the Aperture Gallery. Tim Daly, Dana Delany, Alfre Woodard, Matthew Modine, Kerry Washington and Barry Levinson of The Creative Coalition took Smith’s ‘Art & Soul’ project to Congress and the White House in support of increased funding for the Arts.
Smith has been featured on the cover of the Photo District News Portraiture Issue and the Communication Arts Photography Annual, American PHOTO, Popular Photography, Digital Photo Pro,
Rangefinder and After/Capture magazines. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines including Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Time, Forbes, New York Times Magazine and British GQ.
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He is a Sony Artisan of Imagery and X-Rite Coloratti and has appeared on Fine Living Channel teaching a Little League Mom how to become a Big League Sports Photographer. Brian Smith is President of Editorial Photographers, an organization of over 1500 of the top magazine photographers and newspaper photojournalists from around the world and frequently a speaker at photography seminars and to photo students at colleges, universities and art institutes around the country. To see more of Brian’s work, go to: http://briansmith.com/
Monthly Meeting
Thursday, July 21st at the Best Western/Grosvenor Hotel, 380‑S. Airport Blvd., S. San Francisco. For directions, please call the hotel at: (650) 873-3200 or go to: www.grosvenorsfo.com/hotel_maps.htm
Meeting Reminders:
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• Program begins at 7:30 • Please wear your name badge. • Competition entry deadline is 7:45 • Networking and hors d’oeuvres begin at 7:00 • Monthly print judging follows speaker/s presentation
Please no phones/ beepers ringing or conversations during the speaker/s presentation. Please be courteous and step outside the meeting room.
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Cover Story On this month’s cover was highest scoring print from the Illustrative catagory and print of the month for June titled, Welcome to the Hive. It was created by Joe Ercoli. Joe tells us, “I captured this image on a late evening at city hall in San Jose. It’s a combination of both HDR and blended images to balance the required exposures for all of the lights around the building and to retain the texture of the concrete. The building gave me a sci-fi sense of wonderment when I looked at it and I imagined it being a building with some other futuristic and possibly Orwellian function, hence the name, “Welcome to the Hive.”
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Last Month’s Meeting June 2011 By John Spicer, Jr.
The PPGBA monthly meeting guest speaker was Don MacGregor. Don gave insight into how he built his studio business around families and family portraiture. He feels that becoming the family photographer for their clients has allowed them to create a relationship with their clients that keeps them coming back and offers very strong referrals. Continued next page
Photos provided courtesy of: John Spicer, Jr.
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and create a compressed group. The skills he showed and practiced will allow you to put groups together fast and most importantly‌with individual representation.
Photos provided courtesy of: John Spicer, Jr.
He discussed studio design, family groups and group posing, lighting and business building. Most photographers today pose groups without thought to individual people
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Last Month’s Print Competition Results Commercial
Print competition was held at the June 16h PPGBA meeting.
Alexandre Reginster - Dear Speedster with a score of 80
The judges were: Don MacGregor, Michael Gan and Mike
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Mischa Purcell - Grandpa’s Angel with a score of 78
The print handlers were: David English and Leland Wong
Portrait Alexis Cuarezma - 3 is a Crowd with a score of 83
These are the winning prints for June by catagory.
Illustrated The print of the month was awarded to Joe Ercoli for, “Welcome to the Hive” with a score of 86.
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Photo provided courtesy of: John Spicer, Jr.
Contributed by Alexis Cuarezma
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May Board Report On May 19th the Professional
ACTION ITEM: by June, July
Next Board meeting scheduled
Photographers of the Greater Bay
at latest, we need a nominating
for June 16, 2011, 4 P.M. at the
Area Board of Directors meeting
committee chair. Passed
Grosvenor Hotel.
was held at the Grosvenor Hotel,
MOTION: to reestablish Julie
South San Francisco.
Olson as (often virtual) COO at
MOTION to adjust the
a rate of $4800/annum with $700
PPGBA door fee to $25 starting
in reserve for on-site assistance if
with June 2011 meeting. Passed
needed, by M. Benjamin. Passed
June Board Report On June 16, the Professional
as sub-contractor “Assistant
Photographers of the Greater Bay
Manager� with payments as
Area Board of Directors meeting
budgeted on an occasional, as-
was held at the Grosvenor Hotel,
needed basis. Passed
South San Francisco. MOTION: Retain S. deVaughn
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MOTION: To make ASMP and
MOTION: That ALL students pay $15 as door fee. Passed Next Board meeting scheduled for July 21, 2011, 4 P.M. at the Grosvenor Hotel.
APA door fees $15. Passed
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June New PPGBA Members Connie Barding APW* The Photographic Art Studio Tracy 209/601-7352
Alisa Haller APW* Alisa Haller Photography Oakland 510/333-2473
cbarding@msn.com www.thephotographicartstudio.com
alisa@ahallerphoto.com www.ahallerphoto.com
Florence Catania APC* Florence Catania Photography Palo Alto 650/464-2933
Julian Ho AS* San Jose 408/858-0436
Bobby Saephan APW* Oakland 510/774-6062 saephanphotography@gmail.com www.saephanphotography.com
Frank Silva APWC* Oakland 510/407-1817 flsilva17@sbcglobal.net
minhdung00@yahoo.com
info@florencecatania.com www.florencecatania.com
Sherry Lambert APW* Sherry Lambert Photography Sebastopol 707/480-4684
Niall Cytryn APC* Niall David Photography San Francisco 415/878-3983
Vuong Ta AS* San Jose 408/220-4533 tathucvuong@gmail.com
sherbert10@sbcglobal.net www.sherrylambertphotography.com
niall@nialldavid.com
Jan Lundberg APW* A-List Photos San Francisco 415/974-1771
Seth Dickerman SUS* Dickerman Prints San Francisco 415/252-1300
jan@alistphotos.com www.alistphotos.com
greg@dickermanprints.com www.dickermanprints.com
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Buyer’s Guide Albums, Frames & Mats
Equipment & Supplies
Fine Art Albums 646-416-2386 www.fineartalbums.com
Keeble & Shuchat 650/327-8515 www.kspphoto.com
J. Orr Moulding & Chop 510/483-1848 www.orrmoulding.com
Photo Sales West 415/420-5278 aepsw@att.net
Philip Mauer PhotoMount 800/321-3686 www.philipmauer.com
Workshops Golden Gate School of Professional Photography 650/367-1265 www.goldengateschool.org
Photo Labs
Pixido 800/799-0557 www.pixido.com
Reprint Mint/Lamiframe 510/352-1400 www.reprintmint.com www.lamiframe.com
Bay Photo Lab 800/435-6686 www.bayphoto.com Dickerman Prints 415/252-1300 www.DickermanPrints.com Imagecapsule.com 408/625-7903 www.imagecapsule.com
Please favor our sustaining members and major advertisers with your business. They have shown their support for PPGBA! PPGBA does not recommend or warranty the products/services of any vendor, supplier, or manufacturer.
Action Zone Looking for photography events and educational opportunities in the Bay Area and beyond? Here are some links to our fellow organizations with programs and seminars all over the area.
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ASMP APA PPSCV PPSV PPRE NCPP
www.asmpnorcal.org www.apasf.com www.ppscv.com http://ppsvonline.homestead.com/ www.pprepro.com www.ncpponline.com
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