Tappa Tribune - April 2014

April, 2014

The Salon Issue The TAPPA Tribune Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

What are your goals in photography?

Kevin Newsome

What are your goals in photography? Are you financially motivated (i.e. earning a living from the sales of your images and want to learn how to earn more?), or do you just enjoy the photographic experience, can’t get enough of it, and always want to learn more?

In either case (or any case in between), TAPPA is striving to provide the tools you need to achieve those goals.

The networking and exchange of information between members and visitors - just during dinner alone – is worth more than the price of the dinner/ meeting/seminar.

The speakers TAPPA presents cover the gamut of camera technique, marketing, sales, business, lighting, and workflow, regardless of what your specialty might be.

The website, www.tappa.org, is useful to our Active membership, as it attracts potential clients and adds one more SEO link back to your own site as well.

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The monthly newsletter, The TAPPA Tribune, features useful tips and articles on improving your photography, and highlights the winners from the monthly print competition.

The Competition is an avenue for members to gain valuable feedback on their work, and being recognized for high scoring images is a bonus!

The Mini Seminars are a series of affordable, yet intense, two hour seminars, presented by qualified TAPPA members. All proceeds of the Mini Seminars benefit the TAPPA Scholarship Fund.

Restated for emphasis here… No matter what your goals are in the field of photography, TAPPA is here to help you achieve them.

See you Tuesday!

Kevin Newsome, President

CONTENTS The TAPPA Tribune is published monthly for the membership of the Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association. Its purpose is to share knowledge and insight with the photographic industry.

The deadline for submission of articles and ad changes is the 15th of the month.

Permission is hereby granted to reprint the contents of this newsletter, provided the authors and The TAPPA Tribune are recognized as the source.

The ideas and views expressed do not necessarily reflect the policies of the Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association; they are solely those of the author.

Editor: Chuck Vosburgh 300 62nd Street North St. Petersburg, FL 33710 Chuck@ChuckVosburgh.com 727.743.1740

Advertising: To advertise in the TAPPA Tribune, please contact the editor for rates and distribution information.

Contents What are your goals in photography?

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John Woodward

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Rock Your Workflow

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And Then, An Asteroid Struck

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Upcoming Events

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Print of the Month Rules

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Salon Competition - BEST OF SHOW

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Salon Competition - Commercial

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Salon Competition - Electronic Imaging

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Salon Competition - Portrait

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Salon Competition - Social Function

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Salon Competition - Unclassified

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Photoshop Tips

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Meetings: TAPPA monthly meetings take place the second Tuesday of the month at: Doubletree Hotel 4500 W. Cypress Street Tampa, FL (one block east of Westshore Blvd).

Networking Dinner Meeting

Visit TAPPA on FaceBook

6:00 pm 6:30 pm 7:30 pm

Register online at TAPPA.org

On the cover: Best of Show by Booray Perry

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THIS MONTH’S PROGRAM

John Woodward

John Woodward Master of Photography PPA, Master of Photography MPOC, Craftsman Photographer PPA, Approved Photographic Instructor PPA, Educational Associate ASP, 2x Photographer of the Year PPA, 2x Regional Medallion , Winner ASP, and National Award Recipient PPA. John has spent 40 years producing images for corporations such as Chase, Citibank, Viacom, Paramount, RJR Nabisco, Hawaiian Tropic, Cunard, Hyatt, Unisys and Marriott.

His work in sports includes being the official photographer for the New York Yankees for 6 years, He was director of photography for the Avon and Virginia Slim’s women’s tennis championships as well as corporate sponsors photographer for the Jets, Giants, Islanders, Rangers, the New York Marathon and several others.

John was the Corporate Sponsors Photographer for the United States Tennis Open for three decades. He was Unisys’s photographer for the United States Golf Open.

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Meeting Details Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Social 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Program 7:00 Member with PayPal RSVP

by Noon April 4th: $25 After the 4th: $35 Register online at TAPPA.org Doubletree Hotel 4500 W. Cypress St., Tampa

As an event photographer, he covered the Heisman trophy presentation, the NFL draft, the Emmy awards, and eventually had a headquarters in the New York Marriott Marquis when it opened on Broadway in New York City.

In the world of music he has had opportunities to work with the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi, Billy Idol and Billy Joel.

The American Society of Photographers [ASP] recognize John Woodward as an Educational Associate. He received two regional medallion’s from the ASP. His most recent achievement is becoming a Master of Portraiture granted by the Master Photographers of Canada. He will also be a lead judge for this organization.

Mr. Woodward was the photographer for the League of American Theater Owners and Producers.

Mr. Woodward has photographed Heads of State, two Popes, the Dalai Lama, Presidents Reagan, Carter, Ford, Bush and Nixon and First Ladies Reagan and Bush.

John has received his Master of Photography from the Professional Photographers of America. He is also a Craftsman Photographer. He was a Two-Time Photographer of the Year and is the recipient of the National Award at the Western states Regional Convention. The Professional Photographers of America recognized him as an Approved Photographic Instructor [API] TAPPA Tribune

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NEXT MONTH’S PROGRAM

Rock Your Workflow

Everyone has heard, “Time is Money”, but many photographers are wasting both time and money with inefficient and ineffective workflows. The Longs will help you “Rock Your Workflow” by identifying pitfalls in your studio workflow and helping find solutions. From business administration to shooting, editing and sales, the Longs will give you time saving tips that will streamline your studio and free your schedule to better market your business, give more attention to your clients or just spend time with your family. Whether you have been in business a month or twenty years, a solid, effective workflow should always be refining and the Longs will teach you how to best manage your time and set up a solid foundation for a successful studio workflow.

Linda Long, CPP, FED Olyn Long, CPP The Long’s founded Long’s Photography in 2004 as a part time wedding studio, that quickly grew to a full time wedding and portrait studio. Today, the Longs are known as Tallahassee’s contemporary portrait studio and premier wedding photographers. Together, they photograph more than 300 portrait sessions and 15 weddings each year. Linda Long was named the 2009 and 2011 Tallahassee Photographer of the Year. Olyn Long was named the 2010 Tallahassee Photographer of the Year. Both Linda and Olyn were recently awarded their craftsman degree as well.

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Meeting Details Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Social 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Program 7:00 Member with PayPal RSVP

by Noon May 6th: $25 After the 6th: $35 Register online at TAPPA.org Doubletree Hotel 4500 W. Cypress St., Tampa

And Then, An Asteroid Struck

By Booray Perry

I was shooting a wedding last Saturday at Sunken Gardens. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining, and all the guests were moving to their seats. I had just finished shooting the “atmosphere shots” and moved to the front of the aisle to shoot the processional.

The first person down the aisle was the mother of the bride. I raise my camera, pulled the trigger…. and nothing happened. I did it again. Still nothing. I quickly lowered my camera and looked at the top screen. Everything looked fine except for the aperture number. Instead of showing the aperture, it just showed “00”.. I checked my mode selector switch, I turned my camera off and back on again…… still nothing.

My mind immediately kicked into overdrive. I ran around the chairs and to the back where the bridal party were lined up getting ready to come out.

“Hold the line,” I said to the planner. “I’ve got an equipment malfunction. You’ve got to hold the line and let me change my camera.”

I then ran over to my kit and quickly switched out to my backup body. As I turned to go back to my

place at the front of the aisle I could see that the planner had let the line go. I quickly moved to the front of the aisle and was able to get one picture of the first bridesmaid. I shot the rest of the ceremony with my backup camera without incident.

After the ceremony I went back over to my kit, picked up my old body, swapped my lens and card and turned it on. It worked fine. I started thinking, “what could a cause that happen?” Then it hit me: my lens. I reached up, hit my lens release button and loosened my lens just a touch. I looked at the top of my camera and there it was: 00. Somehow I had hit my lens release switch by accident and loosened my lens which caused my camera to stop working.

It was time to shoot the family groups so I quickly set up my off-camera-flash. I had shot about six different groups when suddenly my flash started to overexpose. It was definitely hot. Very hot.

Again, I started checking all my equipment and I just couldn’t figure out what was going wrong. After about six shots where the subjects were blown out I realized I was in trouble. So, I fell back on my knowledge of photography. My flash was overexposing my subjects by about 1 stop. I changed my

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aperture to 1 stop darker. This brought my flash down to a manageable level. Unfortunately, it also brought down the background which I didn’t want to happen. So, I lowered my shutter speed by one stop, which brought the background back to where it was to begin with.

Now, back right where I started, I finished out the group pictures.

After it was all over I started thinking about what I learned. There are a couple of things that I say to people who come to me and want to learn wedding photography (well, I say a whole lot more than a couple of things) that I think often are brushed aside. One of them is the importance of backup equipment. I see a lot of photographers who do not carry adequate backup equipment and last Saturday was a perfect example of why you should. True, I didn’t actually need my backup camera. My camera was actually working just... fine only I didn’t know it. But having my backup camera made it very easy for me to quickly continue to shoot the wedding and worry about troubleshooting later.

The other thing that I’m always telling people is

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that, despite the fact that we now have a new generation of remotes that include TTL, you really need to learn how to shoot with a “dumb fire” remote. I know that it can be easy to just use the TTL remotes just like you would the flash on your camera and never learn how to do it all in manual.

That is, until suddenly they don’t work right in the middle of a wedding. Having learned how to light without the benefit of the camera thinking for me puts me in a position where I can always fall back on manual if I have to. This may never happen to you and you may never need to do it… But what if you do?

If there’s one thing that get’s hammered into me time and time again when shooting weddings it’s that you never know what’s going to happen.

When things go wrong, there’s just no substitute for equipment and knowledge. If you make it your mission to learn as much as you can about the science of photography and always have equipment that can do the job (and that means backup equipment) then it’s really hard to fail when things go wrong. I’m all for using all the great tools we have at our disposal nowadays but there’s still no substitute for just knowing your craft.

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Upcoming Events

Print of the Month Rules - Prints are to be mounted.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

John Woodward

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

- Electronic Imaging size can be two 8x10 taped together on the back and spread open for viewing.

mini Seminar with Booray Perry

- Three entries per member each month.

Gear Up!

Sunday, May 4, 2014

TAPPA Picnic

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Rock Your Workflow Linda and Olyn Long

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Image Salon Competition Tuesday, July 8, 2014

TBA

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Light Painting

Randy Van Duinen and Lee Burgess

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

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- Size: 8x10.

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- There must be at least three entries in a category for that category to be included in the monthly competition.

- All entries MUST have your name and the category you wish to enter on the back of the print.

- Prints must be turned in before 6:25 pm.

Prints received after 6:25 will not be accepted!

Winners: - Please send your winning files to POM@TAPPA.org for the newsletter as soon as Possible. Deadline for publication is one week after the meeting.

- Name your files by your last name-place-category. For example Smith-1st-Portrait.jpg - Any resolution 1000 pixels on the longest side or greater is acceptable. JPEG format is preferrable.

Salon Competition - BEST OF SHOW Swept Away by Booray Perry

Salon Competetion winner Booray Perry Booray Perry in his own words I had an english teacher who was a photographer and he managed to talk the school into giving him a closet to use as a darkroom. He taught us how to use the chemicals and we cut our teeth on football games and pep rally’s for the yearbook. Did the same thing in High School.

I don’t want you to get the impression that I was the geeky nerd who carried a camera everywhere and was President of the Chess Club because I wasn’t. I was Vice-President. Now I photograph about 80 brides a year and I love it. I still do portraits, headshots, dance recital pictures, birthday parties and basically anything that comes my way. One of the great things about being a wedding photographer is that you have to be able to do everything from portraits to photo-journalism, families and kids....bright sun and dark churches. There’s no other facet of photography that prepares you to do it all like wedding photography.

I’m married to a woman who is incredibly smart and yet unable to figure out that she can do so much better than me (score!). We have two wonderful children, both girls, who have spent countless hours posing for daddy while he tests some new piece of equipment. I play guitar and ukulele. I’m a member of the Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association and won “Wedding Photographer of the Year” in 2012. I also travel and teach wedding photography at other guilds and compete in print competitions at the state and national level. One of the things that keeps me striving for excellence is knowing that my work will be compared to the best wedding photographers in the country. Every wedding I photograph, I’m looking for the next great image. Also, a good piece of chicken.

Salon Competition - Commercial First Place: Hellview Cemetery by Susan Black

Salon Competition - Commercial Second Place: China Grill by Randy Van Duinen

Salon Competition - Electronic Imaging First Place: Trapped in my Web by Randy Van Duinen

Salon Competition - Electronic Imaging Second Place: Menagerie by Michael Landes

Salon Competition - Portrait First Place: Swept Away by Booray Perry

Salon Competition - Portrait Second Place: Void by Max Hunt

Salon Competition - Portrait Second Place: Waiting by Curtis Frey

Salon Competition - Social Function First Place: The Look of Love by Booray Perry

Salon Competition - Social Function Second Place: Beauty Within the Veil by Pedro Carrillo

Salon Competition - Social Function Third Place: Friends by the Sea by Pedro Carrillo

Salon Competition - Unclassified Firtst Place: Who is Next? by Christine Reynolds

Salon Competition - Unclassified Second Place: Sleeping on a Cloud by Steven Blandin

Salon Competition - Unclassified Third Place: Hopes of Glory by Curtis Frey

Photoshop Tips

Provided by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals

Liquify An Area When you’re working with large image files, you’ll notice that the Liquify filter (Filter>Liquify) is a little slow. To counter this, create a selection around the area that you want to liquify before you run it. This will bring only that area into the Liquify dialog, increasing its performance.

Provided by Raphael “RC” Concepcion

Micro Control Of Scrubby Sliders Whenever you see an input box with numbers, hover your cursor over the text next to that box and you’ll see a double-sided arrow. Click on the text and drag to change the values. Hold down the Option (PC: Alt) key as you drag and the sliders change at 1/10 speed. This allows you to get a precise setting. Hold down the Shift key and the amount will rapidly change at 10x the speed.

Provided by Colin Smith

Optimize To File Size When saving graphics for websites, file size is key.

In the Save for Web & Devices dialog (found under the File menu), in the flyout menu, you can choose

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Optimize to File Size. By doing so, you can specify how big you want the file, and Photoshop will take care of the compression for you.

Provided by Raphael “RC” Concepcion

Removing Lens Flare While lens flare can be a nice aesthetic, have you ever tried to remove it? Content-Aware Fill is great for deleting it flare-by-flare. Just make a loose selection around the flare with the Lasso tool (L), press Shift-Delete to open the Fill dialog, select Content-Aware in the Use drop-down menu, and click OK. Also a huge help with smudges, dirt, water, or even a finger over the lens.

Provided by Bryan O’Neil Hughes

See And Change The Selection Area While using the Magnetic Lasso tool, if you turn on Caps Lock, the cursor will change to the brush-size indicator. This lets you see more precisely the area that the tool is selecting from, and you can use the Bracket keys to change its size.

Provided by Pete Collins

Mystery Light

by Booray Perry

I’m going to share a secret with you. There’s a magical place in downtown Tampa where a ghost lives. Not just any ghost either. This ghost is a photographer’s assistant and comes complete with an off-camera-light!

But don’t take my word for it. Here’s an image from that session complete with beautiful off-cameralight on the subject’s face, provided by the Ghost of Tampa.

Allow me to explain, my friends.

I was shooting a portrait session last week at The Glazer Children’s Museum. It’s a great place to work because it has that cool building, a grassy lawn, the river, etc.

Toward the end of the session I moved my subject to the grassy area. They have these wood platforms there where good citizens come to relax and shake off the troubles of their day. I posed the lad and stepped back to set up my off-camera-light when the ghost appeared. I could feel his presence as he moved closer and turned on his light. I stood there in awe as I watched him illuminate my backlit subject! Quickly I whipped out my camera and started shooting, anxious to get some good shots before my otherworldly benefactor disappeared. I never saw him directly, only his face.

I’ve gone back several times since, trying to catch the elusive spirit once more but he only seems to appear during certain times of the day, usually around sunset.

I’m sure that there are those among you who will doubt my tale. Those who will seek to cast doubt on my integrity and honesty. To those I will only say that I am above reproach as I have witnesses to this mysterious phenomenon. Just ask any of the people who live in the big building across the street from the park. They saw the mystery light as well. Ask them! Go ahead! They reside in the building with the mirrored windows.

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EDITORIAL

Salon Competition Photographs by Shiree Beckwith-Funk

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2014 Officers President

Kevin Newsome

813 968-2810

Kevin@NewsomesStudio.com

Vice President

Susan Black

813 230-6472

Susan@Bespics.com

Secretary

Carol Hackman

727 867-9254

HackmanC@tampabay.rr.com

Treasurer

Christine Reynolds

813 760-0831

ChristineR@aol.com

Past President

Benjamin Todd

813 431-2873

Benjamin.Todd@Verizon.net

Directors

Constance Avellino

813 600-8152

Me@ConstanceAvellinoPhotos.com

Lee Burgess

813 245-3320

Lee2810@verizon.net

Booray Perry

813-728-7110

booray@boorayperry.com

Melissa Sewell

813 230-7092

Melissa@DontBlinkllc.com

Chuck Vosburgh

727 743-1740

Chuck@ChuckVosburgh.com

Committees Delegate

Julie Johnson

Membership

Melissa Sewell

813 230-7092

Melissa@Dontblinkllc.com

Program

Susan Black

813 230-6472

Susan@Bespics.com

Salon

Constance Avellino

813 600-8152

Me@ConstanceAvellinoPhotos.com

Door Prize

Amber Wilkes

605 351-5865

ambi57106@yahoo.com

Scholarship

Susan Black

813 230-6472

Susan@Bespics.com

Audio Visual

Lee Burgess

813 245-3320

Lee2810@verizon.net

Newsletter Editor

Chuck Vosburgh

727 743-1740

Chuck@ChuckVosburgh.com

Photographer

Elizabeth Kraker

727 403-1436

LizQueenBee1963@yahoo.com

Web Master

Lee Burgess

813 245-3320

Lee2810@verizon.net

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