TAPPA Tribune - September, 2014

September, 2014

Inside: Get Inspired Get Motivated Create!

Print of the Month Winners Photoshop Tips The TAPPA Tribune Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association

President’s Message

Contents President’s Message

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Get Inspired, Get Motivated…

Create! 4 Parish Kohanim

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This Month’s Program

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Creative Compositing and Special FX

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Next Month’s Program

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Upcoming Events

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Print of the Month Rules

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Print of the Month - Portrait

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Print of the Month - Social Function 12 Print of the Month - Unclassified

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They just don’t realize what they are missing

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Lissa Hatcher

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Coming In November

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Delegates Report

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Photoshop Tips

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Change Change is something I’ve become accustomed to. I’ve been doing this since 1986. That means my studio has survived more than a handful of stock market crashes and recessions – one that lasted several years (in fact, I’m not so sure it’s over yet). I’m now in my fifth retail location, and survived the apocalyptic hell known as the “digital transition.”

After an explosion in competition, a dried up family/children market whose thirst for portraits is quenched on a daily basis by their own cell phones, and seeing brides no longer willing to appreciate or properly compensate professional photographers for providing one of the most difficult jobs associated with their big day, I have managed to remain in business.

I’m still here because I’ve changed. I’ve adapted to the change in the marketplace, the tastes and demands of my clients, and done so while continuing to provide quality images and stellar customer service at a price that remains palatable.

Without realizing it at the time, I can look back and see that I reinvented myself and my business on average of every five years. By doing so, I not only gave my business a cosmetic facelift, but I reevaluated the markets I was servicing and identified new markets to pursue.

I believe my longevity is due to my ability to adapt to change, and if I can offer you one tidbit of wisdom it would be to keep your knees bent and be prepared for shifts in the market. It’s a fickle thing, this business of photography. Today it’s all yarn-hatted newborns, tomorrow it’s ducks. I dunno.

See you Tuesday.

Kevin Newsome President

Committees 24 Board of Directors

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by Constance Avellino

On the cover: Photo by Michael Landes

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This Month’s Program

Get Inspired, Get Motivated…

Create!

PARISH KOHANIM BIOGRAPHY Commitment, passion and love to elicit “magical beauty” is the paradigm of Parish’s intuitive philosophy of three decades of photography. Consistently original, diverse, inventive and timelessness are the hallmarks of his photography. His uncommon use of colors, whether vibrant or pastel, as well as multitudes of tonalities in his stunning and luminous black & white images have become his distinctive and unique signature and style.

Parish Kohanim What does it take to find the artist within and create?

Discover the needed inspiration and motivation with Parish Kohanim, as he reveals his versatile and exciting career of over three decades. He’ll share images throughout his successful years in commercial and fine art photography, giving “behind the scenes” anecdotes and explaining what it takes to put a major shoot together and execute it successfully. Educational as well as inspirational, Parish will also share his philosophy and passion about the art of photography. You’ll learn about breaking old habits and connecting beyond the visual sense for the absolute best image-making.

Parish is currently working on a unique coffee table book on Cirque performers and also speaks about their incredible physical feats and their drive for perfection, along with a series of production shots and videos taken during their many sessions.

Come meet Parish’s challenge to see—and expose—the beauty in all things that surround us in our everyday lives, from landscapes and florals to the human form.

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Meeting Details Tuesday, September July 8, 20149, 2014 Social 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Program 7:00 Member with PayPal RSVP

by Noon September July 1: $25 2: $25 After the 2nd: 4th: $35 $35 Register online at TAPPA.org Doubletree Hotel 4500 W. Cypress St., Tampa

During his career, he has worked commercially for many Fortune 500 Companies, IBM, Coca-Cola, DeBeers to name a few and his work has appeared on the pages of Vogue, Harper’s Bazzar, Forbes, Time and Newsweek. Parish has been a Canon “Explorer of Light” since its’ inception in l994 and a Canon Print Master, which consists of a very exclusive group of photographers worldwide.

Parish was named “One of the World’s Top 100 Photographers” in 2011, 2012 and 2013

by Graphis. In June of 2013 some of Parish’s fine art images were part of an exhibit of American artists shown at the Taylor Foundation in Paris, and now the works are in a permanent collection in Barbizon, FR. Parish has an insatiable desire to explore and expand his artistic horizons and he remains true to his approach to simplicity and to the visual dialogue that is intuitive and innate.

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Next Month’s Program

Creative Compositing and Special FX Corey Barker

Learn how to take your images from the camera to a polished concept using techniques and effects used by the most advanced Hollywood designers. Covering everything from extracting subjects to choosing and combining background elements and then tying them all together into a seamless composite.

Corey has come a long way since obtaining his BFA in Illustration from the Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, Florida in 1996. From his first position as a graphic designer at a city newspaper, to 8 years of design and print work for a large format printing and graphics company, to becoming an award-winning designer and illustrator; Corey finally made the decision to pursue his dreams. In 2006, he took a leap of faith by submitting a resume packet to a company he admired when a position became available and because of that leap, instead of being just an attendee at Photoshop World that year, he was interviewed for the position with Kelby Media Group as the next “Photoshop Guy.” When he landed the job it was a dream coming true.

Since then, Corey has been the face for Graphic Design as an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and Kelby Training. He is a featured Instructor for both the Photoshop World and Adobe Max conferences and is considered to be an expert in Photoshop 3-D.

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Meeting Details Tuesday, October July 8, 2014 14, 2014 Social 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Program 7:00 Member with PayPal RSVP

by Noon October July 1: $25 7: $25 After the 7th 4th:$35 $35 Register online at TAPPA.org Doubletree Hotel 4500 W. Cypress St., Tampa

After becoming a contributing writer for Scott Kelby’s CS4 Down and Dirty Tricks, Scott handed the D&D baton over to Corey and was told make it his own. Since that day, Corey has taught thousands of designers and photographers on the Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks seminar tour, and in December, 2011, his first book, Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks for Designers hit the market, and quickly became a best seller. In 2013 Corey released his 2nd book in the Down & Dirty for Designers series.

Corey is also a contributing writer for Photoshop User Magazine, Photoshop Elements User Magazine, an Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert and Co-Host of Photoshop User TV. Kelbyone.com

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Upcoming Events

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

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Parrish Kohanan

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Cory Barker

From the National Association of Photoshop Professionals

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Lissa Hatcher

Sunday, January 12th thru Tuesday, January 14nd

Imaging USA 2015 imaginguse.org

- Size: 8x10.

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

- Three entries per member each month.

- 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.

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Print of the Month - Portrait First Place: Pedro Carillo

Print of the Month - Portrait

Print of the Month - Portrait

Second Place: Michael Landes

Third Place: Constance Avellino

Print of the Month - Social Function

Print of the Month - Social Function

First Place: Constance Avellino

Second Place: Pedro Carillo

Print of the Month - Social Function

Print of the Month - Unclassified

Second Place: Pedro Carillo

First Place: Michael Landes

Print of the Month - Unclassified

Print of the Month - Unclassified

Second Place: Michael Landes

Third Place: Constance Avellino

They just don’t realize what they are missing

By Booray Perry

I’m sitting in a seminar (on a break) on the last day of FOCUS. It’s my second year coming to this convention for the Florida Professional Photographers Association.

When I think of all the TAPPA members who have never come (and the photographers who are members of this group who aren’t in TAPPA) I feel bad because I know that they just don’t realize what they are missing.

Yes, there are seminars on every subject imaginable that will make you a better photographer and more successful business person.

But, there is so much more.

Print competition is incredible, fun, frustrating and probably the thing that will make you better than you thought possible.

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The trade show allows you to talk to so many people first-hand and get answers to any questions you have. When is the last time you were looking at a business website and had a question? Well, at the trade show there’s someone right there to answer your question, and he or she probably owns the company! And I won’t even mention the $200 in free stuff I’ve managed to snag from vendors and door prizes.

But there’s one thing that I think is vital, valuable and important that you never see in the brochure.

It’s the other photographers you meet. Sitting at the bar talking shop with people who are better than you, with more experience, will give you so much. The value of having a large group of friends who have been there, done that is invaluable.

You’re not alone. You think you can do it by yourself, watching videos online and posting to forums and maybe you can but it’s a lot tougher than it needs to be. Everyone in Hollywood will tell you that going to The Academy Awards isn’t nearly as important as going to the after party. That’s where you become friends with Meryl Streep.

Go to the convention next year.

You’ll be glad you did.

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Coming In November

Lissa Hatcher

Lissa Hatcher has been quietly making waves for the past thirteen years of her artistic career with her mysterious imaginings and dreamlike hauntings. Honored with Photographer of the Year, year after year, winning many Fuji and Kodak awards. She has been published many times in magazines, the PPA Loan Collection and PPA Showcase book and has even been honored with a Kodak Elite Award. Her award winning work is highly conceptualized and sentimental with a surrealistic flair. Working as an art director and editor, she finds herself leaving behind the traditional world of photography and portraiture. Conceptualizing and photographing all of her images, preferring to blend pixels and paint in post production. Don’t get confused by impossibility however, only a tiny bit of her work is created in post, in fact it is often whispered that her shoots look like tiny movie sets where characters play out scenes like actors. It’s very importat to understand it’s as much about process as it is the final image, after all many of her images come to her while she’s asleep and dreaming. If a bed has to be flaoating in water, you had better believe someone close to her (usually her husband) will be building that bed! Lissa often feels her pieces are like children with their own stories to tell, which is why on her off time she will be writing short stories and snippets about her little figments. You will never find her repeating herself, choosing instead to create new worlds as she goes along. She would call it “portal jumping”. Lissa is currently living her dream after many military moves and a ton of support from all around the globe. You can find her in Tampa, Florida making thoughts into things in the land of fine art - no so quitely might we add

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Meeting Details Tuesday, November July 8, 201411, 2014 Social 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Program 7:00 Member with PayPal RSVP

by Noon October July 1: $25 7: $25 After the 4th 4th:$35 $35 Register online at TAPPA.org Doubletree Hotel 4500 W. Cypress St., Tampa

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Delegates Report

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.

We had a Delegates and Presidents meeting during FOCUS 2014.

Kevin and I both attended it.

The FPP Board continues to work very hard to get information out to the members. They are looking at Florida Flash as a printed way to get information to everyone and they are thinking about an FPP App that would keep everyone up on the latest events.

Our next Delegates meeting will be on Monday November 3, 2014 after the Fall Seminar – featuring Steve Kozak, in Orlando.

One theme that always comes up at these meetings is information about anyone available for scheduling as a guest speaker. I have given out the information on all of the speakers from TAPPA that I know about so if you are new to the circuit or have a new presentation available let me know so I can pass the word along.

Thanks.

Julie Johnson

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.

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Provided by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals

More Brilliance In The Eyes

Sharpen Tool 2.0

To make the eyes pop, make a selection of the iris (you can use the Quick Selection tool [W]), and then add an Exposure adjustment layer. If you drag the Exposure slider to the right, you’ll get brighter eyes. But if you also drag the Offset slider to the left, you’ll get more contrast/detail. This is a very easy and fast technique if you like to brighten eyes with details.

If you want to do selective sharpening in Photoshop, you duplicate a layer, sharpen the whole thing, and erase the parts you don’t want; but there’s a better way. Select the Sharpen tool (you’ll recognize it as one you used once and never again because of excessive artifacts)--as of CS5, it just works. Make sure Protect Details is turned on in the Options Bar and paint the areas you want to sharpen.

Provided by Calvin Hollywood

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

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

Register online at TAPPA.org

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Photoshop Tips

Set Clone Target Points The Clone Stamp tool (S) allows you to set up to five target points from which to clone, using the Clone Source panel. Just click one of the Clone Source icons (rubber stamp) at the top of the panel and then Option-click (PC: Alt-click) on a layer to set the source. Repeat for each Clone Source icon in the panel. This is helpful when you want to pull elements from different parts of an image or even from different images altogether.

Provided by Pete Collins

Provided by Bryan O’Neil Hughes

Use Dodge/Burn Tools To Fix Selection Edges After you’ve cut out an object from one image, and added it to another, sometimes you’ll see areas of light or dark along the edges that were missed in the selection process. Setting the Burn tool’s Range in the Options Bar to Highlights or Midtones, you can darken the light parts to match the rest of the edge. Setting the Dodge tool’s Range to Shadows or Midtones lets you lighten the dark parts to match the lighter edges.

Provided by Pete Collins

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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

813 245-3320

Lee2810@verizon.net

Photographer Web Master

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Lee Burgess