TAPPA Tribune - October, 2014

October, 2014

Inside: Creative Compositing Print of the Month Winners Photoshop Tips

The TAPPA Tribune Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association

Contents President’s Message

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Creative Compositing and Special FX

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This Month’s Program

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Lissa Hatcher

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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 9 Print of the Month Social Function

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Print of the Month Unclassified 14 Photoshop Tips

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Committees 18 Board of Directors

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Photo

by Pedro Carillo 2 TAPPA Tribune

On the cover: Photo by Booray Perry

President’s Message

Getting the Job Done!

TAPPA often runs like a well-oiled machine. Occasionally, a wheel falls off, but there’s always someone stepping up to help put it back on. That’s how it works. TAPPA doesn’t run itself, it takes good people like yourself to carry the ball forward.

Volunteering to help run TAPPA is a two way street. You win - TAPPA wins.

The spokes of the TAPPA wheel are as follows: • Salon -assist the competition manager with Print of the Month and Salon • Door Prize - solicit and collect potential door prizes from vendors and distribute them at the meeting • Host - greet visitors and new members at the door and assist them at check-in, and introduce them to current members • 50/50 - sell tickets to raise funds for TAPPA’s Scholarship Fund • AV - Assist the AV chairman in setting up and tearing down TAPPA’s AV equipment each month • Newsletter - Write articles and obtain sponsorship for The TAPPA Tribune • Website - Assist the Webmaster in obtaining info for the TAPPA Website and Monthly Emails • Photography - Take photos of monthly activities for the TAPPA Tribune • Board Member - Meet monthly to make decisions in the best interests of the TAPPA membership All of these spokes are necessary to insure the success of TAPPA as an association, the membership as a whole, and yourself as a contributing member of your chosen profession. If you’d like to learn more about contributing to TAPPA and increasing your value within the photographic community, please contact any of our board members, or me directly, at 813-968-2810.

See you Tuesday!

Kevin E. Newsome TAPPA President

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This 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. After becoming

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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

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 2 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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Next Month’s Program

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 Photogrpher of the Yera year after year, winning many Fujiand 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 leavng behind the traditional world of photography and portraiture. Conceptualizing and photogrphing 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 ery 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 flaoting in water, you had better beieve someone close to her (usually her husbnad) 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 November July 1: $25 7: $25 After the 7th 4th:$35 $35 Register online at TAPPA.org Doubletree Hotel 4500 W. Cypress St., Tampa

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Upcoming Events

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

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 2014: 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: Michael Landes

Print of the Month - Portrait Second Place: Michael Landes

Print of the Month - Portrait Third Place: Pedro Carillo

Print of the Month - Social Function First Place: Booray Perry

Print of the Month - Social Function Second Place: Lou Bedinotti

Print of the Month - Social Function Second Place: Constance Avellino

Print of the Month - Unclassified First Place: Michael Landes

Print of the Month - Unclassified Second Place: Randy Van Duinen

Print of the Month - Unclassified Third Place: Constance Avellino

Photoshop Tips

Provided by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals

Deep Eye Sockets

Micro Control Of Scrubby Sliders

If your subject has dark eye sockets, press Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J) to duplicate the Background layer, then change the layer blend mode to Screen to brighten the entire image. Option-click (PC: Altclick) the Add Layer Mask icon (circle in a square) to hide this brighter layer behind a black mask.

Press D to set your Foreground color to white; choose a small, soft-edged Brush (B); then paint over the entire eye-socket area to brighten that area. Now, lower the layer Opacity until the brightening matches the surrounding skin.

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 Scott Kelby

Bypassing Camera Raw If you have a file with Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) settings already applied to it and you want to simply open that file in Photoshop--bypassing ACR-do this: In Bridge, hold down the Shift key as you double-click on the RAW file. It will open in Photoshop using the current ACR settings. Note: Even if you have ACR set to open RAW files as smart objects, this shortcut will override that option and the file will open as a regular layer, not a smart object.

Provided by Colin Smith

Creating Glossy Lips If you see a shiny highlight on your subject’s lips, and you want to make it look glossier, duplicate the Background layer then change your layer blend mode to Screen to brighten the entire image. Option-click (PC: Alt-click) the Add Layer Mask icon to hide this brighter layer behind a black mask. Press D to set your Foreground color to white; choose a small, soft-edged Brush (B); and paint over those white highlight areas on the lips and they’ll get even glossier.

Provided by Scott Kelby

Provided by Dave Cross

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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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TAPPA Tribune

Lee Burgess

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

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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).

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Register online at TAPPA.org

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