TAPPA Tribune - February, 2014
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The TAPPA Tribune Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association February, 2014 Bob Coates Cloud Storage Salon Competition Photoshop Tips
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The TAPPA Tribune Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association
February, 2014
Bob Coates
Cloud Storage
Salon Competition
Photoshop Tips
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
A little history lesson: TAPPA was formed in July of 1996 in my studio’s camera room by about 25 enthusiastic photographers with one thing in common... they loved photography enough to commit themselves to it as a profession.
That train of thought hasn’t changed in 18 years. TAPPA members still love photography enough to call it a profession - full or part-time - it doesn’t really matter, we do this because we enjoy it and we do it because we’re good at it.
Some of us are fortunate enough to pay the bills with it, some don’t really care, and that’s alright too. Photography is for everybody, but if you’re serious about making a real go of it as an occupation, then the place to be on the second Tuesday of every month is the Doubletree Hotel on Cypress. TAPPA is a happening place, and word on the street is that TAPPA membership brings value to the profession.
We’re the largest guild in the state of Florida, and the eighth largest local PPA affiliate in the country. We got there because we bring in great speakers to give great programs, are served great meals by a great hotel staff, and we’re run like a well oiled machine.
I’m looking forward to all that 2014 brings, and I know you are too. So buckle up and hang on tight, because this industry has turned a corner this year and the market is ripe with paying clients!
Kevin E. Newsome President, TAPPA
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On the cover: First place, Portrait by Constance Avellino
ContentsBob Coates 4
Image Salon Competition 6
Salon Judges 10
When Cloud Storage Rains on Your Parade 11
Upcoming Events 12
Print of the Month Rules 12
Print of the Month - Portrait 13
Print of the Month - Social Function 16
Print of the Month - Unclassified 18
2013 Financial Statement 24
Photoshop Tips 25
CONTENTS
The TAPPA Tribune is published monthly for the membership of the Tampa Area Professional Photogra-phers 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 re-print 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 Photog-raphers Association; they are solely those of the author.
Editor: Chuck Vosburgh 300 62nd Street North St. Petersburg, FL 33710 [email protected] 727.743.1740
Advertising:To advertise in the TAPPA Tribune, please contact the editor for rates and distribution information.
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 6:00 pm Dinner 6:30 pm Meeting 7:30 pm
Register online at TAPPA.org
Visit TAPPA on FaceBook
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Bob Coates
Meeting DetailsTuesday, February 11, 2014
Social 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Program 7:00
Member with PayPal RSVP by Noon February 7th: $25
After the 7th: $35
Register online at TAPPA.org
Doubletree Hotel 4500 W. Cypress St., Tampa
I started taking photographs with an SLR I borrowed from a friend for a vacation back in 1983. After successfully manag-ing other peoples businesses for 14 years while photographing on the side, I decided to follow the quote “Do what you love and you will become a success.”
Every day is a new discovery, a new way of seeing and new way of processing images to see my reality come to life. In this business the variety never ceases to amaze me. One day shooting jewelry in the studio, the next day getting images for a brochure, the next capturing a personality and yet another standing in the middle of the desert waiting for the light to get “just so.”
At Bob Coates Photography we “Specialize in not specializing” this allows us to come up with
interesting new ways of photo-graphing subjects. Combining the techniques of different types of photography and uti-lizing the newest software and Photoshop techniques leads to new ways capturing images. People who hire Bob Coates Photography do it not just for the expertise – but for the expe-rience brought to the job.
Bob Coates Photography is based in beautiful Sedona, Ari-zona and available for location and travel assignments as well as studio work, editorial shoot-ing and photographic educa-tion.
Certified Master Craftsman Photographer by Profession-al Photographers of America. Member – Arizona Professional Photographers Association, Na-tional Association of Photoshop Professionals and other photo-graphic associations.
THIS MONTH’S PROGRAM
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Panansonic Lumix Luminary.I’ve been named a Panasonic Lumix Luminary. If you have a photography group I am avail-able for teaching my programs on Fine Art, Marketing, Black and White Art conversions and Personal Projects. These are at no charge to the photo group and are not a commercial for Panasonic Lumix Cameras (but I do love the micro 4/3rds and the Lumix) Get in touch with me if you are interested in finding out more.
Published Magazines and Books:
Caribbean Travel and Life, Cruise Travel, Scouting, Porthole, Realtor, Rangefinder, Shutter-bug, Professional Photographer, Photo Electronic Imaging, New York Daily News Caribbeat, Sign-Craft, Sailing World, Pro-Lighting Series: Nightshots, Pro-Lighting Series: Beauty Shots. Books pub-lished by Amherst Media written by Bob – Photographer’s Guide to Wedding Album Design & Sales and Strategies and Tech-niques for the Digital Photogra-pher.
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Meeting DetailsTuesday, March 11, 2014
Social 6:00 Dinner 6:30 Program 7:00
Member with PayPal RSVP by Noon March 4th: $25
After the 4th: $35
Register online at TAPPA.org
Doubletree Hotel 4500 W. Cypress St., Tampa
NEXT MONTH’S PROGRAM
Image Salon Competition
Procedures & RulesPlease study and follow carefully. Not doing so will prevent judging of your entry. Complete the official entry form. Be sure to sign the certifi-cation.
ELIGIBILITY: Any member of TAPPA in good standing.
ENTRIES: A total, not to exceed 6 images, may be entered by one photographer per salon judging. Images previously entered in TAPPA Salon Competitions may not be entered again. No two images shall be of the same subject.
ENTRY FEE: The entry fee of $5.00 covers one to six entries.If you are not attending the competition, the entry fee is $15. Please pay that evening. If you are not attending but placing entries please let me know a couple of days before the event.
ENTRY FORM: The completed entry form must be done at the time of entry.
The TAPPA Salon Competition will be held at this month’s meeting, This competition will be all-digital. If you need any help getting your files ready, PPA has an online tutorial at ppa.com/competition/tutorials.php.
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ENTRY DEADLINES: Entries must be uploaded onto the website. Go to the TAPPA website and then to: PrintCompetiton.com
The deadline for all entries is 24 hours before the salon.
FILE NAMING: Will be done automatically. But of course you will need to title your entries.
CLASSIFICATION OF ENTRIES: Entries must be designated by the entrant in one of the six (6) cat-egories listed on the entry form. If the chairman feels the entry is placed in an incorrect category, he/she may change the entry’s category. Color and Black and White images will be judged to-gether in all categories.
1. PORTRAIT: This category includes portraits of men, women, children, couples (2 people), groups (3 or more), and environmental portraits.
2. SOCIAL FUNCTION: This category includes social function portraits or candids.
3. COMMERCIAL: This category includes illustra-tive, industrial, architectural, and product photog-raphy. Live models may be used for these entries.
4. UNCLASSIFIED: This category includes ab-stracts, pictorials (non-portrait), animals, figure studies and photojournalism.
5. ELECTRONIC IMAGING: This category includes digital restoration, image enhancement. Entries will be judged for digital, artistic and technical proficiency.
6. ALBUMS: This Category includes wedding albums, story
book and portrait albums. Albums can be from 1
or more makers.
Send ALBUM ENTRIES ONLY, 24 hours before sa-lon, to:
Constance Avellino at [email protected]
IMAGE PREPARATION: Always SAVE a copy of your competition print file before attempting this!
See tutorials at http://www.ppa.com/competitions/tutorials.php
Files must be sized so the longest dimension is 4,000 pixels (20 inches at 200 ppi). Each file must contain an embedded color profile of either sRGB or Adobe RGB1998 and be saved at a JPEG quality setting of 10. Total file size should not exceed 3.5 MB.
File Preparation:Entries must be uploaded to PrintCompetiton.com at least 24 hours before the salon.
All files must have the longest file dimension at 4,000 pixels (20 inches at 200 ppi), have an em-bedded color profile of either sRGB or Adobe RGB1998 and be saved at a JPEG quality setting of 10.
Studio identification or entrant’s name cannot appear on any file within the entry.
File naming will be done automatically. But of course you will need to title your entries when you upload.
Album File Preparation:Entries must be emailed to the Salon Manager 24 hours before the salon.
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All page/spread files must have the longest file dimension at 4,000 pixels (20 inches at 200 ppi), have an embedded color profile of either sRGB or Adobe RGB1998 and be saved at a JPEG quality setting of 10.
Each page/spread file may contain as many images as you desire.
An entry may contain up to 36 page/spread files
Files are to be numbered in viewing order using two digits (i.e., 01 jpg, 02 jpg, 03 jpg, etc.).
All individual files must be compressed into a sin-gle ZIP file. ZIP file must be named: LastName_Al-bum_Title (use _for spaces, e.g. Sewell_Summer_Wedding.zip)
Studio identification or entrant’s name cannot appear on any file within the album entry.
Judging Procedures: Each salon will be judged by a panel of three qual-ified judges using FPP and PPA guidelines includ-ing point scoring procedures.
The score of the three judges will be totaled and averaged for the final score. When a judge’s score varies 10 points or more from the average score, it becomes an automatic challenge and the photo-graph must be discussed and re-scored.
A judge may initiate a challenge at any time.
SCORING: Prints are scored from 0 to 100 as follows:
100-95 EXCEPTIONAL 79-76 GOOD
94-90 SUPERIOR 75-74 AVERAGE
89-85 EXCELLENT 73-70 FAIR
84-80 VERY GOOD 69-0 UNACCEPTABLE
All entries receiving scores of 78-79 are automati-cally challenged and re-judged. On the re-judging, the change of a score is by a 2/3 majority vote of the judges.
AWARDS: Ribbons will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place in each category. Merit ribbons will be awarded to all images scoring an 80 or above.
A Best of Show ribbon will be awarded to the print judged best by the panel of judges.
Send ALBUM ENTRIES ONLY, 24 hours be-fore salon, to: Constance Avellino at [email protected]
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title of Master of Photography and The American Society of Photographers Fellowship Award. In addition, Greg is a member of the prestigious Cameracraftsmen of America, and is a proud founding member of the International Society of Portrait Artists (ISPA). He is currently serving on the Board of Directors for Professional Photographers of America.
Third judge to be announced
Salon Judges
Peter A. BurgPeter A. Burg is sought after as a lecturer, mentor and judge by other photographers. He has received the following degrees, awards and recognition: Master of Photography, Photographic Craftsman, Certified Professional Photographer, Florida Degree of Photographic Excellence, Florida Service Award, Florida Education Degree and Qualified Panoramic Photographer. He is a two time recipient of the Kodak 50th Anniversary Award for Con-sistent Quality and The Becker Award for Creative Photography. He has also been awarded the FPP Past President’s Award for Photographic Excellence, and was the #1 Photographer at the 2010 FPP convention. He has also received numerous Kodak Gallery awards, and several Fuji Masterpiece Awards. He was also the first photographer
to ever score a 100 at SEPPA. He has traveled extensively throughout the US, Canada, British Isles, China, Tibet,France, Cuba and Italy. His work has appeared in Better Homes and Gardens, Builder Architect, Win-ter Park Home Magazine, Fifty Plus, Sun Coast Builder, Bowlers Digest and Billiard Magazine.
Gregory Daniel M. Photog.,Cr., CPP, F-ASP, FDPE, FSA
Greg and his wife Lesa Daniel are internationally recognized for their artistry. Though he is one of the most awarded photographers in the United States, Greg has the utmost privilege of living out his passion every day alongside Lesa in operating their portrait photography galleries in both Indialantic and Titusville Florida. He has achieved both the
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When Cloud Storage Rains on Your Parade
By Chuck Vosburgh, CPP
Backing up files has always been a challenge for photographers and with increases in bandwidth and lower prices, cloud storage is looking like a better solution for off-site backups, but not every cloud has a silver lining.
Recently I switched to a new (to me anyway) online backup service called JustCloud. JustCloud is fast, “unlimited”, the interface is easy to understand and the application works perfectly. And it looks good too! The happiness faded when I discovered that my files were not being backed up, and worse yet I have no idea how long this has been going on. Concerned, I contacted technical support which repiied promptly with an answer that surprised me. Here are a couple quotes from the response:
“Regrettably this is due to a breach of our terms and conditions and specifically our Fair Usage Policy.”
“Put basically, your account has reached our fair usage dynamic limit. This dynamic limit is calculated by taking the average backup space of our top users who have backed up less than 100mb in the last 30 days. Regrettably your account has exceeded this dynamic limit by 50GB.”
I thought it was unlimited! It isn’t now. After I got over my self-righteous indigity, I reasoned that it’s their business and they can do whatever they like. Here’s my one remaining complaint; there was no notification of any kind that things had changed and what’s worse, the app led me to believe all was well. For that I feel a bit deceived.
Who knows how long I’ve been paying for nonexis-tent backups? continued on page 21
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Print of the Month Rules- Prints are to be mounted.
- 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 [email protected] for the newsletter as soon as Possi-ble. Deadline for publication is one week after the meeting.
- Name your files by your last name-place-category. For ex-ample Smith-1st-Portrait.jpg
- Any resolution 1000 pixels on the longest side or greater is acceptable. JPEG format is preferrable.
Upcoming EventsTuesday, February 11, 2014
Bob Coates
Tuesday, March 11, 2014Salon
Tuesday, April 8, 2014Mike Potthast
Print of the Month - Portrait
First Place: Constance Avellino
Print of the Month - Portrait
Second Place: John Paul Kindig
Print of the Month - Portrait
Third Place: Michael Landes
Print of the Month - Social Function
First Place: John Paul Kindig
Print of the Month - Social Function
Second Place: BooRay Perry
Print of the Month - Social Function
Third Place: Pedro Carrillo
Print of the Month - Unclassified
First Place: Carol Walker
Print of the Month - Unclassified
Third Place: Ron Grecco
Print of the Month - Electronic Imaging
Second Place: Michael Landes
Print of the Month - Electronic Imaging
Third Place: Michael Landes
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When I signed up Now
My control panel
Things changeEvidently, the terms had changed at some point. Fair enough, but some kind of notice would have been nice. I can’t say that the web site is deceptive because it too has changed:
Here’s the deceptive partEvery day, my control panel indicates that my files have been backed up successfully even though they weren’t and that I have unlimited backup space even though I don’t. There’s even a little bar graph that shows the miniscule amount of data I have stored. If I had a catastrophic failure at this point I would have been faced with a lot of irreplaceable data being lost. Fortunately, noth-ing happened that required the use of my online backups.
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Things change part twoEvidently, the online backup industry is moving toward tiered pricing based on stor-age amounts and the prices are much higher. The question that remains is at what point is online storage cost prohibitive? For my business, it’s time for me to start taking a look at the alternatives.
What now?Having up-to-date off-site back-ups is vital. Most of the work I produce can not be reproduced in the event of a catastrophe so taking every possible precaution is important. What now?
I plan on asking as many of our industry leaders as I can how they handle the issue of off-site backups and I want your input as well. This is an important issue that needs immediate ac-tion! I will report back soon with my findings.
Send me your comments at [email protected]
Carbonite
Mozy
JustCloud
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2013 Financial Statement
2013 TAPPA Financial Statement
Assets Checking $ 7,348.98 Petty Cash $ 200.00 CD $12,098.06
Fixed Assets Accumulated Depreciation -$1,236.00 Equipment $2,734.50
Total Assets $21,145.54
Liabilities & Equity Retained Earnings $18,328.38 Net Income $ 2,817.16
Total Liabilities & Equity $21,145.54
Treasurer's Statement
TAPPA had a very good year financially. The Board of Directors worked very hard at reducing expenses, but more importantly, Seminar Chair Christine Reynolds and President Benjamin Todd combined efforts to bring the Mini Seminars back, and by doing so, generated over $2,700 for our Scholarship Fund. A large portion of that was awarded at our Awards Banquet in December, the rest, held over for the 2014 Scholarship Fund. The Board is very optimistic about the future of TAPPA's finances for 2014 and is looking forward to another positive year.
Any member wishing to view TAPPA's financial records, may do so by notifying the Treasurer with a 30 day notice, and particulars as to what you'd like to see.
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Photoshop TipsProvided by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Align Multiple Images Opening several similar images as layers in Pho-toshop from Bridge (Tools>Photoshop>Load Files into Photoshop Layers) or from Lightroom (Pho-to>Edit In>Open As Layers in Photoshop) aligns the outer dimensions of the images. To align the contents, select all the layers in the Layers panel, go to Edit>Auto-Align Layers, and click OK.
Provided by John Shaw
Blur Your Selection Edges After selecting an object and placing it into a new composition, runthe Blur tool around the edge of the image. Oftentimes, the edges ofthe selection are too sharp for the depth of field of the compos-iteimage. Set the Strength low in the Options Bar so that you have control over how blurry the edges look.
Provided by Pete Collins
Blend Mode Keyboard Shortcuts If you’re constantly changing blend modes, re-membering the keyboard shortcuts for them is easy. They always involve Option-Shift (PC: Alt-Shift) and a letter (usually the first letter of the blend mode). For example, Option-Shift-M (PC: Alt-Shift-M) is Multiply, -O is Overlay, -S is Screen, etc. Some are different (F is actually Soft Light), but they’re close, and using them, you’ll work a lot faster.
Provided by Matt Kloskowski
Bypass The New Layer Dialog Pressing Command-Shift-N (PC: Ctrl-Shift-N) creates a new layer and brings up the New Layer dialog so you can name it. Personally, I find it kind of annoying and not a lot faster than clicking on the Create a New Layer icon. However, if you throw the Option (PC: Alt) key into the mix, it’ll bypass the New Layer dialog and just create a new blank layer.
Provided by Matt Kloskowski
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Capture Time Make a preset to rename your files in Adobe Bridge or Lightroom based upon the capture date. When you travel, reset the clock in your camera to the lo-cal time zone. This way, all your image captures will match up with your itinerary and there will be no confusion as to location. Just remember to reset the clock when you get home.
Provided by John Shaw
Change Canvas Color The canvas area outside of a document’s bound-aries is gray by default. You can change it by Right-clicking anywhere on the canvas and choos-ing Select Custom Color. Grab your color from the Color Picker that pops up. Beware that color will influence how you see other colors, so that’s why it’s gray.
Provided by Colin Smith
Change Preferences On The Fly Preferences shouldn’t be looked at as a one-time change--you can change your preferences many times a day if it helps you be more productive. Here’s what I suggest: change a preference, do your work, and then press Command-Option-K (PC: Ctrl-Alt-K) to return you directly to the prefer-ence setting you changed last.
Provided by Dave Cross
Changing The Opacity There are a few ways to change the opacity for a layer, brush, etc. Most know you can click on it and drag the slider, but you can also click-and-hold on the word “Opacity” and drag to change it. If you like to have more control, highlight the opacity value and press your Up or Down Arrow key. Add the Shift key to change it in 10% increments.
Provided by Calvin Hollywood
Colorize Your Favorite Commands Do you need every command in every menu for your retouching? You can hide all the commands that you don’t need and colorize all the commands that you use often. Go to Edit>Menus and twirl open one of the menu items. Click on the Visibility (Eye) icon to hide a command, and then on None in the Color column to choose a color for your fa-vorite commands. To see all the hidden commands on a menu, choose Show All Menu Items from that menu.
Provided by Calvin Hollywood
Copy Smart Filters To Another Document Here’s a quick way to copy smart filters from one document to another. Because you can’t directly drag smart filters to another document, drag the smart object that they’re attached to into a second document, and then simply drag the smart filters from the copied smart object onto a new smart object. Then, delete the copied smart object.
Provided by Dave Cross
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2014 OfficersPresident Kevin Newsome 813 968-2810 [email protected]
Vice President Susan Black 813 230-6472 [email protected]
Secretary Carol Hackman 727 867-9254 [email protected]
Treasurer Christine Reynolds 813 760-0831 [email protected]
Past President Benjamin Todd 813 431-2873 [email protected]
Directors Constance Avellino 813 600-8152 [email protected]
Lee Burgess 813 245-3320 [email protected]
BooRay Perry 813-728-7110 [email protected]
Melissa Sewell 813 230-7092 [email protected]
Chuck Vosburgh 727 743-1740 [email protected]
CommitteesDelegate Julie Johnson
Membership Melissa Sewell 813 230-7092 [email protected]
Program Susan Black 813 230-6472 [email protected]
Salon Constance Avellino 813 600-8152 [email protected]
Door Prize Amber Wilkes 605 351-5865 [email protected]
Scholarship Susan Black 813 230-6472 [email protected]
Audio Visual Lee Burgess 813 245-3320 [email protected]
Newsletter Editor Chuck Vosburgh 727 743-1740 [email protected]
Photographer Elizabeth Kraker 727 403-1436 [email protected]
Web Master Lee Burgess 813 245-3320 [email protected]
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
