The TAPPA Tribune - January 2013

The Official Publication of the Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association, Inc. January, 2013

Tuesday, January 8th Dave Cross

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The TAPPA Tribune January, 2013

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The TAPPA Tribune is published monthly, except December, for the membership of the Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association. Its purpose is to share knowledge and spiritual insight with the photographic industry. The deadline for submission of articles and ad changes is the 15th of the month preceding publication.

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.

TAPPA monthly meetings take place at the Doubletree Hotel, 4500 W. Cypress Street, Tampa (one block east of Westshore Blvd). Members gather for networking at 6:00 pm, dinner at 6:30, and the meeting begins at 7:30, on the second Tuesday of the month.President Lee Burgess gives the gavel to incoming President Benjamin Todd


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Contents2012 Awards and Honors . . . . . . . . 4

Upcoming Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Dave Cross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Club News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Quick Tips for Photographers . . . . 9

Holiday Party Photographs . . . . . 10

Officers/Committees List . . . . . . . 12

On the cover: Photographers of the Year Michael Landes and Chuck Vosburgh

President’s MessageJanuary, 2013

Greetings all and welcome to 2013.

I am very honored to be the President for 2013 of such a fine organization. It was not too long ago that I was a brand new member and was impressed by the opportunities and education that were made available to me through this group.

I know that I have some pretty big shoes to fill… well, actually I do have big shoes but I was meaning that I have some great footsteps to follow. I am very pleased that many of those who made those early steps with this group are still involved and available to assist me.

The beginning of the year is, tradition-ally, a good time for photographers to stop and take a deep breath. The busy Christmas rush is just behind us and the spring shooting isn’t in full swing yet. This is a good time to be reevaluating and reassessing where you are, where your business is, where you want it to be and how to get it there.

We are excited about bringing back the Mini-seminars this year. TAPPA also has some additional ideas about making more educational opportunities avail-able to our members so keep your ears open for coming news.

Dave Cross will be our January speaker and he will be talking about streamlin-ing your Photoshop work flow.

Don’t forget about Imaging USA, in Atlanta, January 20-22, 2013.

Benjamin Todd TAPPA President


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2012 Photographer of the Year

Michael

Landes Michael Landes credits his 30 years of membership in the Florida Professional Photographers Association and its membership for his successes. He is a Master of Photography, a Photographic Craftsman, a Certified Professional Photographer and holds the Florida Degree of Photographic Excellence, the Florida Service Award and the Florida Lifetime Membership Certificate. He has had images included in the PPA Traveling Loan Collection, the Disney Epcot Exhibit and the Photokina International Exhibit. He has over 100 combined salon First Place Awards and over 100 combined salon Merits and has been awarded Photographer of the Year 10 times from the Professional Photography Guild of Mid-Florida and the 2012 Digital Artist of the Year. This is the second consecutive year receiving the Tampa Photographer of the Year Award and the Portrait Category Award. He has also received the Social Function Category and the Unclassified Category Awards. He is currently the Commercial Photography Program Instructor at the Pinellas Technical Education Center in St. Petersburg and one of his greatest joys is seeing his students succeed in TAPPA, FPP and Skills competitions


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2012 Photographer of the Year

Chuck

Vosburgh

Chuck Vosburgh is a commercial and editorial photographer based in Tampa Bay and does assignments worldwide. He is a Certified Professional Photographer, Adobe Certified Business Partner and Comp TIA Certified Technical Trainer. In his 26 year career, Chuck has been awarded numerous awards and honors, written dozens of articles for industry publications and is a regular speaker at industry events.Chuck also teaches photograpic lighting and Adobe Photoshop at the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, the Dunedin Fine Art Center in Dunedin, Florida and work-shops across the US. Chuck lives in his home town of St. Petersburg with his fiancé Pat McGlinchey and their dog Lucky.


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Next Months Meeting isMoney in MaternityDamon Fecitt, MA, CPP

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Dave CrossEdit Faster, Shoot More

Tuesday, February 12, 2013Damon Fietta

Tuesday, March12, 2013Salon Competition

Tuesday, April 9, 2013TBA

Tuesday, May 8, 2013TBA

Coming Events ...Thanks to Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair, maternity photography has become mainstream and can be a lucrative part of your portrait business – especially if you do a lot of children’s photography (where do you think the children come from?). Maternity pho-tography happens all year round so it’s not seasonal income and it’s time sensi-tive so you don’t have clients putting it off till next year like family photos. Just like children’s photography, parents value the new life that’s entering their world and are willing to spend money on this special occasion to capture it! Damon will talk about targeting this market with your website, defining a style, and how to create beautiful im-ages with those magnificent bellies!

DamonPhotography.com

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Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

Member with PayPal RSVP by Noon January 3rd: $30

After the 26th: $35Register online at TAPPA.org

Doubletree Hotel 4500 W. Cypress St., Tampa

Sponsored by Adobe and Westcott

Photoshop is an amazing tool, but as photographers the goal should be to spend as little time as possible in Photoshop and get back to shooting. In this talk Dave will cover some ways to speed up your work in Photoshop, from built-in automation to not-so-obvious speed enhancements. You’ll walk away with key tech-niques that will help you get more done in less time, and that can enhance your creativity (and sales).

Dave will also demonstrate a new product from Westcott that makes green screen photography a very interest-ing choice for portraits, event photographers and even wedding photo booths.

Speaker’s BioFor 25 years Dave Cross has been helping photographers and creative profession-als get the most out of their software. Starting with Adobe Illustrator classes in 1987, Dave has taught Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to thousands of users around the world. He has a Bachelor of Education, is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS5 and is a Certified Technical Trainer. Dave has taught at Photoshop World (22 times), written numerous articles and several books, co-hosts Photoshop User TV and has appeared in many DVDs and online courses for Kelby Training. Dave has a weekly podcast called Ask Dave where he answers Photoshop questions. He is the Lead Instructor for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and runs his own studio/workshop space in Tampa, FL.

Dave is a Wescott Endorsed Pro and is part of the onOne Software Masters program.

Over the last 12 years, Dave has taught Photoshop in every state in the United States, throughout Canada and in Europe, consistently earning rave reviews. Dave is well-known for his engaging style, his humor and his ability to make complex topics easy to understand. In 2009 Dave was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

This month: Dave Cross Edit Faster, Shoot More

DaveCrossWorkshops.com


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2012 Honors and Awards

P R O F E S S I O N A L

Photographers

in alphabetical order:

Connie Avellino

Susan Black

Julie Johnson

Michael Landes

Rick Lewis

Rob Moorman

Kevin Newsome

Booray Perry

Benjamin Todd

Randy Van Duinen

Chuck Vosburgh

There are more than ten names on the list because of ties.

Student of the Year: Liz Kraker

Presidents award Eve Sanz

Scholarship awards: FPP scholarship Amber Wilkes

TAPPA Membership CJ Moment

Shootout America/SPI Kevin Newsome


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So You Want to Be a Rock Star Photographer by Gary Fong

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By Chuck Vosburgh

Gary Fong is best known for his invention, the Gary Fong LightSphere. Before invent-ing the LightSphere, he was a well estab-lished wedding photographer. Now retired from shooting, Gary focuses his efforts on writing and teaching and is an outspoken critic of the new wave of workshops that claim to help new photographers become rich and famous with very little effort or ex-pertise. That’s where his latest book So You

Want to Be a Rock Star Photographer starts.

The book starts with disaster stories from his own experience and gives a sobering testimony that it is not easy to be a wedding photographer. He follows his disaster stories with a series of four profiles of “Rockstar” photographer/instructors. The profiles are for the most part true, with a good measure of opinion and sarcasm and the subjects are given fictitious names. In this section of the book Gary does an excellent job of being very clear about his disapproval without sounding pious or overly critical.

The middle part of the book outlines what has happened to the market in recent years and how to forge a real career in today’s market. This is where the book goes from being entertaining to being a very detailed and realistic how-to book. This is the part of the book where I thought I would lose interest because I am not a wedding photographer and have no plans to become one. Instead, I was educated and entertained and actually looked forward to the next chapter. One thing that struck me is how much of the information Gary gives is applicable to any type of photographic business.

Gary closes his book with three chapters of practical advice, encouragement and a summation of why he believes this knowledge is important and the harm being done by the “Rockstars”. Finally, he closes with advice for the novice, advice for the seasoned pro losing business and why he’s so passionate about this.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.

Editorial

By Chuck Vosburgh, TAPPA Tribune Editor

Of all the people who help in the creation of your newsletter, I’d like to commend Rick Lewis. Rick has the responsibility for what is in my opin-ion the most difficult task – to photo-graph our meetings and events. I’m sure you know what it’s like to pho-tograph an event in less than ideal conditions. Rick does that, and the subjects are all accomplished pho-tographers and friends. He must have nerves of steel. Rick has volunteered to be our Photographer for another year.

Thank you Rick.

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2012 Holiday Celebration and Awards Ceremony


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2013 OfficersPresident Benjamin Todd 813 431-2873 [email protected]

Vice President Melissa Sewell 813 230-7092 [email protected]

Secretary Susan Black 813 230-6472 [email protected]

Treasurer Kevin Newsome 813 968-2810 [email protected]

Past President Lee Burgess 727 724-1022 [email protected]

Directors Constance Avellino 813 600-8152 [email protected]

Carol Hackman 727 867-9254 [email protected]

Rick Lewis 813 767-4685 [email protected]

Christine Reynolds 813 760-0831 [email protected]

Chuck Vosburgh 727 743-1740 [email protected]

CommitteesDelegate Julie Johnson

Membership Melissa Sewell 813 230-7092 [email protected]

Program Lee Burgess 727-724-1022 [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 Mike McCoy 813 245-3320 [email protected]

Newsletter Editor Chuck Vosburgh 727 743-1740 [email protected]

Photographer Rick Lewis 813 767-4685 [email protected]

Web Master Randy Van Duinen 727 542-3024 [email protected]

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