The TAPPA Tribune Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association

April, 2014

The Salon Issue

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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 ex-perience, 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.

The monthly newsletter, The TAPPA Tribune, fea-tures 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 recog-nized 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

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On the cover: Best of Show by Booray Perry

ContentsWhat are your goals in photography? 2

John Woodward 4

Rock Your Workflow 6

And Then, An Asteroid Struck 7

Upcoming Events 10

Print of the Month Rules 10

Salon Competition - BEST OF SHOW 11

Salon Competition - Commercial 13

Salon Competition - Electronic Imaging 15

Salon Competition - Portrait 17

Salon Competition - Social Function 20

Salon Competition - Unclassified 23

Photoshop Tips 27

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 Chuck@ChuckVosburgh.com 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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Meeting DetailsTuesday, 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

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 cor-porate 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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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.

Mr. Woodward was the photographer for the League of American Theater Owners and Produc-ers.

Mr. Woodward has photographed Heads of State, two Popes, the Dalai Lama, Presidents Reagan, Car-ter, 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 Photo-graphic Instructor [API]

The American Society of Photographers [ASP] rec-ognize John Woodward as an Educational Associ-ate. He received two regional medallion’s from the ASP.

His most recent achievement is becoming a Mas-ter of Portraiture granted by the Master Photog-raphers of Canada. He will also be a lead judge for this organization.

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Meeting DetailsTuesday, 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

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 work-flows. 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 work-flow.

Linda Long, CPP, FED Olyn Long, CPP

The Long’s founded Long’s Photography in 2004 as a part time wed-ding 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 Photogra-pher of the Year. Olyn Long was named the 2010 Tallahassee Photog-rapher of the Year. Both Linda and Olyn were recently awarded their craftsman degree as well.

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And Then, An Asteroid StruckBy Booray Perry

I was shooting a wedding last Saturday at Sunken Gardens. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shin-ing, 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 trig-ger…. 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 start-ed 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. Af-ter 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 overex-posing 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 wed-ding 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 cam-era made it very easy for me to quickly continue to shoot the wedding and worry about troubleshoot-ing later.

The other thing that I’m always telling people is

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 equip-ment 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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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 POM@TAPPA.org 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, April 8, 2014John Woodward

Wednesday, April 23, 2014Gear Up!

mini Seminar with Booray Perry

Sunday, May 4, 2014TAPPA Picnic

Tuesday, May 13, 2014Rock Your Workflow

Linda and Olyn Long

Tuesday, June 10, 2014Image Salon Competition

Tuesday, July 8, 2014TBA

Tuesday, August 12, 2014Light Painting

Randy Van Duinen and Lee Burgess

Tuesday, September 9, 2014TBA

Salon Competition - BEST OF SHOW

Swept Away by Booray Perry

Booray Perry in his own wordsI 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 be-cause 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 pho-tography 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 Pho-tographers 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 Competetion winner Booray Perry

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

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Second Place: Sleeping on a Cloud by Steven Blandin

Salon Competition - Unclassified

Third Place: Hopes of Glory by Curtis Frey

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Photoshop TipsProvided 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 lit-tle 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

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, wa-ter, 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

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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 pho-tographer’s assistant and comes complete with an off-camera-light!

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 plat-forms 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 back-lit 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.

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

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 build-ing with the mirrored windows.

Mystery Lightby Booray Perry

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EDITORIAL

Salon Competition

Photographs by Shiree Beckwith-Funk

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2014 OfficersPresident 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

CommitteesDelegate 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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