Welcome to the Greater Rochester Professional Photographers official website! We are an organization of like minded professionals dedicated to the advancement of the photographic arts in Upstate New York.
On this website you will find articles and links designed to help you find professional photographers for all your photographic needs. Whether you are getting married, looking for portrait work or just looking for some great pieces of visual artwork, you will find it here.
If you are a professional photographer who is interested in networking with other professionals, please join us every 2nd Wednesday of the month at Booksmart Studios, 250 North Goodman Street. Meetings start at 7:00pm with a social hour starting at 6:00pm.
Hahn Photographic will be sponsoring a Photoshop class this month for $199 (Lunch included). The class will be limited to 15 students! If you have ever attended one of Bruce Hahn’s workshops, you’ll know that the folks over at Hahn Photographic put together some very knowledgeable programs. For more details, please contact Hahn Photographic at 585-787-2152 or by email bhahn@frontiernet.net
We have a very exciting announcement to make about an upcoming meeting through ‘Rochester Wedding Artists’ lead by Erich Camping.
He is working on bringing Jason Groupp here and it will be an open meeting to anyone interested.
He doesn’t have the dates available just yet as it’s in the works, but we know that it will be around $100 per person to attend.
Watch the video (link above) and go through their website to see what you think, and if you have an interest in it, please let Erich know directly at : erich@campingphoto.com with a subject line of something like “Jason Groupp RSVP”
Erich will also be joining us at a GRPP meeting in the next few months to share his insight on client meetings which is going to be something you don’t want to miss. If you haven’t joined GRPP yet, you definitely need to consider it for this year…lots of great stuff!
Please let Erich know if you’re interested very soon so that he can start getting the dates together knowing how many people are likely to attend.
Thanks everyone!
Tim Toal has been a GRPP member for 10+ years. He has been an active board member in a “Special Projects” role. He is the owner of TJT Photo.
Q: How did you know you were “successful”?
Tim: Every time I see a published piece with an image I captured in it.
Q: Where do you want to be in 5 years?
Tim: Alive and still shooting.
Q: How did you get into photography?
Tim: I could not become am engineer so the next thing that came real easy to me was photography. I had some cool parents that let me go to RIT for photography not knowing what will happen.
Q: Do you have any formal education?
Tim: I attended RIT and received a Bachelor of fine art in photography.
Q: What has been your greatest achievement?
Tim: In 1992 I thru hiked the Application Trail from Georgia to Main.
Q: How do you stay fresh and creative?
Tim: By attending workshops, test shooting with models and looking at good magazines.
Q: What is the best piece of gear in your camera bag?
Tim: My experience.
Q: What do you wish you knew when you began?
Tim: More about how to run a small business.
Q: Three favorite non-photo hobbies?
Tim: Woodworking, Climbing, traveling with my wife.
Q: Best piece of software?
Tim: Lightroom.
Q: What is the best business tip you have been given?
Tim: You can always stop and come back to a negotiation.
You can see more of Tim’s work and read his blog at: http://www.tjtphoto.com/blog/
THIS MEETING IS FOR GRPP MEMBERS ONLY: We will have membership forms at the door if you’d like to join. It’s going to be a great year and we’d love to share it with you!
February 10, 2010
6:00 p.m sharp
Tim’s studio: TJT Photography, Suite 4-3, 250 North Goodman Street, Rochester. That’s the same building as BookSmart, opposite end of the building on the fourth floor. Enter through the big yellow door on the northeast side of the building, behind Good Luck restaurant.
We’re getting some pizza too!
That’s a grip—not GRPP. Webster’s Dictionary defines the grip as:
grip n. A member of a film production crew who adjusts sets, lighting, and props and sometimes assists the camera operator; responsible for moving equipment such as reflectors, gobos, dolly tracks, etc., about on the set. Confused?
Come join us on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, for a ‘members only’
(GRPP and PPSNYS) program, when Tim Toal and Pat Luke will introduce us to a variety of lighting techniques and review gripping. For those of you who claim that you only shoot in ambient light and you don’t need to know about lighting: you’re basically saying that you don’t care how your subject looks. Remember, ambient light is still ‘light’. You can never know too much about light!
The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 p.m. That’s 1 hour earlier than usual, so mark your calendars now and don’t be late! Our February meeting location will be Tim’s studio: TJT Photography, Suite 4-3, 250 North Goodman Street, Rochester. That’s the same building as BookSmart, opposite end of the building on the fourth floor. Enter through the big yellow door on the northeast side of the building, behind Good Luck restaurant.
Tim and Pat will cover:
Studio and location lighting equipment (purchased and improvised);
Proper lighting setups;
Safety on the set;
Gripping techniques;
Light meter use;
Gray card use;
Portrait lighting: butterfly lighting, short lighting, fill lighting, window lighting, and more…
Bring a notebook instead of your camera. There is no charge for this meeting. Join your fellow photographers and brush up on the important details that will separate you from Uncle Charlie.
**Thanks Tim and Pat for sharing your expertise ~ we hope to see our members come and benefit from this extremely beneficial information from two of our expert photographers!
Date: Wednesday, January 13
Time: 6pm-9pm
Location: Booksmart Studio
http://www.booksmartstudio.com/
Our very own GRPP member, Brent Walton presents…
“We Got Our Kicks on Route 66″
(an inspirational presentation about learning from other photographers)
Come spend an evening with Brent, CPP, as he shares a story of inspiration and education about eight people and their journey along Historic Route 66.
Who says you can’t dance in the middle of the highway?
What happens when you don’t see the “Keep Out” sign?
Who came out shooting when they saw us shooting?
Find out what happens when the only rule-of-the-road is, if someone says, “Stop”, you stop and take pictures.
Find the answers to these and many more questions as Brent takes you cruising down Route 66.
A little bit about Brent:
Most recently, D. Brent Walton completed a term as President of Northern California Professional Photographers – a PPA Affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area, and then moved to Palmyra, New York. Brent is a Certified Professional Photographer and is actively working towards his Master and Craftsman credentials. His specialty is beauty, but he also has a steady postcard and art print business, as well as doing portraits and weddings. His roots in photography go back to the 1960s when his dad was the high school photography adviser.
**Please arrive a little bit before 6pm to participate in the print critique/review…whether you are bringing a print of your own, or are there to listen to the remarks and suggestions made by our critique professionals. We are really hoping to help everyone succeed in this area, and the best way to do that is to branch out of your comfort zone, and submit something. If you’re going to the state convention in March, this is a great time to get to know what the panel will be looking for too!
**And if you’d like to bring some food or drink to share at any of the meetings, please feel free!
…and a grand time was had by all. This year’s holiday party was a rousing success! Kudos to Heather McKay for organizing the event at Artisan Workshops, it was a great end of year party for what was a really good year for GRPP. Thanks go out to Hugh Weldon, Kent and Kathy Cambell for bringing the archives of images and work from the early years of GRPP, also, thanks to Deb Woodard and Denise Batiste for bringing their images to share with us. And most of all… thank you to the folks that attended this year! The Greater Rochester Professional Photographers ranks have grown, not only with some really great photographers, but, some really great people. That was evident by the quality of this years party.
©2009 photo by: the DJ
This is our annual holiday party, so feel free to bring your families! There will be a tour of AW at 7:30!
There will be a best-of GRPP slideshow, other fun games and delicious food from Madeline’s Catering with a cash bar.
Hopefully we will have some awesome raffle prizes and a DJ too.
There is a $10 per person ticket price for current Members and their significant other. $20 for non-members.
We will of course accept your new membership at the door if you are interested in joining GRPP
(A) Artisan Works
Sam DeNoto, a member of the Greater Rochester Professional Photographers (GRPP) for several years, passed away suddenly on August 25, 2009 at the age of 43. He grew up and settled in the small town of Wolcott, NY, where he became everyone’s photographer of choice for weddings, families and high school senior portraits. Regardless of the type of photography session, Sam always tried to have fun and connect with his subjects. We didn’t see him nearly enough at GRPP meetings, but when he did make the hour-long drive to attend our meetings, we were always greeted by a big, shy smile from our big, burly friend.
GRPP has named our annual scholarship to the PPSNYS Summer Workshop the “Sam DeNoto Scholarship”, in honor of our friend Sam, who left us way too soon.
It seems this year has just flown by. I think for most of us our busy season of weddings is starting to wind down. It’s nice to finally be able to sit back and enjoy a Saturday. I want to make sure to say some amazing thanks to people who have made this new website possible. I KNOW how much hard work this has taken and they just can’t receive enough praise for all they have done. Scott, Kristina and Terri have really made this thing sing! If you haven’t gotten those images into Scott yet make sure you do (hmmm, maybe I should take my own advice eh?). I also want to make sure to thank Heather for all the work she has put into the holiday party (details will be out soon!). She didn’t have very much help and I think it’s going to turn out to be an amazing night.
Our final regular meeting of the year will be this Wednesday with Danielle Zielinski. Albums are something we all struggle with and she will help us out by showing us all the samples she has had made over the years. I’m really looking forward to this one. I hope everyone realizes that this year’s programs have really been based on helping the business side of your studio. With the recession and such I think it’s been some very well needed programs. Kudos again to Heather for that.
Well, It’s almost Mary’s bedtime as I write this so I have to go turn off the little red monster and get her into bed. God bless.
Karen Tran,CPP
A Touch of Elegance Photography
by Scott
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