Come join GRPP for a night of merriment and fun at Artisan Works!
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Artisan Works
Street: 565 Blossom Rd
City/Town: Rochester, NY
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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
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(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.
Photos by: Denise Batiste, GRPP Event Photographer
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
Its a template to layout artwork on a printable DVD. Its a simple action in Photoshop that creates a path for the inner and outer circle of a DVD and then creates a new layer with a clipping path to open images or artwork so that it can be centered on the disc. I use it alot when I have clients that purchase the files.
Feel free to share it if you know someone that can use it.
October’s meeting again was full of important information. The 3 C’s – Contracts, Copyrights and Certifications. Patrick Luke also gave a great demonstration on how to build a battery pack for small strobes. For more information on how to build battery packs for small strobes, check out Patrick’s website and blog. http://www.lukephotography.com/
Photos by: Denise Batiste, GRPP Event Photographer
Hi Photographers!
It’s that time of month again ~ GRPP meeting this Wednesday the 14th, 7pm, BookSmart Studio.
Here’s the scoop:
Back by popular demand… the round table meeting format! February’s meeting on pricing for profit was a HUGE success, so we will hold that style meeting again.Business and Ethics:
* Contracts
* Business forms
* Etiquette with vendors
* Copyright laws
* Publishing and model releasesThis will be a true give and take, so bring questions to pose to the group!
If you need feedback on your forms, etc. feel free to bring those too.
Networking and print critique is from 6-7, meeting begins at 7. You can meet up with people before or after at Good Luck and have a drink. Some people bring food/drink for the networking at 6 as well.
Print critique requires up to 3 8×10 images, professionally printed. A great idea is to bring the 3 images you are thinking about using on the GRPP website! Get feedback!
Also, if you haven’t submitted your images for the website, PLEASE do so asap. Here is the criteria once again:
For members: We have 2 requests for images.
1. Please submit 3 images from your portfolio that you feel best represents your photographic services. We, the board, will be choosing the one image from your 3 that we think is the best and this will be your advertisement directing customers to your website.
Each image must be: 925 px x 615 px at 72 dpi
Each image must be: horizontal (OR 3 verticals within that exact horizontal dimension)
Each image must not contain any logos on top…JUST the image.
NO KEYLINES around the images
2. There is currently a slide show going across the top of the website; a banner. We would like you to choose your very best and favorite image which does NOT have to represent you; your name will not be associated with it … we just want to have really really nice images showing at the top to represent our professionalism as a whole. If you’re mostly a Wedding photographer, but have beautiful landscape photos that you shoot on the side and have one you really love, submit that one.
Whatever image you decide, it needs to be: 735 px x 236 px at 72 dpi
It also needs to be horizontal, BUT again, it can contain 3 verticals within that horizontal frame.
NO KEYLINES around the images
ALL IMAGES NEED TO BE SENT TO OUR WEBMASTER, SCOTT CRIST AT:
scott@scottcrist.com (Thank You Scott!!!)
This meeting will be a very important one, so don’t miss it! We will have the information for voting online for next year’s officers as well as other housekeeping info in regards to the new website! (www.grpp.org)
Let us know what you think!
Always something to learn about best business practices. Thank you to Heather McKay for bringing in Jeff Fasoldt, another great guest speaker.
Photos by: Denise Batiste, GRPP Event Photographer
In lieu of sending out paper ballots, this year we will be collecting your votes online. You have until 10/13/09 to cast your vote for next year’s officers. New officers will be announced at our next meeting on October 14th. In case of a tie, final decision will be made by the current board members.
CLICK HERE TO VOTE NOW (you will need the password that was provided to you via email)
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