Speaker: Mischa Purcell

Friday, July 19, 2013, 9 am – 5 pm (lunch on your own) 

Location: Grosvenor Best Western Hotel, 380 S. Airport Blvd., South San Francisco

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Please read the program description carefully to ensure this seminar is a good fit for your needs.  PPGBA facilitates the logistics of our programs but does not warranty information provided by the speaker/s, and as a small non-profit organization, we do not have staff available for one-0n-one discussion of how this program might meet your needs.

A student may cancel 5 days or more before the seminar with a $20 non-refundable administration fee.  After that date, no refunds are possible.

About the Seminar

Have you heard people talk about projection sales and wondered what they were talking about? Do you wish you could make more from your portrait sales?
Do you own ProSelect but feel overwhelmed by it or never quite get around to setting it up?
Do you use Lightroom for projection sales and wonder why this is any better? (hint, it’s 1000x better!).
Then, this class is for you!

ProSelect is the industry standard presentation software. It’s like Photoshop or Lightroom for sales. If you’re not familiar or not using this program, now is your chance to start and have help getting it set up from start to finish in one day!

We’ll be going over everything including:

• The best settings for preferences.
• How to edit images quickly with your clients.
• Making your price list in ProSelect for easy shopping cart checkout.
• How to show clients your photograph on their walls.
• How to create a custom invoice.
• How to interface with a digital projector and what type to buy.
• How to show your clients image groups and make custom ones yourself.
• How to make custom frames.
• How to design albums in ProSelect.
• How to run your Photoshop actions through ProSelect.
• How to export your images into Photoshop with the optional production upgrade.
• And more!

Whether you’re a current user or considering trying ProSelect, Mischa will show you techniques that will improve improve your sales and streamline your ordering and production processes. Best of all, Your ProSelect installation will be ready to use by the end of the day! Please read below for what to bring with you to the seminar.

About the Speaker

Mischa and his wife Brianne are wedding and portrait photographers with studios in both San Francisco and Sacramento. Mischa has over 10 years of experience including over seven using ProSelect. He is a past president of PPGBA and his awards include PPGBA 2012 Wedding Photographer of the Year and 2012 Album Designer of the Year.

http://www.photomischa.com
http://www.facebook.com/mischaphotography

Please click this link to purchase or to download a free 30 day ProSelect trial that you can use for the class:

IF YOU HAVE REGISTERED FOR THE SEMINAR, HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BRING:

1. Laptop
2. Installed copy of ProSelect purchased or demo
3. Copy of your own price list or products offered for entry into ProSelect
4. A small gallery of images from one session or event to practice with (30-100 images).
5. Optionally also have Photoshop installed with any common actions you use loaded.  Photoshop/Proselect interfacing will be taught and is a valuable part of the ProSelect software
6. Be sure to download any “free resources” on timeexposure.com you want to try.

The Board is recommending this increase for two reasons:

1. To provide additional funding to bring in big name speakers 2-3 times per year.  This will be a push to re-establish our group as the “go-to” group in the Bay Area, increase the value to our current members and also increase the value of our speaker seminars. Our hope is that this could help increase both our membership levels as well as additional income from visitor fees and seminar revenue.

 2. reduce our deficit in the near term (make our reserves last longer).

While we think the increased value from the speakers alone is reason enough for this increase, we are proposing it from necessity. Our current membership levels combined with our current dues and other revenues (Seminars, Four Nights workshops, door fees) leave us about $10,000 per year short of our operating expenses. Our organization’s revenue has been less than our expenses for each year since 2008. We do watch our expenses very carefully, on a monthly basis, and the board does not find any area where our costs can be reduced further. We luckily had a good size reserve ($114k) in early 2009, but after four straight years of large losses, we realized we need to make a major change to halt this pattern so that we can continue to thrive into the future. If we’re able to increase membership and income from speakers, we could to stay at $150 membership rate well into the future. Otherwise, we are looking at needing to gradually increase to $200 per member in the next few years in order to remain solvent.

The board strongly believes that PPGBA membership continues to be a great value, at $150 or even $200 per year. Just one single idea learned from a monthly speaker or fellow member, can easily make or save the cost of the annual dues. With the added values of print competition, seminars and four nights programs, we hope that you also see the tremendous value that PPGBA has and that you’ll encourage friends in the industry to join our ranks.

Friday, October 19, 2012, 9 am – 5 pm (lunch on your own)  

location: Grosvenor Best Western Hotel, 380 S. Airport Blvd., South San Francisco

Click here to register!

sponsored by: White House Custom Color

IF YOU HAVE REGISTERED FOR THE SEMINAR,
HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO KNOW (click on this link)

Please read the program description carefully to ensure this seminar is a good fit for your needs. PPGBA facilitates the logistics of our programs but does not warranty information provided by the speaker/s, and as small non-profit organization we do not have staff available for one-0n-one discussion of how this program might meet your needs.

A student may cancel 5 days or more before the seminar, with a $20 non-refundable administration fee. After that date, no refunds are possible.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO GO TO REGISTRATION/PAYMENT for this seminar

About the Seminar

Secrets of Commercial Portraiture

The first thing we learn from this business is that there really are NO secrets in photography. What Dan CAN offer you are some great ideas on how he creates interesting photographs of people and makes his living at it.

From his New York studio, Dan serves commercial clients specializing in editorial, fashion, and lifestyle imagery. A major part of Dan’s business is photographing people for corporations, publications, and advertising agencies. Dan will share with you how he handles his commercial/editorial assignments and what is important to be successful in this specialty. He will also talk about getting you and your work noticed in that marketplace and how to find and bring in new clients. He will talk about finding your niche in the market and developing a plan to build your portfolio in a way that satisfies your needs and creativity.

Dan will discuss and demonstrate several of his successful lighting techniques from simple one-light setups to complex multi-light setups. We’ll have some live subjects on hand so that you can see him in action; bring your camera with you to this program! Dan will also cover his philosophy on posing and composition.

Dan’s eye for editorial photography gives him a different way of thinking and influences how he photographs seniors; he’ll show you what inspires him and how he uses it for senior clients. From his successful studio in Iowa, he photographs 50+ seniors per year and treats every session as a custom shoot. From the pre-session consultation through his way to handle session times, Dan will review his entire process from start to finish and how his senior sales average $1,800 per client using the perception of increased value and giving clients a choice during the sale.

Dan will also cover a simple, yet effective model program to help boost your business. If you are in a dreaded “creative rut,” Dan will go over ways to get you back to the roots of photography. Or, even if you are buzzing along, doing and feeling great, Dan will give you techniques to help you keep it that way.

About the Speaker

Dan Brouillette is a 28 year-old, self-taught photographer and has studios in Sioux City, Iowa and Brooklyn, New York. He has degrees in Psychology and Advertising from Iowa State University. His editorial work has been featured in ESPN Magazine, TIME, Men’s Fitness, Women’s Health, and many others. He has shot commercial work for the NFL, AOL, Iowa State University, BBDO, and others.

He earned top senior photographer status from the Professional Photographers of Iowa (PPI) in 2010 and was a PPI Top 10 photographer overall in 2011.  He was awarded first place in the Girl’s Senior Folio competition by the Senior Portrait Artists (SPA) in 2009 and Best New Artist in 2008.  He has lectured to PPA affiliate associations in Michigan, Utah, Missouri, and Nebraska. He has been a featured speaker at multiple SPA events from 2009-2011. http://www.danbrouillette.com

Read more about the seminar by clicking here.

For questions about the program, email to julie (at) ppgba.org

please see bottom of this page for a mail in form (online registrants will receive the fastest acknowledgment of payment, mail-in registrants will receive one notification about 1 week before the seminar)

IMPORTANT: if the student name is different from the payee name or credit cardholder OR you are registering more than one person, please send an email (subject line: ProSelect) to info (at) ppgba.org and state both the student name/s and payee name. (You can also specify the student name/s in the “shipping address” if you are using PayPal.)

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OR

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IMPORTANT NOTE: IF YOU ARE REGISTERING FOR THIS WORKSHOP VIA OUR PAYPAL SHOPPING CART BELOW, YOUR ELECTRONIC RECEIPT IS YOUR TICKET THAT YOU ARE PURCHASING TO ATTEND THIS EVENT. A student may cancel 5 days or more before the seminar, with a $20 non-refundable administration fee. After that date (7/14/2013), no refunds are possible.

The credit card transaction will show up on your monthly statement as “Professional Photographers.”

Please read the program description carefully to ensure this seminar is a good fit for your needs. PPGBA facilitates the logistics of our programs but does not warranty information provided by the speaker/s, and as a small non-profit organization we do not have staff available for one-0n-one discussion of how this program might meet your needs.

$79 for PPGBA members by 5/31/2013, $109 after 5/31/2013

$129 for non-members by 5/31/2013, $159 after 5/31/2013.

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Please click here to join PPGBA!

Founded in 1971, PPGBA currently has approximately 200 members, whose primary specialties are wedding and portrait photography, your target market! We are one of the largest local affiliates of the Professional Photographers of America. There are several ways that you and your company can make contact with our members.

Benefits include:

• listing in buyers guide in our Bulletin newsletter (visit www.ppgba.org and click in the lower right corner to see a recent issue)
• listing on sustaining member web page at www.ppgba.org/resources/sustaining-members/
• Ability to purchase at a nominal cost – a set of “snail” mailing labels of our membership
• Discounted advertising in our Bulletin newsletter
• Ability to book a display table ($25) at our annual “sustaining member night” – next event is likely to be 3^rd Thursday in November (not available to non-sustaining members)
• Listing in the sustaining member section of PPGBA’s annual membership directory
• We welcome your press releases that we can use in our industry news column in our monthly newsletter (subject to space availability). Please forward your information to the advertising coordinator at julie@ppgba.org
• Sponsorship of one of our monthly meetings is available for a minimum of $250* (minimum $350* if NOT a sustaining member). Sponsorship helps to us to provide the high quality of programming we present to our members each month. Benefits of monthly meeting sponsorship are:
  • Display table for you to show/discuss your product/service, share literature, and visit with attendees. Please limit literature to your display table – flyers, etc. are not permitted on attendee chairs. (note: Sponsors do NOT address the audience at the meetings; their communication is to be given at the sponsor table.)
  • We have networking (and sponsor visiting time from 7-7:30, then between the speaker and our monthly print competition, there is another break where they can visit with you
  • Company logo will be placed/linked on the meeting web page to promote the program and on the program description page in the newsletter, provided sponsor commitment is confirmed at least 45 days before the meeting.

* Costs can vary, if a “big name” speaker is desired, the speaker may require a higher rate of compensation or travel costs that would require additional support from the sponsor. If you don’t have a particular speaker you wish to sponsor, many speakers come with pre-established sponsorship/s, but please let us know of your interest and we’ll see if we can find a date and an “un-sponsored” speaker who would be a good fit for you.

Friday, July 20, 2012, 10 am – 5 pm

location: Mills College (Bender Room upstairs in Carnegie Hall), 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland

Please click here for directions to the Mills campus
Please click here for campus map showing Carnegie Hall

IF YOU HAVE REGISTERED FOR THE SEMINAR, HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

sponsored by:

Please read the program description carefully to ensure this seminar is a good fit for your needs. PPGBA facilitates the logistics of our programs but does not warranty information provided by the speaker/s, and as small non-profit organization we do not have staff available for one-0n-one discussion of how this program might meet your needs.

A student may cancel 5 days or more before the seminar, with a $20 non-refundable administration fee. After that date, no refunds are possible.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO GO TO REGISTRATION/PAYMENT for this seminar

About the Seminar

This workshop will help you to find your very own best creative path and to more deeply embrace the exciting options available to you in the digital world. Brooke will share her insights about art vs. photography, discovering your personal style, sources of inspiration, and various ways to “read images.”

The class will be a mix of lecture, demonstrations, and hands-on. The day will begin with a presentation of  “before and after” images as well as several guides to inspire you. Attendees will participate in some exercises to get their creative sparks going. Brooke will also talk about business issues and review how you can obtain gallery representation, how to print your images and edition them, as well as how to submit your work to various publications.

After the morning’s classroom session, there will be several different shooting demonstrations. Everyone will have a chance to step in and capture their own image for editing later. These demos will cover Brooke’s techniques of image compositing and combining multiple images to create the effects that have made her a sought-after artist. Attendees will learn about the camera settings that she prefers, composition and why she makes specific choices, and the significant importance of storytelling.  She will show setups that involve levitation techniques, how to shoot “plates” for seamless edits, and using various props and elements to create a dynamic scene.

Two hours in the afternoon will be dedicated to editing techniques, where Brooke will post-process at least one of the images shot earlier in the day from start to finish. You’ll learn how she creates a seamless edit in post-production, as well as various ways to put your own creative stamp on what you’re editing. She will also show a series of previously completed images with Photoshop by peeling back the layers that went into creating the image.

About the Speaker

Brooke Shaden is a fine art photographer living and working in the Los Angeles area. Her passion lies in creating new worlds through photographs. Her vision extends beyond the realm of the camera, creating images that resemble paintings and speak of an era that is not our own. Each image is a story.

Brooke was born in March 1987 in Lancaster, PA, USA. She grew up near the “Amish Country” until attending Temple University. Brooke was photographically born in December 2008 after graduating from Temple with two degrees: film and English. She now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and three cats.

She began creating self-portraits for ease and to have full control over the images, and has since grown into a self-portrait artist. Self portraiture for her is not autobiographical in nature. Instead, she attempts to place herself within worlds she wishes we could live in, where secrets float out in the open, where the impossible becomes possible.

Brooke works to create new worlds within her photographic frame. By using painterly techniques as well as the square format, traditional photographic properties are replaced by otherworldly elements. Brooke’s photography questions the definition of what it means to be alive.

Exhibitions/Awards

Media/Publications

Education

• ’05-’08: B.A. in Film, Temple University
• ’05-’08: B.A. in English, Temple University