We had a great meeting on Wednesday, April 20th with many awards presented from Focus NY and an informative presentation on ‘Post Production For Competition’ with James Ferrara.

Post Production For Competition with James Ferrara

Join us next meeting Wednesday, April 20th at 5:30 p.m. at La Casa Vicina
1015 Little Britain Road-  where our own James Ferrara, M.Photog, CPP, will be demonstrating what he does in post-production to not only some of HIS images, but yours as well. We encourage all of you to send him no more than 3 RAW images that you would like to see how Jimi interprets them. Feel free to submit past print comp entries, or future ones as well. Send your RAW IMAGES ONLY to jf@jamesferrara.com no later than Tuesday, April 19th by 9:00 a.m. Jimi has quite a skill for making a good image become excellent. He will open up the images in Photoshop and edit them live and talk about what he does step by step.

BIO: Jimi graduated with a BFA in Cinematography and a minor in Photography from the University of Bridgeport, CT. After college he worked in the film industry for 15 years operating the camera on many movies and commercials as well as “Saturday Night Live.” Coming from a filmmaker’s background has given Jimi an advantage in telling a story through still images as well as being efficient with time. He has a studio in Cornwall, NY, is an active member of PPA and PPSNYS. and has won numerous awards in NYS and Nationally. He earned his Master of Photography degree in 2010. His work can be viewed on his website: http://www.jamesferrara.com or on his blog, http://www.jferrarablog.com .

Prepay on Paypal – links below:

Dinner Meeting – Members $27

Dinner Meeting – Non Members $45

Join the Capital Champlain section of PPSNYS for a day of education with
Jim LaSala

Using all our resources, including our hearts to tell our story.

“Street Photography”
• The How’s
• The Do’s
• The Don’t’s
• Telling the whole story
• Street Photography, Photojournalism, Documentary (which one is it)?

Throw natural light into your camera bag.
• Understanding how to use mother nature’s lights to give shape and form to our subjects.

Now What?
• The Capture (It’s not all about the histogram), is it?
• The Import (Pick your poison) Adobe Lightroom/Adobe Camera Raw/Capture One
-They all seem to do the pretty much the same thing. But, do they?
• Raw Post Processing
• More post processing in Adobe Photoshop
• Third Party Plugins(Let’s not over do it). Using Layer Masks(control your wild imagination).
• Painting With Light to enhance and give more dimension to your images.

Black and White Photography
• The unmistakeable power of B&W can bring your photography to a new level.
• How to Post Process for B&W
• What makes for a good B&W
• Understanding Contrast
• SilverEfex/On1/Topaz (which way do I go)?
• Keynote Presentations
• The Power Of Slideshows (bringing impact to your presentation). Haiti/Cuba

Door Prizes
Topaz
Moab/Legion Paper
Cuba/Haiti Prints

Discounts
LiveBooks Website
Spider Holster
Vertus Fluid Mask

Monday, May 23, 2016, 9am – 4pm

Moscatiello’s Restaurant
99 N. Greenbush Rd
Troy, NY 12180

Pricing – Lunch is Included!

**Earlybird Price thru May 1, 2016**
PPA/PPSNYS member – $39
Non-Member – $49

Full Price
PPA/PPSNYS member – $59
Non-Member – $69

Hudson Valley Photography Network is hosting a Spring 2016 Photography Conference on Saturday, May 7 at Aquinas Theater, Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh if anyone is interested. Click on the image below for a link to their website.

Hudson Valley Photography Network – Spring 2016 Photography Conference

Join us at our next meeting on March 16th – Dynamic On-Location Portraits

When shooting on location, we don’t always have the luxury of ideal settings and conditions. So we have to make it work!

By looking at the thought-process in how we set up an on-location shoot, we’ll look at posing and specifically the lighting, whether available light, or additional lighting. We will look at all the factors that have to come together for a successful portrait and a consistent style.

We will discuss practical steps to develop and achieve consistency with your on-location portrait photography.

Bio:

Neil van Niekerk is a world-renowned photographer based in New Jersey, specializing in weddings.

Neil has also presented workshops on lighting, in the USA and the UK and Ireland. In addition to that, he has written several books on flash photography, with another in the works.  He also maintains a website for photographers, Tangents, which is loaded with tutorials.   http://tangents.photography

We had a great February meeting with guest speakers Paul Bernstein, Caryn Benjamin and Owen Kassimir – they shared a great presentation on “How to Get that Merit”. Save the date – our next meeting will be March 16th!

Join us for our February meeting on Wednesday, February 17th at 5:30 p.m. Social Hour / 6:30 Meeting at our NEW LOCATION: La Casa Vicinia in New Windsor 1015 Little Britain Road. Members: $27 ; Guests $27 (first meeting); Non-Members: $40 R.S.V.P. by Sunday, February 14th

Paul Bernstein and Owen Kassimir will be joining us for “How to Get that Merit”. What factors does an image need to earn that Blue Ribbon? Is it technically good enough? Does it have that “Wow” factor to make it stand out? Will it make viewers know the maker is a true artist? Does it tell a story to impress the judging panel? What do the judges look for? How do they base their scoring? Paul and Owen are PPA trained judges and they will take you through the process of selecting the appropriate “WOW” image for competition, enhancing it in postproduction, creating a professional presentation and giving that perfect title to put it over the top. Learn the techniques and procedures that you, as the photographer, can master to increase the odds of scoring 80 or above as well as creating better art for yourself, and higher quality, more profitable work for your clients.

RSVP to info@hvppsny.org by Sunday, February 14th.