There will NOT be a February meeting due to the PP of I convention February 10-12.
Hope to see everyone at the convention.
As of February 2012 the price for a non member attending an IPPG function will be a flat $65.00 If you have not joined the guild – do so NOW!!!!! The price increase for non-members is necessary to keep the cost the same for the members and to allow the guild to continue to provide top notch education to it’s members. The cost to join is VERY reasonable – please support the organization and join or renew!
The January 3rd Meeting will be at Studio K Photography – 455 Greenwood Park Drive South, Greenwood Indiana. If you are putting the address into a GPS it is better to use 452 Fry Road, Greenwood Indiana. Our phone number is 317-882-9500 if there are questions or if you need assistance to find us. Studio K has a new facility, but it is rather small. I would say 25 people tops. We are going to split up the training part, we can get 5 or 6 people that are interested in projection sales / using proselect to do sales, and 20 or so in the studio. I am planning to have a live fashion shoot for the studio part. We HAVE NOT CONFIRMED THE FASHION SHOOT YET!! If we don’t do the fashion shoot we will have some sort of live shoot, maybe with some video added in. The studio visits are always amazing, so sign up early, we may have to cap this one!!
The cost for this one is going to be $25, non-members may use the same price as members for this meeting, but remember, February 2012 it all changes for non-members!
It is imperative that you sign up in advance for this meeting! We will not allow walk-ins if we have over 30 registered – there will be no place to put them!!! So if you don’t pre-register you are taking your chances!!
There is no meal choice for this meeting – we will have something catered in. So send me an email at info@studiokphoto.com, call me at 317-882-9500, to register. There is no form to fill out this time – just email, or call, and you are good to go! Use the pay pal button or send a check pay.
Checks go to the new Registration Director
Ed Stewart
3642 North Park Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46205
Phone:317-698-6979 Email: edstewartphoto@aol.com
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The board of the Indianapolis Professional Photographers Guild wishes everyone a great holiday season and a happy and prosperous new year.
At the December meeting I promised to make some changes in the way the guild operates, and one of those changes is to keep the membership better informed, and keep an open line of communications between the members and the board. This message is the first step to a better IPPG in 2012.
The first promise was to fix the website, as you can see, significant progress has been made. For the first time since I took it over, the website really looks good and functions well. We will continue to do upgrades and add more functionality as the year goes on.
The second promise was to find a new venue. I am actively seeking a new meeting facility and will keep everyone informed of the progress. To give us a little more time to get organized, we will be having the January meeting at my studio and there will be no meeting for February. So to all of the members sick of Italian – there is hope for 2012. We do listen, progress is sometimes slow.
We are working on the Paypal thing, I am disabling all Paypal stuff until we get it all back up in place. We will also be adding an option to pay with a credit card – all should be ready for the March meeting, again I will keep everyone informed as we make progress.
We will be posting the meeting information in the next couple of days – bear with us as we get all of the new changes working properly. Also remember the President’s assignment is snow – so pray for a little around the Holidays!
Thanks for all of your support last year – 2012 will be the best year ever for IPPG!
Sincerely
Ken Kneringer
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Good luck on finding a new meeting place. Hopefully this will happen rather early in the New Year- I can’t take the food at the current location.
Marry Christmas and Happy New Year to all IPPG members and their families. Regards, Bill
Our Tuesday December 6 meeting is our Christmas Dinner at The Mansion of Oak Hill, 5801 E 116th St, Carmel, IN. Our special speaker is brought to us by American Color Imaging and Rick Trummer. Read more about our fabulous speaker Michael Mowbray.
Check in will start at 2:30 and our speaker will begin at 3:00pm. We will have a break around 5 for cocktails and appetizers. Dinner will be served and a short business meeting will be held at 6:00pm. Our speaker will resume around 7:00pm. (These times are approximate and may change slightly but we will keep you posted)
We will be MAILING you an INVITATION for this meeting. You MUST “rsvp” with your payment and meal choice by mail. We will be confirming your attendance by phone also.
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Questions? Email or call Robin at rljonesphoto@att.net, 765-617-8825 or Eric Greulich at ergeulich@aol.com, 317-979-7048
Can’t make it at 3:00? Come late! BUT make sure we know you are coming! Hope to see everyone there!!
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Michael Mowbray, M. Photog., was recently named International PPA Gold Photographer of the Year, and Wisconsin Photographer of the Year – first runner up.
Since launching Beautiful Portraits by Michael in 2004, Michael Mowbray has garnered multiple “Best of Show”, Loan Collection, Judge’s Choice, Elite Collection, Kodak Gallery, and Fuji Masterpiece awards for his wedding and portrait photography.
See more of his photography at www.beautifulportraits.com.
Michael is very involved in photography education. His seminars and workshops include:
*Walkabout Weddings:
Equal parts motivational, inspirational and instructional on how to create images that rock your client’s world and set you apart from your competitors. Three to four hours with an option to add on hands-on instruction.
*Flash Dancing:
A full-day of learning how to master your speedlites and use them for virtually ANY type of lighting. The day consists of morning instruction followed by hands-on speedlite work on location with models in the afternoon.
*Non-Tricky Tricks for Tricking Out Your Pics:
A two- to three-hour talk and demo on how to speed up your Lightroom (and to a lesser extent Adobe Camera Raw) workflow while adding creative effects and treatments to your images – without ever touching Photoshop!
Michael also teaches advanced portraiture Madison College. He currently working on a textbook on portrait photography with a companion instructional DVD, and he recently released a DVD on his Urban Chic style of wedding photography.
All of these education materials and more can be found on his professional photographer’s site at www.michaelmowbray.com.
You can find him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/michael.mowbray , become a fan of his photography at www.facebook.com/beautifulportraits, view some of his instructional videos at www.youtube.com/MichaelMowbray1 or follow his tweets at www.twitter.com/MichaelMowbray.
Beautiful Portraits by Michael is a residential studio in DeForest, Wisconsin, where Michael resides with his wife and two children.
WALKABOUT WEDDINGS:
If you are stuck in a rut with your wedding photography or bored by doing the same things over and over, then it is time to clear your creative cobwebs and find a new direction in your photography by doing a wedding walkabout. The term “walkabout” is derived from the spiritual journey undertaken by Australian aborigines to “find themselves”. I’ve applied the term both figuratively and literally to my wedding program. If you are stuck in a rut, sometimes you need to step back, clear your mind and open yourself to new ideas and new directions. Take a little professional and personal walkabout to get recharged. I also literally apply this concept to every wedding that I do: I do a walkabout reconnaissance of the area, looking for unique, unexpected, dramatic, or cool spots to take the bride and groom and create my Urban Chic style of fashion inspired images. These serve to set my work apart from the competition and more importantly appeal to today’s brides. And you don’t need to be in a big city to create this look; the necessary elements appear everywhere, even in the most rural of areas.
So blow your creative didgeridoo and get ready for a walkabout to transform your wedding photography.
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