Education - Seminars - Convention
AZPPA Education 2012
June 4 -AZPPA Monthly Meeting - American Society of Media Photographers- Joint meeting
June 25 - Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Training
No July Meeting -
Summer Break
August 6 - AZPPA Monthly Meeting - ProSelect and Photoshop Tips and Techniques
September 9 - Boudoir Training, Learn How to Take Sexy Photos - Danny Rabalais, - A hands-on workshop at Studio ADT, spaces limited.
September 10 - AZPPA Monthly Meeting - Live Boudoir Shoot - Danny Rabalais
October 1 - AZPPA Monthly Meeting - Business Roundtable - “Selling Digital Images” and “SEO & Social Marketing” - Bob Zimmerlich, ClickChick Photography and Amy Fraughton of Photo Business Tools
October 21, 22 - AZPPA Fall Fest - Prescott, AZ - Colleen Miniuk-Sperry
November 5 - AZPPA Monthly Meeting - 8x10 Print Critique
November 18 - AZPPA Studio Tour - PG Photography - Home Studio
December 2 - High School Seniors - Posing, Lighting, and Workflow - Kirk Voclain
December 3 - High School Seniors - Kirk Voclain
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Education 2012
June 4 -AZPPA Monthly Meeting - American Society of Media Photographers - Joint meeting
6PM - 6:45 Networking and Speed Mentoring 6:45 Questions of the Month!
Speaker: Bill Davis - Migrating Toward Motion - Video Do's and Don't for DSLR shooters
Since most modern DSLRs now shoot video and many photo professionals are exploring adding video to their practices, Bill is coming to this joint AZPPA/ASMP meeting to talk about using the modern DSLR to record video
He notes this particular presentation will be kinda loud, full of examples of both video and audio "dos and don’ts" - and should help everyone, no matter their current level of video experience, get better results when switching their DSLR into “video mode.”
Bill Davis has spent the past 20 years producing, shooting and editing hundreds of video, motion-graphics, and audio programs for clients including PetSmart, BMW/Oracle, Leslie’s Pool Supplies, Anheuser Busch/InBev, Intel, GE/CareCredit, and Shea Homes.
Guests attend their first monthly meeting at no charge. AZPPA monthly meetings $45.
Held at HILTON PHOENIX AIRPORT HOTEL 2435 S. 47th Street ~ Phoenix, AZ 85034 Phone: 480-894-1600 Download Directions
June 25 - Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Training
Certified Trainer Bob Coates will be conducting a Training Session in Phoenix, AZ on Monday, June 25, 2012. The class will be from 9:00AM to 2:00PM.
Registration fee only $29 for NILMDTS members and $49 for non-members.
For more information about NILMDTS click here
Lunch will be made available by the airport hotel restaurant and will be available to pre-order the morning of the training for a set lunch charge of $14.
Seating is limited, so be sure to register NOW to guarantee your seat! Registration link
below.
If you are a new member, a member that has not been on a session, or an old member with several sessions under your belt, this session is equally important for you to attend.
Topics that Bob will teach at the upcoming seminar include the following:
Uniform gift we provide to families
Operational process of NILMDTS
Tools available on the Forum
Funding
Working with the media and public relations
Working with hospitals and families
Things we suggest you DO and things NOT TO DO
Session walk through
Lighting techniques
The eight NILMDTS recommended poses
Video demonstration by Co-Founder Sandy Puc'
Editing the images
Bob looks forward to meeting all of you!
Click here to register for this seminar, or to view location details for this event.
Phoenix Airport Hilton
2435 South 47th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85034
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation
training@nilmdts.org Office: 877-834-5667 or 720-283-3339
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August 6 - AZPPA Monthly Meeting
Speedlights and Photoshop Tips and Techniques
6PM - 6:45 Networking and Speed Mentoring 6:45 Questions of the Month!
Photoshop and Speedlights - Best Tips and Hints with the Two Daves!
Join David Weingarten, of Golden Eye Photography, and David Lloyd, as they go over their favorite hints and tips in Photoshop and speedlights.
David W will go over his natural editing, that cleans up the skin, yet still keeps the skin’s texture. He also show some of his favorite tips using Photoshop.
In addition to being a professional photographer, David Weingarten has worked as a retouch artist for his own business and other photographers in the area. He uses a natural retouch technique that makes subjects look their best without creating an unnatural "rubber chicken" appearance. By removing blemishes, reducing lines, and subtle facial sculpting, while preserving the subject's skin texture, he is able to produce beautiful looking results for his clients. David will demonstrate this technique and give examples of how to improve the efficiency of your retouch workflow.
David L does Creative Lighting with Speed Lights. Great photography is a combination of lighting, subject, background and composition. These elements properly combined tell a story and draw the viewer into the image, enlisting the imagination. We are naturally drawn to beauty and the angle of the sun in the sky. As photographers, we should understand light.
Bio: David Lloyd
Very early in my career, I was a lighting gaffer for NBC in Burbank, California. A time when the newly rising stars of Laugh In walked the halls and rehearsal rooms. We would hang, aim and set the beam width of the high wattage fresnel lens hot lights while the set director measured the intensity with an analog incident meter. The TV Cameras of that day were as large as refrigerators and were powered by vacuum tubes.
I later went on to become an Engineer at the Vivitar Corporation, during the seventies when Linda Ronstadt and Star Wars posters hung in the offices of fellow employees. I worked in New Product development in the era when Vivitar owned the patents for the Auto Thyristor and was the king of what has now been termed Speed Lights. Many of you may recall or even still own the Vivitar 283, one of the most remarkable light sources ever developed. While at Vivitar, I had the opportunity to design many electronic flash products and prototypes; some of which have never yet been manufactured.
This evening we are going to explore the use of small light sources to create depth and contour when photographing people. We will set the lights to create traditional lighting patterns, estimate the distance and set our exposure manually with the use of Guide Numbers. We will discover that we can pre visualize, using the mask of the face as a sun dial, to easily create Paramount, Loop and Rembrandt lighting. We will also explore balancing the flash exposure with the ambient light and how to travel light on location.
The use of small radio triggers allows for multiple light set ups easily and quickly. Workshops and individual tutoring available.
Guests attend their first monthly meeting at no charge. AZPPA monthly meetings $45.
Held at HILTON PHOENIX AIRPORT HOTEL 2435 S. 47th Street ~ Phoenix, AZ 85034 Phone: 480-894-1600 Download Directions
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September 9 - Boudoir Training, Learn How to Take Sexy Photos - Danny Rabalais, - A hands-on workshop at Studio ADT, spaces limited.
Member $99/Non-Member $149
Boudoir is back, baby!!!!
Kick *** modern boudoir. Gone are the days of fake rose peddles, candles and
mirrors, you will learn Maxim style, hard hitting sexy, fun and flirty boudoir
photography!
Join us with Danny & Dianne Rabalais of Boudoir Training.com as they show you how to pose and light the classic boudoir session. Next they’ll take it up a notch with different lighting and posing techniques that are simple to replicate in your own studio or on location. This hands-on boudoir photography workshop will show you how to use a variety of lighting styes that will separate you from the pack of typical boudoir photographers. Shooting in pods, with no more than 12 people per model, (and no shooting gaggle, each person will shoot every set up individually), you will leave this workshop with the skills and knowledge you will need to have a successful boudoir business.
You won’t find a more enthusiastic, dynamic, down to earth couple than Danny and Dianne. No more excuses that you can’t be a boudoir photographer because you’re a guy, they will show you how they relax their clients and make them feel comfortable and beautiful throughout their session. "We are very proud of what we do for women of all shapes and sizes, because we make them look, and most importantly FEEL, sexy and beautiful.”
Spaces are limited for this workshop and preference will be given to AZPPA members-only for early bird registration for $99. One month before the program we will open the registration to non-members for $149.
“Over the years I have purchased books on the topic of boudoir, but none of them fit
every need I had. I could see a great pose, but no lighting tips… good lighting instructions, but no pose… you get it, right? Our workshop and books cover just that!!!" Danny & Dianne
PS, we would like to offer our NEW Boudoir & Posing Guide to all AZPPA
members. Use the code "AZPPA" and get $20 off the downloadable book! Go to
www.boudoirtraining.com . This is a 48-page instructional guide with over 175 sample photos with posing and lighting set ups.
Studio ADT **New Location!** 2120 East Sixth Street, Suite 8 Tempe, Arizona 85281
Phone: (480) 967-4555 Directions
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September 10 - AZPPA Monthly Meeting - Live Boudoir Shoot
Danny & Dianne Rabalais
6PM - 6:45 Networking and Speed Mentoring 6:45 Questions of the Month!
Boudoir is back, baby!!!! Part Duex!
Watch Danny and Dianne, of Boudoir Training.com, demonstrate their “Maxim” style boudoir with a live boudoir shoot. This will be a new lighting set up from what they teach during their hands on workshop. Next, see how they edit their boudoir images to make their clients look their best. Finishing with a question and answer session, this is one monthly meeting, you don’t want to miss!!
Guests attend their first monthly meeting at no charge. AZPPA monthly meetings $45.
Held at HILTON PHOENIX AIRPORT HOTEL 2435 S. 47th Street ~ Phoenix, AZ 85034 Phone: 480-894-1600 Download Directions
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October 1 - AZPPA Monthly Meeting - Business Roundtable - “Selling Digital Images” and “SEO & Social Marketing” - Bob Zimmerlich, ClickChick Photography and Amy Fraughton of Photo Business Tools
6PM - 6:45 Networking and Speed Mentoring 6:45 Questions of the Month!
Guests attend their first monthly meeting at no charge. AZPPA monthly meetings $45.
Held at HILTON PHOENIX AIRPORT HOTEL 2435 S. 47th Street ~ Phoenix, AZ 85034 Phone: 480-894-1600 Download Directions
October 21, 22 - AZPPA Fall Fest - Prescott, AZ - Colleen Miniuk-Sperry
2012 AZPPA Fall Fest Outdoor Photography: Wanderings and Wonderings of Watson Lake
• 1:00 pm: AZPPA Fall Fest Begins!
• 1:15 – 3:00 pm: Presentation, “Going Beyond the Cliché: Seeing the Great Outdoors…Differently.” In this interactive presentation, learn techniques for creating unique photographs through pre-visualizing your pictures before snapping the shutter, engaging with your outdoor subjects, and successfully breaking composition and exposure rules to create more artistic photographs.
• 3:30 – 6:30 pm: Photo shoot along the Prescott Peavine National Recreation Trail. Putting the presentation techniques to immediate use, we’ll explore this historical Santa Fe-Prescott-Phoenix Railway route – part of the “Rails to Trails” national project – into the heart of the Granite Dells. A 2-mile roundtrip walk along the flat and easy trail along the southeastern shoreline will reveal sparkling blue waters, impressive jumbo rocks, and perhaps even waterfowl along Watson Lake.
• 7:00 – 9:00 pm: Dinner and Critique Session at Plaza Bonita. Submit up to two outdoor-related images at 10” on the long side at 100 dpi prior two weeks prior to the AZPPA Fall Fest for possible inclusion in tonight’s dinner critique slideshow. Colleen will select a sampling of images to review as the group enjoys a tasty Mexican dinner.
Monday, October 22
• 7:00 – 9:30 am: Photo shoot at Watson Lake Park. We’ll rise-and-shine at “0-dark-thrity” on Monday morning to catch pre-dawn light and the sunrise from a high vantage point above Watson Lake. Expansive views and granite boulders abound! As the sun gets higher in the sky, we’ll focus on capturing more intimate scenes of mirror-like reflections and artistic patterns along the western shoreline. Though the terrain is rocky, easy drive-up access means little hiking.
• 10:00 – 11:30 am: Presentation: “Clowns, Snowballs, & Boats: Surviving as a Freelance Photographer.” Based on Colleen’s experience in jumping the Corporate America ship to join the freelance “circus,” learn tips for selling your work without selling your soul and how to create your own opportunities in the highly competitive outdoor photography industry.
• 11:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch at Prescott Brewing Company OR box lunches enjoyed outside during afternoon shoot?
• 1:30 – 4:00 pm: Photo shoot along the Constellation Trails. Outdoor photography during the mid-day hours? You bet! As we explore this new trail system in the heart of the Granite Dells, we’ll focus on “Managing Mid-Day Light.” We’ll use our keen eyes to pick out effective natural lighting situations for more intimate, isolated compositions and learn techniques for improving upon the natural light through the use of reflectors, diffusers, and off-camera flash.
• 4:30 pm: Wrap-up/AZPPA Fall Fest Concludes © 2011 Colleen Miniuk-Sperry / CMS Photography
Colleen Miniuk-Sperry
As an award-winning, internationally published outdoor photographer and writer, Colleen supports a wide range of assignments for editorial clients, fine art, and stock, specializing in outdoor recreation, nature, conservation, and travel. Her work has been published in National Geographic calendars, the Arizona Highways magazine, books, and calendars, AAA Highroads, Mushing Magazine, Lighthouse Digest, Experience AZ, InsideOutside Southwest, Sonora Es, Smith-Southwestern calendars, and a broad variety of other publications.
In late 2011, she co-authored and published the book, “Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona’s Wildflowers.”
Colleen also leads photography workshops for the Arizona Highways Photography Workshops, Arizona Wildlife Federation, Through Each Others Eyes, and numerous private workshops. As an Associate of Through Each Other Eyes (TEOE), she has participated in cultural photographic exchanges and international exhibitions with Japan and Mexico. Colleen is also an active member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA). In addition, she has been selected twice as an Artist-in-Residence with Acadia National Park in Maine. Armed with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan, Colleen Miniuk-Sperry moved to Phoenix to begin a 10-year project management career at Intel Corporation. As an outlet to corporate life, she began making photographs of the Western United States landscapes in late 2001. In early 2007, she left Intel to pursue a full-time career in photography. Originally hailing from Ohio, Arkansas, and Illinois, Colleen currently resides in Chandler, Arizona with her husband, Craig and cat, Nolan. To learn more about Colleen’s work, book, and instructional opportunities, please visit www.cms-photo.com
• BEST WESTERN Prescottonian: 1317 E Gurley Street, Prescott, AZ (next door to Plaza Bonita), (928) 445-3096, http://bestwesternarizona.com/hotels/best-western-prescottonian • Hampton Inn Prescott: 3453 Ranch Drive, Prescott, AZ, 928-443-5500,
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November 5 - AZPPA Monthly Meeting - 8x10 Print Critique
6PM - 6:45 Networking and Speed Mentoring 6:45 Questions of the Month!
7 PM - It's 8x10 Print Critique time. The Semiannual 8x10 Print Critique is open to anyone! AzPPA members can enter for free, $20 entry fee for non-members
Please review the RULES to speed the Check-in process. Areas highlighted in red are specific rules you need to look for.
It's 8x10 Print Competition time. The Semiannual 8x10 Print Critique is open to anyone! AzPPA members can enter for free. There is a $20 entry fee for non-members.
Entries are accepted from 6:00pm to 6:30pm! the evening of the print competition.
We will have an expert panel of judges that will critique your images, and your images will be projected on the screen for the benefit of the audience.
The main purpose of print critique is to help our members select their best images and give guidance on preparing a print case to enter at our annual state print competition, a PPA Regional, or PPA National Print Competition. As such, some of our rules are a little more relaxed than at a formal competition. Before entering a print into State or National level competitions, be sure the print meets their specific requirements! At the Print Critique, our main goal is to encourage photographers to enter competition and receive the valuable learning experience that is gained by competing. Print critique will help members improve their photography and Photoshop skills, and allow members to earn merits for the AZPPA Distinguished Photographer’s Award.
Prints will be judged under AZPPA State and PPA NAtional lighting conditions ie the light on prints will be f16 at 100 ISO for 1 second. Your Prints should be printed 15 to 25% darker than you would for a client depending on subject matter.
Qualifications For Print Entry
1. Members of the Arizona Professional Photographers Association may enter the print critique for free. A $20 entry fee is required for non-members.
2. Members must be present at the meeting at which they enter prints, and prints must be entered by deadline time. The ‘must-be-present’ rule is to ensure the critique serves it’s educational purpose primarily, and provide awards as a secondary benefit.
3. Entrants must be present to sign the release at registration to permit AZPPA to display meriting images at this and other events, and to use meriting images in AZPPA promotional material (online and/or in print)
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4. Entries are accepted from 6:00pm until 6:30pm on the day of the meeting. The 6:30pm cut-off will be enforced even if you are waiting in line to check-in, to ensure the meeting starts on time.
Print Critique Rules
1. Only 8x10” photographs or any sized albums may be entered. Prints can be traditional photographs or inkjet prints, but to be fair to other entrants, no other print size (eg. 8.5x11”) is allowed. Prints do not need to be mounted or sprayed. (This rule is drastically different to PPA's and AzPPA's Annual Print Competition rules.)
2. The prints brought for judging must be clearly marked with the maker’s name and image title on the reverse, along with the category to which they belong. Illegible handwriting or unreadable fonts are common cause for print rejection! All prints may be entered in the same category.
a. Portrait
b. Commercial/Industrial (Tear sheets may be included to assist judges)
c. Illustrative
d. Wedding Photograph
e. Wedding Album (Social Events) - Any size album accepted
3. A digital jpeg file of the image MUST be submitted along with any photograph entered. It must be sized to 800 by 1000 pixels and be in the sRGB color space. If you have an 8x10 file, an easy way to size your image in Photoshop is to go to File>Automate>Fit Image and enter 1000 for both height and width. Please use this format to title your file - Last Name_Title-Of_Print, eg. “WALLS_Sleeping-Beauty.jpg”. No other file formats will be accepted. If possible, also embed your (maker’s) name in the metadata to assist the Print Critique Chairperson.
3a. Your digital files (up to 4) MUST be supplied on a single CD. Flash drives, memory cards, or portable hard-drives are not permitted because they slow down the check-in process.
3a1. Ensure the ONLY files on the CD are your competition entries. The presence of additional files or folders will confuse the loader at check-in.
3a2. Ensure that your CD-R or CD-RW is ‘finalized’ or ‘closed’. Packet-writing CD-burning software (eg Roxio, Nero, Toast) is often proprietary, and CDs written in this incremental fashion, and not properly closed, may not be readable on other machines that do not have the same software.
3b. For albums, a digital jpeg file of ONE page of the album must be submitted with each album entered, and sized to 800 pixels on the shorter side. Please pick your favorite image to be displayed on screen.
4. The maximum number of prints/albums that a member can enter at each meeting for judging is four.
5. All Photographs and albums must be titled. "No title" or "untitled" is not an acceptable title, and will cause your entry to be rejected.
6. A subject may be entered more than once at the Print Critique. For example, if you photograph a family, you can enter any member in that family in another print. Also, a photograph that was contained in wedding album may be entered in the wedding photograph category. This is drastically different from the State, Regional and National print competition rules. Our goal is to help you select the strongest of your images to enter at State, Regional and National competitions.
6. Prints and Albums will be judged on a thumbs up/down method and will need a majority of thumbs up to receive a merit towards the Distinguished Photographer’s Award. See the table below for merit qualification:
2 judges will require 2 thumbs up.
3 judges will require at least 2 thumbs up.
4 judges will require at least 3 thumbs up.
5 judges will require at least 3 thumbs up.
6 judges will require at least 4 thumbs up.
7. The Distinguished Photographer’s Award is an award that was originally created by the Phoenix Professional Photographers Association. If you established your AzPPA membership by April 30, 2006, your local PPPA print merits have been transferred. If you did not renew by April 30, 2006, any past merits from PPPA were forfeited.
8. You must receive 25 “Print Critique Print Merits” to earn the Distinguished Photographer’s Award. There is no monetary value associated with the award.
9. Judges will be Master Photographers, or have received the APPLE Award from the AzPPA, or have completed a national judging class. In the event that a judge doesn't meet any of the three requirements, they will only be selected upon the approval of the Print Critique Chairperson. Judges may choose not to score prints in which they know the maker of the image, if they feel that it may affect their judgment. Judges may not score, challenge or make comments about their own images, a spouse's image or images made by someone that works for the same studio.
9b. If a judge feels unable to judge and score a print for any reason, they may request an alternate judge, or exceptionally, the Print Critique Chairperson, to vote on their behalf.
10. Prints or albums may only be entered once. Even if you make changes to a print/album, they still may not be entered again in our Print Critique. You are encouraged to send the new print/album to State, Regional and National competitions.
11. The AzPPA Print Critique Chairperson has the full authority to answer any questions not specifically covered by these rules. They may also disqualify entries and remove members from the print competition room if any member acts in an unprofessional manner during or after the print competition.
12. If you would like your photographs back after the competition, please collect them at the end as they will not be stored. CDs will not be returned.
13. The judge’s decision will be final.
AZPPA Semi-Annual Print Critique Rules Revised: DATE 3/8/2012
Download rules
Guests attend their first monthly meeting at no charge. AZPPA monthly meetings $45.
Held at HILTON PHOENIX AIRPORT HOTEL 2435 S. 47th Street ~ Phoenix, AZ 85034 Phone: 480-894-1600 Download Directions
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November 18 - AZPPA Studio Tour - PG Photography - Home Studio
See how PG Photography runs their small studio out of their home. There's nothing out of the ordinary about this space, just a converted bedroom, dining room and loft area. See where we shoot and do our sales and check out our in-house printing. We also shoot in the yard and just outside the door. A great way to get ideas on how to maximize the space in your own home studio! These photos show the 'before' as we are working on a complete remodel!! This will be a studio tour you won't want to miss! 6332 W Fullam St, Glendale, AZ 85308 623.703.9904
December 2 - High School Seniors - Posing, Lighting, and Workflow Kirk Voclain
AZPPA Members only $59 Non-members welcome too only $79
This program centers on COOLNESS, or popularity, in the eyes of your seniors. Yes, seniors have an opinion, and if they don't think your studio is the COOLEST, then forget it, they won't come to you. This ain't your Momma's senior portraits. Get ready to learn, laugh, and love taking senior portraits. Kirk will show you all of his secrets to getting that $2000 average. The senior will love you, and the parents will not stop throwing money at you.
This program will help you look at your studio and your studio operations through the eyes of a 17 year old. It will show you some new posing, backgrounds, and marketing ideas. This program will help you open up your mind to look at things in a new way, a bizarro, backwards way of thinking that will have you running to the bank!
This is a fast paced, motivational program using slides and audience participation. This is a must see program for any who photograph seniors or young people.
Kirk Voclain was born on July 4, 1962. He has a love for photography that began when he got his first camera by saving box tops from a popular breakfast cereal when he was just 8 years old. He photographed his first wedding professionally at the age of only 15. He only charged $100. He learned the technical aspects of photography, marketing, and business by managing a camera store for 9 years.
He married his lovely wife Tammy on February 28, 1987, and opened Kirk Voclain Photography in April 1987. He then quickly grew into the area's most creative and innovative photographer. He became a member of the PPA in 1988 and has hung photographs in both national, state, and regional competitions every year since. He has received countless awards, including Photographer of the Year 1995, Best of Show/Masters Division, Best CPP entry, numerous Fuji Masterpiece Award, etc. He has also received numerous blue ribbons and distinguished print honors. He has had several photographs accepted into the Disney World Kodak EPCOT exhibit. He has had his work published in PPA affiliate magazines and nationally in the Professional Photographer Magazine. He received his Certified Professional Photographer status in 1990. He received his Masters Degree from the PPA in July of 1994 and his Craftsman's Degree in 1995. 2 weeks after his Masters Degree, he received his greatest award to date, his daughter Scarlett.
Kirk has been asked to speak to groups of photographers all over the United States & Canada. Kirk has a motivational style of speaking that will keep you on the edge of your seat. He is a very competent speaker who has won several awards for this teaching and speaking. His style of delivery is both easy to understand and enthusiastic. You will not be disappointed!!
Program held at AT Still University 5850 East Still Circle Mesa, AZ 85206 (480) 219-6000
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December 3 - High School Seniors - Kirk Voclain
6PM - 6:45 Networking and Speed Mentoring 6:45 Questions of the Month!
Kirk Voclain was born on July 4, 1962. He has a love for photography that began when he got his first camera by saving box tops from a popular breakfast cereal when he was just 8 years old. He photographed his first wedding professionally at the age of only 15. He only charged $100. He learned the technical aspects of photography, marketing, and business by managing a camera store for 9 years.
He married his lovely wife Tammy on February 28, 1987, and opened Kirk Voclain Photography in April 1987. He then quickly grew into the areasí most creative and innovative photographer. He became a member of the PPA in 1988 and has hung photographs in both national, state, and regional competitions every year since. He has received countless awards, including Photographer of the Year 1995, Best of Show/Masters Division, Best CPP entry, numerous Fuji Masterpiece Award, etc. He has also received numerous blue ribbons and distinguished print honors. He has had several photographs accepted into the Disney World Kodak EPCOT exhibit. He has had his work published in PPA affiliate magazines and nationally in the Professional Photographer Magazine. He received his Certified Professional Photographer status in 1990. He received his Masters Degree from the PPA in July of 1994 and his Craftsman's Degree in 1995. 2 weeks after his Masters Degree, he received his greatest award to date, his daughter Scarlett.
Kirk has been asked to speak to groups of photographers all over the United States & Canada. Kirk has a motivational style of speaking that will keep you on the edge of your seat. He is a very competent speaker who has won several awards for this teaching and speaking. His style of delivery is both easy to understand and enthusiastic. You will not be disappointed!!
Guests attend their first monthly meeting at no charge. AZPPA monthly meetings $45.
Held at HILTON PHOENIX AIRPORT HOTEL 2435 S. 47th Street ~ Phoenix, AZ 85034 Phone: 480-894-1600 Download Directions
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