ThirstRelief International Mentor Auction

By azppablog | Published: February 14, 2010
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Thirst Relief International Mentor Auction

http://thirstrelief.shootq.com is the URL to get started checking out the available mentors to bid on to raise money for Thirst Relief.

AZPPA’s Bob Coates is participating. You can check out his info on the ThirstRelief web site or see the details below…

Grow as a photographer while saving lives!

Bob Coates is participating in the 2010 ThirstRelief Mentor Auction. Our mission is to save lives by tapping into the incredible talent and generosity of the photo industry.

Did you know that every 15 seconds someone dies of a waterborne illness? That’s 5760 people every day! You can help. Bid on a mentoring session with your favorite photographer! 100% of the proceeds directly benefit Thirst Relief. Add to that the incredible wisdom and talent that is being shared in the one-on-one mentor sessions and you have better and more successful photographers! It’s truly a win win for everyone involved!

About Coates and his mentor auction
Marketing is my mantra. Based in Sedona Arizona Bob Coates Photography is a Successful Photography business that specializes in not specializing. Photographer, author of several books and many magazine articles, industry speaker, business coach and mentor. I look forward to sharing knowledge to raise funds for Thirst Relief International. http://bcphotography.com http://bcweddingphoto.com http://sedonavista.com

Bob’s mentor session can take place at WPPI 2010 (Las Vegas), in his hometown of Sedona, AZ OR on the phone.

Also included with Bob’s auction:
Wedding Album Design DVD from Software Cinema. Wedding Album Design and Sales for the Professional Photographer from Amherst Books. Strategies and Techniques for the Digital Photographer from Amherst Media. Certificate for 20% discount to yearly coaching program ($600 value) Total value of the deal including your mentoring session $1,064!
To bid on Coates’ auction, visit thirstrelief.shootq.com

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Lightroom and Wedding programs

By azppablog | Published: February 3, 2010
Everyone had a laptop to work along with Art Image © Bob Coates Photography, Inc.

Everyone had a laptop to work along with Art Image © Bob Coates Photography, Inc.

January 31 found Art Suwansang giving a great program on workflow using Adobe’s Lightroom. Art did a very fine job in sharing his knowledge in an informative, friendly fashion. He was able to communicate to rookies and experienced Lightroom users without loosing either group at the same time. I heard only solid positive comments about Art’s presentation from Azppa members. I fielded many positive comments about his wedding program as well on Monday night the 1st of February as well. If you have the opportunity to see Art speak I would highly recommend it…. You can check out his work here

Art also has a video posted on his web site about the Lightroom 3 Beta just introduced showing new features. Check it out! http://www.wedding64.com/theater/lr3b

Art Suwansang program presentation

Art Suwansang program presentation Image © Bob Coates Photography, Inc.

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Allen Patrou AZPPA Studio Tour

By azppablog | Published: November 11, 2009

This is a post from Allen Patrou’s  blog about the Studio Tour in the beginning of November. We had a great Arizona Professional Photographers Studio Tour here on Sunday. It was a small group which allowed more question and answer during the presentation and the Location Lighting demonstration outside. We had a lovely model, Jin Cha, who posed for us as I demonstrated the benefits and proper usage of location “studio” style lighitng outside in my posing areas. I use an Elinchrom Ranger pack with 1100 watts of lighting power derived from its own battery power source. I demonstrated with our model in light shade with the sun behind her, and with sunlight directly on her face. When you have the right equipment and the know how, you can overcome the normally harsh contrasty lighting outside and create beautiful images! Take a look at the image below. Here Jin is in light shade with our lights creating beautiful soft “modeling” and seperating her from the background at the same time. To see and image created showing some lighting techniques click here. Here also is an email from attendee Tom Cheswick…
Hi Allen,

Thank you and your model Jin for a great studio tour. It was very interesting to see the use of high powered strobes used outdoor. I loved to see just how easy you were able to control the light to get the proper lighting for the angle of the face, regardless of the type of sun light you had to deal with. You also explained things very clearly and were very generous with the sharing of your techniques. You have a great mastery of studio lighting!

Jin was also a great model. She was very warm and friendly and welcomed everyone as they entered the studio. She was the perfect model and also added a lot to the discussions that took place in the studio. It’s easy to see why she is one of your favorite models, it would be a lot of fun to work with her sometime.

I’m copying the President of AzPPA to let Wendy know what a fantastic job that you did!

Take Care,

Tom

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By azppablog | Published: November 2, 2009

Here’s the group photo of the attendees at the Faux Wedding held at Villa Sienna at the October meeting. We had well over 100 photographers participate in this event! It was a blast. Steve Nissle set up the image and his lovely wife pushed the shutter button for him.

AZPPA Photographers pose for the "Family Group" shot

AZPPA Photographers pose for the "Family Group" shot

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Faux Wedding at Villa Sienna

By azppablog | Published: November 2, 2009

We had an absolutely great turn out and wonderful event at Villa Sienna. Our three photographers Steve Nissle, Michele Celentano and Davd DiDios showed how they work an event. As a bonus Steve Nissle has sent images captured from the shoot. Michele has been changing her studio location (whew what a job!!) and has not had a chance to process her images. In a rather sad turn of events, David had his studio broken into and had his computers stolen so we won’t be able to view his images. Here are Steve’s images from the Faux wedding… Click on individual images to view full frame

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Hello world!

By azppablog | Published: July 28, 2009

Welcome to the Arizona Professional Photographers Association web log. Hopefully with the help of Wordpress we will be able to use this forum to share photography knowledge as well as offer a portal that will allow you to register and pay for AzPPA’s education events online. This will be a space to exchange ideas, show you what’s happening in the Arizona PPA at seminars and events. Eventually this should be the place to sign in for monthly meetings and sign p and pay for AZPPA events. That’s the plan anyway… Hope you’ll spend some time with us here.

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