DECEMBER UPSTATE MEETING/ JANUARY MEETING TEASER

DECEMBER UPSTATE MEETING
Thanks Gregg for a great presentation on your sports photography and for making the trek to the upstate to give it. Thanks also to all those who took the time to attend, we had a great group and the discussions were lively!!!

JANUARY UPSTATE MEETING
Mark your calendar for Tuesday, January 6th for a talk presented by Tiffiney Addis—details to follow soon. This meeting will again be held at Ernest Rawlins Studio on Greenville, SC.

I look forward to seeing everyone again soon!!

DON”T FORGET TO PAY YOUR PPSC DUES AND REGISTER FOR THE CONVENTION.

Kristy
Williamson Photography
Belton, SC

UPSTATE DISTRICT DECEMBER MEETING & CHRISTMAS GATHERING

Tuesday, December 16th @ 6:00 pm
Rawlins Photography
212 Wade Hampton Blvd, Greenville, SC
864.271.0002

SPEAKER: Gregg Martin from Columbia, SC
http://www.greggmartinphoto.com/

Please make plans to join your fellow upstate photographers (and any others that want to join us) for an evening of information and fellowship and FOOD on Tuesday, December 16th at Rawlins Photography in Greenville, SC.

Need a break from thinking about Christmas Portraits? Gregg Martin from Columbia will be on hand for a presentation on his approach to sports photography and how this work impacts the rest of his business.

Please bring a finger food or dessert AND a drink to share. We will enjoy your food and fellowship from 6:00-6:45. Gregg will make his presentation and we will have time for Q & A and more mingling afterwards.

As always, please respond to the list if you plan to attend....someone may want to know that YOU are coming!!!

Kristy
Williamson Photography
Belton, SC

Please join us for the Coastal District November monthly meeting in Mt. Pleasant on Monday November 10th. Gregg Martin will be sharing with us his expertise about sports photography and how he incorporates that split second timing into his other types of photography. The meeting will be held at Cindy Cantore's studio in Mt. Pleasant at 7pm. Directions to the studio will be posted soon. If anyone is interested in gathering to eat before the meeting please email me privately (jennifereasler@hughes.net), and if we get enough interest, the location and eating time will be announced at a later date.

Midlands Meeting

Here is the info for the meeting on Tuesday Nov 11th.

Noel Steele of Artistic Touch Studio in Gilbert, SC will be speaking.
Noel will share her creative ideas for pumping up your portrait and wedding sales.
Some of what she'll share with us is her handmade album covers, painted images,
and Photoshop techniques to turn your ordinary images into "must have" works of art
that your customers can't resist.

Dinner will be at Patty's studio beginning at 5:30pm.  Domino's pizzas, salads, dessert
and drinks will be served.  $5 each please to partake, and I'd like an estimated headcount
of those who will arrive early for dinner.  
The pool table (in studio entrance) will be available to anyone wanting to shoot a game or two 
before the meeting starts at 7pm. 

Midlands Meeting Info

Hey Everyone,

Come out and join us this Tuesday the 14th.  

Here is the synopsis from Tammy and Kevin.

Tammy and Kevin Bevins will demo off camera lighting with strobes and video lights in a short photo shoot at the beginning of the meeting.  We'll then talk about how we use creative posing and lighting to flatter our clients and how to get candid looking photos through directed posing....

We will eat at 6:00 at Foxes Pizza (Foxes Pizza is right down the street (2nd Loop Rd.) in the Piggly Wiggly plaza.)  and the meeting will be at 7:00 at  Collin's place.

Collin's home/studio address is 1859 Partridge Circle. Florence, SC 29505

hope to see you there.

Lee

Lamarr Williamson School

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know what an awesome time we all had at the school in Myrtle Beach last week.

I took Cheri MacCallum's class on Painter. This was my first "school" experience and I'll definitely go again. The teacher to student ratio was great.

Another great benefit was that we actually got to paint our own images in addition to the ones we painted for instruction.

At the end of the week, we got to print one of our own on canvas (thanks to Ron and Showcase in Atlanta!) and Cheri taught us how to stretch our canvases onto a stretcher frame.

It was so much fun to bring back to the studio a finished painted image - ready to sell!

Here is one of our images I painted as a watercolor.

OCTOBER UPSTATE DISTRICT MEETING

Fun with Food with Charlie Jordon!!!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 @ 6:00 pm


Join us in the professional kitchen of Coach’s Low Country Brands, in Seneca, SC, Tuesday, October 7th for an evening of cooking, food styling and photography!! This will be a hands-on meeting. Expect to get your hands on the food to create your own set-up. You also get to eat it! No need to bring a camera but bring your own special plate!!!

I will send a reminder late next week and will need to know who plans to attend, so check your calendars now and reserve the time!!! This should be alot fun!

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!

Coach’s Low Country Brands
Eagles Nest Drive
Seneca, SC 29678
864-287-3737 Charlie’s Cell

Directions
Take HWY 123 into Seneca
In Seneca, turn left at the 12 ft Statue onto Walnut
Turn Left onto Eagles Nest Drive and into the Eagles Nest Complex
Travel counter-clockwise until you see Coach’s Low Country Brands
Right next door to Sen. Lindsey Graham Office (135 Eagles Nest Drive, Suite B)


Kristy
Upstate District Chair

SEPTEMBER UPSTATE MEETING

Greetings!!

Due to a last minute cancellation we are having to be a bit creative for our meeting this month!

Please join your fellow photographers at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday September 2nd at Panera Bread (864.226.5300) at 103 Station Drive (Off of Clemson Blvd in the Old Navy Parking Lot) in Anderson, South Carolina.

We will have a round table discussion and some photographer camaraderie (and we know how great that can be!!). To get the talking started please think of the one thing you own/do/sell/ etc. in relationship to photography, of course, that you would absolutely NOT give up!!

Please let everyone know via the LISTSERV if you plan to attend. Someone may be motivated to come to just to see YOU!! Also, I would like to know so I can get there early and get an area suitable for the number attending.

I am looking forward to seeing you there!!

Kristy Williamson
864.296.5071
kwphoto@charter.net
Upstate District Chair, PPSC

Midlands Meeting Info

Hey Folks,

I'm reposting the Midlands Meeting info here.  

 

Who: Matt Goslee

What: Photoshop Actions, the why and how

When: Tues Aug 12  6:00 Eat (see below for directions)  7:00 Meeting Starts

Where: Earth Angel Portraits Studio (Kim Bradford)

Why:  Because you should  = )

We are eating at:   Chapin Station Restaurant: 1260 Columbia Ave, Chapin 29036      345-8884

Email Matt with any action requests that you want to see.

 

UPSTATE DISTRICT MEETING--Tuesday, August 5th

August Upstate District Meeting
August 5, 2008

Meet for Dinner at 5:30 pm.
Henry’s Smokehouse
240 Wade Hampton Blvd
Greenville, SC
864-232-7774

Meet for Program at 6:30 pm
Mark Massingill
Ernest Rawlins Studio
726 Wade Hampton Blvd
Greenville, SC
864.271-0002

TOPIC:
PPSC Merits & Degrees

SPEAKER:
Jimmy Wood

Have you seen the medals around your mentor’s neck at convention? Wondered why the Print Judges have so many of them? Thought about getting more involved in PPSC but did not know how or why? Wondered how you could become the next SC Photographer of the year?

This program is all about challenging yourself professionally, giving back to an organization that strives to maintain our profession’s credibility, and it may even help you distinguish yourself from the competition.

Jimmy Wood, the official record keeper of PPSC, will take his Midlands talk on the road to the upstate to help us all understand a little bit more about how our participation and involvement in PPSC and the Annual Print Salon can lead to credentials and recognition.

And don’t forget, even if you already know all this stuff—or maybe already ARE the SC Photographer of the year—being in the fellowship of your fellow PPSC members is always an enlightening experience.

I will be out of town next week and will not be at the meeting. If you have any questions or concerns after Friday August 1, please contact Tiffiney Addis, momentscaptured4u@yahoo.com.

Let everyone know if plan to attend and invite a non-member too!!!!

COMING NEXT MONTH: September 2, 2008
Bridal Portraits, hosted by Suellen Holmes at her downtown Laurens Studio.

Coastal District Meeting for June

Make plans now to join us for the Coastal District's June meeting...Sunday, June 22, 2008 Jeanne Richardson will be demonstrating Environmental Lighting in the Castle at Atalaya, located in Huntington Beach State Park...followed by a picnic for all to enjoy!
The class will begin at 3pm(the castle now closes at 5) and we will eat at 5pm. We would love to see everyone, from every district!!! Bring your food, bring your family, bring your camera, make this a time to create your own portraits after the picnic, the lighting on the beach will be gorgeous.
If you have any questions, call Jennifer Easler (843)412-5962.

Midlands Meeting Tuesday 6.10.08

Our Midlands meeting will be at Kickstand Studio at 1520 Main Street 1A downtown. Dinner will be at Jammin Jazz at 1530 D Main Street at 5:30. We will begin photographing our model Melia live at 6:30 then go through some basic downloading from Adobe cs3 and then edit some of the images that are photographed. Below are some images of Melia that I photographed earlier this year. These images were part of her portfolio that she took with her to New York in March. Hope to see you there!

Convention Highlights!

Convention 2008 Highlights!!!!


Thank you to CellarDoor Productions, www.cellar-door-productions.com for donating their time to put this together for PPSC.