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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Warehouse Senior Workshop on June 3rd Update – learning opportunity in Dayton, Ohio

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REGISTRATION FORM PDF download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v7sooar9p9nwuf2/2013%20June%20PPSO%20Workshop.pdf

The workshop is from 9am to 4pm at the warehouse, then from 5:30-9pm at presidential banquet hall in Kettering for the evening portion which includes a catered dinner buffet. Maps will be provided at the event so everyone can find their way. The evening portion of the workshop will deal with post processing, marketing, reaching and working with seniors, pricing, packaging and any other questions you may have.

I am pleased to share with you more information about our all day seniors posing and lighting workshop with Jon and Linda Johnson of Jon’s Photos in South East Ohio. Here (just click on this sentence) is a link to the original post with the registration from and more information about Jon and Linda credientials.

Our warehouse is a hop and a skip from the Dayton Convention Center and the Crown Plaza Hotel in Downtown Dayton (about 75 yards). We will be in the Hauer Music Company building on the 4th floor. Access is by an old fashioned utility elevator. The building, which had been a brewery, is from the 1800s and at one time there was a canal right in front of the building. The building’s first floor is a music store featuring all the latest in all types of musical instruments.

The address is 120 South Patterson Boulevard, Dayton, OH 45402 . For those wishing to spend the night Crown Plaza hotel is attached to the Dayton Convention Center and is within about 75 yards of our location. Entrance to the workshop will be through the back utility doors behind the building.

The second floor is there lesson rooms and various offices. This is where we will be gaining access to the 4th floor warehouse area.

Here are some photos of the 4th floor warehouse area where we will be setting up various lighting situations for you to learn and shoot with under the guidance and instruction of both Jon and Linda Johnson.

Here is a mapquest map to the location. Parking is available across the street to the side of the building, also away from the building on the back side (please do not park next to the building as this is a retail business, and we want to give their customers the best parking spots). In addition if you want more restricted parking, the paid convention center parking lot is about 60 yards away.

http://mapq.st/10c2tnx

120 South Patterson Blvd, Dayton Ohio

If Jon or Linda choose to, part of the day could be shooting outside at the Oregon District shopping area (about 100 yards away) or the oregon district residential community area as well.

Subject to permission, we may do some shooting on the third floor warehouse and repairs area.

Please print out and send in your registrations as soon as possible (click on link in first paragraph of this post).

Posted in PPSO Special Events Tags: Dayton area photographers workshop, Grow your photography business, Learn Photography business, professional photographers of South West Ohio

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Color Management – Why Bother? – Does it Mater? Will it Improve the Quality of Work you Offer?

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We all know Rob from the various state and regional conventions and K & R’s informative booth with all the latest in digital technology for the professional photographer. On Monday May 6th, 2013 he will be helping us to make more money by giving us a better understanding of how to get accurate and good color production from our camera, from our printers, and our professional labs. If you have any struggles in this area this is a meeting you definitely do not want to miss. WHERE AND WHEN CLICK HERE

Rob Kumler is owner of K&R photographics / K&R PhotoDigital.

K & R is “The area’s Premier Professional Photo Source” providing equipment sales, rentals and technical services and training.

Rob’s background is a BBA degree from Eastern Kentucky University and graduate work in Communications at Xavier, photographer at Eastern, both staff and editorial, photography instructor at Wilmington College. Rob was also a Tech rep with Eastman Kodak / Treck, working with some of the largest manufacturers. studios and printers solving problems and assisting in technical issues to develop and produce quality results. K & R photographics was started in 1975 to better serve existing and new customers.

K & R was a pioneer and leader in bringing high end digital camera back systems into the US market. Rob, along with the support of K&R, has acted as a consultant for both small and some of the largest corporations in America. Consultation has been in several areas of expertise – Color Management, design of multiple camera mapping systems, workflow analysis and design, etc. Rob has been called upon several times to effectively resolve problems that have been major sources of tension between photographers, designers, printers and the clients. He has also been invited to participate in several manufacturer’s advisory panels.

Rob will be speaking on several topics and fielding questions from the members.

• Topics scheduled will be “Color Management” – Why bother? Who should be doing it, How to color manage B&W !, What’s the difference between Calibration and Profiling? What is Double Profiling? Do we need to profile the new LCD displays? What’s the difference with printer outputs and inputs?

• Camera Inputs, Outputs and Color Renditions: Setting and Why?

• Is there any easy way to get better color from a digital camera?

• Why does that vary from film & it’s processing characteristics?

• How and Why to spend a little time here for better results there.

• Exposure ranges, the need for HDR or NOT, trends in commercial and personal imaging.

• Q&A After the presentation, Rob will have time to answer your individual questions if they have not already been answered.

K & R photographics

538 Terry Lane

Ft. Mitchell, KY 41017

859-341-6986

Web site: K & R Photographics

Posted in Blog Posts, Monthly Meetings Tags: Dayton area pro photographers, Grow your photography business, Learn Photography business, Monthly speaker PPSO, PPA affiliate group in Dayton, PPSO professional photographers meeting, Professional photographers, professional photographers of South West Ohio

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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Success in photography with Ellie Vayo sponsored by ACI (American Color Imaging) on April 1st

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You are invited to our April 1st PPSO meeting with nationally known speaker Ellie Vayo, sponsored by ACI

We are honored to have Ellie Vayo come to Dayton to speak at our April 1st PPSO meeting. For over 30 years Ellie has run her studio in Mentor Ohio near Cleveland. She recently won the Mentor Area Business of the year in her town of 55,000 homes.

Ellie Vayo at PPO Convention in Columbus

I heard Ellie Vayo speak at the recent PPO convention in Columbus, Ohio, and found her to be thorough and very informative. Her experience, insights, and the information she conveyed was priceless. Her sponsor ACI will be sponsoring her trip to come to us so that we could have her here, so I would like to see Kohler Center filled with our regular crowd and many visitors as well.

Your Invitation:

Professional and aspiring photographers can come to one meeting at the cost our regular members pay (pays for both dinner and our speaker $20).

Please check in at our EVENT on Facebook so that we know how many people to expect. Click FACEBOOK EVENT HERE.

We network together monthly and learn to improve our photography and our business practices to grow our businesses. PPSO is a PPA affiliate group meeting here in Dayton Ohio with members coming from throughout South West Ohio including Cincinnati, cities and counties throughout the area. We welcome you to come to learn to be a better photographer on April 1st. MEETING PLACE, TIME, MAP.

Here is more about Ellie:

(Samples of her work below) Her web site here: http://www.ellievayophotography.net/

• Master Photographer, National Certified, CR., CPP, API

• Ellie Vayo is celebrating over thirty years in business!

• Her studios are located in Cleveland, Ohio (Mentor) and a satellite office in Miami, Florida

• She was a part of the Fuji Talent team for several years at which time she lectured throughout the country at schools and national conventions.

• Her first book, The Art and Business of High School Seniors, was published through Amherst Media in 1999.

• Her second book, Ellie Vayo’s Guide to Boudoir Photography is presently out and in most book stores or can be purchased through Ellie Vayo Photography Inc.

• Her third book (“The Art and Business Of High School Seniors) was recently released and now on sale through Amherst Media.

• Many of her articles on senior portraiture over the years have been featured in Rangefinder, Studio Photography Design, The Professional Photographer and Lens Magazine

• Ellie has had the honor of photographing two past presidents George H. Bush And George H.W.Bush.

• She recently won Mentor Area Chamber Business of the year in a town of 55,000.

• She was also recently inducted into the Mentor High School Alumni Hall of Fame 2010

Ellie Vayo Photography Inc. in Mentor Ohio

Before and After Ellie Vayo Photography

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