ANNUAL CONFERENCE
53rd ANNUAL
BERKS PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY PHOTOGRAPHIC CONFERENCE
JUNE 8, 9 & 10, 2012
AT BOEHM SCIENCE BUILDING, KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY, KUTZTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
FRIDAY, JUNE 8,2012
6:00 P.M. Kenya and Tanzania Safari Presented by Jeff Grabert
Overview of a two week safari in several parks inKenya and Tanzania. Experience the wildlife, culture and accommodations of Africa.
7:30 P.M. Photographic Medley: A Tribute to the Power of Imagery. Presented by Andre Bourque
Photographic Medley: A tribute to the Power of Imagery presents a visit to the Grand Teton Mountains and Yellowstone National Park taken in the summer of 2011. Massachusetts’ Cape Cod with its picturesque coastline and oceanic activities, to include whales feeding, is added in a segment called, Seascapes. Providence Rhode Island’s now famous annuals summer event, ‘Waterfire’, will be included, and demonstrates that fire and water do mix. In other segments you will be invited to see images, stills and video, showing people participating in local celebratory activities, such as Boston’s North End Italian Festivals. Also, this year South Boston’s Saint Patrick Day Parade, an annual ritual whereby Southie’s citizens celebrate the Saint’s Holy Day with a parade, bands, and add to it bystanders’ frivolities and mirth that are captured both with still and video imagery. Predominantly featured throughout in this presentation is the presentation of ‘Street Photography’, historically a type of documentary photographs candidly taken to capture images of people, events and activities, mostly in the city of Boston. The presentation closes with a Portfolio that adds a variety of images taken in the last 30 plus years, to also include both video and still camera images; and, finally it ends with a few images taken with the most recent innovation, iPhone 4, now known to some as iPhonography.
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2012:
8:30 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Editing with Adobe Lightroom; who needsPhotoshop anymore Presented by R. Jarett Kulm
This presentation will be an in depth look at Lightroom’s develop module, one of the most powerful tools on the market for photographers to edit your photos. Come learn how to spend less time in front of your computer, and have more time to shoot!
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8:30 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Photoshop Potpourri Presented by Frank Lorah, Jr.
This presentation will cover a potpourri of Photoshop tools and techniques to enhance portraits as well as cover some of the new additions of Photoshop 6. Please bring 1 or 2 images on a flash drive for this program.
Saturday Afternoon Programs:
1:00 – 4:00 Models
1:00 – 4:00 Table Top Set Ups
1:00 – 2:00 Working with Models with Joe Edelman If you have never worked with models before it might be a bit intimidating to do your first model shoot. This quick presentation will teach you several techniques for working with models.
2:00 – 4:00 Live Animal Photography
2:30 – 4:00 Rock your Off Camera Flash with R.Jarrett Kulm Just because the sun is out, does not mean you should keep your flash in your bag! Come join us for a fast paced class about taking control of your speedlights, and work with the sun (or shade) for the best possible outdoor portraits!!
7:00 P.M. - SATURDAY EVENING SHOWCASE PROGRAM:
THE ART OF SEEING – SUCCESS INPHOTOGRAPHY IS IN THE DETAILS Presented by Joe Edelman
Every photographer no matter how new or experienced seeks the perfect photograph. We learn to follow the rules, light it right, expose it right, pose it right, compose it right and process it right.
Along the way many are continually frustrated when their best efforts produce results that are consistently less than perfect and don’t compare to their mentors or idols work.
Photographer Joe Edelman will present an innovative and entertaining look at what separates the work that many admire and aspire to achieve from that of their own.
More often than not, the answer is in the details.
Joe will use a combination of science, psychology, art and humor to show us his no rules VISUAL approach to photography.
This talk will not be limited to photographing people. Joe will touch on numerous categories including nature and still life’s, along with sports and travel images.
Joe’s presentation will include videos as well as demonstrations that will show you how you can dramatically improve your photographs, no matter what the subject matter is, simply by improving your ability to “see”. And the best part is… you won’t need new glasses!
SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2012
9:00 A.M. Slide & Print Winners and Awards
9:30 A.M. Creating Great Nature/Landscape Photographs Presented by Dave Hammaker
The program will provide the participants with ideas on how to find and creat great nature/landscape photographs. Discussions of finding best locations and lighting, equipment selection, composition and the quality of light.
10:45 A.M. Dreams Come Trust Presented by Ray Guilette
An audiovisual musical showcase, celebrating places and moments when dreams became reality. Sharing landscapes of peace and freedom, moments immersed in the creative process, and the resulting joy, gratitude, and inspiration.
THANK YOU TO WACOM and PHOTODEX
for their donation of doorprizes
2012 Digital Image Contest Guidelines
2012 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
Our Presenters/Speakers:
JOE EDELMAN – Saturday Evening Showcase Speaker Joe Edelman is an award winning photographer and author. His primary target - People!
Joe’s career has spanned three decades, from his start as a newspaper photojournalist to his work today photographing all types of people for commercial clients such as magazines, colleges, corporations and advertising agencies.
Joe has received both state and national awards for fashion photography as well as photojournalism in the categories of News, Feature and Sports photography.
He is best known for his exquisite photographs of beautiful women; his work has appeared in magazines like Maxim, Cosmopolitan, Get Fit and Shape to name but a few. He has completed assignments for both the New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.
In addition to his role as photographer, Joe is nationally recognized as an innovator in shaping models portfolios and careers. Models travel from all over the country to work with Joe. Simply put he advises serious models (both new and experienced) about how to market themselves.
Joe is often used as a source for television stories as well as newspaper and magazine articles on the subject. Author: JE Bright references Joe in his book: America’s Next Top Model: Fierce Guide to Life: The Ultimate Source of Beauty, Fashion, and Model Behavior. Joe’s work is also referenced by author Rif K. Haffar in his book: Roadmap to Stardom: How to Break into Acting in Hollywood.
Joe is based in Allentown, Pennsylvania and in his spare time he authors the popular blog: I Shoot People – The Photography Blog. He is also a new member of The Berks Photographic Society.
JEFF GRABERT Jeff Grabert is an award winning photographer with a concentration on the natural world and travel photography. Jeff is also a member of the Berks Photographic Society having joined in 2004.
ANDRE BOURQUE Andre Bourque is has been an active member at SBCC for 30+ years at Stony Brook Camera Club, an affiliate of the New England Camera Club Council and the Photographic Society of America. In the early years at Stony Brook CC he was an avid participant in both Slides and Color/Black and White prints. Happily, he boasts that he was one of THE few who ‘pioneered’ at SBCC the promotion and use of digital technology when digital photography was still in its infancy. To date, he continues to compete and enjoy digital photography and videography.
R. JARETT KULM R. Jarett Kulm is a 20 year veteran of photography, and frequently teaches sessions on Lightroom and Studio Lighting. His primary subject matter is portraiture, and is an active volunteer for photography charities such as Operation: Love Reunited, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, and Inspiration through Art.
FRANK LORAH, JR. Frank Lorah, Jr. received his first camera when he was in junior high school and for over 30 years has watched the world and his children through the lens of his cameras. Photography was and is his second love after his family. Frank is wedding photographer a portrait photographer a sports photographer and an event photographer and is also a volunteer for the photographic charity Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. Frank is the President of the Berks Photographic Society.
DAVE HAMMAKER Dave Hammaker has been creating images of our world for pver 40 years. He received his formal training in photography in the Professional Photography program at Rochester Institute of Technology and is a graduat of the Pennsylvania State University witha BS in Finance. Dave has sought out photographic opportunities around the world and has journeyed to the Canadian Arctic, Chile and China. Dave’s photography includes much of the United States with a special emphasis on the American Southwest and Pennsylvania, with tah and Arizona a particular focus of Dave’s camera during the past 10 years. Dave was selected as the Artist-in-Residence at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park in 2007. In recent years he has led several photographic workshops in the American southwest. His photographs have beenselected for many prestigious juried shows and have won awards across the country with his photographs appearing in many publications including National Parks Magazine, Pennsylvania Magazine and Sojourns Magazine. His photographs are part of the collection of the Grand Canyon National Park and the US Veterans Administration.
RAY GUILETTE Ray Guilette has been involved in photography since childhood. Ray is a 31 year member and past president of the Stony Brook Camera Club in Wrentham, Mass. and an-Honorary Member of The Photographic Society of Rhode Island and-co-founder of The Film Photographers Association of Attleboro, Mass. and Past-President and Chairman of the Board of the New England Camera Club Council Ray’s greatest thrills in photography are 1) getting lost in the creative process and 2) producing and performing audiovisual shows for 26 years at camera and art clubs, the Portland, Maine and the Newport, R.I. Museums of Art, the New York City Sierra Club, the Appalachian Mountain Club, and at photographic conventions from Maine to Florida, and in Canada (19 shows at the New England Camera Club Council Conference). Ray has published an article and images in Popular Photography.