Professional Photographers of East Tennessee

Annual picnic and social

Thursday, June 12, 2008 4 to 8 pm The Cove Park 11808 S. Northshore Knoxville/ Farragut  tickets for BBQ dinner are $12 per person

please email Lynn Austin lynnaustin@charter.net and RSVP by June 9th

If you are not a member of the PPof ETN We invite you to come and see what we are about!!

This is a family friendly, casual event. Bring spouses, kids and photo friends.

The board has been diligently working on updating the by-laws to encompass new technology and make sure we are keeping up with changes that have been affecting the photography business. PPETN members should have received an e-mail with a link for downloading the updated by-laws in PDF format. Please review the updated by-laws. We will be taking a vote at the May 15th meeting to approve the updated by-laws. Please be present for this vote.

 If you are a PPETN member and did not receive the e-mail, log onto the East Tennessee Photographer’s Forum. The download link is available in the members-only section. Also, make sure to e-mail us so that we can make sure your name in on our mailing list.

Please join us on Thursday, April 17 as the Professional Photographers of East Tennessee present

Brian & Deb Crussell

Future Seniors

Join Brian and Deb to “think about the future” in approaching senior portraits. Brian is always trying to stay ahead of the current trends in photography and watches carefully what is happening all across the United States, not just in his own back yard. It is so important to keep things fresh and to set ourselves apart. These days, it is more than just a “pretty picture” to bring seniors, children and familes into your studio.

April 17, 2008 at 6:00pm
Mandarin House Restaraunt
Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN

The PPETN board will be holding a by-laws meeting on Thursday, April 17, starting at 4:00pm. We will be meeting at the Mandarin House Restaraunt off of Merchants Drive.

This meeting is to continue work on updating our by-laws for this year. Most sections have been updated. This meeting is to finalize changes which will be submitted to all members for review. All PPETN members are welcome to attend. All PPETN board members should attend.

Once the by-laws have been updated, a PDF copy will be posted in our community forum for all members to review. A vote to approve the by-laws will be held at the May monthly meeting. A copy of the by-laws will be available at the May meetting for review as well.

The by-laws meeting is being held just before our regular monthly meeting. Please feel free to attend the 4:00pm by-laws meeting, as well as our regular monthly meeting starting immediately afterwards. If you do not wish to attend the by-laws meeting, our regluar meeting starts at 6:00pm.

Olympus and Pellissippi State Technical Community College Present:

Meet the Pros: Jay Dickman & Jay Kinghorn

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Pre-event reception featuring the work of Jay Dickman and Jay Kinghorn from 6:00-6:45pm
Gallery in the Bagwell Center for Media & Art
10915 Hardin Valley Rd

Presentations @ 7:00pm
Performing Arts Center
10915 Hardin Valley Rd

This event is open to the public. Admission is free.

Meet award-winning Olympus visionaries Jay Kinghorn and Jay Dickman. Learn about the inspirations behind their cutting-edge digital photography, lessons learned along the way and invaluable tools of the trade.

Talk to the pros during a poster signing session and, immediately following the presentations, participate in a door prize drawing for an Olympus E-510 Digital SLR Camera.

Congratulations to Teresa Brown, our 1st place winner for March, 2008!

Congratulations to Teresa!

Second and third place went to Chris Hoopes.

If you would like to see all of the winning prints, stop on by our community forum. We would love to hear people’s opinions of the prints!

We would like to thank Llew Wenzel for coming and speaking to our group! It was quite informative even to those of us who don’t shoot sports photography. The great thing about our profession is how ideas can carry over into so many different photographic styles and genres.

We’ve invited Llew to come and answer questions over at our community forum. If you have any questions, or would like to discuss what was presented, please stop on by!

Please join us 6:00pm on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at the Mandarin House Restaraunt on Merchants Drive. Our speaker will be:

Llew Wenzel

Youth Sports Market

• Find out how to find prospects.
• How to contact the league and sell them on your services.
• Find out how you can turn action pictures into a very lucrative event.
• How to run a successful picture day.
• Learn to manage your workflow after the shoot.

Come and learn what to shoot, how much to shoot, and how to sell.

We will be holding our monthly 8×10 print competition this month.

Here is a reminder of the rules:

• You must be an active member in good standing to enter. 
• You must own the copyright and/or right to submit the print for competition.
• Prints must be 8×10 or 8×12 in size with no marks to identify the photographer.
• Price is $3 per print.
• There is no limit to the number of prints you may submit.
• Provide sRGB JPG files on CD of the images you submit (up to 600 pixels on the long side) to post on the website, blog, and/or community forum.
• Prints must be submitted by 6:30pm.
• Submitting prints licenses SMPP/PPETN to post images on the organization website (website, blog, forum).
• Proceeds will go towards the Michael Laughlin scholarship fund.

Judging:

• Active members in good standing and honorary memers may vote.
• Voting shall take place between 6:30pm and 6:45pm.
• Each member chooses their choise for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
• 1st place = 3 points.  2nd place = 2 points. 3rd place = 1 point.
• Winners will be based on the total accumulated points for each print.
• 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be announced before presenting that night’s speaker.

The SMPP/PPETN “Photographer of the Year” will be awarded to the person who has accumulated the highest number of points throughout the calendar year. This award is based on each member’s efforts as they present their work to their piers, and the votes of their piers. This allows us to challenge each other to continue to improve our work throughout the year.

Winners will be announced here in the blog, as well as on our Community Forum. Several members have asked if we can discuss prints that either won, or didn’t so they can understand what people liked/disliked about prints submitted. Since we have such a short amount of time during monthly meetings, and don’t want to take away from the speaker’s time, we will post winning images (and non-winning images upon request) in the Community Forum where we can dicuss the images in greater detail!

We now have our new community forum online!

Here we will have news, information, up-coming events, and membership information. This is a fourm for professional photographers to share with each other, and discuss photography. Active SMPP/PPETN members can post images to be critiqued by other members as well.

We will list regional, state, and national information pertaining to photographers. We may also have our monthly speakers stop by to answer questions about their seminars. This will be a spot where photographers from across the region can meet online to discuss the art they love.

The forum is new, so stop on by, register, and help us build a resource that hopefully will grow to be the site that regional photographers go to for information. Please excuse the boxes as we unpack in our new location and build upon our new name!

http://community.smpp-tn.com/