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!