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Professional Photographers of East Tennessee — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:19:00 +0000

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be simplifying the website and blog, combining them into one seamless unit. We will also be moving to sending online newsletters to everyone as well! Our first online newsletter went out earlier this week. If you are a PPETN member and didn’t receive it in your inbox, please let Chris Hoopes or Lynn Seaton know. We will make sure you are added to the mailing list.

We will also be handing out membership directories to members this evening. please make sure your information is correct in the directory. Please let us know if there are any updates or changes that need to be made.

If you aren’t a member of PPETN and would like to receive our newsletter, you are more than welcome to subscribe!

September Monthly Meeting

Professional Photographers of East Tennessee — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:17:08 +0000

Please join us on Thursday, September 11, 2008 at the Mandarin House restaraunt for our monthly meeting. Our speaker this month is Rose Mary Cheek, F. Ph with

Rose Mary is a photographic artist blending traditional photography with fine art portraiture. She has taught photography on the College level, and mentors local college and high school students. she desires to stay in the forefront of what’s new in professional photography.After four professional photographers signed up for her basic and advanced photography classes at the community college, she wondered, “What in the world can I teach them?” That’s when she realized there was a need to prepare today’s photographers to be able to stay current with Adobe Photoshop’s advancements and teach them quick tips and tricks to give them time savings techniques. Rose Mary will be discussing

Photoshop Tips and Techniques

We look forward to seeing you this Thursday evening!

PPETN Regional PPA Meeting
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912
6:00PM – 9:00PM

September 8×10 Print Competition

Professional Photographers of East Tennessee — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:42:09 +0000

After taking August off for the Tennessee PPA state convention, we will be holding our monthly 8×10 competition at this week’s meeting. Please remember the following:

Fee: $3 per submitted image.
Prints must be 8×10 in size.
Please bring a CD of your images for posting on our blog.
Winning entries will go towards our annual “Photographer of the Year” award.

All proceeds go towards the Michael Laughlin Scholarship. All eligible PPETN members have the opportunity to be awarded a $500 scholarship to a sanctioned photography class.

Michael Laughlin Scholarship

Professional Photographers of East Tennessee — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:25:20 +0000

The due date for Michael Laughlin scholarship applications is close! If you haven’t filled out and turned in your scholarship application, be sure to pick up an application at this week’s regional meeting! Eligible PPETN members may apply for the scholarship. The scholarship award winner will be announced at this years Christmas party.

PPETN Monthly Meeting

Professional Photographers of East Tennessee — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:03:08 +0000

Please join us on Thursday, July 17th at the Mandarin House Restaraunt on Merchants Drive @ 6:00pm.

We have an amazing photographer / teacher / businessman / salesman lined up for our July program. I can’t tell you how excited we are to have Travis coming to share with us. He has consistent sales that most of us only dream about. This program will go beyond “taking pretty pictures” and show us how to make MONEY! Travis Gugelman

www.gugelmanphotography.com

Travis’s studio, Gugelman Photography, has been open for business since November of 2003. When he opened his doors he had one computer, a meduim format camera, virtually no clientele and very little eductaion. Over four short years Travis has gone from being a new studio owner to owning a thriving high-end portrait and wedding studio. Now, four years later there are 6 employees, many computers, and they do now all their own printing out of their own lab.Travis credits much of his success to hard work and education (even though he never had a “formal” degree in photography). He has received his Certification with the PPA and is working towards his Masters. Last year (his first year entering competition at PPA) all four of his images hung at Nationals and he won a Bronze Level Photographer of the Year award. Travis has an amazing talent for creating gorgeous images of even the most challenging clients. He has traveled all over the United States photographing weddings including Washington DC, California multiple times, Portland Orgeon, and even Hawaii. And this year Travis photographed his first international wedding in Cabo Mexico.Travis has incredilble passion for business, photography and making money.

Travis believes there is so much more to running a photgraphy business than just taking beautiful images. Having a business plan, setting goals, understanding marketing, and sales, along with knowing what your cost are, are all vital to running any business, especially a Portrait studio today.

Travis has used these tools to build an amazing business. He loves to learn and share what he has learned with others.

Travis will cover : “Sales, marketing, procedures, DO you have a PLAN?”

Travis will cover in depth the importance of having a plan for each of these areas, as well as share how he gets sales in excess of $20,000.

He will share with you the training he gives his sales staff to produce these numbers.

Thanks again and I hope to see all of you at the TPPA State Convention in August!

PPETN Board Meeting

Professional Photographers of East Tennessee — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:40:03 +0000

The PPETN board of directors will be meeting this Thursday afternoon (July 17) before the regular monthly meeting. The board meeting will take place at the Mandarin House on Merchants Drive, starting at 4:45pm. All board members should plan on participating.

Any PPETN member who would like to participate is welcome to attend the board meeting. The monthly meeting will take place immediately afterwards, starting at 6:00pm.

Updated By-Laws

Professional Photographers of East Tennessee — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:47:24 +0000

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.

April: Monthly Meeting

Professional Photographers of East Tennessee — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:33:17 +0000

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

PPETN By-laws Meeting

Professional Photographers of East Tennessee — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:51:59 +0000

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.

Meet the Pros:

Professional Photographers of East Tennessee — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:50:20 +0000

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.