Building and Using a Portrait Garden

Jeannie will talk about creating a portrait garden “from the ground up.”   Using photographs, she will share with you ideas of how to get started arranging and building your outdoor space, and show you how she and her husband Greg use the garden for a variety of sessions.  They photograph children, families, seniors, and even bridal portraits in their garden.

Biography

Jeannie Forehand started photographing with a simple little box camera as a child.  Her parents provided film and developing, and the photographs were pretty pathetic by her current standards.  She moved on to bigger and better, using her dad’s Kodak, and got a blue ribbon for her 4-H photography entry in junior high school.  Saving up for many months, she purchased a Nikon FM camera in 1978, and everyone got used to striking a pose…a long pose…for her.  After completing her accounting degree and working as a CPA for several years, she decided to change career paths.  In 1999, she started Jeannie Keys Photography, a residential studio, primarily photographing weddings.  From the very beginning of her business, she joined CPPG, TPPA, SEPPA, and PPA, which she credits with helping her professional progress.

Jeannie married Greg in 2003, at which time she merged her business with his…Contemporary Portraits on Signal Mountain.  She acquired not only a fully-established studio space, but also a very strong back, talented with a shovel, interested in helping create an outdoor garden studio.

Jeannie holds the Tennessee Certified Degree, Tennessee Service Degree, Certified Professional Photographer designation with PPA, and has just completed the requirements for her PPA Master Photographer degree.  (WAHOO!)  She has earned one Loan print, and is on the hunt for one of the coveted Kodak or Fuji awards in the future!

Monthly 8×10 Competition:

We will be holding our monthly 8×10 competition this month. PPETN members may bring as many 8×10 prints to the competition each month. The cost is $3 per print. Please remember to bring a CD of your submitted images (600 pixels on the largest side). Points towards our annual “Photographer of the Year” will be awarded once we receive digital versions for submitting on our blog.

Seminar Cost (excluding food):

- PPETN Members: Free
- Non-Members: $20.00 (first visit is free)

Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912

6:00pm – Meet & Greet
7:00pm – Seminar

Board Meeting

The board will be meeting on Monday, September 13th, 11:00am @ Michael Broyles’ studio. All applications for the Michael Laughlin scholarship must be turned in to board members prior to the board meeting.

To qualify for the scholarship, you must meet the following requirements:

• You must have been a PPETN member for at least one year.
• You are a member in good standing.
• You have attended at least seven meetings in the last year.
• You are not a “Master of Photography”.

Michael Laughlin Memorial Scholarship Application

Price:          $10  per person
Make check to:   PPETN
Deadline:   August 2 to make payment

Please call Lynn Austin if you plan on attending. You may pay Ambler at the meeting or mail payment to Lynn Austin.  We will need a definite head count and payment before I order the food on August 2. We will only order food for the amount of people who have prepaid.  If you want to pay by credit card, contact Jerry Godolphin. Then call Lynn.

Lynn Austin
10613 Riverlake Drive
Knoxville, TN  37922

865-675-5464
email:  lynnaustin@charter.net
c: 865-292-3236

The Best Part!!!!    Bring your camera!

The light is beautiful that time of day at The Cove.

Get inspired to shoot something for yourself for a change.  You can shoot as soon as you arrive and then again after dinner.

Directions: from downtown – take I-40 West. Exit Campbell Station Rd.  Turn Left onto Campbell Station Rd at light.  Stay on Campbell Station  (you will cross over Kingston Pike) till it merges with Concord Rd. at stoplight.  Then follow Concord Rd to Northshore Drive.  Yield to Right at Circle (headed West on Northshore) Follow to The Cove, on Left.

See you there!

This may well violate photographers’ copyright and usage licenses. There doesn’t seem to be an full opt-out option, but there are ways to block these different photo companies from having access to your images.

Plus, most photographers post low-resolution images to Facebook, which would mean people printing from these apps might have extremely low quality prints.

The Digital Wedding Forum has a great write-up in their blog, along with links to the known photo printing applications on Facebook. It only takes a few minutes to go to each link and block them from printing. So, jump on over to their article and click through the links.

This month, our speakers are Kirk and Lora Baxley of Fitz-Symms Photography in Augusta, GA. 

Lora specializes in newborn and children’s photography.  She was the 2009 Photographer ot the Year for GPPA, and also the 2010 Photographer of the Year and it as a multiple award winner.

Lora will share with you her passion for creating unique pieces of art for her clients.  She’ll walk you through set design and techniques to make your sessions profitable.

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Kirk is a Past President of GPPA.  He currently serves on the PPA Council.  Kirk has over thirty years of experience in photography.

Kirk will share with you his success in school photography.  He will show you school day workflow using photo merge and picture packages from CCI.

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Monthly 8×10 Competition:

We will be holding our monthly 8×10 competition this month. PPETN members may bring as many 8×10 prints to the competition each month. The cost is $3 per print. Please remember to bring a CD of your submitted images (600 pixels on the largest side). Points towards our annual “Photographer of the Year” will be awarded once we receive digital versions for submitting on our blog.

Seminar Cost (excluding food):

- PPETN Members: Free
- Non-Members: $20.00 (first visit is free)

Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912

6:00pm – Meet & Greet
7:00pm – Seminar

Farrah Braniff is a Houston based photographer, specializing in contemporary portraits of babies, children and families.  She operates a high-end, low volume retail studio and has been recognized for her unique style of marketing and design.  She has won numerous awards for her marketing work including The Professional Photographers of America (PPA) AN-NE award for the last three consecutive years.  Farrah’s photographs have been accepted into the loan collection of the Professional Photographers of America and has been highlighted in the Professional Photographers of America Magazine.  Before opening her studio, Farrah taught specialized photography classes at multiple educational institutions including her alma mater, the Grammy Award winning High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.  She loves old cameras, cowboy boots, tattoos and her houseful of rowdy boys.

Monthly 8×10 Competition:

We will be holding our monthly 8×10 competition this month. PPETN members may bring as many 8×10 prints to the competition each month. The cost is $3 per print. Please remember to bring a CD of your submitted images (600 pixels on the largest side). Points towards our annual “Photographer of the Year” will be awarded once we receive digital versions for submitting on our blog.

Seminar Cost (excluding food):

- PPETN Members: Free
- Non-Members: $20.00

Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912

6:00pm – Meet & Greet
7:00pm – Seminar

If you would like to participate, we will be meeting up in front of the Crown & Goose at 5:30PM. Gary Woods will have models available. The models will be working for digital files, so you will need to provide a disc of images along with usage licensing.

Some of us will be gathering at thw Crown & Goose for dinner afterwards.

With the TNPPA spring seminar taking place in April, the photo safari will be instead of the standard monthly meeting.

TOPIC: Little Postage Stamp of Earth: Creative Solutions for Your Business Situation

“Too often we look at other situations and decide that either we can’t do that or if we only had X or Y we would do much better. However, rather than taking the “Grass is Greener” approach, we learn to see ways of expanding our business and our creative energy using what we have at hand.  This program touches on business practices, marketing, and photography.”

Mac Brown calls himself an accidental photographer.  He began his interest in photography in high school when a friend told him that taking pictures was a good way to get out of class.  In college, he worked as a yearbook photographer, and worked for the local newspapers.  After graduating from college, Mac worked part time as a wedding and portrait photographer.   During the years in education, he returned to school, earned his doctorate in American literature, and planned to become a college professor.  By the time his daughter, Rebecca, entered high school she was also hooked on photography and so Mac retired from education and went into photography full time.

Since 2001, Mac has won numerous awards including three Best of Shows at the state competition as well as three first place awards.  In 2006 he won first place in the Senior Girl category at Senior Photographers International and second place for Senior Boy in 2007.  He has placed in the Top Ten photographers in Tennessee for three out of the past four years, and won the 2008 Buddy Stewart Award at SEPPA for the highest for a first time entrant.  He has entered national competition for the past two years and has earned one Loan Print, one general book print, and last year hung four prints at Nationals.  In January 2010, Mac placed second in the Senior girl portfolio competition at SYNC in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Mac Brown Photographers is a full service studio, which specializes in children and senior portrait photography. They do about 500 seniors per year and several hundred children’s sessions per year.  Their school division, IMPACT School & Sports Photography, currently services 15 schools and several sports leagues.

Monthly 8×10 Competition:

We will be holding our monthly 8×10 competition this month. PPETN members may bring as many 8×10 prints to the competition each month. The cost is $3 per print. Please remember to bring a CD of your submitted images (600 pixels on the largest side). Points towards our annual “Photographer of the Year” will be awarded once we receive digital versions for submitting on our blog.

Seminar Cost (excluding food):

- PPETN Members: Free
- Non-Members: $20.00

Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Mandarin House Restaraunt
314 Merchants Drive
Knoxville, TN 37912

6:00pm – Meet & Greet
7:00pm – Seminar

There are two changes made to the by-laws:

• The Michael Laughlin scholarship winner will be voted on by the board. If a board member submit an application for the scholarship, they cannot vote for themselves.
• We are adding in pro-rated fees for new members (by quarter). If we have someone who wants to join later in the year, they can pay dues of $20 per remaining quarter (so, if they join in May, they would pay $60 for the remaining year, August would pay $40…). Full dues would be required for all following years.

The scholarship change is due to Mrs. Laughlin’s health. This will allow us to continue to award the scholarship on a timely basis. We hope that by pro-rating the membership fees, we may be able to welcome more new members throughout the year..

The new by-laws won’t go into affect until the member vote on the changes. We will be voting on February 11th before the Salon competition.