SENIORS & PHOTOSHOP with Bob & Angie Alberts
Bob Alberts photographed his first Wedding in 1990 and worked as a part photographer until 1997 when he purchased his first studio in Lexington. During the 9 years he spent in Lexington, Bob received 10 national photography awards for Wedding & Children’s photography.
In June of 2006, Bob and Angie moved to Ogallala, NE and now operate Alberts Photography. Since then Bob has refined his Senior Photography to make that a major portion of their business. Angie has become our main retouching & special effect artist creating awesome effects that “wow” our clients.
Bob served on the board of directors for the Professional Photographers of Nebraska for 8 years and was the President in 2008. Angie is currently serving as the fellowship chairman for the PP of N.
In this class, Bob will discuss his indoor and outdoor lighting & posing techniques. We’ll cover High Key set up, using reflectors, will be working with some senior images in Photoshop to show you how we get some of the effects that the seniors love!
Brian Baer
How to become a Facebook Rockstar!
Are you using the internet’s most popular social media web site to itsfullest potential to promote your studio? Brian Baer will share tips,tricks and techniques you can use to become a Facebook Rockstar.
We’ll becovering what your studio’s facebook strategy should include. Plus tips on your personal profile, groups, fan pages, ads, photos, videos & more.
Julie Klaasmeyer
Why are we selling run of the mill 8x10's when we can re-design our product line and sell higher priced wall art for our clients? Everyone sells 8x10's and with the over saturated market learn how to take your images to the next level above and beyond what the guy down the street is doing...Learn what it takes step-by-step to stand out from all of the other studios around, we'll learn lighting, pricing, customer service, gently guided posing techniques, design concepts for your photography sets and product design as well as many other exciting ideas and concepts. Come join us for a laid-back, light hearted class packed full of fun.
Julie Klaasmeyer owns and operates j.klaasmeyer portrait design, a 9,000 sq ft boutique studio located in Paola, Kansas. Julie's passion for art started when she was young and has taken her through projects from scrapbooking to cake decorating with many other projects in between. She combined this passion for art with her love of photography and opened her doors nine years ago. Julie is dedicated to providing only the finest for her clients and consistently re-develops her product line to offer new and fresh art for them as well. She uses primarily natural light and loves to incorporate digital art and image design into her work flow. Julie has taught classes and workshops all over the country and has given programs for PPA and WHCC, her photo lab. Her images have been displayed in PPA Loan collections over the years, PPA magazine, WHCC photo booth, GW Moulding, and many background companies as well. Julie has earned several Fuji Masterpiece awards, Kodak Gallery awards, 10 judges ribbons, and was named 2009 Kodak Photographer to watch.
www.jklaasmeyer.com
Steve Kelly
Steve began his photography career in 1973 (yes he is that old) attending Hawkeye Institute of Technology (now Hawkeye Community College) in the photography program. Steve graduated from Hawkeye in 1975 with an Associate Degree of Applied Arts in Photography. After managing several studios in the 70’s and then free-lancing doing weddings, he started at American Professional Color Corporation, now American Color Imaging in 1986. In 1993 he started traveling for ACI doing outside sales and traveling 4 states. Steve has been in hundreds if not thousands of studios over the years. With that experience, he brings the knowledge of what it takes to keep your studio alive and customers coming in your door. He will make you think about how to relate to your customers and ideas on how to keep them coming back.
TriCoast Photography
Title: Can’t Steal Happiness - Wireless Flash Tips and Tricks
Including many aspects of humor and fun mixed in with education,
TriCoast Photography truly believes in NO SECRETS, we are all here to learn and receive information which will help all of us be better photographers. Full of fun and molded to the questions and concerns of YOU, Learn to see and capture the light visually and by wireless flash and video lighting techniques to assist you in creating light and more importantly shadows in any situation. Mike Fulton of TriCoast Photography will show you the simple but effective way to have studio lighting anywhere anytime in ANY lighting situation. Learn simple – fast – effective methods of capturing images using Canon, Nikon and others eTTL/iTTL wireless flash without all techno-geeky talk. Straight forward technique developed for the fast paced, action world of wedding photography that can also be used in many other situations such as High School Senior Photography, Children and even Family Photography. The technique taught will be a simple solution for almost every lighting situation one might face. Both outdoor and indoor lighting situations will be shown and explained, with simple pullback and final product images shown. A NO SECRET approach in teaching, sharing and learning, including the pros and cons and major trouble shooting problems and solutions to this simple yet effective aspect of lighting. Come learn the power of the “other” wireless flash technique, the IR-Method.