Direct Mail Marketing with ADG

We are pleased to add Eva Miklos from ADG Printing to our speaker agenda for Tuesday, April 7th at 7pm at Otto Miller Hall. Eva will bring samples of postcards in various shapes and sizes for everyone to take home and tell us how to start a direct mail program of our own!  

Don’t miss it…

www.adgprinting.com

April 7 – SPPA presents Michael Clark from Constant Contact.

What is the ‘Power of Email Marketing’?
This seminar covers the Best Practices of Email Marketing.  We discuss the value of a customer, the best approaches for using email communications as part of your marketing strategy and how to avoid being labeled as ’spam’.
 
This session is meant for anyone interested in learning more about marketing basics and best practices.  We discuss topics like when to send emails, how often you should be communicating with your audience, how to grow your list the right way, and much more…  

6:30-7pm Networking and munchies

7pm SPPA announcements and business

7:15 Program Begins 

Room 109, Otto Miller Hall, 3rd West and Nickerson

Lightroom workflow for working photographers

Tuesday, March 3 at SPU Campus, Otto Miller Hall Room 127

Mark Fitzgerald of Raw to Wall fame will show us how to create your finished portraits using Lightroom (and Photoshop)!  Lighroom can save you hours of post-production time. He will work with actual files created by members. If you’ve been thinking about investing in Lightroom here is a great opportunity to see how it’s done and start working smarter.

Mark is an Adobe Certified Expert and we are honored to bring him back again!
The Digital Darkroom
Helping Photographers Reveal Their True Art
www.ddroom.com

Active Members are encouraged to bring in their prints for the monthly print competition and the chance to earn the title of “Photographer of the Year”

 

Visit our website for more info.

2009 SPPA Print Competition Winners Vol2

Vol2

2009 SPPA Print Competition Winners Vol1

Vol1

If you didn’t get to SPPA’s Annual Competition on February 4, you missed one of the best! Judges, Ken Whitmire, Lance Johnson and Steven Wolfe, engaged in lively discussion about each print, with more entries than not earning merits.

Watch for more details in your emails and on our website.

The Complete Portrait Workflow Using Lightroom & Photoshop

You asked for it so we got him! Mark Fitzgerald will present Raw to the Wall, The Complete Portrait Workflow Using Lightroom & Photoshop. Learn how to create a quality workflow that will save you time!

Wednesday, March 4 from 9am-4pm Seattle Pacific University Library

Cost is $59 for SPPA Members and affiliates / $79 for non-members
Lunch is included! Parking permits will be available too!

Classroom size is limited. Reserve your seat now!
Email info@seattleppa.com
For more information visit our site: click here!

Next meeting is Wednesday, Feb 4 at Country Village

Get ready for the competition ~ PPA Seattle Annual Competition that is!

Our annual competition replaces the SPPA February meeting with both a date and place change:

February 4, Wednesday, Bothell Country Village, Entries accepted from 6:00 to 6:30,

Judging begins at 7:00pm

Plus: For your viewing pleasure, we also will be exhibiting photographic images taken by Issaquah School District High School Students. These talented students will be competing for a People’s Choice Ribbon to be awarded based on your votes.

PPA judging rules apply to the SPPA competition, and besides earning merits, ribbons and awards from SPPA, this is an excellent opportunity to test your images for state/national competition.

Rules can be found at www.SeattlePPA.com and  in the next SPPA newsletter. Additionally, the newsletter will include the 12 Elements of a Merit Image which guide the judges in their point decisions. The elements can also be found at www.ppa.com/competitions/international/12elements.php

Frequently Asked Questions – Answered

You may enter any image entered in previous monthly competitions but you may not enter an image that you have entered in past annual competitions.

Images must be mounted according to PPA standards – not monthly competition standards. That is to say no frames, no canvas’, no glass; only 16×20 mount board.

While the mount board must be 16×20; the image may be any size up to 16×20

Images with digital enhancements may fall into a specific catagory or the open catagory depending on the nature and degree of the enhancements. The image maker does not need to be the one to perform the digital work but must be directing the enhancements made.

More Answers Needed? Call or write Barbara Roser at 425 391-9371 or barbararoser@msn.com and we will get an answer for you.

The committee chair this year is Vicki Derk (Thank You Vicki!) Judges along with bios will be published in another week or so.

Given the caliber of the work submitted in the monthly competitions, we should be treated to some seriously excellent work; so even if you are not competing this year, you will want to join us to preview the artwork and see what our high school students are up to!

Need ink?

 

I have six new, 110 ml ink cartridges for Epson 4000/7600/9600 printers. $40 each, sold all together = $240

Light Black/Magenta/Photo Black/Matte Black/Yellow/Cyan

For more info contact Robb Drake, plateau portraits 425-391-5075  robb.drake@comcast.net

PPA Meets with President-Elect Obama’s Transition Team

ATLANTA-As President-Elect Barack Obama prepares to take office, his

transition team is turning to Professional Photographers of America

(PPA) and other members of the creator community for advice. The

transition team asked to meet last Friday with the Copyright Alliance’s

seven-member board of directors-among them David Trust, PPA’s chief

executive officer and a founding member of the Alliance. 

 

“We were pleased with the opportunity to express to the new

administration our thoughts and concerns about copyright and

intellectual property issues,” Trust stated after the meeting. “I doubt

the photographic community has ever had an opportunity like this.”  

 

President-Elect Obama’s team wanted to have a clear understanding of

intellectual property issues on the day it receives the keys to the

White House. During the meeting, Trust pointed out that a major portion

of the economy is under siege and that photographers are an important

part of that economic mix. PPA’s written materials also pointed out that

the vast professional photographic network (over 122,000 nationwide)

encompasses every Congressional district…and the impact intellectual

property and its domestic and international enforcement play in their

livelihoods. After all, each of those 122,000 professional photographers

create an estimated 20,000 works each year.  

 

“I think I was most impressed with the genuine interest they displayed

for our collective message,” added Trust. “This was not just a courtesy

meeting-they listened intently and took pages of notes. It feels like we

are doing real good for photography and all creators.” 

Building a solid foundation with the incoming administration is key,

especially with the creation of the Intellectual Property Enforcement

Coordinator position at the White House level. That position was created

with the passage of the Pro IP Act this year, a bill which PPA and the

Copyright Alliance worked hard to pass.

 

“It takes a lot of work to make sure PPA, and the photographic community

as a whole, are heard on Capitol Hill,” said Trust. “And now we are

getting the chance, along with our friends in the Copyright Alliance, to

voice our issues to the next administration. Our Copyright and

Government Affairs Department is the only one of its kind in the entire

photographic world. We see this kind of advocacy as part of our

responsibility as a non-profit defender of photographers’ rights.”

 

To learn more about the meeting, please read the statement here: 

http://www.ppa.com/articles/181/PPA-Meets-with-PresidentElect-Obamas-Tra

nsition-Team.php

 

The Copyright Alliance , headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization dedicated to the value of copyright as an agent for creativity, jobs, and growth. For more information, please visit  www.copyrightalliance.org 

 

Professional Photographers of America (PPA), a worldwide, non-profit association, exists to assist its more than 22,000 members in achieving their professional, artistic, and fraternal goals; to promote public awareness of the profession; and to advance the making of images in all of its disciplines as an art, a science and a visual recorder of history. PPA is the only professional photographic association with a full-time Copyright & Government Affairs staff. For more information, visit www.ppa.com.

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Beware Facebook

If you photograph high school seniors and they post your photos to facebook facebook assumes all rights… even though those rights were not the kids’ to give..

Facebook Can Use Your Content for Promotional Purposes

Social networks such as Facebook can be helpful to your business. But before you click the “Sign Up” button, take a moment to read the Terms of Use, which state:

By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant . . . to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

Fortunately, the license expires when you remove your Content from the site. But you may want to pause before you post any of your great photos that Facebook can use for promotional purposes.