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PDA Opportunities

From: Ronald T.
Sent on: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 2:28 PM
Education Opportunities:

Starting Sunday July 19 we will start a four-week courses in lighting techniques. The first series of classes will be for beginning and intermediate. This will be held at Picture This Studios located in the city of Hawthorne California. Starting time will be 3 PM.

Picture This Studios
13405 Inglewood Ave Suite 3
Hawthorne CA, 90250
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The cost for these classes will be $150, for more information please contact Gregory at Picture This Studio.








Dominick JR.
Will be offering ongoing classes on how to get up and running in the wedding photography business. Please contact Dominick and make your reservations for the next class.

He is offering an opportunity for you to have a simple walk through session of what to do in order to get your wedding photography business going fast!

You will be able to:

? Get information on how to setup your workflow for images during the wedding.
? View his albums, contracts and slide shows.
? Review the keys to having successful meetings with the bride and groom.
? Get details on how and where to place your ads.
? Get all your questions answered in an intimate setting with a tour of his studio.

Where: Dominick JR., Inc.
3141 Michelson #1307 East
Irvine, CA 92612
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Price: $25.00 per person

RSVP limit: 20







http://www.digitalphotoacademy.com/Home/PopupWorkshopDetails/params/object/6876/default.aspx

Join Digital Photo Academy Instructor Chuck Place for a day at the Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden. Parks and botanic gardens offer a wealth of subjects to photographers, from flowers and butterflies to sweeping landscapes.

Chuck will cover a range of topics, from lens choice, including macro lenses, extension tubes and Lensbabies, to the use of diffusers, reflectors and TTL flash units. Learn to shoot Macro photography as well as landscapes in various lighting conditions, with assorted professional lighting equipment such as flash, reflectors and fill cards.


Students will meet at Image Mechanic in Santa Monica for a short presentation, spend the day at the garden, and head back to Image Mechanics for image prep and critique.






http://www.californiaphotoforum.com/forum/register.php?referrerid=2168

The California forum has a very good article about exit data exit data is important, because it carries all your crucial information about your image. Shutter speed and all other important settings are located in data connected to your image. Do take a minute and read the article for the insights into maintaining your data.






Amateur Competition and Professional competition
http://www.worldphotographyawards.org/amateurs.aspx

The Sony World Photography Awards are entirely international, welcoming people from across the globe to submit their photographs into an exciting amateur competition, which is run alongside the Professional Awards.

As an amateur photographer, you also have the opportunity to be judged by the World Photographic Academy in the hopes of taking the stage in Cannes to receive one of the most sought after prizes in the competition: The Sony World Photography Awards Amateur Photographer of the Year.

Submitting your images: Each photographer may submit up to a total of 3 photographs into the competition for free. The 3 photographs can be submitted into any one amateur category or spread across two - three different categories; to view the categories please click on the link to the left.

The Judging Process: Your images will go through various pre-selection rounds by our officially selected 2010 Pre-Selection Committee, iStock - iStockphoto LP is the world?s leading royalty-free stock destination. Browse more than 4 million photos, vector illustrations, video footage and Flash files. iStock pioneered the micropayment photography business model in 2001, selling images starting at $1.

If your image is selected to go into the top 400, you will then be judged by the 2010 Judging Committee, comprising selected World Photographic Academy members.

A shortlist of top ten amateur photographers per category will be announced in February 2010.

The 8 Category Winners, will be showcased as part of the official 2010 Finalists exhibitions in Cannes, be published in the winner?s book and be announced to the worldwide press as Sony World Photography Awards Category Winners in March, 2010. These winners will also have the opportunity to be part of an annual SWPA Global Tour and showcased on the SWPA website for all of 2010.

One grand prize winner will be selected from the 8 category winners by the 2010 Judging Committee and be awarded The Sony World Photography Awards Amateur Photographer of the Year.

The overall winner and a guest will be flown to Cannes, receive two nights? accommodation in a luxury hotel on the famous Croisette, receive VIP tickets to attend the evening gala awards ceremony on the 15th of April, 2010, and collect their prize of $5,000 and a Sony gift. The winner will also receive week-long passes to attend the World Photography Festival screenings, workshops, exhibitions, talks and other events taking place throughout the city of Cannes from the 13th ? 18th of April.