The Keys to Making Powerful Photographs - with Mark Alberhasky

Please join us for our June First Friday meeting featuring a long time friend of SPS, fine art photographer Mark Alberhasky, and enter our print image competition, “People/Portraits” (more information below.)

Mark says: “Photographers are inherently technically driven creatives, yet the process for making fine, powerful images is paradoxically critically dependent on non-technical artistry. This presentation shares decades of personal experience and the recognition of what, in my hands, has made the most difference in producing photographs of substance in my work.”

Photographer, physician, author and inventor, Mark’s photographic experience spans more than 50 years. In 2004, Mark became a contributing photographer for Nikon. His work has won awards internationally with placements as diverse as commercial ads, product packaging, magazine covers, textbooks, and action sports publications. Mark taught as a Nikon mentor for the Popular Photography magazine Mentor Series Worldwide Treks for 15 years. He now teaches privately in his Atlanta home studio and leads trips for private clients.

To see his work and learn more about Mark, visit www.IMAGEMA.com

Please note:

• This month’s meeting will be in-person, at our regular meeting location, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta at 2650 N. Druid Hills Road NE.
• Entries are limited to TWO prints per paid member – one color and one Black and White.
• Please BRING YOUR PRINTS to the meeting on an appropriate rigid backing surface. (No frames!) See competition rules for more information.
• The competition will be judged from the printed image during the meeting.
• We are requesting/encouraging members to submit a digital file of their printed image by the meeting time for display on the SPS website.
• The digital version of the printed image is to be sized appropriately; files are to be re-named using the SPS naming convention:
• Firstname Lastname – Image Title
• Digital images are to be uploaded to the links below:
• Black & White images: SPS Black & White Monthly Submissions
• Color images: SPS Color Monthly Submissions

All are welcome to attend the presentation.
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SPS has three standing meetings each month for its members and guests. The First Friday meeting features a guest speaker and a members’ image competition. While competition entries at these monthly meetings are restricted to current dues-paying members, we ALWAYS welcome visitors interested in photography to attend. The Learnshops (Fourth Tuesdays) and Coffee & Critique (Second Saturdays) are intended for members, but again, we welcome visitors. If you attend regularly, we ask that you help support the club (which pays for the rental of the facilities, supplies and equipment) by becoming a member!

Signing up on the SPS Meetup page does not make you an SPS member. SPS members pay dues to engage in many activities that are unavailable to guests who only sign up on the SPS MeetUp.

To find out more about SPS, visit:
www.spsatlanta.org
To become a member, visit:
www.joinspsatlanta.org