Schedule: Special Events & Highlights
Imaging USA always has some extra-special events—whether they’re new classes, features, parties, or something else entirely! Don’t miss the following new additions:
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An Evening with…Anne Geddes: A Labor of Love
Monday, Jan. 12, 2009
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Sponsored by Epson
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, only at Imaging USA. That’s right, the world-renowned photographer and bestselling author Anne Geddes will join us at Imaging USA. It’s a “Labor of Love” you won’t want to miss as she shares:
- The emotions and attitudes that shaped her life and underpinned her creative drive, helping produce the unrivaled and inspiring baby photography that has made her a household name
- Early childhood memories and images
- The moment she first discovered her calling
- Behind-the-scenes stories from some of her favorite images
- Her current plans, projects, and thoughts concerning photography in the future.
Don’t miss this unique look into Anne’s world—and your chance to ask the wildly successful photographer your own questions—only at Imaging USA.
Ready for Geddes? Learn more about her at www.annegeddes.com.
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Live Demo Kickoff with Hanson Fong.
The Magic of Lighting & Posing (The Lost Art)
Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009
9:00am – 10:30am
Sponsored by Canon
Get real results from this live posing & lighting demo with globally recognized Hanson Fong. Gain the confidence to pose any body, any shape, any time (for both portraits and weddings)…all in a live, theatrical demonstration that pushes beyond expectations.
This intermediate class uses lecture, demonstration, and hands-on posing techniques. The techniques are easy to understand and everyone with walk way with something. Hanson will:
- Demonstrate the Classic 10 pose techniques that he pioneered, allowing you to handle any body type.
- Help you analyze different body sizes, resulting in a proportional balance to each other. It you’ve ever struggled with placing a large body next to a small one, or a tall person next to a short person, his techniques will help you make them all look good.
- Cover lighting and metering techniques to help you create those highly desirable, beautiful, and timeless portraits.
- Highlight bridal poses, fashion, flow posing, lighting control, flow posing, window lighting, illustrative posing, group posing, body proportion balancing, facial analysis, and more!
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All-Day Speed Shoot…with the PPA Board of Directors
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009
9:00am - 5:00pm
Pre-convention Price: $99
Spend the day learning from one successful photographer after another in rotating 45-minute indoor and outdoor workshops. Here is a sampling of the topics you will cover:
Indoor
- Sandy Puc’– Working with Children
- Tim Walden – Relationship Portraits
- Carol Andrews – Bridal Posing
- Ron Nichols – Retouching
- Susan Michal – Moderator
Outdoor
- Ralph Romaguera – Reflectors & Deflectors
- Don Dickson – Window Light
- Doug Box – Off-Camera Flash
- Don MacGregor – Family Portraits
- Louis Tonsmeire – Moderator
See the details on the Pre-Convention page.
Business First – NEW educational track
Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009
Sponsored by WHCC
Now you can get one full day of business-focused education from eight top industry experts. These classes give you new ideas to increase your efficiency, profits, and customer relationships…in ways you might not have realized. Here’s a sampling of topics the experts will cover:
- 7:00am – 7:45am: Julia Woods – Workspace Organization
- 7:45am – 8:30am: Sarah Petty – Framing
- 9:00am – 9:45am: Lori Craft – Customer Relations
- 9:45am – 10:30am: Bev Walden – Packaging & Presentation
- 11:00am – 11:45am: Karen Peters – Employees
- 11:45am – 12:30pm: Angela Carson – Telephone Skills
- 5:00pm – 5:45pm: Carol Andrews – Marketing
- 5:45pm – 6:30pm: Mary Fisk-Taylor – Selling
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PPA Charities’ Celebration and Golf Outing
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009
Golf outing: 8:00am
Celebration at Alice Coopers Town: 8:00pm
Additional fees involved; more details coming this fall.
PPA Charities’ Celebration
PPA Charities hosts a “Celebration” event Saturday evening before Imaging USA officially begins. The celebration event will take place at Alice CoopersTown in Phoenix, just two blocks from Convention Center and features fun, fellowship, and food! The evening kicks off with a VIP Cocktail Hour from 8-9pm. VIP Cocktail Hour tickets are only $35 and include hors d'oeuvres and open bar. The doors open to all convention attendees at 9pm, and the fun continues with the live/silent auction, the check presentation to Operation Smile, and music and dancing. To attend the VIP event, select the PPA Charities Event option when you register online for Imaging USA.
Golf Outing
Join fellow PPA photographers and exhibitors at the first annual PPA Charities Golf Tournament. We will be playing at the ASU Karsten Golf Course in Tempe on Saturday, January 10, 2009 with an 8:00am Shotgun Start. Your $150 registration fee (or $550 for a foursome) will include:
- Golf fee and car fees
- Practice balls before your event
- Custom score cards
- Sparky Club Crest (ASU bag tag)
- Official scoring by professional staff
- Sun Devil Patio Awards BBQ Awards Luncheon following golf
- and more!
Register by completing this form. Visit www.PPAcharities.com/events.html for additional details.
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Certifed Professional Photographer Exam
Held at the Sheraton Phoenix Hotel
- Sunday, January 11: 10:00 a.m.-Noon
- Monday, January 12: 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
- Tuesday, January 13: 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Candidates must contact the Service Center at 800-786-6277, at least five days prior to an exam to reserve a space. Picture identification is required upon arrival at the testing site. Visit CertifiedPhotographer.com for complete information.
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
5:30pm - 10:30pm
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
with Sandy Puc’, M.Photog.Cr., CPP, ABI & Cheryl Haggard
$29 (must be a NILMDTS volunteer photographer)
Seating is limited, to register visit: www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/ProdDisplay.php?id=95
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (NILMDTS) Photographers, new and old, have a unique opportunity to attend an NILMDTS Training Seminar, delivered by our team of certified trainers! Co-Founders Sandy “Sam” Puc’ and Cheryl Haggard will be teaching from the brand-new NILMDTS training manual, so be sure to bring yours along. Here’s a peek into what you’ll discuss:
- The meaning of NILMDTS and why it is so important
- Paperwork – why NILMDTS needs it and why it protects you, the photographer
- Forum How-To’s – covering several subjects on both photographer and family forums
- Hospital procedures
- Working with the Family
- Clothing – for the family and you
- Equipment – what to take with you
- Lighting demos
- Posing
- What to photograph other than the baby
- Recruiting
- Workflow
- Delivery of the CD, Collages.Net, etc.
- Taking care of yourself emotionally
- And much, much more!
Seating is limited, so register early: https://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/ProdDisplay.php?id=95
More about NILMDTS: www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org
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