Keith Trainor is one of the world's most sought-after lecturers on event photography. He is frequently asked to present workshops here in the UK, on the continent, and in the USA. He is the distinguished holder of the MPA/BPPAwards inaugural Event Photographer of the Year title. And he's a really nice bloke!
Keith Trainor will be presenting his popular workshop, Event Photography – Techniques for Profit, at the www.photomart.co.uk Summer Show in London this June 18, 2008.
It's aimed at beginner and newbie eventers, and those thinking about getting into eventing. The most valuable things it teaches are the business side of successful event photography, the market for work, and how to sell yourself into it.
You'll learn how to find, contact and deal with event organizers – from head teachers to masonic grand masters. You'll learn what to charge, when or whether to pay, and how much. You'll learn the necessity of good workflow, the value of a team you can trust, and all the tips and tricks for wringing the most profit out of the limited selling-window available at each event. And you'll learn how to keep earning from your events, with after-sales of images from your web site.
At Event Photography – Techniques for Profit Keith will also demonstrate market-leading event photography hardware and software, like fast SONY event printers and highly productive ExpressDigital workflow software. He'll demonstrate a portable mini-studio of lights and backgrounds, and show how to meter it. He'll teach practical photographic techniques for creating images with enhanced perceived value. Techniques for posing couples and groups quickly in compelling arrangements, techniques for high-key shots with instant drop-out white backgrounds, and greenscreen techniques for superimposing subjects instantly into fantasy digital scenes.
He'll show you how to incorporate text and logos on your prints, and how to output seven of them a minute! He'll also teach you the value of selling your prints in folders, and of specializing in particular niches that you have special knowledge of, be they motocross events, masonic functions, or even swim suit contests!
This workshop's an absolute gem. It's invaluable. And it's great fun too! At Event Photography – Techniques for Profit you the audience are yourselves the revelers at an event. You are the subjects that get called up onto the background – individually, as couples, and in groups – to have your photos taken and to choose the ones you want. It's not only a realistic scenario, it's also a great opportunity to mix with other like-minded photographers, and a highly enjoyable social occasion.
Event Photography – Techniques for Profit will be presented twice at the London studios of www.photomart.co.uk as part of their SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The first presentation will be at 10am, or alternatively you could attend the second at 2pm. Tickets, priced at just £50 + VAT, may be purchased through the www.photomart.co.uk website. Your ticket will enable you to attend one other workshop at the SUMMER SHOW for free. Book Now!
SONY has been sponsoring photographer education in the UK for several years, and has been particularly involved in the development of event photography. SONY is the manufacturer of the highly successful UP-DR150 fast event printer, and its successor, the UP-DR200 (pictured here).
SONY first entered the photographic market in 1989 with the release of one of
the world’s first digital cameras. Through the years Sony has continued to push the boundaries of excellence with each new addition to their range, including the market-leading Cyber-shot digital cameras and the Sony Alpha DSLR cameras.
It is with great pleasure that SONY supports the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW, and provides one of the world's leading event photographers, Keith Trainor, as speaker and presenter.
The career of successful fashion and advertising photographer, Jon Gray, has already spanned more than three decades. His client list includes, amongst others, Gucci and Saatchi & Saatchi. He's the author of a number of books and DVDs, and now teaches Fashion & Advertising Photography at the American University in London.
Jon Gray will kick off his workshop by introducing himself and showing a presentation from his portfolio. This will illustrate some of the lighting techniques he's going to demonstrate, and will be followed by Q&A.
Then, using a top professional model, in a studio with a rail system and wind machines, Jon will workshop a number of lighting setups – High Fashion with ring flash (Jon will use the latest new ring flash from BOWENS); and Beauty Portrait on a white background (including pointers on how to avoid hot spots).
Jon promises a highly interactive, hands-on workshop, where each individual photographer will get the opportunity to work the model. YOU MUST BRING A CAMERA FOR THIS WORKSHOP!
These workshops are excellent for learning practical techniques you can take away and apply straight away. The Beauty Portrait workshop, for instance, teaches you how to do most of the work in the lighting setup – once that's right, all you have to do is shoot, it's like magic! You also learn more about studio equipment, including some inexpensive and highly effective items – like beauty dishes and tri-flectors – that can make all the difference.
Jon will give two presentations of High Fashion & Beauty Portrait at the London studios of www.photomart.co.uk as part of their SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The first presentation will be at 10am, or alternatively you could attend the second at 2pm. (You should bring your camera to this workshop.) Tickets, priced at just £50 + VAT, may be purchased through the www.photomart.co.uk website. Just click the Buy Ticket button on this page. Your ticket will enable you to attend one other workshop at the SUMMER SHOW for free. Book Now!
Jon Gray's Studio Lighting Workshop at the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW 2008 has kindly been enabled by sponsorship from BOWENS and their UK distributor, CT Distribution.
BOWENS lighting, made in Great Britain, is a de facto standard in studio lighting around the World. With distribution in more than 60 countries, Bowens lighting equipment is used and trusted by professionals globally – photographers on every continent are using Bowens products in their studios.
The origins of Bowens go back more than 80 years to 1923. The company was originally founded as a camera repair firm, which by the 1950s had grown to be one of the largest in Europe. At that time Bowens started manufacturing lighting equipment for photographers.
Their first flash bulb units were produced in 1947 but by 1950 they had already started to produce the first electronic studio flash systems. Bowens led the way in product design when in 1963 they produced the first electronic studio flash unit in a single unit – the monobloc was born!
Over the next three years the company dedicated itself to the design and production of studio flash equipment, Bowens Sales & Service grew out of the Bowens Camera service company and in 1966 they made an appearance at Photokina, showing products and taking the first steps towards global distribution.
The Monolite 400 was introduced in 1968 and this product confirmed Bowens place as a World leader in studio lighting design and manufacture. Since that day products such as Quad, Prolite and Esprit have helped to maintain Bowens position as a favourite amongst photographic professionals.
From the purpose built Bowens factory in South East England, the company continues to produce some of the most innovative, and advanced studio lighting systems available today. Their product selection is comprehensive and offers something for every photographer with the new Quad-X demonstrating a level of technological achievement that is the envy of the industry.
British Travel & Tourism photographer, Ian Brierley, is to present "Endless Summer", his workshop on speculative travel & tourism photography, as part of the www.photomart.co.uk Summer Show in London on 18 June.
Ian Brierley started making money out of photography as soon as he got his first camera at the age of 15. Since then he's travelled wherever he's wanted to, whenever he's wanted to, paying his way through (often speculative) photography. He's photographed Her Majesty the Queen in Ghana, Miss Universe in Trinidad and Tobago and Miss Ghana in Accra, as well as doing an extraordinary range of other interesting and enjoyable work. His photography has illustrated a number of books.
Ian Brierley's SUMMER SHOW workshop, "Endless Summer" will teach delegates how to finance their travel through photography, as a way of life!
At "Endless Summer" Ian will be telling photographers how to do travel and tourism photography as working holidays – how to get airlines to sponsor flights, tourist boards and hoteliers to provide accommodation, and how to sell postcard designs and present other propositions, such as aerial photography, to potential buyers.
The workshop will include an outdoor model shoot with an exotic model, pointers on how to find models overseas, and how to shoot for their complexion in local light. Ian will also demonstrate his own technique for creating "photo paintings" from his images, and will get one of these printed to canvas during the workshop.
When he travels by van, Ian follows horse boxes, and sells event photos at equestrian shows. He'll demonstrate event photography using the ICI Olmec OP1000 PrintBox, and will show his van, fitted with a mobile digital editing suite.
Ian will give two presentations of "Endless Summer" at the London showrooms of www.photomart.co.uk as part of their SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The first presentation will be at 10am, or alternatively you could attend the second at 2pm. (You should bring your camera to this workshop.) Tickets, priced at just £50 + VAT, may be purchased through the www.photomart.co.uk website. Your ticket will enable you to attend one other workshop at the SUMMER SHOW for free.
ICI ImageData is the brand manufacturer behind the highly successful Olmec OP1000 Print Box, the fast 6"x9" event printer favoured by the individualistic photographers of the eventing underground.
With an international customer base, ICI Imagedata, from its global headquarters in Essex, UK, is truly a world business, with more than 85% of its products being sold outside the UK.
ICI Imagedata is one of the world’s leading producers of digital imaging technology, developing innovative solutions in thermal dye sublimation and inkjet printing. Products include high performance photo printers and synthetic papers.
ICI Imagedata is one of the few businesses in the world manufacturing consumables for thermal dye-sublimation, electro-photographic and inkjet printing technologies. Products range from the latest high-quality papers for the fast- growing digital photography market to overhead transparency films.
ExpressDigital's Bryan Osborne first learned his photo-technical skills in service school. He served a long and interesting career as a forces photographer.
On his return to civilian life Bryan stuck with photography. His later career has included being Sales Manager for photo-printer distributor Mitsubishi Electric UK. He is currently UK Sales Manager for the US ExpressDigital photographic software corporation.
In his spare time Bryan is also a serious photographer and a mean tennis player!
Photography workflow aficionado, Bryan Osborne, will be hosting a wine & cheese symposium on ExpressDigital DARKROOM at the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW in London on 18 June, 2008.
In a relaxed class-room setting Bryan will walk photographers through the WOW! factor of this excellent workflow software, concentrating particularly on the SIZZLE! – the essential features that make DARKROOM the killer app for photographers who earn their money by selling prints.
You'll need to bring your laptops to this symposium, as Bryan will have working copies of DARKROOM for you to use to follow him through his informative presentation.
Bryan will be showing you how to get DARKROOM to maximize your output (and your profit!) at events. He'll show you how to use DARKROOM to create prints instantly with templates that include borders, text, graphics and backgrounds – including the digital backgrounds you use with greenscreen effects.
Bryan's symposium has been very well received in the past (just look at the testimonials photographers gave it on YouTube!). And for those who want – having experienced the SIZZLE! – to take their introduction to DARKROOM even further, Bryan will be revealing the date of a special "ExpressDigital 101" workshop, to be held soon after the SUMMER SHOW!
Bryan will give two presentations of his ExpressDigital DARKROOM wine & cheese symposium at the London showrooms of www.photomart.co.uk as part of their SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The first presentation will be at 10am, or alternatively you could attend the second at 2pm. (You should bring your laptops to this workshop.) Tickets, priced at just £50 + VAT, may be purchased through the www.photomart.co.uk website. Your ticket will enable you to attend one other workshop at the SUMMER SHOW for free.
ExpressDigital enables those engaged in the business of photography to maximize profits using technology. ExpressDigital designs products that cater to digital photographers, labs, and large corporate photography businesses.
ExpressDigital has a rounded product offering called Digital Everyday that includes Darkroom software, PhotoReflect.com internet storefronts, Labtricity lab connectivity, and Enrichment business services. The Digital Everyday product offering empowers any size business using digital photography to incorporate a profitable workflow.
ExpressDigital is a leader in the digital photography market and operates on the core values of service, innovation, and knowledge.
Bertus Vos will be presenting the Wide Format and Canvas Printing Workshop at the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW, on behalf of Fujifilm. Bertus worked for Fuji Hunt from 2004 till his move to Fujifilm UK. His early career had been as an instructor at the South African Air Force Central Photo Technical Establishment.
Bertus Vos will present Fujifilm's GreenBox wide format and canvas printing solutions at the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW. In particular he'll demonstrate the Fujifilm ESP software RIP, arguably the single most distinctive component of Fujifilm's GreenBoxes (which are bundles built around Epson and HP printers).
Photographers still sceptical about doing their own enlargements on inkjets should definitely catch this workshop! Mr. Vos will be showing a number of "photo paintings" he printed on canvas for the British Travel & Tourism photographer, Ian Brierley.
GreenBox is a combination of Epson or HP wide format printers with management software, including colour management and imposition tools.
Colour management is vital for perfect first time prints and easy switching of media without loss of image quality, e.g. from photo paper to canvas and back again.
Imposition software enables you to minimise media costs and production time by quickly and easily laying out multiple enlargements and packages across the width of your media. The layouts can be planned for easy cutting and minimal waste.
The GreenBox solution includes a comprehensive training video, support, screen-calibration and printer profiles.
If you're a photography studio, photolab, copyshop or quick printer looking to put in your first large format system, this workshop is for you!
Bertus will give two presentations of this workshop at the London showrooms of www.photomart.co.uk as part of their SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The first presentation will be at 10am, or alternatively you could attend the second at 2pm. Tickets, priced at just £50 + VAT, may be purchased through the www.photomart.co.uk website. Your ticket will enable you to attend one other workshop at the SUMMER SHOW for free.
Fujifilm UK is dedicated to exploring the furthest reaches of technology and continuing towards a dynamic imaging and information future.
Fujifilm UK is a subsidiary of Fuji Photo Film Co Ltd of Japan. The UK Company was first incorporated as a limited company in 1976, having previously been the subsidiary of Fujifilm Germany. The Head Office was in Swiss Cottage, in North West London, but is now part of the extensive distribution and technical operations located to the southeast of Bedford.
Fujifilm UK has a staff of several hundred, of which the vast majority is British. From quite modest beginnings, the business became very strong in the UK. Fujifilm UK has been a market leader for years with their FinePix range of digital cameras. They also supplied almost three quarters of the new digital Frontier minilabs that appeared in many high street shops. Their former core product, photographic film, is still regarded by enthusiast and professional photographers alike as the ultimate in product quality.
