Our current location is being renovated!
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Please note:
January through March 2012
PPLAC will hold its monthly meetings across the street from the Veteran's Memorial Building
at the: Culver City
Senior Center 4095 Overland Ave Culver City, CA 90230
Networking: 6:30 p.m.
Program: 7:00 p.m.
Members: Complimentary
Non-Members: $20
No reservations.
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Thinking of joining PPLAC?
We'll gift new members either Scott Robert Lim's Lighting secrets online presentation OR a Layer Cakes DVD worth $149. |
Sign up to get on our Photo Safari email list.
Some of the awesome locations planned include the Santa Anita race track and Huntington Library, Morro Bay, Downtown L.A., and Death Valley.
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$$ Fundraising $$
Door Prizes - Lots of surprises!
Don't forget to get your ticket!
Live Auction - Spider Camera Holster
Silent Auction:
New Version 7 Perfect Resize by onOne Software- Retails for $250; starting bid $125.
Layer Cake DVD Collection: Retails for $600; starting bid $175.
Brookstone MUVI Micro DV Camcorder: The world's smallest DV Camcorder; starting Bid $25
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PPLAC IS A PROUD
AFFILIATE OF
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Board of Directors 2012
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President
Bob Young
1st Vice President
Program Director
Mel Carll
2nd Vice President
Membership Director
Marcia Gold
Treasurer
Sharon Lobel
Secretary, Editor
and Photographer
Rae DeVito
Digital Photographic
Competition Chairperson
Chuck Behrman
Communications Director
(Website and Newsletter)
Alicia Bravo
Fundraising Chairperson
Jim Akers
Hospitality Chairperson
Ellen Close
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Board Meetings are held on the 1st Wednesday of each month. For more info, please email a board member. Contact info is available at pplac.com.
Note: PPLAC's financial report is available upon request to all members in good standing. Please contact the Treasurer.
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If you have any comments or questions regarding our website,
newsletter and/or email blasts: Email Alicia Bravo:
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Greetings!
Wow! Just when you thought things couldn't get better with our open house, along comes the first of four Digital Photographic Competitions. What a night it was! We had 68 entries and 28 merits---- congratulation to all (even if you didn't merit). Folks, let me remind you that this is a great learning tool. Everyone I talk to tells me that their photography has improved since they started entering; it's the only way to get real feedback.
An exciting year is coming up with all of the new cameras and related toys. Nikon has unveiled the D800, a new camera boasting a 36.15 million image pixel full-frame sensor and--- now there's talk of a D700 with more pixels. When will this madness end! Canon has something up its sleeve for sure. Lexar's highest-performance compact flash to date, the Professional 1000X, is about to ship with 129MBs (now that's fast), and don't forget Adobe is going to release CS6. Don't know about you, but my head is spinning.
On a final note, this ship can't sail with just a Captain and a small (but efficient) crew: We need help. Think you're up to the task? Give one of your board members a call and offer to volunteer.
See you at this month's meeting with Ed Freeman and his "Computer-Enhanced Image Magic"!
Cheers,
Bob Young PPLAC President  |
March Meeting:
Photographer and Photoshop Magician
Ed Freeman
Thursday, March 22nd
Zoom in on Photographer Ed Freeman
"Computer-Enhanced Image Magic"
Prepare for a fast-paced and informative evening... with photographer Ed Freeman! Ed Freeman has built a reputation as a creative individual who works with cameras and Photoshop in equal measure. His computer-enhanced images range from the undetectable to the outrageous and all steps in between. In this lecture, Freeman will show before and after versions of various pictures and detail the process of putting together the final product. His many years of teaching have given him the ability to explain the most complicated procedures clearly and simply, and he is unabashedly enthusiastic about sharing his knowledge and techniques. 
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February Meeting Recap:
Hats off to all of those involved in last month's Digital Photo Competition! A special congratulations to our winners:
Thanks to our insightful judges: Paul Speaker, Nancy Speaker and Cayce Newman.
Best of Show:
"Iris in Bloom"
Karen Nakamura
Best of Class:
Nature Category: "Pretty Boy"
Jim Akers
Landscape Category: "At the End of the Day"
Bob Young
Portrait Category: "In my Father's Hands"
Ramiro Gaytan
Wedding Category: "Beauty by the Tree"
Ramiro Gaytan
 Electronic Art Category: "Swimming in Time"
Marcia Gold
Kudos to our DPC Team: Bob Young, Alicia Bravo, Karen Nakamura, Chuck Behrman, and Sharon Lobel.
(Photography by Rae DeVito)
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News
Congratulations to PPLAC member Irene Benavente. Villa Del Arte Galleries of Barcelona, Spain invited this fine art photographer to participate for a second year in the Palm Beach Art & Antique Show q held last month. Her distinctive, striking, floral photographs are created in her studio with a traditional, large format camera and transparency film.
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Kudos to PPLAC Past President, Amy Cantrell, for her Master Class at WPPI in Vegas last month. Amy's presentation, "Portraits- Bring Out the Best", shared her secrets for snapping super shots of every subject who steps in front of the camera.
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Clay Blackmore's How To Photograph Everyone Tour (www.photographeveryone.com) is coming to LA. Catch this Canon Explorer of Light program on March 29th running from 6 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. with a mini-tradeshow starting at 5 p.m.
PPLAC members get $10 off the $69 price with discount code "PPLA". Clay will also have a masterclass on March 30th from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. limited to 20 attendees. PPLAC members: use discount code "PPLA" to get $10 off the $199 seminar.
____________________________________________________________ PPLAC Members:
If you'd like your professional photography event or honor considered for our next newsletter, send a SHORT blurb and 1 small jpg photo and/or website link by our deadline (the 20th of each month) to:
Rae DeVito at:
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