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Each month, Southern Exposure magazine will feature images from the annual affiliated judging. All images in the “Gallery� scored 80 or higher and have earned a credit toward the SEPPA degree (SPF). Loan collection images earn one additional credit.
Joy Batchelor-King China Dolls
Sam Gray Impressions
Julie Hughes The Homecoming
Mario Munoz Celebrate
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Chairman of the Board
Mary Alice Ross maryaliceross@gmail.com
Delaware
President
Doug Peninger ncdoug01@triadbiz.rr.com
District of Columbia
***Paula Mignogno Peggy Parkinson ***Anthony Marill Bob Blanken
1st Vice-President
George Singleton george.singleton6@verizon.net
Florida
2nd Vice-President
Anthony Rumley anthony@anthonyrumley.com
Georgia
Secretary/Treasurer
Kevin Jiminez kevinjiminez@aol.com
***Sally Jackson Jill Stringfellow
Maryland
***Vanessa Ard David Corry
Salon Exhibition Chair
Jessica Vogel jvogel@shelbywireless.net
Executive Director
Thomas McCollum seppa@comcast.net
Southern Exposure Southern Exposure magazine is an online publication of SEPPA and is published monthly.
***Donna Campiz Kaye Newsome
Mississippi/Alabama
North Carolina
***Andrew Lamb Gil Brady ***Paul Wingler Janet Boschker
Editor Doug Peninger NCDOUG01@triadbiz.rr.com 336-883-7104
South Carolina
Ad Sales & Business Manager Thomas McCollum seppa@comcast.net 888-272-3711
Tennessee
***Shannon Mercer Greg Martin ***Mac Brown Barbara White
Article & Ad Submission 5th of each month On-Line Publication 1st of each month
Virginia
***Sharon Younce Robert Holman
SEPPA
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West Virginia
***Brent Kepner Christie Kepner ***state president representative
Additional information of state events within the SEPPA Affiliate can be found using the state links below. Please view their websites by clicking on the web address and you will be re-directed. Delaware www.delawarephotographers.com
District of Columbia www.ppsgw.org
Mississippi/Alabama www.ppma.net
North Carolina www.ppofnc.com
South Carolina
Florida
www.ppofsc.com
www.fpponline.org
Georgia
www.gppa.com
Maryland www.marylandppa.com
SEPPA is a regional affiliate of Professional Photographers of America and hosts an annual District Image Judging. To learn more about PPA, click the PPA Logo.
Tennessee www.tnppa.com
Virginia
www.vppa.org
West Virginia www.ppwv.org
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Doug Peninger: SEPPA President ncdoug01@triadbiz.rr.com
Ahhhhhhh, Spring Is your car green? Are your allergies kicking in? Are you mowing the grass every other day just to keep up with the rapid rate of growth? If you answered yes to these questions, then you are well aware the season of spring has sprung. Of course, in my mind, I keep asking, where was winter? But, I digress. I love this season. So many new and exciting things happen. You see neighbors that have been locked up for months. The deck furniture gets a good cleaning as you prepare it for warm evening celebrations. All the early flowers make their appearnace as they welcome you down long walkways and terraces. With so much happening, I want to encourage you to browse our pages. This month we feature four wonderful contributors with new ideas and products. There is something for everyone. So, dust off the cobwebs of winter and get ready to learn. Be sure to try and implement at least one new idea this month. You will thank yourself! Happy Spring!
Doug Peninger SEPPA President Editor
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The SEPPA Board of Governors, at the 2010 meeting in Franklin, TN, approved the all new SEPPA Degree Program. The Southeastern Photographic Fellowship is now a reality! You can earn your new SPF Degree in two categories. The orange ribbon is earned with a concentration in print credits, the purple ribbon with a concentration in service to the organzation. The requirements for both options are completed with education and/or service credits. You may also achieve both Degrees, signafied by a purple and orange ribbon. SEPPA will post the Credit Chart and submission forms at a later date. Be sure to check back. All events, beginning April 1, 2010 will be eligible to submit for credit.
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Victoria Kelly Kevin Newsome
Jamie Hayes
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Victoria Kelly
vkelly@victoriakellyphotography.com
I always look forward to wandering the trade show floor at Imaging USA...there’s always something new tucked away in a booth and I’m never disappointed.
This year’s little treasure is a graphics venture called “GingerMoss”, combining the best of both worlds: a designer with a love for all things vintage and a photographer interested in offering her clients new goodies they won’t find anywhere else. I spent quite a bit of time talking with Jill, the graphics side of GingerMoss, about her designs and inspiration. Turns out she has a fondness for OLD things: frames, doors, envelopes...and as soon as I saw the sample album in the booth I knew the collection had to be mine.
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Not only were they offering album templates and cards, they were offering textures in two color groups to complement the templates. One of the things I liked right away about the album templates is that I can rotate the selection if I need vertical frames instead of horizontal...and if I need to flip the entire page to better suit my images, I can do that too without worrying about misplaced text. Jill also uses a different technique to load images into the templates--instead of clipping masks, I used the “paste into” process to get my images into the frames.
The textures are also fun to play with--they are separated into color groups--blues and brownsyellows, and they’re sized appropriately so no worries about losing the integrity of the texture when resizing for a specific image...and of course you can change the entire look of the texture with the blending mode you choose. The collection I picked up at Imaging was very robust: 35 album templates, 13- 5x7 card templates and 65 textures. You’ll want to visit the GingerMoss website at http://www.ginger-moss.com to see the album templates and textures so that you can offer up something new to your clients this spring...because as we know, everything old is new again!
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Are you a “FACEBOOK LIAR?” Kevin is featured each month as he gives us his latest rant. Some things may hit home, some may be surprisingly poignant. When it’s all said and done, it’s just Kevin’s opinion and he thought he should share it. We, at Southern Exposure, hope you will enjoy this month’s installment of “A Few Moments With...”. This month, “FACEBOOK LIAR?”. (Click on the title, FACEBOOK LIAR, and you will be linked to the video.) Sadly, this will be the last installment from Kevin, unless we can really twist his arm. Let him know your thoughts and convince him to do more. It has been a true delight to have him as part of the team.
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Jamie Hayes
Fixing the Droopy EYE Sure we can use PhotoShop to correct facial irregularities, but it’s more fun to use good old fashioned posing and lighting instead! A simple facial analysis of your subject will tell you everything you will need to make any face more symmetrical. I have a little ritual I do before I take the first exposure. First, I place my subject directly in front of the camera, shoulders parallel with the plane of the camera’s sensor, at a height so that the center of the camera’s lens is even with the center of the nose. This allows me a view of the face that is not influenced by camera perspective. In other words I want to see the face with all flaws unbiased by camera or subject angle. In Photo 1 of Mr. Jacobs you will notice that his right eye is droopy and much smaller than his left. Also for this camera height he has a pretty significant receding hair line.
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Next I turn the subject to the right, my left, and look at how proportional the eyes, ears, nose, lips, cheeks and the jaw line are to one another. It’s all about making as many facits of the face as even or proportional as possible. I repeat this process again with my subject turned in the opposite direction and again look for symmetry. The results are shown in Photos 2 & 3. Although turning Mr. Jacobs to the right, his left, helped open up his smaller right eye, it is not as symmetrical as I would like in relationship to his other eye. Neither of these camera angles corrected his hair line issue. Lastly I choose both a slightly higher and lower camera perspective to check the relationship of the size of the forehead to chin ratio. Usually a slightly higher camera angle is always better than a lower one as a lower camera angle usually adds weight to the face. This, in my opinion, was the best camera angle for Mr. Jacobs as it opened his right eye the most, allowing both catch lights to reflect off of the moisture of the eye, thus making the eyes look more even and again symmetrical. In the final Photo 4 not only are his eyes even but from a higher camera angle I have given him a little more hair on the top of his head. This was my favorite camera angle and perspective. There is nothing wrong with having your retoucher do a little adjustment to different planes of a face to make it more even, even perfect, but its more rewarding knowing that you can use good posing and lighting techniques before technology.
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Want to learn more posing and lighting techniques? Join Mary Fisk-Taylor and myself at East Coast School in July, we will solve any problem live in class, hope to see you there! t
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July 15th ~19th 2012 Hanson Fong Jen Hillenga Ken Sklute Louis Tonsmeire Jr. Phil Scarsbrook Clark Berry
Business, pleasure, and a lot of learning! Classes start July 15th 2012 on the campus of the University of South Carolina in the capital city of Columbia South Carolina. Register now at:
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GALLERY GALLERY
Each month, Southern Exposure magazine will feature images from the annual affiliated judging. All images in the “Gallery” scored 80 or higher and have earned a credit toward the SEPPA degree (SPF). Loan collection images earn one additional credit.
Robert Harper Grandview Great Blue
Sandra Pearce Easy Prey
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Jeff Gulle Homeward Bound
John Michael Laney Loved by a Little Girl
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