Southern Exposure September 2012 Issue

SUMMER REWIND

FEATURES Victoria Kelly

What I Did on Summer Vacation

Mary Fisk-Taylor

My Family Portrait

Janet Boschker

My Summer Vacation

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.

G. Robert Brown Swan Lake

Heather Bjoershol A Freehand Watercolor of Jasmine

Tammy Bevins Ice Princess

Connie Jarzyna Ethereal Immersion

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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

1st Vice-President

George Singleton george.singleton6@verizon.net

2nd Vice-President

Anthony Rumley anthony@anthonyrumley.com

Secretary/Treasurer

Kevin Jiminez kevinjiminez@aol.com

Salon Exhibition Chair

Jessica Vogel jvogel@shelbywireless.net

Executive Director

Thomas McCollum seppa@comcast.net

***Don Engler Peggy Parkinson

Florida

***Donna Campiz Kaye Newsome

Georgia

***Sally Jackson Spencer Smith

Maryland

***Vanessa Ard David Corry

Mississippi/Alabama

Southern Exposure Southern Exposure magazine is an online publication of SEPPA and is published monthly.

North Carolina

South Carolina

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Tennessee

Article & Ad Submission 5th of each month

Virginia

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West Virginia

***Andrew Lamb Gil Brady ***Paul Wingler Janet Boschker

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On-Line Publication 1st of each month

***Bob Blanken Joe Tessmer

***Clark Berry Greg Martin ***Mac Brown Barbara White ***Sharon Younce Robert Holman ***Brent Kepner Christie Kepner

***state president representative

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South Carolina

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Virginia

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West Virginia www.ppwv.org

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Doug Peninger: SEPPA President ncdoug01@triadbiz.rr.com

SUMMER REWIND WHEW! Summer is gone! Did those precious weeks go by too fast or is it just me? What is so frightening, at least for me, is when I see all the school buses beginning to learn their routes. It is an all too surreal feeling that the holiday season is quickly approaching.

With that in mind, I thought it would be nice to reflect upon one of my favcrite issues of our magazine.

I wanted to take a few moments and just slow it all down. Do you remember the great articles from the September issue of 2011? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. Either way, for this Septmber, here is the opportunity to re-visit the memories cherished by our writers.

I am thankful for such an amazing group of writers whom I have the privieledge of calling friend. They always provide great information for our memberships and they contribute freely to make our organization smarter, stronger and more amazing.

As we begin to enter the Autumn season, I look forward to cool, crisp mornings and the changing of the trees to their autumnal splendor. The new seaon brings about the preview of the 2013 SEPPA convention. Be sure to look for all the information in the October issue of Southern Exposure.

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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Photo Care

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Mary Fisk-Taylor

My Family Portrait

Victoria Kelly

What I Did on Summer Vacation

Janet Boschker

My Summer Vacation

Kevin Newsome Available Light

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PPNC Convention 2013 East Coast School Imaging USA 2013 SEPPA Convention

Pages Art “Football Star” by John Fuller Royal

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Coming in October.....

Your Complete Guide to the 2013 SEPPA Convention in Athens, GA.

On the Cover “The Cuban” By Russell Bauer 1st Place: Men at the 2012 SEPPA Affiliated Judging

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Mary Fisk-Taylor

mary@hayesandfisk.com Twitter @maryfisktaylor

For this edition of the SEPPA magazine I was asked to chat about my favorite summer portrait, portrait session or portrait experience. I have truly thought about this in my typical obsessive-compulsive fashion a lot, and hundreds of images have gone through my visual memory. I thought about all of the amazing children, families and high school seniors we have worked with over the past few months. I remember a few of the weddings that we celebrated this summer. I have lots and lots of images I adore. Lots of portraits that warm my heart because of the beauty or the client’s heartfelt reaction to our capture of their milestones. Yes, I have lots of great portrait memories from this summer.

However, I kept going back to my family portrait image that was actually taken last summer. That for me is my absolute favorite summer time portrait.

It is my husband of 17 years, my then 14-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son plus me. We are standing in typical Hayes & Fisk (not to be confused with the typical Hanson Fong) “look away� pose.

This pose is by far the most attractive and slimming for my family. We are all stacked together in a great triangle fashion and everyone is blocking mom. Perfect picture!

However, we are on really sharp, pointy and slippery rocks on a gorgeous coastline in Maui, Hawaii. We are standing there looking away with really tight grins on our faces and sweat dripping from our brows. Daryl is probably pinching Jax a little too tight in order to keep him in check and Alex is so angry with me because she absolutely hated that dress I made her wear. Mean Mom, that is I. Miserable at that moment that was us.

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I stand properly poised on the rocks. Gripping on for dear life and praying that Jamie Hayes (my business partner and family portrait photographer) will please, please, please capture my wonderful family in this magical place. Honestly, I did not believe for one minute that it could/would happen. It was quite honestly a painful experience.

Now that I have painted a rather dismal picture of my picture (insert clever pun here!) I want to share what happened after we got off the rocks. When I sat down and Jamie shared the images with me, and I looked at my beautiful family in that magical place I really did fall in love. I fell in love with the image, my family and that captured memory. It was a truly wonderful experience. I forgot about the yelling, crying and eternal pleading that had occurred out there on the beach.

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I tell them about the slime and the sweat and even the under my breath curse words. And then I show them the portrait. And then they get it. They understand that it is not all perfection. Pictures do lie sometimes, it takes a little bit of work to get that perfect portrait but the destination is worth the journey.

During the portrait session I will again remind them that I truly get it, I understand that they are frustrated, defeated, hot, angry, whatever, but it will all be worth it in the long run. I think that my family portrait experience, actually I know that my family portrait experience, made me a more empathetic and sympathetic photographer. I take the time to recognize their despair or frustration and help them understand it is perfectly normal, expected and okay to be a little anxious about this part. I know that when they get into that sales room and they look at their images they will forget all about this and fall in love with these memories.

And, it occurred to me, WOW, this is how my clients feel. They feel the agony and the ecstasy of it all. It was truly a learning experience for me on so many levels. Now when I am consulting with my clients and discussing their family portrait session, etc. I talk to them about my family portrait.

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Victoria Kelly

contact: vkelly@victoriakellyphotography.com

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Janet Boschker

How I Spent

What I look forward to every summer is quite simple – the beach. I love spending lazy days watching the waves crash, feeling the breeze, reading a good book… there’s just nothing like it. And once you’ve stayed at an oceanfront house, there is just no other way to go. Early in my career I decided that beach photography would be the way I would make oceanfront summers an ongoing part of my life. I figured if I could book a few sessions, that would pay for it and my only interest was to break even – it was a no brainer – get up at sunrise, do a session and take the rest of the day off! It’s been great, and more profitable than I had imagined.

This year, for something different, I decided to invite a few of my photography buddies from around the country to come and share a house with me. Mostly it was for fun and fellowship, but knowing how we photonerds are, I knew we would go out shooting together. I emailed them a couple weeks ahead and said –“If there’s anything in particular you’d like to do while you are here, let me know and I will try and make it happen”. Of course, there’s always a “Type A” in the crowd and sure enough… “what I’d really love is to get a beautiful girl in a flowing white outfit at sunrise……” REALLY? That kind of sounded like work…..

On the first day as we headed out to the beach, we passed a group of teenage girls… I elbowed Joan and said “there’s your girls!”. Sure enough, she took the bait and asked them if they’d like to model for us….. pointed out the house where we were staying and told them to meet us that evening to make a plan. Guess what? They DID!!

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www.northlightphotography.com jbnlight@aol.com

Of course they had nothing but bathing suits and beach clothes – that wouldn’t work for Joan, so off we went to the Charleston City Market to find some suitable dresses for the girls to wear – many dollars later we had clothing. The next morning the girls were there with their moms in tow – the moms were not too sure about us, but we all became fast friends. We showed them the dresses, they put them on and off we went. It was a blast! The girls kept their bathing suits on under the dresses, so we could change and play and since they were our dresses, we could have them go in the water with no worries about ruining their clothes. At the end of the session, we did some girlfriends shots, which was a huge hit with the girls and all of a sudden it occurred to me…. How many high school friends go to the beach together? How cool would it be to promote a friends at the beach session for my clients that have beach homes? Why hadn’t I thought of that before?

The moral of the story is – be open to experimenting, do something for nothing sometimes so you can just play – we have been exposed to so many things over the years that we may never have done. Ideas that are in the back of our minds just waiting for a chance to surface and bring a whole new perspective to our work.

Next year, I’ll be using the images we took as a summer promotion for rising high school seniors…….. I’m thinking this could be big!

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Kevin Newsome

Available AVAILABLE LIGHT LIGHT Major news networks and magazines have editorial features.

SEPPA is lucky to have our very own Kevin Newsome.

Kevin is featured each month as he shares his latest rant. Some things may hit home, some may be surprisingly poingnant. 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 Moment’s With....” This month, Available Light.

(Click on the title, Available Light, and you will be linked to the video.

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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.

Joe Campanellie This Magic Moment

Elllen LeRoy Dog Daze 24

Meggan Harper A Brand New Day

Randy McNeilly Family Ties

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