All The World is a Studio…

San Diego Photographers! Septembers Monthly meeting speaker is Michael Taylor

Speaker: Michael Taylor
When: Tuesday 10-13-09 @ 6:30 PM
Where: Holiday Inn
3805 Murphy Canyon Road San Diego, CA 92123
Price: Member Benefit. Non-Members $20


Michael Taylor’s passion in portrait photography is the location portrait. This has been the centerpiece of his style since his days as a graduate of Brooks Institute. This style was developed by his work with Paul Skipworth and Skipworth studios. Paul Skipworth himself was greatly influenced by the grand American portrait lineage of Bacharach and Gittings. In this same manner, Michael Taylor works to tell a story about his subject through the use of location and environment.

Through the use of his concept of wall of light to the idea of great lighting from nine to five Michael will greatly expand the WAY and the WHERE you will be able to work to create great images no matter if you are a portrait, wedding or commercial shooter. Through talking about the concepts of contrast, texture, and other visual characteristics he will help to understand how you bring excitement into your image making. Through coming to this seminar YOU WILL better understand what you need to look for to either find or create situations that will make you a better image maker…NOT A LUCKY image taker.

Don't you want to learn how to make images that are great BEFORE the photoshop fix-it.

First print competition of the year

Hello PPSDC

Last nights Print Competition was a great success. We had 35 prints entered for our judges to opinionate over. They did a wonderful job of critiquing the images and gave good explanations for their scoring. Special thanks to Blu Cotton, Janel Pahl and Frank Salas for coming down from Orange County, it is a long day for them.
We had a special guest named Ken Sklute who filled in as an alternate judge, are we lucky or what? Doyle Terry and Wendy Porter Francis rounded out the panel and showed those Orange County big wigs we have great judges here in San Diego. A new twist to our Print Competition set up by the wonderful Debbie Brackmann is that the Moderator will be the same person for the entire year. Roger Daines will be able to keep the competitions consistent and running smoothly, he knows his Print Comp rules. Behind the scene we found Kathy Chin, Lori Lethcoe and Lori Unruh working hard to get those prints in front of the judges, they did a great job! Thank you to all that participated, without your entries we have nothing. Keep entering and learning, we do this for you!!

President Gran