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February, 2010

RE at Colorati Booth During WPPI

Come visit me at the Colorati booth Wednesday March 10th from 10-10:30am. Just a short appearance! There are 2 buildings for the trade show. Step outside to go to the tented style building, you should see WHCC when you walk in. Then head up the right side. Hope to see you there!


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MS Society at the Society Room

How fitting for the MS Society to have their Taste of Hope event at the Society Room in Hartford.

Hartford area’s finest restaurants and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Connecticut Chapter presented the fourth annual MS Taste of Hope, a food, wine and spirit tasting. Guests enjoyed fine wine and sumptuous cuisine prepared by some of Connecticut’s most renowned chefs.

Just to name a few place that guests were able to sample from:
Berkshire Mountain Distillers, Inc.
BOSC Kitchen and Wine Bar
City Steam Brewery Café
DISH Bar and Grill
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
Peppercorn’s Grill
Stonington Vineyards
The Olde Burnside Brewing Company
The Society Room






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Inspire Boston

Wow. I’m still coming down off a conference high. Usually I leave a conference or workshop feeling a little overwhelmed, unsatisfied, or just feeling overdone with it. Not this time. I left Inspire Boston feeling energized. Ready to go and ready to improve what I do. This was such an intimate conference, not just networking with area photographers, but with the speakers themselves. I was one of the speakers and I didn’t want to just speak this time. I wanted to make myself available to all the attendees even if they didn’t attend my class. This was what Inspire Boston was about. Photographers meeting and helping photographers. It was the best conference I’ve ever attended and/or spoke at. I already can’t wait for next year.


The organizers, Matt and Enna Grazier, ask me to do a little fusion video for the wrap party. I didn’t know if I could pull it off! With the help of Tony Yu and James Federico, I did. With the skills I taught in my Fusion course, I opened iMovie and put this together in 3 hours. It was ready for the 6pm wrap party.




Download or View the high res version here: Inspire Boston Wrap Video

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Aurora
2.25.2010

LOL Richard this is great!! Very nice!

Mark Andrew Higgins
2.25.2010

Thanks Richard! A great way to cap off the conference

cyndi smith
2.26.2010

Love it!!!!

tara
2.26.2010

c’monnnnnn….. that was AMAZING!!!!! SUCH a great job, Richard.

Richard For President, I say.

good on ya. and thank you. times a million.

love.
tara (and ben)
hitched studios

Anne
2.26.2010

I love that you kept JAG in at the end and added Enna! Great!!!

Paul Friedman
2.26.2010

Fantastic! Love the energy! You did a wonderful job Rich and can’t wait to do it all again next year.

Danielle Fuller
2.26.2010

LOVE LOVE LOVE this RE! Thank you so much for putting the video together, for being you, and for being inspiring!

Macy R.
2.26.2010

Love it! Just made my husband watch it again with me. You’re the bees’ knees. :) Thanks again for your help!

Jim Collins
2.26.2010

Richard,

Great job on this piece man. So many great thoughts and faces. It helps that it was a great event, but there’s no question but that you did a great thing in capturing it and putting it together in a way that tells the story.

Thanks for taking the time to do it right … Great job again.

JC

Melissa Coe
2.26.2010

Thank you so much for this RE! You and all of the other photographers are such an inspiration to me and I’m grateful to be a part of such a loving and nurturing community of professionals.

Mattion
2.27.2010

Love it!!! You the man!!! Thank you so much for everything you did RE!

Monty Jessop
2.27.2010

Great video Richard, It was nice to see the good times had at Inspire Boston 2010

Emily
2.27.2010

Aw I totally wish I could have made it! Really awesome video!!

Krista Photography
2.28.2010

Fabulous! Thanks so much Richard!!

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Mercedes Benz Fashion Week: Toni Francesc

Photos from the Toni Francesc show.

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Mercedes Benz Fashion Week – Vassilios Kostetsos

I was invited to photograph at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week this year by Mehron makeup. I was at the show last night for designer Vassilios Kostetsos who is from Athens.




























The designer being interviewed before the show.


The media bullpen. Once the show started you could barely move around. I switched cameras at one point to take a wide shot and I was barely able to get the camera up that was hanging at my side.
























































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Susan Wacht
2.15.2010

Great images, Richard! Thanks for giving us a peek behind the scenes as well as showing us the runway!

Mike romano
2.15.2010

Very cool !!!

Tami
2.15.2010

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing!

VICKI
2.15.2010

FABULOUS PHOTOGRAPHY!!! SOME WILD OUTFITS.

Jacob Bergmeier / NoDo
2.15.2010

Wild Outfits indeed! Thanks for sharing!

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CPPA Court of Honor Award

This was totally unexpected.

During the Connecticut Professional Photographers Associations annual convention, I sat in on my favorite part, the print competition. The competition is judged by certified Professional Photographers Association judges that painstakingly look at every image in the competition and score them. They judge on the overall image, composition, work done to it, print quality, presentation, and more. I’ll admit I had some print issues this year. That’s not an excuse. I fell short on 3 images being at the level I wanted to be at by literally 1 point out of total 100 (I scored three 79’s). 1 Point! One image did make it, scoring an 80. But to me that just meant I could have done better. That’s just me being hard on myself and wanting to push myself further.

Then came the awards banquet Saturday night. All the judges awards were being handing out for, honestly, some amazing prints. Really unbelievable in some cases. Then came the top category of awards. The Court of Honor. This is simply for the best image in it’s category, period. Even if it scored an 80. The judges go back and look at all the images in the category again and narrow it down to their choice of the best image.

This year I’m honored to say that it was one of my images titled “Nerves” that took the most prestigious award given to a connecticut photographer in the weddings category, the Court Of Honor. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the judges.

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robert Norman
2.13.2010

excellent—congrats!!!!

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It’s Time To Vote!

Every time this year I start begging for your votes! This is for the annual New Haven Advocate – Best of New Haven! I was voted #1 for the past two years. Click here to submit your vote: New Haven Advocate Best Of Voting Look for the Getting Married section and fill in the photographer line with Photographer-RE! You will have to vote for more than just one person in one category. It’s easy enough to look through the other sections and fill in some more. Have fun with it!


And of course, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for your vote. I wouldn’t be where I am today without my clients, their family, and their friends.

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Test Your Tonal Color Ability

My wife keeps saying that I have perfect tonal color ability. I can just see colors and tell if they match perfectly. I’ve even gone as far as purchasing furniture, then buying paint to match by only remembering what the colors looked like when I purchased them (no swatches, no paint samples) and ending up with a perfect match. I recently found out about an online tonal color test so I decided to see just how good I am.

Here’s the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test from x-rite that you can take online.

And my results? A perfect score. I got everyone one right. I guess my wife was right!

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Annie
2.11.2010

I got a 4! That’s not too bad.

Alicia Candelora
2.13.2010

I got a perfect score too! This was actually kinda fun for me! :)

Kelley
2.13.2010

It must be a genetic ability!!

robert Norman
2.13.2010

thats downright creepy—

robert Norman
2.13.2010

I tried it and got a 20 – not perfect but not horrible for my age bracket

Lucie Ferreira
2.15.2010

I got a zero!!! perfect score here!

Alastair
2.25.2010

I got 16. Bummer. Not bad though. I put the difference down to my PC and lousy monitors! ;-)
Fun test though. i sent it around to my interior designer friends.

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Boston PUG Meeting Tonight With RE

One again, no, this has nothing to do with the adorable little dogs known as Pugs. This is the Pictage User Group. Tonight I’m headed up to the Boston Pug for sort of a round table discussion that I will be a part of. Tonight meeting is about a couple, Beth and Alastair, who went looking for their wedding photographer. They met with (if I remember correctly) 9 photographers! They are going to tell us about the good and the bad of what they saw, and what could have been done by photographers to make their experiences better. This should be a great topic of discussion!

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Carol Lundeen
2.11.2010

Thanks for speaking at the Boston PUG, Richard. It was a pleasure meeting you and learning more about your work and approach to your business. See you at Inspire!

Macy R.
2.11.2010

Richard, thank you so much for speaking the other night. I didn’t get a chance to meet you, but I really learned a great deal. Thank you for being willing to share and answer questions. You were all great.

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LAST MINUTE CPPA CHANGE! I’M SPEAKING!

For those of you attending the CPPA convention, JB and DeEtte Sallee can’t make it on Monday due to the snow storms. I will be filling in with Jerome Braga! I’m on from 9am-12pm and I’ll be doing my workflow efficiency program. It is at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cromwell, CT. Hope to see you there!

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