Announcements
This past year we were loaded with more Fusion weddings than we could have even hoped for. I’m still in the editing process when it comes to my own clients videos! Recently I spoke at the Inspire Boston conference on video editing and the whole process. It reignited a flame I lit almost a year ago. I wanted that flame to be a bonfire. I had big ideas and a grand plan. I also had no time for it. But now with the editing I’ve been doing and the speaking and workshops I’m giving, that little flame started to burn pretty good. After talking to many photographers I realized there may be a need for an editing service. I mean, how many photographers do you know have Emmy Awards for video editing?
So with the big convention coming up in Vegas I figured I had to do something. So instead of sleep, I’ve been working on simplifying and rebuilding the Click4Fusion site I started a year ago. But this time from scratch. I have one more section to finish, otherwise it’s up and running. And oddly enough, even before the current redo, the Click4Fusion website was getting a lot of hits and visitors. It was actually one of the top 3 referrers to my own website!
So here’s to making it better and growing a new seed in this wonderful world of photography.
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!
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.
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.
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.
I got a little surprise (even though I knew it was coming) in my e-mail inbox today. Triple Scoop Music featured me in their newsletter that goes out to tens of thousands of photographers! I use Triple Scoop Music for licensing all the songs we use on our website, slideshows, hybrid videos, and more. I do not use copyrighted music that I cannot get the rights to use. That’s just stealing. Just like if a musician used one of my photos for their album cover without my permission. Triple Scoop Music is the best solution for photographers.
PS Thanks to the photographers across the US that already called about my upcoming talk in Boston! I may just try and get something online that everyone can see, or maybe I’ll come to a city near you!
I’ve been pretty lucky in the Wedding Photography Directory, Creative Wedding Photo Contest in the past. And once again I managed to pull something off! Since the contest is a “creative” contest I tend to enter things that could be considered creative to the point of abstract. And that’s what I did this time. And it paid off! Here’s the image that made the top 10:
Usually when people look at this image I can see the look of confusion on their face. Some have figured it out, some don’t see it at all. I stood back with my big zoom lens and focused in on the screen inside the videographers cameras eye piece. I had a small view of the back side of the brides face. The black areas are of the video camera. The tan areas are the alter of the church.
I wasn’t the only one surprised this made the top ten. The Wedding Photography Directory was surprised too! Click here to see the winners and finalists.
The Inspire Boston website is up and running! If you haven’t registered already, January 14th is the last day to use the discount code “bpgfriend” and get $50 off the registraion to make it a killer $189. After tomorrow registration is still only $239!!! This includes 2 full days of classes and your meals!
I will be one of the speakers on Tuesday morning. My class will be how we do fusion weddings, from shooting to editing.
This retreat-format conference is hosted by the Boston Photographers Guild and Lens Pro to Go. Sessions will inspire and provide working knowledge that participants may put to immediate use in order to make their businesses more efficient and successful.
This conference is open to all who are interested in professional photography, but is most appropriate for those who are currently working as professional photographers or who are in the midst of establishing their business. We have recruited some of the most successful photographers in the northeast to lead workshop seminars, give lectures, and lead discussions.
This is an amazing opportunity for professional photographers to learn from peers, mingle with mentors, network with friends, and get inspired! The conference is limited to 150 participants, and registration includes all meals so we are all able to fully enjoy the networking opportunities.
You may have noticed a new logo on all my websites. It’s for My Kate Parker Wedding.
Kate traveled all of New England to meet with and hand pick only the best wedding vendors in their area. I’m honored to say that I’m in that handful of photographers.
The site officially launched on January 1st. From Here’s how Kate describes the website:
“myKPW is the ultimate wedding resource and vendor directory developed and designed by a wedding planner for chic and savvy brides and grooms. The website is revolutionizing the way weddings are planned by catering to your needs and vision. With cutting-edge technology, you’ll be able to customize your planning experience by location, budget, style, season, and color scheme.”
It’s a fantastic site just to look at for some wedding planning inspiration. Check it out at http://www.mykateparkerwedding.com
Twas the afternoon before Christmas, and on the TV, you turned on CT Style, and saw RE!
2.25.2010
LOL Richard this is great!! Very nice!
2.25.2010
Thanks Richard! A great way to cap off the conference
2.26.2010
Love it!!!!
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
2.26.2010
I love that you kept JAG in at the end and added Enna! Great!!!
2.26.2010
Fantastic! Love the energy! You did a wonderful job Rich and can’t wait to do it all again next year.
2.26.2010
LOVE LOVE LOVE this RE! Thank you so much for putting the video together, for being you, and for being inspiring!
2.26.2010
Love it! Just made my husband watch it again with me. You’re the bees’ knees.
Thanks again for your help!
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
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.
2.27.2010
Love it!!! You the man!!! Thank you so much for everything you did RE!
2.27.2010
Great video Richard, It was nice to see the good times had at Inspire Boston 2010
2.27.2010
Aw I totally wish I could have made it! Really awesome video!!
2.28.2010
Fabulous! Thanks so much Richard!!