JOE BRADY

Joe Brady is the Field Marketing Manager at the MAC Group in Elmsford NY, including X-Rite Color Systems, EIZO Monitors and Sekonic Meters. He is an active member of the PPA and has been involved in wedding, portrait and commercial photography for over twenty years. An award winning photographer and recipient of both the Fuji Masterpiece Award and PPA Photographic Craftsman Degree, Joe has been teaching digital imaging and Photoshop since 1992.

Program 1. Color Workflow for Photographers
Get Prints from your Lab that match what you see on your display!
Tired of getting prints back from your lab or off your inkjet printer that don’t match what you saw on your screen? Then you really need to learn how learn how to easy it can be to set up your computer and monitor to keep this from happening. We’ll show how to soft-proof in Photoshop and apply correction to images before sending them to be printed. While were at it, we’ll take a quick look at some of the great new tools in Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2 to give our images the finished look we all want.
Stop wasting time and money and learn how to get great prints the first time!

Program 2. Light Metering & Wireless Photography
Get perfect exposure every time with handheld meters!
Using the meter in your camera to determine correct exposure is a hit-or-miss activity. Using a handheld light and flash meter will ensure perfect exposure every time and raise the quality level of your photography. We’ll discuss why and how to use a light meter with ambient light and flash photography as well as using flash outdoors as fill light.
Following the use of meters, we’ll show how to control your camera and lights wirelessly so that you don’t have to be behind the camera to get great photographs. This technique will benefit all who photograph children and pets, as these subjects can be much more relaxed when you can interact with them without a camera in the way.
Joe Brady is the Field Marketing Manager at the MAC Group in Elmsford NY, including X-Rite Color Systems, EIZO Monitors and Sekonic Meters. He is an active member of the PPA and has been involved in wedding, portrait and commercial photography for over twenty years. An award winning photographer and recipient of both the Fuji Masterpiece Award and PPA Photographic Craftsman Degree, Joe has been teaching digital imaging and Photoshop since 1992.

Nominations for Officers

During our business part of the meeting we will vote in new officers. Below you will find the find list of nominees. Again I would like to thank everyone who helped run our chapter for their time, talent and effort. It was a pleasure working with you all. I will also be giving out PPANJ credits. I encourage all members to attend so that you can receive them. See you next week.

PPANJ-North Nominations for the 2009-2010 Officers

Pres: David Derex
1st VP (Programs): Mario Cornejo
2nd VP (Membership): Jim Roselli,
3rd VP (Newsletter): Nancy Katz
Secretary: Kathy Harris
Treasurer: David Fishbein

May 20, 2009

Attention PPANJ-North Members
We are coming to our 2008-2009 year end. In May we will vote in new officers for the 2009-2010 year. Below you will find nominees for the various positions. I would like to take this time to Thank all the officers who have unselfishly given their time and worked hard to put together various programs and workshops this past year. Some of them will continue on and some are moving on. I will step down since we have David Derex who graciously accepted the nomination to step up to the President's position. Jim LaSala is moving on to the State executive board. Mario Cornejo is nominated for the 1st VP position and David Fishbein who has been filling the Treasurer's position agreed to continue on. Jim Roselli, Nancy Katz and Kathy Harris are nominated for the other various positions. Thank you all.
I encourage all of you to consider donating your time to help run our chapter. We are very excited about the upcoming year. Our membership is up and we plan to continue to grow and keep bringing informative programs to you. As this is a trying time for most, it is of outmost importantance to be part of a great organization.
If anyone is interested in running for any of the positions please let me know asap so that your name can be added to the list.

PPANJ-North Nominations for the 2009-2010 Officers

Pres: David Derex
1st VP (Programs): Mario
2nd VP (Membership): Jim Roselli, Nancy Katz
3rd VP (Newsletter): Kathy Harris, Jim Roselli
Secretary: Kathy Harris
Treasurer: David Fishbein

Remember... Our Convention is next week and Wednesday, May 20th we have Joe Brady bringin us another great program at Unique. I look forward to seeing all of you there.
Warmest Regards,

Jackie D. Koscinski CPP, AFP
PPANJ-North PresidentElite Photographers4B Wilmot StreetMorristown NJ 07960(973) 540-9650jackie@elitephotographers.comwww.elitephotographers.com

Attention PPANJ-North Members

Attention PPANJ-North Members

Due to our Statewide which will be held on
Monday March 16, 09
we can not hold a regional meeting that close to a
State Program
Don't forget to register for this State Wide
It pormisses to be a great Seminar

See you all there!!
March- Statewide (No regional meeting)
April- PPANJ Convention (No regional meeting)
May - Regular Meeting

Best Regards,
Jackie D. Koscinski CPP, AFP
PPANJ - North PresidentElite Photographers4B Wilmot Street
Morristown NJ 07960(973) 5409650
jackie@elitephotographers.comwww.elitephotographers.com

About our Print Critique !

"Thank you" all who submitted work for our "Print Critique" at our last meeting. Both Prints and Digital files were reviewed by our panel of judges. They gave their opinions and suggestions on what can be done to get them ready for our State Competition. Now it's time to get to finalize your work because the State Competition is right around the corner. The deadline for entry is April 8th and the Competition will be held on April 13th, 09 at the Hampton Inn in Flemington NJ. Everyone is invited to join us at the judging that day. It is very informational and a lot of fun. For more information and to download print competition rules and labels please log onto www.ppanj.com
Have a great day everyone.
Jackie D. Koscinski
PPANJ North President

Thank you! Flint and Terry

Dear Terry Geerdts and Flint Gennari.

I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for misspelling your names. Again I wanted to extend a Big "Thank you" for all you guys do. It is people such as you who help make our organization a pleasure to be part of.
Have a wonderful weekend and I hope to see you at the Statewide.
Best Regards,

Jackie D. Koscinski CPP, AFP

PRINT CRITIQUE JUDGES

The judges will be Michael and Loretta Janis, and Tony Maddaloni.

Michael and Loretta Janis have been in the photography business for forty years. Their first studio was in Honolulu and specialized inadvertising photography. Thirty years ago they settled in northern NewJersey and pursued a career in portrait photography.Over the years, they have been honored with numerous Court of Honors in NJ and NY, as well as four Kodak Gallery Awards, three Fassebender Cups, andthe Mallas Award.After a fifteen year sabbatical from print competition, Loretta wondered whether she still had "what it takes" to compete, and submitted prints intolast year's PPANJ print competition. A Fujifilm Masterpiece Award, an awardfor "Portrait of the Year", as well as a Judges Choice Ribbon left her withlittle doubt that her work is still current, and still worthy.

Anthony Patrick Maddaloni
Master Photographer, Fellow – American Society of Photographers
Anthony P. Maddaloni, Master Photographer, Fellow – American Society of Photographers, was born and raised in New Jersey. A graduate of Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Connecticut, he began photographing and working in the darkroom during his fifteen-year employment as an engineer for a major chemical company. In 1981 Anthony opened up his photography studio, Sunset Photographer, in Nutley, New Jersey, specializing in portraits, weddings and environmental photography. Mr. Maddaloni earned his Master’s Degree in 1993 and a Craftsman Degree in 1995 from the Professional Photographers of America. In 2001 he received his coveted Fellowship from the American Society of Photographers. In the past sixteen years Maddaloni’s images have won countless awards including numerous Loan Collection prints, with seven images selected into the American Society of Photographers Master Traveling Loan collection.
His work has been displayed at Epcot Center in Florida four times. He has won three Kodak Gallery Awards and an Arthritis Foundation Award as well as many state and regional awards including the Fassbender Award from the Professional Photographers Association of New Jersey in 1990 and 1996. This award is given to the photographer who has submitted the photograph judged as Best in Show at the association’s annual convention. Also, five of his prints have been selected for the PPANJ’s Mallas Award, which is presented for the Best Pictorial submitted in their annual competition. In 2001 he was bestowed the title of New Jersey Professional Photographer of the Year by the PPANJ. In 2002 Fuji Photo Film, USA honored Anthony for his Photographic Excellence with the ASP Regional Medallion Award.

FEBRUARY - PRINT CRITIQUE !

Hi everybody, this month we have our "Print Critique", to get everyone ready for the State Competition.
Our schedule is the same as always;
5:00pm dinner at Jose Tejas (647 US Highway 46 West, Fairfield, NJ) phone: (973)808-8201
6:00pm - mingle with guests & members.
6:30pm - business meeting
7:00pm - program.

If you want your prints to be viewed for the judges you should bring your images by 6:00 pm and sign at the moment that you come in. The prints will be judged on a first come first served basis.
Prints must be 8x10 or no larger than 16x20, we will be accepting both digital and traditional prints.
If you are planning to enter the print competition this year, you can not miss this program.
There will be judges with extensive experience in print competition viewing your images and helping you improve them.

We will let you know more information about the judges in the next few days, stay tuned.

See you soon.

Mario Cornejo D.

Mario Cornejo. Thank you !

On behalf of my wife and I, we would like to thank all of our friends and colleagues for all your wishes and good thoughts.

Here is my daughter Gabriela at her 1st month.

Thank you all.

Mario Cornejo.

Mario Cornejo. News about Phoenix !

Hi guys, as all of you know PPA just had their annual convention Imaging USA in Phoenix, AZ.
I had the opportunity to attend this event and let me tell you It was great!
I was able to colect brochures and information from some of the vendors in case any of you is interested I'll be happy to share this information with you.
You can contact me at : info@mcdpro.net
Mario Cornejo.
MCProductions.
www.mcdpro.net

President's letter

Hello all,
Happy New Year!!
I’d like to wish each and every one of you a very Prosperous and Healthy New Year. In these times we hear a lot of complaining about the economy and how bad things are. Well, yes the economy is not the greatest at the moment. We are all facing many challenges and will probably have to deal with many more in the upcoming year. This is why it is very important to look at and focus on the positives and to stick together. Remember there is strength in numbers. This is why we have this wonderful organization, which supplies us with many opportunities to come together and learn, create or simply have fun. I would like to take this opportunity to encourage each and every one of you to take advantage of these great benefits and of this wonderful organization we all belong to. In the past months we have had some great meetings not to mention a wonderful Holiday Party.
In November we had a representative come and speak to us from the NJVLA-New Jersey Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts which is a non profit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal referrals to organizations involved in culture or the arts and individuals involved in any creative or cultural endeavor. NJVLA matches artists and cultural organization clients with volunteer attorneys who assist them with arts-related legal issues such as copyright, contracts, organization formation, taxes on artist royalties and real estate and landlord/tenant issues regarding studio and gallery space, as well as help them resolve many other types of arts related legal problems. Our turnout was not as good as we had hoped it would be but the members who did attend gained a better understanding of how to deal with copy rights and where they can turn to in the event an attorney is needed and the funds are low. I was actually surprised that more members were not interested in this very important topic.
In December we had our Annual Holiday Party. We did something different this year. We did a State Holiday Party, which turned out fantastic. As you all probably know from our e-mail blasts, it was held at the Forsgate Country Club. We had dancing, wonderful entertainment, creative portraits by Flint Gerard and Terry Greerdts with the assistance of Norman Kushner, great food, numerous prizes supplied by our generous vendors such as; Tri-State, Capri Albums….. a big Thank you to all. But the best thing of all was the company of fellow photographers from all three regions. It really was a superb party. Thank you Gene Urban and everyone who helped in the planning process.
January we will not be holding a meeting due to our National Convention. Many of our members are PPA members as well who plan to attend the convention in Arizona this year. It looks like it will be another success.
In February we will have our annual Print Critique. This is a great opportunity for our members to get their work ready for the State Print Competition. We always have three judges who are there to critique but if one listens closely they actually educate and give you pointers on how to enhance your print so that is does well in the State Competition. These prints are then displayed at our Annual State Convention in Atlantic City. I strongly encourage you all to start looking through your work and start preparing for that meeting. As in the past several years we will again be accepting both digital and traditional submissions. Please be on the lookout for e-mails with more information pertaining to that meeting.
Now in March we are planning to bring back the Awsome Auction!!! We held it last year for the first time, which was amazing. Our members brought in equipment and products they wanted to unload…let me tell you we had some unbelievable stuff. I sure was impressed. We held an Auction where we had our members bid on the items they wanted to purchase. Not only was it fun, we all had the opportunity to unload things we no longer needed or wanted and to purchase equipment we did need at a very reasonable price. This year we are planning to advertise more extensively in hopes of attracting students and more of the general public giving our members the opportunity to sell more items.
Please continue to attend the meetings, state wide programs and workshops. We love to see you there and pledge to continue to provide them for you as long as you continue to attend them. I wish you much success and I hope to see you at our next planned meeting.

With warmest regards,


Jackie D. Koscinski
PPANJ –North President

Images from our September Shoot-Out

At our November 19th meeting, our members will be sharing their images created at the September New York City Shoot Out.
Everyone who participated in our September 22nd Shoot-Out is invited to bring his or her images to share at the November 19th meeting. If you have digital files, we will project them for all to enjoy on the big screen.

Regards,
David

November meeting !

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Speaker: Tracey I. Batt, Executive Director of New Jersey Volunteer lawyers for the Arts

Program: Ms. Batt will present a program on copyright, and will describe how the services of New Jersey Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts can be of service to the members of PPANJ

Program schedule:

5:00pm dinner -6:00pm meet & greet - Unique University class room. 6:30pm business meeting 7:00pm – 8:45pm program

Tracey I. Batt, Esq./Executive Director: director@njvla.org
• NJVLA Executive Director Tracey I. Batt came to our organization following two years as Associate Director and Legal Services Manager at Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Prior to that, she practiced law for seven years at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York, NY, concentrating her practice in the areas of copyright and music licensing law. Ms. Batt received an Outstanding Volunteer Service Award from New York’s Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in 2003.•Ms. Batt holds a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, West Publishing Company Award, Law Review); an M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University; and a B.A. in Radio-Television-Film from Temple University (magna cum laude).•Ms. Batt lectures extensively on copyright and music licensing law. She is a Board Trustee of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony and a contributing columnist to the National Law Journal, and starting in January 2009, she will teach Entertainment Law as an adjunct professor at Rutgers-Camden School of Law.

About our october meeting!

To all our members,

On our meeting in October we had Jim La Sala conduct a very educational program. For all of those who could not attend you missed a great program.

We learned masking techniques and photoshop tricks to help improve our images. For those who use photoshop it was a great demonstration.

We expect your comments and until next time.

October meeting

Jim LaSala
M.Photog, MEI, CPP, Cr

WHY SETTLE FOR RED WHEN YOU CAN GET BLUE OR MAYBE EVEN GREEN"

Taking your portraits to the next level.
Using Photoshop to bring you over the top.
No formal studio. No backgrounds. No problem.
"Fluid Mask" Masking Software.
Retouching, Extracting, Montaging, Using New Backgrounds.

This program will demonstrate not only how to get the "WOW " factor for print competition, but by using the same techniques you can give your clients a wider variety to choose from.

About Jim LaSala.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY
Moved to Staten Island and then to Flemington, NJ in 1988.
Opened Strike A Pose Photography studio in 1990.

We specialize in:
Fine Art ,

Portrait
Electronic Imaging

A list of some of the awards presented:

(8) Fuji Masterpiece Awards
(1) Kodak Gallery Award
(8) Loan Collection Images published
(2) ASP Awards
(2) Traveling Loans
(3) General Book Images published
(1) Epcot Image

Numerous State and National Awards:

New Jersey Photographer of the Year
Best Portraits
Best Electronic Images
Best Illustrated Images
Top Scoring Photographer for New Jersey
Fassbender Award (Best in Show)
Zeltsman Award (5 Times)
Mallis Award

Join us this october 15, 2008

5:00pm �dinner �Jose Tejas �647 US Highway 46 West,

Fairfield, NJ 07004 �973.808.8201
6:00pm �mingle with guests & members
6:30pm �business meeting
7:00pm �program

See you there.