November PUG Meeting - Gary Fong

World-renowned photographer, entrepreneur, and Original Pictage Lab founder Gary Fong will be visiting our PUG in November for another special combined DC/Baltimore event held in Savage, MD at Love Life Studios. We hope to see you there.

Fabulous Fall PUG - Monday October 19th

Fall is Fabulous! Hope you are enjoying the season and staying busy. We'll be discussing fall/winter promotions, especially family portraits and how you can maximize revenue through the end of the year. Bring your ideas to share with the group as well.

As always there are big updates from Pictage and a preview of PartnerCon in New Orleans November 3-5, including Michael Kress' presentation on Bar/Bat-Mitzvah Photography. If you haven't registered yet, there's still space available! http://pro.pictage.com/community/ppc/neworleans/

Joe Buissink coming to town

Don't miss this free opportunity to see Joe Buissink who will come and give a discussion about the psychology involved behind shooting weddings. Who we are when we shoot an event and how it shows in the work! It's another combined DC/Baltimore PUG held next to Love Life Images Studio in Savage, MD. Hope to see you all there!

New Picnic Details Announced!!

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Please check the Evite for location information and remember to RSVP! Can't wait to see you all there!

SAVE THE DATE! DC PUG BBQ ~~ July 19, 2009

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June PUG - New CEO Jim Collins is Coming!

This month’s meeting will be held on a special day, Thursday, June 11, 2009 at a location to be determined in either Bethesda, or Washington, DC. This will be another combined DC/Baltimore meeting and will feature a visit from the new Pictage CEO, Jim Collins. We’re excited to have Jim back in town after meeting him in April. We are very excited about some of the changes he has already implemented and the promising developments he has in store for Pictage in the months to come. Come meet Jim and pick his brain, or give him some feedback. I hope to see you all there!
- Geoff

Lightroom for Wedding, Event and Portrait Photographers

Here's a great opportunity for anyone interested in getting the most out of Lightroom. Hope to see you there!

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Peter Krogh, Lightroom alpha tester, presents a day-long course on getting the most from Lightroom for the wedding, event, and portrait photographer. The program will focus on safe and efficient workflow, including getting the most from the Develop tools, and streamlining your output and integration with services like Pictage. Make your images look great, faster than you ever thought possible.

The course will cover:
• Shooting for Lightroom - how Lightroom should affect the way you shoot
• Catalog set-up and management
• Efficient Download - we'll look at ways to automate the download process using either Lightroom or ImageIngester Pro

Library Workflow
• Tagging and Grouping Images
• Using Smart Collections to control workflow
• Ratings Workflow - how the built-in keyboard shortcuts were designed to be used

Develop Workflow
• Getting Autoblacks during import
• Work -order for the develop tools
• Finding, Installing and Using Presets
• Use HSL controls to control skin tones
• Use of Negative Clarity for skin smoothing
• Use of Sync and Auto-sync to do batch adjustments
• Use of Snapshots
• Use Virtual Copies to get Color and B&W versions of your images
• Local Adjustments

Batch Output
• Export Controls
• Installing and using Export Plug-ins

Archiving
• What to do with the catalogs and images when you're done

Details
Location:
The seminar will be held in Peter Krogh Studio,
3301 Oberon St.
Kensington, MD

Date:
June 16th - 9am through 5pm

Cost:
Individuals $200
Photographer with assistant $350
Lunch (Baja Fresh) provided

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