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September 2008 Digital Dogbowl
The 2008 NoBS Inferno Issue
Since some readers of the NoBS Photo Success Dogbowl Newsletter are not currently NoBS members, we thought we would introduce you to a few of the speakers who will be presenting at the 2008 Nashville NoBS Inferno. Perhaps, once you see the high caliber of speakers attending, you may be swayed to take that leap and become a NoBS member so that you, too, can attend the Inferno .
For those of you already making the journey to our mecca of photography seminars, here is your primer on the speakers. If you're not excited yet about what you are about to experience, hold on to your seats.
Rob Provencher
Robert Provencher has been, and continues to operate with his wife Tina, a busy portrait studio in a remote town of 90,000. He has been running his studio for over twenty five years and claims that if he can make it there, he can make it anywhere, and his example could inspire others. Robert teaches many workshops all over North America, throughout the year, and has become known in the industry for his insightful, no-nonsense approach to success in marketing, posing, lighting, and other key areas of success. He coaches many photographers and has a long track record of helping others achieve success with their photography studios, both small and large.
Favorite food: Apples
Hobbies: Motorcycles & guitars
Favorite drink: Cappuccino
Favorite movie: Terms of endearment, Lawrence of Arabia, Band of Brothers
Favorite music/band: U2, Rush, Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughn
James Hodgins
James Hodgins, co-founder of No Bs Photo Success. Since he started his career he has taken the photographic industry by storm. James has proven himself to be an artist in his own right. When it comes to digital workflow, posing, lighting and attitude he ranks with the best of the best and can carry his weight in just about any situation. James has already lectured to over a thousand photographers in his co-presented Digital Bootcamp Workshops. James is an instructor at Niagara School of Imaging since 2005 and they want him back for his third year. He also was the scheduled speaker at the Buffalo, Grand Island one day talent exchange program, St Lucia "Week in Heaven" workshop, all day bridal live model shoot and digital workshop in Phoniex, AZ. The list goes on, and is growing. He has also won many awards with his photography, including national ribbons and the coveted WPPI print competition.
Favorite Movie - Dumb & Dumber
Hobbies - fishing, motorcycling, sniffing white-out
Drink - Yes Please
Food - Well, I don't like Liver, so everything else is A-OK.
Band - Don't have a fav, but anything non-country.
Mama Shan
Mama Shan has been an Adobe Certified Expert and instructor of all levels of Digital Imaging since 1999 at Nashville State Community College. Her photos and techniques have been featured in three books by Katrin Eismann. Mama Shan also was a featured writer for two years at Step-by-Step Design Magazine. She and her daughter Nora are business partners in MsDIG, LLC. Mama has passed on all the shooting to Nora for the MsDIG site, while she concentrates on the instruction of retouching, business and marketing for Photoshop Mama , where she introduced her Photoshop Actions for glamor retouching to the public in January 2007. Mama has over 115 instructional videos on YouTube and Photoshop Mama. Mama Shan brands her down-to-earth style of instruction by saying, "I'm not here to show off--I'm here to show how!"
Favorite movie: Like Water for Chocolate
Hobbies: guitar, drums, gardening, reading
Drink: IZZE soda
Food: Corn Beef & Cabbage cooked in beer
Band: Eric Clapton, Amy Grant
Shelley and Steve Harrington
Steve and Shelley Harrington are a husband and wife team located in Garland, Utah. Steve is the photographer, Shelley is the photo-editor. Also known as 'Team Steve,' this award-winning duo specializes in high school senior portraits. Their work can be found at Steve Harrington . Team Steve would like to add, "We are thrilled to be speaking at the Inferno, as NoBs has been a rung in our ladder to success! Please join us, we can't wait to meet you there!"
Our favorite movie is - Talladega Nights
Our favorite food - Buffalo wings. We can't hit a restaurant without ordering them as an appetizer!
Music - Against hodgy's approval, we really do like Nickelback. So we call it our "guilty pleasure."
Beverage of choice: Mountain Dew for Steve and Diet Coke for Shelley
Hobbies: Steve likes gadgets and his motorcycle. Shelley's hobby is Steve. (? That's all I got. LOL) We BOTH enjoy hanging out with our BFFs from Idaho. You know who you are!
Andy Armstrong
Andy Armstrong is an international award-winning photographer and professional graphic artist based in Knoxville, TN ( Andy Armstrong Photo ). He specializes in portrait photography and fashion/glamour photography. Armstrong’s image, “Don’t Tell Me” placed third overall in the Premier Division of the WPPI 2008 16x20 Print Competition. Andy has worked professionally as an artist and designer for more than ten years. His design work includes products and packaging for such companies as Zippo, Remington, Case, Buck and Colt. In June 2008, he created design|house™, a collection of over 700 Adobe PhotoshopŸ actions, brushes, custom shapes, and styles, as well as hi-res backgrounds, wallpapers, textures, digital mats, and photo objects ( design|house ) It's a complete design|house™ for the modern digital photographer and designer.
Favorite Movie - Forrest Gump
Hobbies - I used to have time for hobbies
Drink - Free Beer
Food - Prime Rib & Little Debbies (sophisticated, huh?)
Band - Aerosmith
Marilyn Sholin
PROFIT with The Digital Art Studio is not about Corel Painter X but about how to make money by selling ART from your portraits and weddings and to increase profits by using simple artistic techniques for creating the products. Marilyn will share sales techniques, products and simple ways of using Corel Painter X plus other unique software to create new easy and great selling products for your clients. She will show you gifts you never knew existed. Many websites and resources will be discussed and shared.You will learn that in creating original pieces of art, the profits go through the roof plus multiple sales of each piece increase profits by having gift items to sell. The one portrait that the clients buys can be turned into dozens of simple sales over and over again using the same portrait. Come to this unique program that has everyone talking about how to make more money from their everyday portraits.
Personal Info:
Marilyn has simple tastes in all she loves and does. As long as Michael and her three cats are around she is happy. To make her happier give her some sake and sushi or red wine or an ice cold vodka martini and she will be even happier. She loves the "blues" and Etta James is always on her iPod. She can't travel without her iPod video which is loaded with movies she has missed and tv shows she catches up on.
Without her laptop she is a lost soul.
Kris Gay
Kris Gay owns and operates Bella Vita Studios, a small home based photography studio in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She began her photography career six years ago by doing what many of us have done to learn- practicing on friends and family! Several years later, she began a small part time business after being turned down for assistant work by every photographer in town. What started as a plan to make some extra money having fun quickly turned into a full time career. Kris started her business with weddings as they fit into her schedule as a full time public teacher at the time. Later, she branched out to portraits, commercial work, and some school and sports photography. NOBS PhotoSuccess has been absolutely crucial to her success by offering the business and marketing assistance she needed to take her business full time.
With a diverse background in professional audio and video sales as well as formerly being a full time music teacher in the public schools, Kris has a technical side as well as a creative side that come together in her love of photography. By finding her passion for photography and then building her photography career later in life, Kris understands the needs of the photographer who builds their business while transitioning from another career.
Kris' goal in her Inferno presentation is to present a unique marketing opportunity to the attendees regarding working with school music programs. Also included in her presentation will be a bonus disc for every Inferno attendee containing the Lumapix Fotofusion templates and Adobe Lightroom presets which have greatly increased the speed of her workflow process.
When not working at her home based photography studio, Kris enjoys spending time with her husband Chad and her daughter Katie. Chad is a middle school music teacher and composer. Katie is a third grader who enjoys Suzuki cello and baseball. The resident studio dog is Lily, a Beagle/Dachshund mix, that keeps Kris company throughout the work day.
Little known facts about Kris include her love of Astronomy and reading science books, Corona beer, and a morbid fascination with sharks. She collects teapots, loves tattoos, and plays about twelve different musical instruments. She currently plays in the local university orchestra in the cello section.
Favorite movie: Can't choose- I like variety. Who has time for movies anyway? I can tell you what I don't like. Horror movies. No blood and gore for me, thank you.
Hobbies: Playing music, Astronomy, reading science books and magazines
Drink: Diet Coke or almost any kind of beer
Food: Spicy or hot
Band: I can't even narrow this down to one genre. I listen to everything from Bach to Metallica to Zappa to the latest R&B and rap. I try to listen to something different than the previous day. I listen to music almost all the time at home. I don't watch TV much.
Why You Should Come To Inferno
Are you still on the fence about coming to the 2008 Nashville Inferno? Here, straight from NoBS members who attended in the past, are the reasons you should come:
"The infernos are a great resource for us. Bruce and I have been there both years and Rob and James take great care in setting up great speakers who offer fantastic ideas and information. The best part of going though is to meet a whole lot of people who are in the same position as you are or have been where you are, no matter what your level of experience. The idea sharing and the ability to connect with a whole lot of other people with similar situations is worth more than the money you will pay to go.
What is holding you back from signing up?
Nicole N."
"Inferno is a must if you want to grow as a photographer.
For that matter, any seminar or NoBS get together is priceless.
The encouragement you get from others, the speakers, brainstorming, networking, putting a face to the names you see hear all are indespensible.
My first one was last years and I jumped at the chance to learn with Steve & Shelly and now Andy Armstrong.
This isn't like going to the traveling seminars where in the end they are mainly trying to sell you there products (I'm not knocking these, you can still learn things) this is a concentrated learning environment.
Get there!
Eric"
"I'm not raking in thousands of bucks every month and I'm still going.... the more we know the more we grow! NoBS isn't like those other snobby forums
Your courage, motivation and enthusiasm will soar after the inferno, you'll regret it if you don't go when it's only 3 hours away from you (I regret not going to Vegas last time)!
Besides, we don't bite... well most of us don't bite and those that do don't really have any teeth. I'm also pretty sure have had all their shots. Curiosity alone trying to sort out who might be toothless should get you there now. heheee
Looking forward to meeting you in Nov.!!!
Melissa"
"You won't regret your decesion of coming to Inferno! You'll love it!
Dan"
If you are wondering just what material is covered and what the Inferno is like, you're in luck. Rob has recently posted video from Infernos past for your viewing enjoyment and learning. You must be a NoBS member to access those videos which can be found here.
We are creating an award for business and photography success for members who have gone through mucho success in the last few years.
I will be handing these out at the Inferno. I NEED 10. Nominate yourself or others, with a short (250 words) description...do it man!!!
Nominate as many times as you wish....
Talk to me....Send me a private message or email me: robprov@hotmail.com
thanks
Rob
If you are trying to keep costs down or want to relive your college dorm days, then this is the post for you. Anyone interested in sharing a room at Inferno, should click here.
Nashville is primarily known as the Country Music Capital of the United States. Here you can find the Grand Ole Opry, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and a huge number of recording studios, including Studio B which was the recording home of such greats as Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, and Chet Atkins among others. There is also a great deal of important American history in Nashville. Chief among the historical attractions is The Hermitage, which was the home of President Andrew Jackson.
If you think you might have time to do some sightseeing before, during, or after the Inferno, check out these handy tips from Frommers .
Yes, you read that correctly. The NoBS Photo Success Hooray Phone Line.
Ok here's how this works. You can call in, you have up to 20 minutes to record your news, ideas, thoughts, hoorays, experiences, positive comments about other members or events or whatever.
No Bs Hoorrayyy Line: Call (214) 615-6044 ext 5290 (Long distance may apply). More information about where this will be posted will be forthcoming. In the meantime, start dialing!
Special Inferno Announcements
If you saw Rob's post regarding the NoBS Hooray line, you undoubtedly heard the first call in. That was from none other than Rob. In that call, Rob has some spoilers for the upcoming Inferno. Intrigued yet? Go have a peek and a listen.
Rob has made several of the videos from the Freestyle Wedding Video System available for NoBS members. To take a gander click this link.
This is a system which many successful NoBS members have incorporated into their own businesses with positive feedback from their wedding clients.
To buy the whole system, go to this link.
The NoBS family recently welcomed Sandy Puc' to its ranks. Sandy is a renowned children's portrait photographer who recently concluded the wildly popular Bellies and Babies Tour. She has a new tour in the works for next year, which you can read about here. Welcome and we look forward to sharing our knowledge and learning from you!
Adobe recently announced the new CS 4 suite which includes a new version of Photoshop. I know that both in class and from emails, I will be asked if now would be good time to upgrade. I always say the same the thing. If you are happy with your current version and can do all the things you need then don’t upgrade. However if you want to do more, have more choices in how you work then maybe it is time. The answer to the question of should I upgrade now or wait is unless the new version is due out then don’t wait. There will always be newer versions on the horizon and with an 18 month release schedule you really don’t have to wait long.
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NoBS member, Ashdownlea, had an upcoming sports team and individual job and needed some guidance with proper outdoor lighting. Moderator Neil Copeland who specializes in just this niche of photography was quick to jump in and give her some guidance on how to best handle this type of lighting challenge. Click to read Neil's advice.
Rob brings us yet another gem in the monthly success interviews downloads. This month he interviews pro photographer Mark Rideout who happens to be a Photodex guru. To listen to this interview, NoBS members can click here.
Resident SEO expert and NoBS member, Rob O. is offering his services at special prices for NoBS members only. To get to the pricing link and details, click here.
NoBS member, peppypea, recently shared how she and her husband constructed an inexpensive and gorgeous blue tin wall which she uses as backdrops in her senior work. To read about it, click here.
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