THE INDIANHEAD PHOTOGRAPHER · Feb 8th, 2016 Meeting Notes The February meeting will be held on Feb. 8th, 2016 ... encouraging thing we could ever do for ourselves to consistantly

INDIANHEAD PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION February 2016

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!Feb 8th, 2016

Meeting Notes

The February meeting will be

held on Feb. 8th, 2016 in Colby, WI

9:00 Board Meeting 10:00 Image Competition

Specified Category

12:00 Lunch & General Mtg

Speaker: Ken Martin “Taking Your Landscapes

to the Next Level”

RSVPDeadline: Noon Feb 4th

Host: Stu Glaser Phone 715-341-1508

Email: [email protected]

!Meeting Cost:

$30 RSVP Members $40 at the Door

$50 RSVP Non-Members $75 Non-Members

after the deadline date

***Those having special dietary needs MUST let host

know by Feb 4th.

THE INDIANHEAD PHOTOGRAPHER

Ginny Otto, Editor

January Gold Arrow

The Indianhead Professional Photographers Association holds a competition each of the 7 months they meet per year. Members must attend the meeting, and may enter up to 2 images Jan - Feb - Apr- May & June of each year. There is a specified category offered, along with an open category each of those months. Four images may be entered in an open category in Oct and Nov, with the Nov meeting being our Pre-State/District competition in preparation for upcoming State, District and International competitions. Please join us in entering your best images. Your efforts will surely help to improve your skills and the images you offer your clients.

“Scaling the Wall” by Stu Glaser

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Thank you to our host Stu Glaser, and welcome to our new 2016 Board members. Thank you for volunteering your services for the upcoming year. Being a member of the board helps you to understand and learn what goes on inside the organization, and is an opportunity for you to be more engaged, as well as building closer friendships with the other photographers. We would love to have you join us in filling a position in future years. Your input is important to us. #

Our congratulations to Stu Glaser and Chris Vander Velde in receiving their Indianhead Fellowship Degrees and to all those who earned gold bars for their time, services and competition throughout the years. We are so proud of you and thank you all so much for giving so much to our organization.#

We wish to also congratulate Stu Glaser and Chris Vander Velde for receiving their 2015 Gold Photographer Awards, and Ginny Otto for receiving a Silver Photographer Award, as well as her Craftsman Degree at Imaging USA held in Atlanta, GA recently. #

Congratulations to John Hartman for receiving an ASP Honorary Educational Associate Award.#

The motivational speaker this year was Amy Purdy, a young woman who lost both feet from Neisseria Meningistis at an early age in 1999. She beat all odds and overcame her life threatening illness and loss of feet, both kidneys, and her spleen, returning to the slopes with her own custom designed and built feet to become the 2014 Paralympic bronze medal. You may know her from her recent performance on Dancing with the Stars, taking second place in the competition there, or The Amazing Race in 2012. It was unknown to us how much she has done to give back all over the world. She is the co-founder of Adaptive Action Sports to help other individuals with disabilities do the things they love. Her love for photography is also an important role n her life, wishing she could have taken in the convention alongside us. #

We are proud of our members who entered and received merits and awards this year in the 2015 IPC Competiton. Remember that you, too, can be a winner. It’s starts here at IPPA. The judges help us all to improve not only our competition work, but our every day work as well. It is important for all of us to concentrate on the little things that make our business a success. I always told myself that if I couldn’t go back one year and look at my work and say, “Yuck”, I failed myself in progressing in my field. Looking back at our old work is sometimes discouraging, however, it can be the most encouraging thing we could ever do for ourselves to consistantly improve. #

I challenge each of you to enter our monthly competitions, whether you be new, or have your Master’s Degree. You can only gain in the process. It isn’t about being better than the next one, but rather, to be better than you were before.# # # # # # # # # #

# # # # # # # # # # # Ginny

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Indianhead Professional Photographers Association - General Meeting Minutes January 19, 2016 - VFW Hall, Colby WI !!

Call to order: 12:20 pm by President Tom Giles !Present: Tom Giles, Paul Hafermann, Stu Glaser, Helen & Kirk Kolpitcke, Laurie Hansen, Chris Vander Velde, Gloria Anderson, Neil Geiger, Ted & Carol Thompson, Pat & Carol Clifton !Secretary’s Report: Motion to accept by Pat Clifton, Stu Glaser seconded, approved !Treasurer’s Report: No report, Phil Ziesemer unable to attend, report to be shared online !Membership Report: Gloria Anderson from Green Bay, WI approved & welcomed as new member !Newsletter: All items for newsletter due to Ginny Otto by Wed January 20. Shortened deadline due to change in meeting date. !Fellowship Report & Rewards: !Neil Geiger 1 Bar – Total 6 Bars Tom Giles 2 Bars – Total 19 Bars Stu Glaser Fellowship Ribbon + 1 Bar Paul Hafermann 2 Bars – Total 10 Bars Helen Kolpitcke 1 Bar – Total 5 Bars Ginny Otto 3 Bars – Total 21 Bars Chris Vander Velde Fellowship Ribbon Phil Ziesemer 1 Bar – Total 7 Bars !Chris Vander Velde 2015 Photographer of the Year Chris Vander Velde 2015 Image of the Year for “Midnight Crossing” !Special Service Award: No nominations received. Reminder from Pat Clifton that a member may receive this award more than once !PPA Report: Imaging USA, recently held in Atlanta, was attended by members Ginny Otto, Stu Glaser, Chris Vander Velde, Laurie Hansen, Gloria Anderson & Tom Giles. Ginny received her Craftsman Degree as well as a Silver Medal for IPC. Stu Glaser successfully passed his CPP exam taken during Imaging and Stu Glaser & Chris Vander Velde both received a Gold Medal for IPC. Congrats to all! !WPPA Report: March 11-14, Chula Vista Resort, Wisconsin Dells. Spring Convention speaker schedule released. Early Bird registration opened today. Print Comp will be held Saturday night. A party room will be set up with a live feed of the judging. Room rate info will be released by end of the month. Paul Hafermann will forward additional info on to Tom Giles to share with our group. !Old Business: None !New Business: None !Scholarship Monthly Drawing winner: Kirk Kolpitcke !Next meeting: February 8, 2016 – VFW Hall, Colby WI Speaker: Ken Martin – Landscapes !Pat Clifton moved to adjourn at 1:05 pm !Respectfully submitted, Chris Vander Velde, IPPA Secretary 2016


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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

I hope all of you had a busy Fall and did well with Families and Children for greeting cards and portraits for Christmas gifts. My Fall was slower in that regard than I would like, but I did more music groups and the high schools in Eau Claire than there was time to finish doing the imaging, printing and delivering them back to the school. By Christmas, I was worn out and glad to know there was a break in my business so I can get caught up and have a chance to catch my breath.!!The week after Christmas, I left for Boulder and spent 10 days with my daughter Megan and her family. Of course that means I went out to spend time with my Grandson Hayes. I had a wonderful time, got more sleep than I get at home, which help my body do some recovery from my crazy December. I also was able to get out four days for some skiing in the mountains. Hayes has been in ski classes since last January (all through the summer too) in an indoor ski school for children 10 months old and older.

He improved so much since I last skied with him last winter. He still has to learn how to turn, but he has amazing balance for a 28 month old. He skis in the morning and snowboards in the afternoon. Just ask me and I am more than happy to show you a video or two or 50 of him on the slopes.!!I left Boulder for Atlanta and Imaging USA. The programs were very good and included everything from New Borns, Children, Family Groups, Photoshop Classes and then there were also people giving programs in the Trade Show. Julieanna Kost from Adobe is an excellent teacher and has so much to offer that would easily help all of us. I would love to do a full day with her at imaging or just about anywhere. If you are not familiar with her, here are a couple of links that you can find out more: www.j.kost.net or at www.facebook.com/julieannakost!!Hope you have spent some time looking ahead and planning what you will be doing this year. Will you be doing any promotions? Advertising, Direct Mail, Email Marketing, Facebook Ads, Google Ads? There are many ways to let people know….so how will you let them know about and winter promotions, senior specials, fall family special dates, or whatever you decide to do?!!Hope up have and amazing 2016. Congratulations to Chris Vander Velde for being IPPA 2015 Photographer of the Year and for Image of the Year.!Also hope you will join us on Feb. 8th (the day after the Super Bowl) in Colby for our next meeting. Ken Martin will be doing a program on How to Make Your Landscape Photographs Look Better.!!See you in Colby on Monday, February 8th, Tom!

TOM GILES

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“Majestic” 79/79 Gloria Anderson **First Entries

“Passage to the Past” 79/80 Chris Vander Velde

“Loving You” 76 Neil Geiger

“Berries” 78/78 Stu Glaser

Judges: Pat Clifton, Neil Geiger, Tom Giles, Paul Hafermann, Kirk Kolpitcke - Alternate Chris Vander Velde Foreman: Tom Giles Print Chair: Stu Glasser Score Keeper: Helen Kolpicke

JANUARY - “OPEN” CATEGORYGOLD ARROW AWARD

“Scaling the Wall“ 80/81 Stu Glaser

“Come Fly with Me” 78/78 Gloria Anderson ** First Entries

“Freedom Isn’t Free” 77 Chris Vander Velde

“Used Oil Can” 80 Neil Geiger

“LIFE PASSAGES” # CATEGORY


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3D Photographic Imagery – Part 2 by Stu Glaser

I was introduced to “do it yourself” 3D transparency during college and after graduation I bought a used Stereo Realist twin lens camera to take more stereo images without the need for my homemade camera platform nor the tedious developing and mounting process.

Now I could shoot both left and right photos simultaneously and then send the exposed COLOR slide film off to Kodak and receive stereo mounted images ready for viewing. It was pretty exciting waiting for those slides to return !!!

These Kodak stereo slides could be viewed in a variety of ways. Viewing through my homemade device (mentioned in Part 1 in November’s newsletter) or a cheap slide holder that also was aimed at a light source. I then had a self contained viewer with its own built in light source. The alternate way that eluded me was a 3D stereo projector for wall projection viewing for an audience wearing polarized glasses.

To explore and create slides of depth was a new thrill for me. A joy of creativity that I hadn't experienced since my first image appeared in a dark room swishing a paper in wet chemicals!

The Stereo Realist Camera

The Stereo Realist camera was invented by Seton Rochwite and manufactured by the David White Company of Milwaukee from 1947- 1971 and sold for about $159.00. Put in the hands of professionals and amateurs this stereo camera provided the ability to produce stereo color slide transparencies. To photograph with the Stereo Realist one would lift the lens cover, focus, manually set the aperture and shutter speed, cock the shutter and then take the picture. The wind release button must be depressed briefly while beginning to wind the


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film to the next frame. The film winding is then completed so that the camera is ready to shoot another pair of images. The 135mm Kodak ASA 10 (later 25 ASA) transparency exposed film would be processed. Metal, plastic or paper dual stereo masks, cutters, slide mounters, viewers, projectors, etc were manufactured and made available for the processed film to be made into stereo slides by the photographer.

The Competition

The Stereo Realist system proved so popular that several companies, such as Revere, Bell and Howell’s TDC (Three Dimension Company) and Kodak came out with their own cameras using the same format. The Kodak came out 7 years after the Stereo Realist but at half the price and sold very well almost eclipsing the Realist in total sales.

3D Stereo Images, Who used it and Why

Although costly for the time at $159.00 the Stereo Realist camera was unique and began to be used in a variety of ways. The amateurs used it to share their photos shot in 3D of family, vacation and family functions. The professionals used it as a way to expand their offerings as pros and to make profits. Photographers of various ilk produced stereo images to cover events (weddings, business functions), international travel and images of the, less say….more erotic in nature. Professionals found work within the commercial, educational, governmental and scientific arenas.


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Marketing and Marketing and Marketing

What I find the very interesting is how the Stereo Realist was marketed to the public through a barrage of print ads in various forms. Ads targeted the ease and excitement of the new technology.


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KENNETH MARTIN

Speaker Kenneth Martin will be presenting a program entitled “Taking Your Landscapes to the Next Level”. Kenneth loves to travel and capture landscape images on his visits to various locations. Being a portrait photographer, he found that there was a lot he didn’t know when it came to capturing the landscape. He will share with us what he has learned along his journey to some of our Nation’s most beautiful locations. There is another side to Photoshop many portrait shooter never explore. He will share what he has learned through the years.

“ I have been honored to receive my Master Craftsman, CPP titles from the Professional Photographers of America. Also by entering in the PPA’s print competitions I have been honored to have received several high awards including 9 Kodak Gallery Awards, one Kodak Elite Award, first place at the PPA Grand Imaging Awards ceremony in 2015 and a trip to France to attend the World Photographic Cup to receive a silver medal. I am looking forward to meeting you in February.”

!2016 Specified / Open Categories!

!Jan - Life Passages (Birth, Birthdays, Wedding, Anniv, Holiday, etc.) / Open

Feb - B&W Portrait / Open #

April - Still Life/Product Photography (no people) / Open

May - Architectural / Cityscape (interior or exterior - buildings, bridges, street activity - with or without people) / Open

June - Landscape / Open

October - Open (Up to four images)

November - Pre-State/District / Open (Up to four images#

!You may enter up to 2 images in Jan, Feb, April, May & June. Up to four in the open


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2015 Fellowship Awards

Chris Vander Velde 2015 Photographer of the Year

2015 Image of the Year “Midnight Crossing”

Neil Geiger # # # # #1-25 Gold Bar = Total 6 Bars # #Tom Giles # # # # #2-25 Gold Bars = Total 19 Bars #Stu Glaser # # # #Fellowship Ribbon + 1 Gold Bar #Paul Hafermann # # # #2-25 Gold Bars = Total 10 Bars # #Helen Kolpitcke # # # #1-25 Gold Bar = Total 5 Bars # #Kirk Kolpitcke # # # #1-25 Gold Bar = Total 11 Bars # #Ginny Otto # # # # #3-25 Gold Bars = Total 21 Bars #Chris Vander Velde # # #Fellowship Ribbon # # #Phil Ziesemer ## # # #1-25 Gold Bar = Total 7 Bars

Congratulations to all our Fellowship Award recipients. Thank you for your participation in our program, all the efforts you have made to support our organization, and the quality

of images represented by Professional Photographers of America and our great state

of Wisconsin.

Indianhead Website www.indianheadphotographers.org

PPA News UPCOMING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

North Central Competition Deadlines:

Competition Open Feb 8, 2016 - Closed March 10, 2016

Competition Dates March 18-19

Not entering? Why not watch judging live at home on your computer?

Don’t forget to check out the online education PPA has to offer! ! Are you in “the Loop” ? Check the PPA website for more information

WPPA News

March 11th, 2016 Speaker Lindsay Adler - Pre-Con Class on Fashion. Limit 20 people. March 12-14th, 2016 Spring Convention / Chula Vista Resort, Wisconsin Dells

REGISTRATION OPEN NOW AT WWW.WPPA-ONLINE.COM

!Join WPPA 2014 NOW!

!IPPA NEWS #

Feb 8th Meeting Host - Stu Glaser / Speaker Ken Martin Image Competition Categories- B/W Portrait & Open - Up to two images#

All meetings will be held at the VFW Hall - 104 N. Division Street, Colby, WI.


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Member Page

Monthly Drawing Be sure to attend our meetings.

Members will be given a ticket at each meeting.

One ticket will be drawn to be entered in a final drawing held at our

November meeting.

That final winner will receive a $100.00 scholarship that may be

used towards registration fees for WPPA, PPA, MAIPP, or any other

educational program, such as a Super Monday, or accounting class at

their Technical College, etc. Prior approval is required.

Congratulations to Kirk Kolpitcke#

for being our January winner in the monthly drawing contest.

Welcome new member Gloria Anderson from Green Bay to IPPA. # # # # # # # # # # #Congratulations to Stu Glaser, John Hartman, Ginny Otto. Chris Vande Velde

for awards presented at the 2016 Imaging USA in January in Atlanta. Stu Glaser successfully completed his CPP test in Atlanta. #

Congratulations to Stu Glaser and Chris Vander Velde for acheiving their Indianhead Fellowship Degrees.

and to those receiving Gold Bars. These awards are received in recognition of service & dedication to this organization;

their efforts to create quality images & uphold the high standards of this industry.

2016 IPPA Board of Directors ! ! ! ! ! !

President Tom Giles Past Pres/Program Director Neil Geiger

Vice President Paul Hafermann Secretary Chris Vander Velde 2 Year Director Laura Sedivy

1 Year Director Laurie Hansen!

2016 Appointed Positions!Treasurer Phil Ziesemer

Image Competition Chair Stu Glaser Newsletter Editor Ginny Otto Fellowship Chair Ginny Otto Special Service Award Chair

Paul Hafermann

Thank you for volunteering and giving of your time and talents to our professional organization. It is because of

your dedicationthat we remain stronge in our commitment to work together for the benefit of others.


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THE INDIANHEAD PHOTOGRAPHER · Feb 8th, 2016 Meeting Notes The February meeting will be held on Feb. 8th, 2016 ... encouraging thing we could ever do for ourselves to consistantly