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IndianheadPhotographers, Inc..
Officers &Board of Directors
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PresidentKirk Kolpitcke1903 N Mountain Rd.
Wausau WI 54401715-842-5946
Vice PresidentTreasureGinny Otto
5487 Elmwood AveStevens Point WI 54481
SecretaryKatie Scott866 115th StreetAmery WI 54001
Past PresidentProgram ChairPaul Hafermann
130 8th St. NWisconsin Rapids WI 54494
Published by the Indianhead Photographers, Inc. Editor: Tom Blomlie F-IPPA
October 2006
June Gold Arrow
Directors: Dave Ambers Rick McNitt Jane Bores Bill Nieman
The Indianhead
PHOTOGRAPHERIn the Spirit of Cooperation, Not Competition
Time with my FriendsMatthew Murray
IndianheadPhotographers, Inc.
Appointed Chairs
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The President’s MessageKirk Kolpitcke F-IPPA
Print ChairmanMarilyn Graveen
4�5 Burns StreetWausau WI 5440�
NewsletterEditor
Tom Blomlie�7�98 54th Ave
Chippewa Falls WI 547�97�5-7�3-�636
MembershipTom Giles
�4�� S. Hastings WayEau Claire WI 5470�
7�5-834-�[email protected]
Historian: Pat Clifton, Service Award: Paul Hafermann, Fellowship: Tom Blomlie
Happy Autumn everyone!
Thanks Tom, for the reminder that I need to get this off.
My eyes are buggy from sitting in front of the com-puter, getting yearbook files ready for the high schools. I’m not sure if I would rather be sticking negs to cards or manipulating images on the com-puter.
With summer winding down, I hope you took some time to enjoy family and friends. Thanks to Jane and Al for hosting a great get together back in June. Al sure does know how to build a bonfire! It was nice to see so many of you
at the picnic in Wisconsin Rapids in August. Thanks to Paul and Jenny for hosting the event and everyone who brought all the goodies. Always a good time.
Even though the weather man is saying that our leaves are not at peak yet, plan on taking a colorful ride to Merrill Oct 9. Phil Ziesemer is going to be busy hosting the meeting and giving the presentation, 12 points of a Merit Print, just in time for state convention. The next week, plan on driving to Waukesha for the state confer-ence. Lots of great speakers.
Oh well, back to Photoshop. See you in Merrill!
Kirk
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From the EditorTom Blomlie F-IPPA
Next Newsletter DeadlineOctober 27, 2006
Hi everyone,
I hope your sum-mer was busy and that you found some time to spend with your family and friends.
Diane and I went to the Hafermann pic-nic this summer, and we had a great time. If you missed this, you should make sure to put it in your calendar for next year, that is if Paul and Jenny are going to have one next year. We had great weather for it (started out a little cool but warmed up as the day went on). We played some silly game called Bocce Ball. It was fun, and we all got some exercise to burn up all the great food. We did have to put up with Dick Standeven's story of the sailing trip to Door County and Madeline Island. It reminded me of Giligan's Island. Come to think of it, Dick does look a lot like the skipper and Cindy like Ginger.
Our program this month is the twelve elements to a merit print. I'm looking for-ward to that as I'm still trying to get my master's degree. I have a lot of respect for anyone who has their masters as it isn't as easy as just entering print com-petition. You really have to put a lot of work into each print as anyone knows who has entered trying to get a merit print. However, I think we have it easier
than the people who did it with film and the traditional printing methods. I remember when I first started in this pro-fession, I would go to Steve Johnson's studio with a fist full of negatives, and we would do a marathon printing--mak-ing changes, printing again, making more changes, printing again, etc. Once we had it the way we though it would merit, we then had to pick out a mat color for the underlayment and one for the base. We would mount the print to the underlay mat, cut it so you only have a sliver of mat showing, then ATG tape that mat to the base mat, take the mat to the spray booth and put many layers of high gloss spray on it. My first three merits I owe to Steve. My question is, does he deserve the merit or do I? At least I had some say in the print, but he did most of the work. Today we do it all in the computer--the mat, the underlay-ment, the testing; and when it's all ready to go, hit print. Then take it over to the laminator and put the best high gloss finish you can get, that is if there are no defects in the piece of laminate that you didn't see. But if that happens, you just hit print again, and you have the very same results as the first print, try that in the conventional darkroom.
Hope to see all of you in Merrill.
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From the Hafermann Picnic
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From left to right: Steve McConnell, Mary Bolas, Phil Ziesemer, Bill Nieman, Dick Standeven, Tom Blomlie, Tom Giles, Phil Dammen, Pat Clifton, Steve Johnson, Jim Bayliss, Paul Hafermann, Carol Clifton, Virg Byng, Ken Noesen, Ron Burg, Rick McNitt, Dave Wacker, JD Wacker.
Dick and Cindy StandevenSpecial Service Award 2006
Jane ByngSpecial Service Award 2006
From the June Meeting
Past Presidents
Special Service Awards
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Click on the map for driving directions from your studio or home
Click on the map for driving directions from your studio or home
Directions to Phil Ziesmer Photography
Directions to Club Modern
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RSVP BY 12 PM Oct 7Indianhead MeetingReservation Form
Contact the host to reserve a placefor lunch. You can pay the host at the
meeting, but we need to know how many people are attending.
Monday October 9thLunch No._____
$11 RSVP or $13 at the door
Name:_________________
Studio:_________________
Phil Ziesemer1200 E. 7th StreetMerrill WI 54452
Indianhead Websitewww.indianheadphotographers.org
A Step aboveand Beyond
the Ordinary...PPA Certification
For application package Contact:Phil Ziesemer 715-536-4540
Oct MeetIng InFORMatIOnIPPA Meeting October 9, 2006
Hosted by Phil ZiesemerClub Modern
1005 S. Center Ave.Merrill WI
715-536-5672
ScheduleOpen house 8:30 AM to �0:00 AM
There will be some items for sale such as backgrounds and props 9:30 Board Meeting at Club Modern
�0:�5 Regular Business Meeting��:00 Print Competition Seniors/open (� prints)
��:00 Lunch �:00 Program Phil Ziesemer & Dan Stoller
Lunch MenuBuffet style w/salad bar, broasted chicken,
salisbury steak, swiss steak, vegetables, mashed potatoes and gravy
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General Meeting Minutes6-12-06
Rice Lake, WI
Kirk Kolpitcke called the meeting to order at 10:22am.
Introductions were made.
Secretaries Report: Published. Motion to accept by Tom Giles second by Pat Clifton.
Treasurers Report: Verbal Report Given. Motion to accept by Jim Bayliss second by Steve McConnell.
Membership: New Members: Jonathan Accardo, Portrait City and Troxel Green, Apollo Photo Imaging were approved for membership.
Newsletter: New advertiser: Portrait City from Kansas City, MO.
Special Services Award: Paul Hafermann! Past recipients: Jane Byng in memory of Jack & Betty Anderson, RES Photography-the studio as a whole.
August 6th picnic in WI Rapids at 11:00am
PPA Report: No Report.
WPPA Report: Sponsorship not required (nor for PPA)-called blacklisting. Still have to qualify and be approved, just taken off paper.
Old Business: Tom Blomlie exploring to purchase InDesign. Print Rule updates: Helen K. Marilyn, Jim B, and Ginny O. reviewing to keep in line with PPA. Final report later.
New Business: Pictures for newsletter. Workshop-Wakers with Paul Hayashi flyer passed out.
Treehaven: Early Bird Special already 50+ registered so pick your classes now! Next payment due: June 15th.
Next meeting: Merrill, WI on October 9, 2006. 12 Elements of a Merit Print.
Past Presidents Recognition
Motion to adjourn meeting by Tom Giles, second by Steve McConnell. 10:51am
Respectfully Submitted, Katie Scott, IPPA Secretary
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Notice to all IPPA membersAll,Our good friend Louie Bock has been in and out of the hospital for the last several weeks. If you've met him, you like him. He's one of the true gentleman of our profession and he deserves whatever comfort we can bring him right now. Please do for him as you would like your photographic comrades to do for you in such a situation. He's at the Ripon Medical Center at 933 Newbury Street in Ripon WI 5497, Room 201. We have a rather solitary profession. At times like these, all we have is each other. Let Louie and Shelby know that you're think-ing of them.
Todd KunstmanPresident of Fox Valley Professional Photographers Association Inc. 06-071120 North Hickory Farm LaneAppleton, WI. [email protected]
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Carl making good light out of bad.
Some Fun at Treehaven
Photo by Paul Hafermann
Photos by Kirk
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Gold ArrowTime with my Friends
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For Sale9x12 Ply Bags$35 per 1000
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12 Attributes of the
Merit print
October Program
Phillip R. Ziesemer began his career as a wedding photographer in Milwaukee at the age of 17, just after his high school graduation in 1969. After graduating from the photography program at the Milwaukee Area Technical College, he moved to Platteville, where he completed his studies for a bachelors degree in visual communi-cations. After a six-year tour as a news photographer and writer in Merrill, he accepted a posi-tion as a human resources professional in a manufacturing facility. Seven years later, he and his wife, Mary, opened their studio. 21 years later, Phil Ziesemer Photography is one of the premier studios in Central Wisconsin. Phillip is one of only 45 CPP's in the state and one of the few Master Photographers in North Central Wisconsin. He completed the PPA judging course in San Diego, CA in 2005.
Phillip R. ZiesemerCPP, M.Photog., F-IPPA
Daniel J. Stoller (who will be presenting the program with Phil) has been a full-time professional color lab technician and photographer since 1970. After a 10 year apprenticeship with Harmann Studios in Green Bay, he and Charles Leinginger of Photography by Leinginger, Inc., founded Print Masters Imaging, Inc. After 25 years, Print Masters became known as one of the best high-end, carriage trade labs in the Midwest. A PPA Master Photographer and Photographic Craftsman with over 75 print merits, Dan became an approved international juror in 1984.
Daniel J. StollerCPP, M.Photog., Cr.
Their program will cover the 12 attributes of the merit print. It will include examples and a lively explanation of the 12 points that each judge considers when he or she evaluates a con-vention submission. The program is intended to help the attendees understand the process of becoming a Master Photographer.
Time permitting, Phil, who is the former CPP Liaison between the WPPA and the PPA, will discuss the importance of achieving the CPP degree and the process of achieving it.
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Use these labels for your print entry
IPPa PRInt cOMPetItIOn( 2 prints total)
Circle one Senior Open
Title:__________________________
Maker:________________________
Score:________
IPPa PRInt cOMPetItIOn( 2 prints total)
Circle one Wedding Open
Title:__________________________
Maker:________________________
Score:________
Print competitionJune 2006
Wedding Our Beginnings Rick McNitt 75Admiration in the Milk House Ken Noessen 77Always a Brides Maid Jim Bayliss 75Lauren Pat Clifton 76
OpenDreaming Jean Wacker 77She Likes Hats Dave Wacker 77The Colors of Bangkok JD Wacker 78Game Day Across from Wrigley Field Ken Noesen 77Time with my Friends Matt Murray 81Out of Africa JD Wacker 78The Grand Master Dave Wacker 80Kristen Tom Giles 77Real Fakey Flowers Jim Bayliss 77Hockey is my Passion Jean Wacker 79Blown Away Dick Standeven 78
gold arrowTime with my Friends Matt Murray 81
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In-Focus How it all began..... I have often been asked how I got started or how long I've been
doing photography - I was born with a camera in my hand, and it was a very painful birth for my mother.
Actually, I took my first photograph when I was about three or four years old. My father was an excellent amateur photographer in his younger years. My Dad is now 90 years old and has embraced digi-tal. He has a Nikon point and shoot digital camera and a 4x6 digi-tal printer at home. I am one of five boys and we all grew up in our
black and white darkroom, learning the basics of developing our film and making prints.
I have enjoyed photography my entire life, but it wasn't until I was in college at UW-EC that I really started doing photography for others. I was often asked to photograph the artwork of other art stu-dents. It seemed that I was one of the few who knew what to do with a camera and they needed slides to get into shows and graduate school. I earned two degrees at UW-EC, first a Bachelors of Business Administration and then I went back for a second degree, a Bachelors of Fine Arts in design. It was in graduate school, in Madison, that my photography really started to take over. I was studying sculpture, but kept more and more involved in photography. I began shooting at rock concerts and soon was doing all the photography for a Madison radio station as a tie-in for their promotional contests. I had won tickets for the Paul McCartney concert in Chicago from WISM radio in Madison, and of course took a few photographs. It's because of those photographs that the radio station began hiring me to do their photography. It wasn't long before I was asked to do some photography for Isthmus, a weekly newspaper in Madison, and soon the Mad City Music Sheet and eventually the Emerald City Chronicle.
I was photographing 60 to 80 concerts per year from �975 - �979. Because of my concert photography, some of my clients that were buying concert photos, asked me to do family portraits and some weddings. Of course, I didn't have any idea about what I was doing at a wedding, but the customer was happy. (Scary isn't it!) I made all of $�80 from my first wedding. I think most of us have been in this same situation when we were getting started in our careers.
While in Madison my grandmother gave each of her grandchildren some money, so I took some of it and bought a Nikon FM. What is interesting about this is that I went to two different camera stores in Madison to look at equipment to buy. When I told the owner of the first store that I had one thousand dollars to spend, he responded by telling me that basically I was broke. He wasn't sure that he could help me get the combination of what I was looking for. Needless to say, I was very insulted. I had never had $�000 to spend like this before and I felt as though I was on top of the world with all this money. I went to another store and told the owner, or manager, the same thing. He rubbed his hands together and said,
Bythomas W. giles
M.Photog.Cr.,CPP,F-WPPA,F-IPPA
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"Let me show you what we can do." I bought my equipment from him and never went back into the other store again.
In �979, the Emerald City Chronicle folded. Nancy, myself and our one-year-old daughter Dawn moved back to Eau Claire. We built a new home and I worked a few jobs while getting a small in-home photography business going. A little over a year after our move to Eau Claire, we made another big move. An opportunity came up to buy a portrait studio; so on April �, �98�, we bought a studio that had existed for 70 years.
Since I enjoy children and didn't have a problem being very silly around them, we developed a pretty good children's photography business. Many of my merits have been of children. I also enjoy the chal-lenge of pet photography, seniors and families. These combined, make up about 95% of my business. I also do some commercial photography. I have retired from the wedding photography business.
I am a believer that we need to push beyond our comfort zone and try things that other photographers won't, don't or can't do. A number of years ago I took on a commercial job that three other photogra-phers turned down. They told the client that it couldn't be done. None of them took a look at the proj-ect, but still decided that it couldn't be done. When I went over, I made a couple of suggestions that he liked better than what he had requested. I hate to tell a client that something can't be done, I'd rather sug-gest some other ways to do what they want that could be better and stands a better chance of success.
My youngest daughter, Megan, was almost a year old when we bought the studio. Around the time she was eight years old, she was coming along and helping me with weddings. By age ten, she was tak-ing the time exposures from the balcony. When Megan was twelve, she was at the studio with me one weekend when I was working to finish my competition prints. During that week-end, she started asking about competition and if there was an age limit or not. I told her that I didn't think there was a limit, but that she would have to come up with some ideas and start shooting before she could enter. She came up with a number of ideas and they would have probably been fine, but by late sum-mer, she really wanted to get started. Her first attempt at com-petition was with a portrait that she created of me with my �9�9 Mercedes Benz kit car. Dan Stoller did the printing and all the extras for entering it in competition. At the WPPA Convention that winter, at age �3, she received her first Seal of Approval. At age �3, she was a member of PPA and WPPA. At the national judging she earned another merit on a portrait of her cousin. As far as anyone has been able to determine, she was the youngest member to earn two merits. Now �3 years later, Megan received her Master of Photography degree at the PPA Convention this past January. Photography is her passion (I wonder where that came from), but this isn't a career that she is drawn to, yet she still wants to compete and earn merits. This past year she had three of her four entries earn merits. I had two. Although Megan is a Business Analyst in Target's Corporate Headquarters in Minneapolis, she continues to be a part of my business as Vice President of our corpora-tion.
At the �997 Fall Convention, Megan and I sat through a program by Rick Billings, and he showed us all
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the things that he was doing with his digital camera and Photoshop. We looked at each other and just said WOW! Within a few weeks, Nancy and I were attending a three-day workshop in his Nebraska stu-dio. Only two months later, in January �998, we were converting to all digital capture and had a Kodak LED digital lab installed. I am sure the Kodak reps thought that we were out of our minds and that we would certainly fail. Being the first portrait studio in the world to be shooting digital cameras and print-ing on the LED in house had many advantages, but also included a huge learning curve. If you think Photoshop is tough, try programing the layouts for the LED. Another photographer that installed one a year or so later referred to it as severe bleeding and was working to get it to stop. Long hours and seven days a week was our normal work schedule. Our first real day off was Christmas Day.
Shortly after we installed our LED, other photographers found out about what we were doing and wanted us to print their work for them. Those kind photographers helped me pay for my lab. Thank you!!! We also had a number of one-day seminars so that we could show other photographers what we were doing and how we did it.
I'm now doing all the photography, imaging, print-ing and packaging myself and am working to reposition my studio as a more low volume studio. I am having a lot of fun taking each image from start to finish. It's long hours and a lot of work, but it is very rewarding to the creative side of me to have such total control of my work.
I joined Indianhead in �98� and shortly after that the WPPA. I've found both organizations extreme-ly beneficial in my growth as a photographer as well as being associated with some of the best people I know. I've learned so much from all of the programs over the years and by being involved in the board of both organizations. I worked my way up the ladder and was President of IPPA and WPPA. Yes, that involved some of my time, but was well worth it. I have been able to work side-by-side with some of the best photographers in the Midwest, if not the entire country.
Since I took my very first photograph, there have been a lot of changes in my photography and our industry. The changes that have taken place over the past 5-�0 years is only the start of the digital age of photography. I don't have any idea where we are headed, I just know that I want to be a part of it and continue to help our profession evolve. We all need to look at what we are doing, how we are doing it, and what it is that we have to offer that the amateurs can't do themselves. Do that and you will have a growing business for many years to come.
See you at the next Indianhead meeting!
Tom with daughters Dawn and Megan in Austin after the awards ceremony at PPA
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Indianhead Schedule of eventsPRInt categORIeS 2006
January OpenFebruary Pre-StateApril IllustrativeMay Children
June WeddingsOctober SeniorsNovember Families
Host Programs Oct 9 Phil Ziesemer Phil Ziesemer Merrill Twelve points of a merit print
nov 13 Pat clifton tim Fries Financial Advisor Chippewa Falls Retirement Planning for the Small Business
Jan 8 Bill nieman Pre State Wisconsin Rapids Combined meeting with Foxes
Feb 5 tom giles to be announced Eau Claire
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