August Meeting
Tuesday, the 8th, 7:00pm

at Accurate Image
driving directions

The Complete Digital Wedding
with Mark McCall

Tired of spending too many hours at the computer after each wedding? If so, this program is for you. Time is money, and more time spent in post-production does not equate into more money in your bank account. In most cases, it means you make less money. Follow Mark's workflow from initial client interview to capture to album delivery, with every step in between. Learn his shortcuts that will give you your life back using NO PROOFS. See Mark's homemade, off-camera light setup, that exposes perfectly every time, automatically.

The following topics are covered:

• Equipment: bodies, lenses, cases..what works; what doesn't.

• Rid yourself of soft, fuzzy images

• Get more money for your flush mount albums, on your very next wedding interview!

• Go proofless, and have your client excited about it.

• Marketing to the upscale client with eye catching, interactive promotions.

• Get wedding vendors to recommend you exclusively. (worth the cost of admission).

• RAW or JPG. what's the difference, and what's the best?
Learn why JPG stands for "Just Pretend Everything's Great".

• White balancing once and for all.

• Learn Mark's system for creating stunning off camera lighting
with homemade lightstand parts.

• Expose correctly, every time, without using TTL

• Quick editing, Even quicker album design using drag and drop software. No sizing necessary, the software does it for you. Previewing the album online, for FREE

• Learn Mark's system for tripling your wedding reorders, using just two forms
Get them at the program for FREE.

Every attendee gets a copy of Mark's Cool Stuff CD, full of software sample titles, photoshop actions, templates, and Mark's patented system for tripling your reorders.

Mark's program is sponsored by General
Products and RMG Digital Design.


Print Critique
This month's print critique is open to images of any type of subject matter. Bring a print!!


Parking
The owners of the business in the small white next to Accurate Image have graciously invited us to use the area behind their place for addtional parking. You can enter by going down the driveway along th side of the Accurate Image building. You can exit either the same way you came in or by using the driveway on the other side of their house. That house is occupied by a small dental lab, Texas Crown and Bridge.


Future Programs
September 12th: John Murray - "Merit Photographs"
October 10th: Jennifer and Ted Penland (Houston) - Marketing and Painter
also in October - nomination of 2007 Guild officers
November 14th: Lawrence Carpman - program TBA
also in November - election of 2007 guild officers
December 12th: Guild Christmas party

Admission charge: No charge for members, $15 for guests. HOTPPG Annual membership is $50 per calendar year. Dues are pro-rated quarterly for those joining mid year.


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