Sights and Sounds from WPPI 2008

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WPPI 2008’s official show report kicks off its first episode with an interview featuring Skip Cohen, President of WPPI & Rangefinder Publishing, and Inside Digital Photo TV Host Scott Sheppard. Hear an overview of this year's events, exhibits, workshops, conference sessions and evening event highlights live from the largest professional wedding and portrait photographers' show in the world. Stay tuned for more extensive coverage clips and highlights.

Renowned author & wedding whotographer Bambi Cantrell of Cantrell Portrait Design joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard, live from her “Fantasy Portrait” Workshop to share some tips on what photographers can do to get out of their creative rut. Bambi’s hands-on workshops inspire photographers with high-energy models and the work of her favorite stylists and airbrush artists to inspire and teach participants. Hear her tips on how she keeps her work on the cutting edge by integrating fashion into her wedding and portrait work. For more information about Bambi Cantrell, her training DVDs and workshops, visit www.cantrellportrait.com.

Advertising photographer Bob Coates joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard, live from his booth to share tips on how to be more successful as professional photographer. Bob explains some new services and business tools he helped to develop that will aid you in gaining new clients and keeping in touch with those you already have. For more information, visit his sites at www.bcphotography.com, www.successful-photographer.com, and www.yourimagesforever.com. Bob also offered a special discount code for anyone wishing to join Your Images Forever; to retrieve the discount, use “WPPI08” upon checkout and receive 10GB extra storage.

Digital fine artist and instructor Jeremy Sutton joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard, live from his booth to explain how you can turn your photos into fine art masterpieces using his favorite digital canvas tools–a Wacom tablet and Corel’s Painter X. For more information about Jeremy’s work and training tools, visit www.jeremysutton.com.

Adam Fried, owner of Simply Canvas, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard to discuss how to create one-of-a-kind canvas gallery prints from your photos. Adam explains various styles and examples of how photographers can make money offering these items to their clients. To see the full line of Simply Canvas products, visit www.simplycanvas.com. You will receive discounts and product samples upon registering.

Todd Christopher, owner of Christopher Imaging, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his booth to discuss how their photo lab specializes in serving the needs of professional wedding and school photographers. Todd explains how their interactive web tools help upload, manage, adjust and process your photos. For more information, visit www.chrisimaging.com.

Award-winning wedding photographer, Fernando Basurto of Simply Elegant Workshops, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his hands-on workshop “Finding Sentiment in Wedding Photography,” with some tips on how to capture the emotion and communicate with your subjects to create amazing memories. For more information on his images and workshops, visit www.seworkshops.com.

Gary Pond, owner of Porter Case, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his booth to show off their latest photo camera cases with CART. Porter Cases are designed to protect your gear, meet airline carry-on travel regulations, and convert into a rolling cart that supports up to 200 lbs. The hard cases are a great accessory and even double as a posing seat. For more information on their full line, visit www.portercase.com.

JB Sallee, photographer and owner of Sallee Photography, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from WPPI 2008 to discuss his latest Photoshop templates and actions designed to automate image effects and album designs. Based on digital tools they use every day in their own wedding studio, JB and DeEtte Sallee deliver time saving designs with Automated Designer Albums, Edgy Actions, Ten Best Albums, and European Grunge effects. For more information and demos, visit www.salleephotography.com.

Vicki Taufer, owner of V Gallery, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from WPPI 2008 to talk about her studio, Haven workshops, and also their “Studio in a Box” training templates, Photoshop action sets, how-to techniques, tutorials and more to help turn your studio into a unique boutique experience for your clients. For more information on their work, visit www.vgallery.com or www.vgalleryhaven.com for upcoming workshops and extras.

Doug Boutwell, co-founder of Boutwell Studios, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard to show off his “Totally Rad Action Mix” for Photoshop. Based on actions designed to create unique finished looks for their own work at Boutwell Studio this set of 46 actions are designed to be modular for a completely custom effect. For more information and demos, visit www.totallyradactions.com.

Jerry Ghionis, celebrated master wedding photographer, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his WPPI Plus workshop class to share some tips and insights on the business of photography. Taking great creative pictures is only one element to success and Jerry’s classes are full of ideas to help you communicate with your clients and build your market. For more information on Jerry’s work, his I.C.E. Society and future workshops, visit www.jerryghionis.com or. https://www.theicesociety.biz.

David McDonnell, co-founder and CEO of Imagenomic, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his booth to discuss their latest Photoshop plug-ins including Noiseware, Portraiture and RealGrain. Designed to make editing your digital images easy, these plug-ins let you simulate film, fine art, exposure and help you control your finished image to convey the vision and emotion you had in mind upon capture. For more information, demos, and their forums, visit www.imagenomic.com.

Robert Evans, renowned celebrity wedding photographer, WeddingChannel.com’s photo expert, and founder of Photography Mentor, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his booth to discuss his exciting interactive online photo training website Photography Mentor. Robert brings together a collection of tips, “cheat sheets”, field trips, and lessons featuring examples and lectures of his work and many other icons. With an annual “tutition” fee of less than $150, find out more about this site at www.photographymentor.com.

Photographers John Mireles & Joe Photo join Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from their WPPI 2008 booth to share some tips you can pick up by visiting the Photographer’s Toolkit. This site offers a range of business and creative resources for the professional photographer including a “Lookbook”, contracts, and a series of Rimrock workshops featuring John & Joe starting this April. Find out more and sign up at www.photographerstoolkit.com. You can also pick up some great information and tips on John’s blog at www.mirelesblog.com or on Joe’s popular “Cup of Joe Photo” blog at www.cupofjoephoto.com.

Dennis Driscoll, owner and digital retouching director at Digital Imaging, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his WPPI booth to discuss his image retouching service packages. Hear what’s included and what corrections are most popular. Find out more at www.digitalimagingfirm.com.

Greg Gumkowski, director of sales and marketing at NRD, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard at WPPI for a look at their FireFly Digital Sensor Cleaner. See the built-in ionizer quickly remove static and eliminate any particles. For more information, visit www.nrdfirefly.com.

Celebrity photographer Matthew Jordan Smith joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his WPPI Plus “Perfect Lighting” Workshop class to share some tips about how to capture that perfect moment. Find out more about Matthew’s work, books, training DVD’s and more at www.matthewjordansmith.com.

Francis Lamy, chief technology officer at X-Rite, joins Inside Digital Photo TV’s Host Scott Sheppard live from their WPPI booth to share their vision and focus discussing the recent acquisition of Pantone and the details around the launch of their new color calibration system, Color Munki Photo. For more information about X-Rite and their full product line, visit www.xrite.com or www.colormunki.com.

Richard Williams of Creative Frame joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his booth at WPPI 2008 to discuss their range of services and collection of framing options. For more information, visit www.creativeframe.com.

Jessica Roe, executive director of NILMDTS (Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep), joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from their booth at WPPI to share details on how photographers can participate in their non-profit program for infant bereavement photography. Often seen as one of the most rewarding gifts a photographer can give a family who is faced with losing their child, NILMDTS began in 2005 and now has over 3,200 photographer volunteers in 12 countries worldwide. For more information on their services and training programs, visit www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org.

Jeff Johnson, director of Imaging Workshops of Colorado, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his WPPI booth to share details of this year’s sessions whose instructors include Scott Dupras, Kevin Kubota, Kalen Henderson, and others. For more information, pricing, and to register, visit www.coloradoworkshops.com.

Mike Colón, wedding photographer, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his WPPI Plus workshop to share tips from his “Creating Images with Impact” class. Mike also discussed his upcoming workshops and projects. For more information, schedule, and resource links, visit www.mikecolon.com.

Wedding photographer, Jim Garner, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from the Boda Lens Bag booth at WPPI 2008 to explain some of the bags and the features. Developed by a range of photographers, find out more information at goboda.com.

Vincent Versace, photographer, author and instructor, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from the X-Rite booth at WPPI 2008 to share some tips on color management and introduce the new X-Rite ColorMunki Photo. Find out more at www.colormunki.com or view Vincent’s latest projects at www.acmeeducational.com.

Colin Smith of Photoshop Café joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his WPPI booth to introduce his new training series on HDR Photography, Lightroom and other new titles. For more information, visit www.photoshopcafe.com.

Jaime Coonts, board member of Special Kids Photography, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from her WPPI booth to explain how photographers can participate in their non-profit organization founded to help educate photographers on how to take pictures of children with special needs. To find our more, sign up for a workshop and get accredited, visit www.specialkidsphotography.com.

Yervant Zanazanian, wedding photographer, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his WPPI Plus workshop to share tips from his “The Fashion Connection in Wedding Photography” class. See his images and hear what it’s like to spend a day shooting models and making great images and prints with one of today’s most award-winning wedding photographers. For more information, visit www.yervant.com.

Jill White, designer for Jill-E, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from her WPPI 2008 booth to show her latest line of fashionable camera bags and accessories developed specifically for women photographers. To see the full line of these practical upscale fashion statements, visit www.jill-e.com.

Gary Justice, founder of Just Right Brackets, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his WPPI 2008 booth to show how these unique brackets let you mount your flash, use a radio slave, tripod, shoot horizontally or vertically and more. To find out more, visit www.justritebracket.com.

Mitche Graf, conference chair for WPPI’s Business Institute, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from the sessions to talk about how photographers can learn the basics and more on all aspects of running your photo business. Mitche is running “Boot Camp” workshops with similar topics. Find out more at www.powermarketing101.com.

Darwin Throne, CEO of Cirgon, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his WPPI 2008 booth to explain how photographers can use his digital photo frames and digital media servers to show off their favorite images or expand their client services. For more information about Cirgon’s products, visit www.cirgon.com.

Brian Greenberg of Richard Photo Lab joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from his WPPI 2008 booth to share some tips on how photographers use their services to digitize their film shots and incorporate them into their digital and hybrid workflows. For more information on their services, visit www.richardphotolab.com.

Celebrated wedding and portrait photographers Bambi Cantrell and Matthew Jordan Smith join Inside Digital Photo TV with some candid comments and entertaining insights from their WPPI Plus class “super session”. See highlights from the combined shoot that ended their interactive workshop class. For more information about Matthew, visit www.matthewjordansmith.com or Bambi’s site at www.cantrellportrait.com.

Kevin Kubota, award-winning wedding photographer and developer of Kubota Image Tools, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from the WPPI 2008 Business Institute to share some tips on using keywords in your images and websites to enhance your marketing efforts and build your photo business. For more information about Kevin’s work, visit www.kkphoto-design.com or to try out his famous Photoshop actions, visit www.kubotaimagetools.com

Amy Kawandler, Pro Market rep at Canon USA, joins Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard live from WPPI 2008 Canon Welcome Reception to share details about the exciting things Canon has planned for this year’s show. Amy discusses some features of Canon’s latest DSLR cameras and news about the Canon Digital Learning Center where you can find how-tos, tips, and techniques at www.usa.canon.com/dlc or see Canon’s entire product line at www.usa.canon.com.

Meet today’s hottest young photographers as Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard catches them for comments before this year’s WPPI 2008 “Young Guns” event. Hear tips and insights from Jim Garner, Gene Higa, Ryan Schembri, John Solano, Jose Villa, David Jay, JB & DeEtte Sallee, Lori Nordstrom, and Catherine Hall. For more information and links to their websites, visit www.insidedigitalphoto.com.

Get behind the scenes of WPPI as Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard interviews Steve Sheanin, CEO of Rangefinder Publishing. This is part 1 of a two part interview where Steve explains the history and vision behind the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International organization, whose enthusiastic members inspired them to put together an annual educational conference and convention starting in 1980. Hear his insights on today's trends in wedding and portrait photography. Find out more information about joining WPPI and attend next year’s event at www.wppionline.com.

Get behind the scenes of WPPI as Inside Digital Photo TV's host, Scott Sheppard interviews Steve Sheanin, CEO of Rangefinder Publishing. This is part 2 of a two part interview where Steve explains the history and vision behind their magazines Rangefinder & AfterCapture and shares some news and highlights of next year’s WPPI 2009 Trade Show and Conference being held in February at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Steve continues to share some trends and insights into the incredible growth seen in the photo industry. For more information on Rangefinder, visit www.rangefindermag.com.

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