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Dec 14 2011

You’re Invited: OC SmugMug Holiday Gathering

Posted in for photographers

Gather ’round photog friends .. bring your family too! It’s time for a mingle party with food, drinks and fun! And remember… SMUGS ARE ALWAYS FREE! h and we’re back at our usual venue.

Thursday, December 15, 2011, 6:00 PM
Costa Mesa Community Center 1845 Park Ave, Costa Mesa, CA


RSVP HERE

Here’s what we’ve got planned:

* the BLACK AND WHITE PROJECT by Kevin Calumpit

Kevin, a San Diego based photographer has started a personal project called the B&W project. To help him with his goal we’ve invited him to the party and everyone is encouraged to get their photo taken. more info here (http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-BW-Project-by-Kevin-Calumpit/139868016079749?sk=wall)

Photograph 300+ people, in less a year and turn it into a book…..help me achieve my goal and get in front of the camera.
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The B&W Project started with my insanity for light, lighting and people. This journey of photographing a ton of people started with the simple fact of me wanting to see how many people I could photograph, friends of friends of friends. There’s no cure I currently know right now, only to shoot until I’m back to “normal”. When its all over I plan on creating a book of these images for people to truly see we are all the same in B&W.

* FOOD DRIVE!

The OC food bank needs help and we can do this with the smallest gesture. dig through your pantry. we’re sure you’ve got something you can contribute. for every item you bring we’ll give you a raffle ticket and we’ll give out prizes at the end of the night. here’s a list of much needed items:

1.Easy Open Food – Pop Tops (canned meats, tuna, Spam, Vienna sausage, ravioli, chili)

2.Canned Fruits

3.Canned Meat

4.Canned Vegetables

5.Dry Foods (beans, rice, pasta, macaroni & cheese, cup-o-soup, cereal, oatmeal, pancake mix)

6.Personal Care Items (deodorant, feminine napkins, diapers, tooth brush and tooth paste, shampoo, soap)

7.Peanut Butter

8.Snacks (energy bars, granola bars, fruit leathers)

9.Drinks (juice, bottled water, coffee, tea)

* POTLUCK

Bring appetizers, desserts, hot chocolate and stuff:)Sign up next to your RSVP with what you are bringing.

* HOT TOPIC STATIONS: come get your learn on! We’ll have little stations set up with experts to answer your questions.

1. Joe and Mirta Barnet – Studio Lighting

2. Matthew Saville – Camera Geek Talk

3. Paul Rupp – Micro Focus

4. Michelle Cunningham – Sensor CleaningH

Hope you can join us! We want to get to know you.

Oct 27 2010

October’s OC SmugMug User Group

Posted in for photographers, the events

What’s a SmugMug User Group? Click HERE to find out!

When I started my photography business, it was basically with a “swim or die” mentality. I’m not really a sit back and read instruction manuals type of gal. When I want to do something, I roll up the sleeves of whatever fashionable outfit I have on and get my hands dirty. (In the education circles, I’m a Kinesthetic learner –if you want to be all proper about such things).

There are other things, though, that I have accepted I am never going to be good at or even want to attempt (or it just simply bores me to death so I ignore it or delegate).

Among these things would be taxes and contracts. Call me a flighty artist or dumb but math is a foreign language to me and I can feel my eyes glaze over at just the mention of numbers, contract wording, legal paperwork and anything else pertaining to the work that people usually with abbreviations after their names do for work.

Unfortunately, as a business owner, these things are a necessity to run a successful, legal business. Sigh. Which is why I am bringing my “Business Manager,” aka Tim, the husband, to the meeting to soak up all the business-y goodness. After all, I can’t get my fashionable outfit too dirty, can I?

If you own a photography business or are thinking of starting one, this month’s OC Smug is for you!

The Speakers:

Faizan Hanif — attorney at law REX LAW LLP

Do you have contracts for your business? Have you considered all the basics like liability coverage and package agreements? What about the non-basics, the things that are particular to you, like privacy clauses?

Come join us as Faizan gives us some ideas on the fundamental must-haves for a basic contract.

Joey Columbo

Discussing the financial side… Income, expenses, and taxes. What to look for in all three. And what Uncle Sam and the Government are looking for.

The Place:

2 Irvine Park Road
Orange, CA 92869
714.923.3191

The Time:

Thursday, October 28th from 6:00-8:30

6:00pm Meet and Mingle and snacks (EMAIL ME if you want to volunteer to bring a snack to share)

6:30pm Speaker

8:15 Cleanup

IMPORTANT: don’t pay the parking fee. use the gate code. there are 2 keypads by the gate look for the small silver one and enter #1025 … follow the road till you see the signs to Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center.

RSVP HERE.

P.S. Do you like the new SmugMug Pro Logo? Comment below.

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