IEPPV

November Image Competition
2016-11-16 17:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Old Spaghetti Factory, 3191 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92507, United States
Our fifth image competition of the year is approaching soon! Please check back on our Image Competition page for the latest rules, current standings, and submission deadlines.

The Business & Profitability of Photography
2016-11-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Location to be given upon registration, Corona, CA, United States
Join us for a class on understanding the business side of your photography. The instructor will be using charts, graphs, and a PowerPoint presentation. The ultimate goal of this class is to equip you with an understanding of how to make a profit at your photography.

ENTRY COST

IEPPV Premium Members = FREE
IEPPV Introductory and Professional Members = $20
Non-IEPPV Members = $30

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
IEPPV Premium, Professional, and Introductory Members:
Your membership number is required at registration or you cannot complete the registration process. If you are unsure what your membership number is, please email membership@ieppv.com.

Non-IEPPV Members:
If this option is selected, the member number requirement “grays out” and the $30 requires payment or you cannot complete registration.

Image Critique Class
2016-10-26 18:30 - 21:00 | Image One Camera and Video, 9590 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA, 92503, United States
Our image critique classes are intended to help you prepare for image competition. The class will be run like a mock image competition, as images will be critiqued and the judges will make suggestions on how to improve the image. Even if you do not plan to compete, these classes offer some great insight into what makes a great image.

IMAGE SUBMISSION DETAILS
A maximum of two images may be submitted. Images must be submitted as follows:

JPG format
sRGB color space
Sized to 4000 pixels on the longest side at a resolution of 200 pixels per inch
Saved at a quality level of 10
Less than 3.5MB in size

Images must be emailed to imagecritique@ieppv.com by 5:00pm on Tuesday, October 25th prior to the class.

ENTRY COST

Premium IEPPV Members = FREE
Introductory and Professional IEPPV Members = $20
Non-IEPPV Members = $30

Travel Photography – Create a Lifetime of Journeys
2016-10-19 18:30 - 21:00 | The Old Spaghetti Factory, 3191 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92507, United States
Anyone who has read National Geographic, watched the Discovery Channel, spent time in a movie theater, read a book – has mental images of places, people and cultures throughout the world. Travel transforms these mental pictures into something real, and photography brings them home.
In his presentation, Dan will entertain, educate, and inspire in this journey we call life and photography. He will lead us on a visual journey through some of our most amazing places, discuss how to create powerful imagery, and leave you with the desire to get out, discover, and photograph in this wonderful world of ours.
Dan will talk about travel photography: people, cultures, place, landscape, nature; and a bit about trip planning, gear, processing, showing; and more.
Climb aboard that magic carpet and take a voyage! Nepal, Africa, Bolivia, Alaska or Indio – the destination doesn’t matter – just go! Take your camera along and add to your own Lifetime of Journeys!

Dan Holmes
Dan Holmes travels the world exploring, discovering, and telling stories with light. He is in the top tier of landscape and nature photographers, with national and international awards. Known for his emotional and evocative imagery, he takes great pleasure in teaching about photographing in the natural world. His photographic workshops cover creating powerful photographs, digital workflow, field workshops and photo adventure tours. He leads photo workshops in Alaska, Asia, Africa, the western US, and South America.
Dan is past President of the Channel Islands Professional Photographers Association, a California Master Photographer, a PPC Fellowship member. His awards include PPC Nature, Landscape, & Photojournalist Photographer of the Year; Kodak Gallery Award; 4 Time California Top 10 Photographer, Black and White Spider International, Creative Asia and others. He has been published in Outdoor Photographer, ProPhoto West, Runner’s World, Cycling News, 805 Magazine, and is represented by Getty Images.

Sample of Dan’s Work

NOTICE FOR MEMBERS
The candidates shown below are presented as the 2017 IEPPV Board Member Election State. These members were nominated in accordance with the IEPPV Bylaws by the nominating committee, and accepted by the current IEPPV Board of Directors.
IEPPV members with Professional privileges, in good standing, may make nominations of qualified members from the floor at our October general meeting. Provided any such nomination is accompanied by the written or verbal statement of the nominee that he or she accepts the nomination and agrees to serve if elected, such nomination will be accepted. Election of the 2017 Board will occur at the November general meeting.
2017 IEPPV Board Slate

David Swanson, President
David Schulman, First Vice President
Steve Burgraff, Second Vice President
Chris Ramirez, Treasurer
Paula Grumling-Fletcher, Secretary
Bruce Bonnett, Chairman of the board
Troy Miller, Parliamentarian
Steve Brazill, Director
Kim Shapiro, Director
Rafael Munoz, Director
Nick Seth-Smith, Director
Kat Meezan, Director
Stan Fry, Director

Equestrians in the Water
2016-10-16 15:00 - 18:30 | Norco, Norco, CA, United States
Sign ups are no longer available as the registration limit as been met.
Alton Vance, a local equestrian photographer, has agreed to lead a workshop on photographing horses and cowboys. Alton was raised in Colorado on a working ranch owned by his father and has a vast knowledge of horses and their riders. He will be bringing models (horses & cowboys) into the Santa Ana River in Norco for this afternoon equestrian workshop.
Alton’s website displays many of his equestrian, landscape and wildlife images. His work hangs in several galleries and has been sold across the country. His award winning images are displayed on his website along with some of the honors that have been awarded to him.
This first hour of the workshop will be camera instruction and set-up, then into the Santa Ana River bed in Norco for 2+ hours of photography. Bring your camera, lenses, media cards and whatever you will need to take photographs. This is a “hands on” workshop and you will be taking photographs.
Alton will share his secrets of photographing silhouettes at sunset, photographing cowboys in action, photographing to sell and much, much more.
If you have ever wanted to learn how to photograph horses (or any other animal), this is the workshop to attend.
Address of workshop will be provided to registrants.

ENTRY COST

IEPPV Premium Members = FREE
IEPPV Introductory and Professional Members = $100
Non-IEPPV Members = $250

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
IEPPV Premium, Professional, and Introductory Members:
Your membership number is required at registration or you cannot complete the registration process. If you are unsure what your membership number is, please email membership@ieppv.com.

Using Off-Camera Speedlites
2016-09-28 16:00 - 18:30 | Kips Korner Park, Corner of Kips Korner and Parkridge Avenue, Norco, CA, 92860, United States
This is a class on setting up, positioning and using single & multiple off-camera speedlites. The instructor will be using ambient light and speedlites.
Bring your camera, speedlites, and light stands as this is a “hands on” class!

ENTRY COST

IEPPV Premium Members = FREE
IEPPV Introductory and Professional Members = $20
Non-IEPPV Members = $30

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
IEPPV Premium, Professional, and Introductory Members:
Your membership number is required at registration or you cannot complete the registration process. If you are unsure what your membership number is, please email membership@ieppv.com.

Non-IEPPV Members:
If this option is selected, the member number requirement “grays out” and the $30 requires payment or you cannot complete registration.

September Image Competition
2016-09-21 17:30 - 21:00 | The Old Spaghetti Factory, 3191 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92507, United States
Submissions are now closed.

Our fourth image competition of the year is coming up next month! Please check back on our Image Competition page for the latest rules, current standings, and submission deadlines.

Image Critique Class
2016-09-06 18:30 - 21:00 | Address will be sent to registrants, Corona, CA, United States
Our image critique classes are intended to help you prepare for image competition. This class is a great way to get a feel for how your might do in competition. This class will be run like a mock image competition. Images will be critiqued and the judges will make suggestions on how to improve the image. Even if you do not plan to compete, these classes offer some great insight into what makes a great image.
The address of the class will be sent to registrants.

IMAGE SUBMISSION DETAILS
A maximum of two images may be submitted. Images must be submitted as follows:

JPG format
sRGB color space
Sized to 4000 pixels on the longest side at a resolution of 200 pixels per inch
Saved at a quality level of 10
Less than 3.5MB in size

Images must be emailed to imagecritique@ieppv.com by 5:00pm on Monday, September 5th prior to the class.

ENTRY COST

Premium IEPPV Members = FREE
Introductory and Professional IEPPV Members = $20
Non-IEPPV Members = $30

Palm Springs Tram Meet Up
2016-08-27 09:00 - 14:00 | Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, 1 Tramway Rd, Palm Springs, CA, 92262, United States
Ride up and over Mt. San Jacinto State Park in the world’s largest rotating tramcars, and take in the spectacular 360-degree views. Starting from the valley floor, the trams’ 2.5-mile route ascends 5,873 feet up into the pristine wilderness of the park.
At the top of the mountain, the 14,000-acre Mt. San Jacinto State Park offers 54 miles of hiking trails, campgrounds, a ranger station, and an Adventure Center.
Take in the amazing views of the valley floor from Mountain Station observation decks, check out the Natural History Museum, or get a bite to eat at one of the two restaurants or the cocktail lounge.
Finish your visit by watching a special documentary on the history of the tramway, then take the tram back down to the valley floor, watching the Sonoran Desert as you descend.
Please check here for up-to-date weather reports.

Highlights

Riding the steepest tram in North America
Spectacular views of the valley floor
Learning the history of the tramway
Dining at the top of the mountain
Hiking & photographing in pristine old-growth wilderness

Upon your purchase of the tram ticket, it will include

Admission to the Tram
Admission to Mt. San Jacinto State Park
Admission to the Natural History Museum

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
IEPPV Premium, Professional, and Introductory Members:
Your membership number is required at registration or you cannot complete the registration process. If you are unsure what your membership number is, please email membership@ieppv.com.

Book Your Tram Tickets Early:
In addition to IEPPV event registration, we recommend that you purchase your tram tickets here early to reserve a spot on the tram for August 27th on the 9:00am departure.

August General Meeting - Inspiration and Creativity
2016-08-17 18:30 - 21:00 | The Old Spaghetti Factory, 3191 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92507, United States
Award winning Fine Art portrait photographer and artist Kristi Elias talks about creative inspiration. How to find and grow your creative style, find inspiration and work with YOUR imagination. Kristi will also talk about her work and the thought process behind creating her imagery. Learn to create with confidence and eliminate the boundaries between what is possible and impossible.

“You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I will be waiting…”
– Peter Pan (creativity)

ENTRY

IEPPV members attend for free. Non-IEPPV members are welcome to attend their first meeting complimentary (please be sure to sure to check in at our guest table as soon as you arrive).

How to Read a Histogram
2016-07-27 18:00 - 20:30 | Kips Korner Park, Corner of Kips Korner and Parkridge Avenue, Norco, CA, 92860, United States
Have you ever wondered how histograms work and what they’re for? Join us for this technical class on how to read your Histogram for correct exposures. The instructor, Bob Fletcher, will be sharing his personal use of reading a Histogram for over 15 years.
Bring your camera, as this is a “hands on” class!

ENTRY COST

IEPPV Premium Members = FREE
IEPPV Introductory and Professional Members = $20
Non-IEPPV Members = $30

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
IEPPV Premium, Professional, and Introductory Members:
Your membership number is required at registration or you cannot complete the registration process. If you are unsure what your membership number is, please email membership@ieppv.com.

Non-IEPPV Members:
If this option is selected, the member number requirement “grays out” and the $30 requires payment or you cannot complete registration.

July Image Competition
2016-07-20 17:30 - 21:00 | The Old Spaghetti Factory, 3191 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92507, United States
Our third Image Competition of the year has arrived! Please check back on our Image Competition page for the latest rules, current standings, and submission deadlines.

Image Critique Class
2016-07-13 18:30 - 21:00 | Image One Camera and Video, 9590 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA, 92503, United States
Our image critique classes are intended to help you prepare for image competition. This class is a great way to get a feel for how your might do in competition. This class will be run like a mock image competition. Images will be critiqued and the judges will make suggestions on how to improve the image. Even if you do not plan to compete, these classes offer some great insight into what makes a great image.

IMAGE SUBMISSION DETAILS
A maximum of two images may be submitted. Images must be submitted as follows:

JPG format
sRGB color space
Sized to 4000 pixels on the longest side at a resolution of 200 pixels per inch
Saved at a quality level of 10
Less than 3.5MB in size

Images must be emailed to imagecritique@ieppv.com by 5:00pm on Tuesday, July 12th prior to the class.

ENTRY COST

Premium IEPPV Members = FREE
Introductory and Professional IEPPV Members = $20
Non-IEPPV Members = $30

Trona Pinnacles At Night
2016-07-09 18:00 | CA
The Trona Pinnacles are an unusual geological feature in the California Desert National Conservation Area. The unusual landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires, some as high as 140’, rising from the bed of the Searles Lake dry lake basin.
The pinnacles vary in size and shape from short and squat to tall and thin and are composed primarily of calcium carbonate. They now sit isolated and slowly crumbling away near the south end of the valley, surrounded by many square miles of flat, dried mud and with stark mountain ranges on either side.
The Pinnacles are recognizable in more than a dozen hit movies. Over thirty film projects a year are shot among the tufa pinnacles, including backdrops for car commercials and sci-fi movies and television series such as Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Disney’s Dinosaur, The Gate II, Lost in Space, and Planet of the Apes, and in literature the crux of Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru.
The Pinnacles are located within 3,800 acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. At an elevation of 1,800’ above sea level, the pinnacles are located approximately 10.0 miles south of Trona, California. Access to the site is from a BLM dirt road. The 5.0-mile long dirt road from State Highway 178 to the Pinnacles is usually accessible to 2-wheel drive vehicles.

ITINERARY
Please reference the event itinerary for day-to-day details.

ENTRY COST

IEPPV Premium Members = FREE
IEPPV Introductory and Professional Members = $75
Non-IEPPV Members = $150

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
IEPPV Premium, Professional, and Introductory Members:
Your membership number is required at registration or you cannot complete the registration process. If you are unsure what your membership number is, please email membership@ieppv.com.

Photographing Families
2016-07-02 18:00 - 20:30 | Kips Korner Park, Corner of Kips Korner and Parkridge Avenue, Norco, CA, 92860, United States
Join us for a class on posing and light families and other large groups. The instructor, Bob Fletcher, will be using ambient light and speedlights.
Bring your camera as this is a “hands-on” class!

ENTRY COST

IEPPV Premium Members = FREE
IEPPV Introductory and Professional Members = $20
Non-IEPPV Members = $30

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
IEPPV Premium, Professional, and Introductory Members:
Your membership number is required at registration or you cannot complete the registration process. If you are unsure what your membership number is, please email membership@ieppv.com.

Non-IEPPV Members:
If this option is selected, the member number requirement “grays out” and the $150 requires payment or you cannot complete registration.

Belmont Shore Pirate Invasion
2016-06-25 10:00 - 21:00 | Belmont Pier, Long Beach, CA, 90803, United States
This is a meetup photoshoot open to EVERYONE (including IEPPV members and non-members). No registration is required – just show up and have fun!

100’s of Pirates, wenches, scallywags, buccaneers, and mermaids. Tharrr be music, song, dance, floggings, live theatre, grog, the Booty Lounge, and much more to entertain ya.
Twice a day you be seeing the cannon battles as the pier will be attacked by local marauders, and pirates clashing with sword and pistol fighting over treasure and wenches.

Festivities Include:

Pirate Fleet on view
Mermaids
Belly & Fire Dancers
Captain Jack Sparrow
Pirate encampments
Wench Floggings
Celebrity Pirates
Cannon fire
Scallywags and Scallywenches
Black Powder Presentations
Sword Fights & Pirate Battles
Parade of Pirates
Pirate Ship Attacks Pier
Pirate Costume Contest
Fire Dancers
Authentic Pirate Encampments
Sword Fights & Pirate Battles

IMAGE COMPETITION
Because this event is a meetup and does not include instruction, you are welcome to use your images in any regular category at IEPPV Image Competition.

PARKING MAP

General Meeting
2016-06-15 17:30 - 21:00 | The Old Spaghetti Factory, 3191 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92507, United States
Everyone is welcome to this event! No registration is required.
As our June meeting overlaps with the PCC’s West Coast School, we thought it would be fun to have a day full of shooting. We will have 2+ hours of instruction at various sets with an open shooting time at the end.
Reminder: This is a workshop and images captured or created from images captured during the workshop will only be eligible for image competitions “Workshop” category.

There will be 4 lighting sets to shoot.

Full Studio Lighting: This set will teach the techniques to use in a full “Strobe” studio environment.
Mixed Lighting: This set will explore the use of hot lights and mixing strobes
Hot Lights: As in the strobe studio but with Constant Light
Challenging Light: We will step away from conventional lighting and look at the challenges with adverse lighting and how to deal with it.

Your instructors will be:

Troy Miller
Bob Fletcher
Neale Adair

Models will be provided. Please bring your cameras. Please do not bring tripods and personal lighting, although on camera flash and reflectors are ok.

Alabama Hills & Bristlecone Pines Workshop
2016-06-03 12:00 - 2016-06-05 12:00 | Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, CA, Alabama Hills, CA, United States
Registration for this event is closed.

The Alabama Hills are a range of hills and rock formations near the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in the Owens Valley, west of Lone Pine.
Dozens of natural arches are among the main attractions at the Alabama Hills. They can be accessed by short hikes from the Whitney Portal Road, the Movie Flat Road, and the Horseshoe Meadows Road. Among the prominent arches of the area are Mobius Arch, Lathe Arch, the Eye of Alabama and Whitney Portal Arch.
The Alabama Hills are a popular filming location for television and movie productions, especially Westerns set in an archetypical “rugged” environment. Since the early 1920s, 150 movies, and about a dozen television shows have been filmed here, including Tom Mix films, Hop Along Cassidy films, The Gene Autry Show, The Lone Ranger and Bonanza. Classics such as Gunga Din, The Walking Hills, Yellow Sky, Springfield Rifle, The Violent Men, Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), the Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott “Ranown” westerns, part of How the West Was Won, and Joe Kidd. In the late 1940s and early 50s the area was also a popular location for the films of B-western actor Tim Holt.
More recent productions such as Tremors and Joshua Tree were filmed at “movie ranch” sites known as Movie Flats and Movie Flat Road. In Gladiator, actor Russell Crowe rides a horse in front of the Alabama’s, with Mount Whitney in the background, for a scene presumably set in Spain. Star Trek Generations was filmed here in addition to Overton, Nevada and Paramount Studios. This range was one of the filming locations for Disney’s Dinosaur. More recently, many parts of the films Iron Man and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were filmed here.

ITINERARY & ACCOMMODATIONS

Please reference the event itinerary (recently updated) for day-to-day details.
If you need recommendations for accommodations, please click here.

ENTRY COST

IEPPV Premium Members = FREE
IEPPV Introductory and Professional Members = $250
Non-IEPPV Members = $425

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
IEPPV Premium, Professional, and Introductory Members:
Your membership number is required at registration or you cannot complete the registration process. If you are unsure what your membership number is, please email membership@ieppv.com.

Cleaning Your Camera Sensor
2016-05-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Image One Camera and Video, 9590 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA, 92503, United States
Registration is now closed

What are those dark spots in the sky?
This is one of the most-frequently asked questions about digital cameras and it relates to sensor dust and cleaning.
Some people know they have sensor dust while others only know that there are spots in their images. Some even blame the spots on their lens. Though while logical at first, it takes a sizeable piece dust on/in a lens to show up as a prominent spot in a picture – especially if it is on the front lens element.

TO CHECK FOR DUST

You need a newly charged battery in the camera
Find a clean, well-lit work area
Mount a 50mm or longer lens on your DSLR camera
Find an evenly-light-colored, evenly-lit background for a test shot – a blue sky, a white wall, a piece of paper, etc.
Set the lens to manual focus and set the focus to make your selected subject completely Out of Focus. You want to see the dust – not the subject.
Adding motion blur to your test image is all-the-better.
You may want to turn off IS if your lens is so-equipped though it won’t hurt to leave it on.
On the camera, set your exposure mode to Av, ISO to 100 and – very important – set the aperture to at least to f/22.
Take the test picture.

If your sensor is dirty, you will see spots in your test image. They are especially easy to see if you load the test shot into your computer and increase the contrast. Reviewing the test shot on your LCD is faster and works just fine. Zoom into the image 2 or 3 levels and pan through the image systematically looking for spots. Remember, the location of the dust on the sensor will be exactly opposite of where it appears in the image on the LCD (the lens flips the image, the camera de-flips it for viewing). When you turn the camera 180 degrees to look into the chamber, the spot will now be flipped up/down only.
There are many sensor cleaning methods. Start with the easiest and least intrusive cleaning method and move down more difficult ones until you have a clean sensor.
When the sensor cleaning is finished, clean up and reset your camera to your normal settings. Be sure to set focus to AF. Be careful, relaxed and patient while cleaning your sensor, you will do a better job. Relaxing will become easier after you become familiar with sensor cleaning methods.
So how do we keep dust off of the sensor in the first place? Well, you may not be able to prevent it – DSLRs often have with dirty sensors right out of the box. But aside from that, a little care can minimally prolong a necessary sensor cleaning.
Probably the most significant dust-prevention you can do is to change lenses quickly (but still carefully) in a dust-free environment. On a windy day outdoors, the amount of airborne dust is extremely high.

ENTRY COST

IEPPV Premium Members = FREE
IEPPV Introductory and Professional Members = $20
Non-IEPPV Members = $30

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
IEPPV Premium, Professional, and Introductory Members:
Your membership number is required at registration or you cannot complete the registration process. If you are unsure what your membership number is, please email membership@ieppv.com.

May Image Competition
2016-05-18 17:30 - 21:00 | The Old Spaghetti Factory, 3191 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92507, United States
Our second image competition of the year is approaching! Please check back on our Image Competition page for the latest rules, current standings, and submission deadlines.

Boudoir Photography
2016-05-07 13:00 - 17:00 | Shutterstories, 981 Iowa Ave., Riverside, CA, 92507, United States
The term “boudoir” is ascribed to a specific genre of photography. Boudoir photography is not generally a new concept and numerous examples including images of Clara Bow, Mae West and Jean Harlow photographed in a boudoir style from the 1920s through the 1940s.
Today, it is typically shot in a photographer’s studio or luxury hotel suites and it has become fashionable to create a set of sensual or sexually suggestive images of women in “boudoir style”. The most common manifestation of contemporary boudoir photography is to take variations of candid and posed photographs of the subject partly clothed or in lingerie. Nudity is more often implied than explicit.
Commercially the genre is often derived from a market for brides to surprise their future husbands by gifting the images on or before their wedding day. Other motivations or inspiration for boudoir photography shoots include anniversaries, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, breast augmentation and for servicemen and women overseas. Boudoir photography is typically distinguished from other photography genres such as glamour photography, fine art nude photography and erotic photography.
IEPPV will have numerous models with a variety of backgrounds, lingerie, bikinis, etc. for you to photograph. You are invited to bring your camera, lenses, tripod and lighting.

ENTRY COST

IEPPV Premium Members = FREE
IEPPV Introductory and Professional Members = $75
Non-IEPPV Members = $150

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
IEPPV Premium, Professional, and Introductory Members:
Your membership number is required at registration or you cannot complete the registration process. If you are unsure what your membership number is, please email membership@ieppv.com.

Image Critique Class
2016-04-27 18:30 - 21:00 | Image One Camera and Video, 9590 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA, 92503, United States
Our image critique classes are intended to help you prepare for image competition. This class is a great way to get a feel for how your might do in competition. This class will be run like a mock image competition. Images will be critiqued and the judges will make suggestions on how to improve the image. Even if you do not plan to compete, these classes offer some great insight into what makes a great image.

IMAGE SUBMISSION DETAILS
A maximum of two images may be submitted. Images must be submitted as follows:

JPG format
sRGB color space
Sized to 4000 pixels on the longest side at a resolution of 200 pixels per inch
Saved at a quality level of 10
Less than 3.5MB in size

Images must be emailed to imagecritique@ieppv.com by 5:00pm on Tuesday, April 26th prior to the class.

ENTRY COST

Premium IEPPV Members = FREE
Introductory and Professional IEPPV Members = $20
Non-IEPPV Members = $30

April General Meeting - "Triple Impact"
2016-04-20 17:30 - 21:00 | The Old Spaghetti Factory, 3191 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92507, United States
TRIPLE IMPACT
IEPPV’s very own Troy Miller, Neale Adair and David Swanson will be presenting a triple program. Each making a living in photography, they will be sharing what they are passionate about in their industries of weddings, seniors, fine art portraiture, and sports event photography.
After all 3 presentations, they will sit for an informal Q&A about all aspects of their photography and business.
This is a time to ask all the hard questions or just hang out and have a fun conversation.

TROY MILLER
Visit his website at Imagery Concepts Photography

NEALE ADAIR
Visit his website at Adair Photography

DAVID SWANSON
Visit his website at DS Photo

ENTRY
IEPPV members attend for free. Non-IEPPV members are welcome to attend their first meeting complimentary (please be sure to sure to check in at our guest table as soon as you arrive).

Pioneer Town Movie Set
2016-04-09 06:00 - 2016-04-10 12:00 | Pioneer Town, Pioneertown, CA, United States
Registration for this event is now closed.

Pioneertown was built in 1946 in the community of Yucca Valley and started as a live-in Old West motion picture set. The set was designed to provide a place for the actors to live while using their homes in the movie. A number of Westerns and early television shows were filmed in Pioneertown, including The Cisco Kid and Edgar Buchanan’s Judge Roy Bean. Roy Rogers, Dick Curtis, Russell Hayden and Gene Autry were among the original developers and investors.
Strolling down Mane Street is an experience. An abandoned bowling alley stands opposite a jail, bathhouse and bank. Carts of “dynamite” sit like props in the dusty street, presumably from the weekly Old West re-enactments. Unsettlingly realistic dummies slouch in rocking chairs on porches, and fake crows are tied to rails and posts. You pass a grave with a wooden sign proclaiming “Welcome.” The houses on Mane Street look more like live-in works of art than homes.
Saturday morning will consist of several training sessions including:

Environmental lighting
Balancing speedlites with ambient light
Using reflectors for fill light

We will then take those newly learned skills and apply them to photographing models around town.
Saturday afternoon will include a training session on “Posing Live People” as individuals and small groups.
Sunday morning will include a training session and then a Question & Answer session with several full-time professional photographers & several IEPPV Board Members answering your questions. Any and all subjects regarding photography are open for discussion.
The day concludes at noon to give you time to travel home.

ITINERARY & ACCOMMODATIONS

Please reference the event itinerary (recently updated) for day-to-day details.
If you need recommendations for accommodations, please click here.

ENTRY COST

IEPPV Premium Members = FREE
IEPPV Introductory and Professional Members = $150
Non-IEPPV Members = $400

Micro Adjusting Lenses
2016-03-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Image One Camera and Video, 9590 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA, 92503, United States
Registration for this event is now closed.

This class will teach you the various methods of micro adjusting each of your lenses to each of your camera bodies. There is a “learning curve” to understanding how to micro adjust your camera and lenses. Attendance to this class will shorten that learning curve.
Bring your camera with a freshly charged battery, a couple of your lenses, CF or SD cards, a sturdy tripod and a willingness to listen and learn.

THE IMPORTANCE OF “MICRO ADJUSTING” LENSES TO CAMERA BODIES
Cameras and lenses are manufactured on assembly lines and tolerances apply to that process.
If you’re lucky, you get a camera and lens that are both spot on, or are “off” by an equal amount in the same direction and life is good. If you have multiple lenses and/or bodies, chances are one or more will need some micro adjustment.
The other factor is depth of field (DoF) – the wider the aperture, the shallower the DoF. With relatively narrower apertures, such as the f/3.5-5.6 range commonly found on consumer zoom lenses, the DoF is deep enough to mask minor focus errors, so micro adjusting is not as important in those cases.
In addition, because fast lenses achieve a shallow DoF, even small focus errors are very evident. Also, with the newest higher resolution chips, small focus errors become even more pronounced. Prior to the availability of micro adjusting, the only option to correct these issues was to send camera(s) and lens(es) into the manufacturer and you had to send your entire kit to them.
No camera will consistently produce a perfectly focused image every time at every distance, and no adjustment procedure will change that. What a proper micro adjustment can do is increase the percentage of shots that are correctly focused.

ENTRY COST

IEPPV Premium Members = FREE
IEPPV Introductory and Professional Members = $20
Non-IEPPV Members = $30

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
IEPPV Premium, Professional, and Introductory Members:
Your membership number is required at registration or you cannot complete the registration process. If you are unsure what your membership number is, please email membership@ieppv.com.

Iron Horse Steampunk Carnival
2016-03-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Orange Empire Railway Museum, 2201 S. "A" St., Perris, CA, 92570, United States
Registration is now closed.

Grab your goggles, parasols, top hats, corsets and jump into your airships to head over to the Orange Empire Railway Museum on March 19th for an extraordinary festival celebrating the fantasy, history and ingenuity behind Steampunk. Enjoy the festivities as we pay homage to the Victorian Era, Edwardian science fiction, and the Industrial Revolution with the museum’s steam-powered locomotive as the backdrop.
Events include steam locomotive and vintage trolley rides, shows and concerts by Steampunk entertainers. The carnival will further include a Steampunk fashion show, Steampunk workshops, Steampunk artisan displays, handiworks, steam-driven contraptions and imaginative gadgets, as well as lots of eats.
IEPPV members are welcome to photograph the costumed models, the locomotives, the box cars and all the machinery in the yard, along with all the special events the carnival has to offer.
The museum is requesting that images be emailed to the models and to the museum after the event. As a professional photographer, you will be requested to sign a release at the gate that states you will pay a 15% commission to the OERM if images are sold for commercial use.

ENTRY COSTS

Premium Members = No charge
Introductory & Professional Members = $75

Entry costs include admission to the event, daytime shows and entertainment, rides on the train, and vintage trolleys, plus access to museum exhibits.

March Image Competition
2016-03-16 17:30 - 21:00 | The Old Spaghetti Factory, 3191 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92507, United States
Submissions are now closed.

Our first Image Competition of the year is quickly approaching! Please check back on our Image Competition page for the latest rules, current standings, and submission deadlines.

Capturing the Elusive Moment
2016-02-17 18:00 - 21:00 | Riverside City College, 4800 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA, 92506, United States
This class is available to ALL who would like to attend, including non-members!
It can be difficult to create and bring to life what your mind sees and imagines. Many of us feel creatively stifled at times and find it difficult to see beyond our line of sight. Then again at times we have a very clear image but need the inspiration, knowledge and tools to create it. It can be difficult to break the barriers needed to take us beyond our comfort zone.
Ken Sklute, a Canon Explorer of Light, has had a diverse and long career in photography and continuously challenges himself to learn new techniques to create images he’s imagined first. Come learn with Ken and push yourself to reach the goals in your photography you’ve been meaning to explore but haven’t until now. Ken will share his techniques with you about photographing some rather challenging subject matter like capturing lightning, tornados, lava and the elusive Aurora Borealis. Photographing subjects that are not yet visible requires a pre-visualization process that Ken will skillfully lead you through. You will leave with improved techniques, and an ability to see subjects like you never have before.
Visit Ken’s site, serendipityvisuals.com, for more of his photographic work and blog posts.

Location Details:

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When you have arrived at RCC, rurn North on Terracina Dr. and park in the parking structure. The meeting will be in the Digital Library & Learning Resource Center auditorium room (directly across from the parking structure)

Up Close and Beautiful Round 2 - Macro Photography
2016-02-11 18:30 - 21:30 | Image One Camera and Video, 9590 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA, 92503, United States
ATTENTION: Registration is now CLOSED.
Is macro photography something you’ve been wanting to explore? Perhaps the difficulties – and being honest, there are some – have been holding you back. This program and hands-on experience will give you the jump-start you need to discover the sheer joy of doing macro the smart way. Here are the highlights:

You want to…

Get into macro photography with a modest investment in equipment. We’ll explore ways to achieve high image quality without that $1,000 macro lens. Amazingly, there are optics that were designed for excellent macro imaging that can be picked up for pocket money – if you know what to look for.
Master the challenges of limited depth-of-field in close-up work. You’ll learn techniques to make the most of short depth-of-field as well as effective ways to get more depth-of-field when you need it.
Have fun with your new-found skills. Bring your camera, tripod and any macro gear you may already have. But don’t let any lack of equipment hold you back: for Canon and Nikon shooters, there will be lenses and accessories available for you to experiment with. This is definitely a hands-on workshop!

This promise to be an educational and entertaining event. Join us and be amazed!

ABOUT FRANK PEELE
Frank has a passion for photography that began before he was a teenager – and it’s stronger today than ever. Following a 30-year career in the U. S. Navy as a photographer and photographic officer, he established a practice in commercial and fine-art photography in Redlands. He became active in the Inland Empire Professional Photographers and Videographers (IEPPV), where he is a Past President and Honorary Life Member, and in Professional Photographers of California where he is a Qualified Competition Judge and Judging Panel Moderator.
He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in motion picture production and film education from the University of Southern California. He is a PPA Certified Professional Photographer who in 2013 was inducted into the PPC Hall of Fame, and the same year also became the first inductee into the IEPPV Hall of Fame. Frank believes that one of the great creative opportunities in photography is to use macro techniques to get close to subjects of many kinds, revealing beauty that is not always obvious to the unaided eye. He’ll be teaching an immersive five-day class in macro photography at West Coast School in June of 2016 at the University of San Diego.

Randsburg Ghost Town
2016-02-06 06:00 - 2016-02-07 12:00 | Randsburg, Randsburg, CA, United States
Get ready for an exciting workshop photographing old buildings, cars, and landscapes!
Well known as the ‘Living Ghost Town’, Randsburg, California sits on the rural reaches of the high desert between Death Valley and the tail of the Sierra Nevada. Ancient lava flows, petroglyphs, and plenty of open public lands is what this location offers.
More information will be provided to registrants.
