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Yep, it’s time for the annual WPPI 16×20 Print Competition, and I’m finalizing my entries and sending them out this week. I thought you all might like to see what I’m sending in this year, so here they are.
Cross your fingers, and wish me luck!
“The Moonshiner”
“The Last Stand”
“Mother Nature’s Remorse”
“Mother Nature’s Oversight”
“He promised he would change.” (left) – “The Gypsy” (right)
No Limits: Knoxville is a two-day Photography & Photoshop Workshop with international award-winning photographer & creator of Design House, Andy Armstrong
When: Monday, March 1st & Tuesday, March 2nd from 9am-5pm each day
Where: Knoxville, TN at a large studio space in the Old City, Downtown Knoxville
Registration: $249 per person
Early-bird Special (before 2/1/2010): $199 per person
Do you want to learn how to get the best out of your clients during a shoot? Do you want to create images that turn heads? Do you want to wow your clients with every image? Do you want to produce images, albums, and specialty products that set you apart from your competition and help you get national and international recognition? If you do, then you don’t want to miss No Limits: Knoxville
Join three-time international award-winning photographer and creator of Design House, Andy Armstrong for this two-day, intensive, hands-on photography workshop in the Old City of downtown Knoxville as he teaches and demonstrates interpersonal interaction, shoot strategy, pose flow, and how there are “No Limits” in creating image after image that make mouths and wallets fall open.
The market for Fashion, Glamour and Boudoir Photography is growing rapidly every day. Don’t fall behind the curve. Learn how you can tap into this market and create images that wow your clients and lead to bigger sales.
And even if you don’t shoot fashion, glamour, or boudoir? Don’t worry. Everything (from pose and communication to post processing) you’ll learn at this workshop will translate easily into every aspect of your photography, whether it’s weddings, kids, or families. You’ll walk away fired up and ready to take on the world.
“This is going to be a fun, but serious workshop, folks. I’m going to show you exactly how I do fashion and glamour photography. From approaching potential models that build your portfolio to the first interaction in the studio – from building a model’s confidence to making her feel ’sexy’ without being intrusive – from finding the light to getting the very best poses – and much, much more. I’m going to show you exactly how I find, shoot, and succeed with this genre of photography.” – Andy Armstrong
No Limits: Knoxville includes:
- Live model shoots
- Posing demonstration and instruction
- Lighting demonstration and instruction
- How to communicate more effectively
- How to make your clients comfortable
- Hands-on coaching
- When and how to break the rules
- INTENSIVE Photoshop demonstration and training that will help you create your style and win awards.
About Andy Armstrong
Photographer and Digital Artist, Andy Armstrong is a three-time, international award-winning photographer and artist. His work has just won First Place overall in the Portrait/Individual category and Second Place overall in the Illustrative/Editorial category of the WPPI international print competition. In just three years, Armstrong has placed three times and received numerous Accolades of Excellence.
Known for his portraiture and commercial work, Armstrong has worked for well known commercial brands like Remington and Colt. He has served as the team photographer for professional hockey and traveled into the hills of East Tennessee to shoot with the infamous moon shiner, Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton. While Armstrong is based in East Tennessee, he has shot weddings in Denver, Boston, Canada, and even St. Croix.
In every instance, Armstrong manages to catch the humanity of his clients and portray them in the best light possible, and now he wants to share his secrets with you through discussion, demonstration, and hands-on shooting and coaching.
With an extensive background in graphic art and design, Andy Armstrong created and released Design House Library Vol. 1 in 2008 and Design House Library Vol. 2 in 2009.
Design House is a collection of libraries for the modern digital photographer and designer. The libraries include Photoshop specific actions, brushes, custom shapes, and patterns. The libraries also feature a massive collection of files to help you get more creative with your images, albums, cards, and marketing pieces, including hi-res pre-made backgrounds, wallpapers, textures, digital mats, objects (like paper cutouts, dried flowers, tape and more), borders, vector images, framez, tagz, and even sun rayz.
The idea is simple: Give photographers and designers everything they need to create unique work for their clients, without all the hassle of being creative. In essence, design house is creativity simplified.
Design House has been reviewed by and featured as a “Hot Pix” item in Rangefinder magazine. In his review of Design House, Stan Sholik wrote that Design House gives “enormous potential for creative expression,” and “can inspire you and help grow your business.” And Design House has helped photographers in Canada and the US win more than ten big awards in the last year.
Don’t miss your opportunity to sit down with Andy Armstrong and learn how to really wow your clients and get creative with your post work. Set yourself apart from your competition – learn how to work quickly and effectively from someone who knows the ropes and helps photographers get creative.
Andy Armstrong was a corporate trainer for a Fortune 200 company. He’s been trained as an adult educator and knows how to quickly and effectively share knowledge in a workshop setting. He has conducted workshops in the States from Nashville to Portland, and now he’s decided to share his skills and knowledge in his native city. Grow your work. Grow you business, and get fired up about your photography. And don’t forget, if you register by January 31st, you’ll receive the early bird discount (that’s a $50 discount)!
To learn more about Andy Armstrong and see more of his work, visit:
http://www.andyarmstrongphoto.com
To learn more about Design House, visit:
http://www.getdesignhouse.com
Don’t wait. Register right now. This workshop is limited to the first 20 registrants and NO seats will be added! Don’t miss out! http://www.getdesignhouse.com/dh_store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=121
Where:
Austin, Texas (exact location to be announced)
When:
Monday, March 22nd and Tuesday March 23rd
Registration:
$279 per person
Early-Bird Registration:
$249 per person (if you register by January 31, 2010)
Workshop Description:
The market for Glamour and Boudoir Photography is growing every day. Don’t fall behind the curve. Learn how you can tap into this market and create images that wow your clients and lead to bigger sales.
The Grind: Austin is an intensive two-day photography and post-processing workshop that will focus on Fashion, Glamour, and Boudoir photography.
Join three-time international award-winning photographer and creator of Design House, Andy Armstrong as he teaches and demonstrates interpersonal interaction, shoot strategy, pose flow, and how to get through the “grind” of creating image after image that make mouths and wallets fall open.
“This is going to be a fun, but serious workshop, folks. I’m searching for the best models Austin has to offer, and I’m going to show you exactly how I do glamour photography. From approaching potential models that build your portfolio to the first interaction in the studio – from building a model’s confidence to making her feel ’sexy’ without being intrusive – from finding the light to getting the very best poses – and much, much more. I’m going to show you exactly how I find, shoot, and succeed with this genre of photography.” – Andy Armstrong
The Grind: Austin includes:
- Live model shoots
- Posing demonstration and instruction
- Lighting demonstration and instruction
- How to communicate more effectively
- How to make your clients comfortable
- Hands-on coaching
- When and how to break the rules
- Intensive Photoshop demonstration and training
So you don’t shoot fashion, glamour, or boudoir? Don’t worry. Everything (from pose and communication to post processing) you’ll learn at this workshop will translate easily into every aspect of your photography, whether it’s weddings, kids, or families. You’ll walk away fired up and ready to take on the world.
And, since everything’s bigger and better in Texas…
We’ve got an extra special guest assistant for this workshop. Award-winning photographer and Graphic Authority designer, Brian Little of B&D Photography will be joining us a special guest speaker and assistant for the entire workshop.
To learn more about Andy Armstrong’s work and his Design House product, you can visit the following sites:
Andy Armstrong Photography (home page)
Andy Armstrong Photography (glamour work)
To learn more about Brian Little’s work, you can visit the following site:
A note about location:
The final location in Austin, Texas has not been determined as of the time of publication of this material. We are, however, working on an excellent location for this type of photography, and the location will be secured and announced shortly.
Learn more or register now: The Grind: Austin
While I was in Orlando, model, Barrett Perlman and I worked on some very emotional images. Our goal was to portray the emotional distress and physical pain of domestic violence – more specifically – the agony of abuse that a woman suffers at the hand of her partner.
I will tell you that the images below are disturbing in their very nature. They’re hard to look at, but they are reality. 3.9 million women a year in this country are physically abused by their domestic partner. 20.7 million women a year in this country are emotionally abused by their domestic partner. Every 9 seconds in this country a woman is assaulted by her domestic partner. 30% of women presenting with injuries at the emergency room had injuries caused by battering. Domestic violence is a repetitive in nature: about 1 in 5 women victimized by their spouse or ex-spouse reported that they had been a victim of a series of at least 3 assaults in the last 6 months.
That’s unnacceptable. Let’s stop domestic abuse.
Last weekend, I was invited down to Orlando to stay with and shoot professional wake boarder, Barrett Perlman. And, besides the fact that I kept having flashbacks of college life, I had a lot of fun. Barrett was an excellent host, and it was great to be able to shake of the Tennessee cold and throw on the flip flops again.
Now, before you ask why there aren’t any shots of the pro wake boarder actually wake boarding, I have to tell you that Barrett has gotten into a bit of modeling over the last few months, and she wanted me to help with that portfolio, not the wake boarding portfolio (which is already extensive).
Here are some shots from my Orlando trip. Thank you for being an excellent host, Barrett. Next time we shoot in the boat with a tow line.
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