Third Floor Photo Society

For all interested in the upcoming contest to be shown in Houston, all entries are due to Lee Whitmarsh by October 1st. Call or talk to someone to see if they can take your entry to UCD by Friday or hand deliver it to Lee Whitmarsh by October 1st. Houston Show

Todays post is for one of the big names out in the portrait area of contemporary photography, Martin Schoeller. Schoeller is the photographer behind the close up portraits of famous actors, actresses, musical artists, the president, and other social icons. Behind his work is one of his several representatives, Vaughn Hannigan photographic representers, a company specializing in showing the best and brightest portrait photographers. More below at the links: Martin Schoeller     Vaughn Hannigan Reps.  

 Alright everyone, its time to get into contest season, and Third Floor Photo Society is strongly pushing for all our current students to enter as many contests as they can to put their names out in the photographic industry! If you are looking for a great resource for jobs, applications, and especially networking, its contests that can really help get you as a important name in the photo world. CMYK magazine is holding a competition for new talent, and with $45.00 you can enter your top 15 pieces. Details at the link CMYK Contest Page

For those interested, Ryan Daniels is helping put together a upcoming digital photography program for students with special needs. If you are a current student, alumni, or reader of the blog, we are looking for donations to help Ryan get this program started! More information below     Dear Chad, As you know, last year I created an after-school photography program for high school students with special needs. I am now trying to make that program digital. Obviously, the cost of creating even the most modest digital photography program is pretty overwhelming. I was hoping that there might be a few ETSU/A&M-Commerce Alumni that would be willing (and able) to help out. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will contribute just over $1000 to the project (50% of what's needed), which leaves about the same amount to be raised by elsewhere. This program is a labor of love for me and these children benefit greatly from the exposure to photography. Shooting digital, I believe, wil...

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How to Dodge & Burn in Photoshop from Scott Bourne on Vimeo . Best way to dodge and burn without being distinctive to the image pixels.

SPE Regional is going to be held in Thibodaux, Louisiana from October 15th-17th.... some people might wanna think about going. There is more info on their website at http://www.spesouthcentral.org/ This years theme is called "Crosswinds". I think that registration for this is already open.. check it out. It would be a nice little roadtrip... mapquest says that it would take 7 hours and 39 minutes to get there from Commerce.

For all interested: Third Floor Photo Society is trying to get a booth set up for the Bodark Festival in Commerce. As such, we are wanting to display and sell photos at the booth. We are looking for photos, your photos! Talk to checkout on the Third Floor of the Journalism building and get your photos printed for us to show at the booth! Part of the proceeds from sales will even come back to you!

Here are links to the big contests of the year, Best of College and PIEA. Each contest is worldwide, and offer great prizes!! Best of College PIEA Contest

Eleven photographers were sent-out to document the characters of America.

GO TO contest.pdnedu.com TO SUBMIT TO THE CONTEST

Scholarship Page

For all students or readers who have spent countless hours drawing out lighting diagrams to Chad Smith or Greg Milano for showing your setups, listen up! Lightingdiagrams.com has now launched which is a online site that allows you to create online lighting diagrams and then export them as a file to your computer, ready to print or do as you wish! This is a great resource for all our readers to look! Lighting Diagrams Website

You sport photographers should enter this!!!! Just go to http://www.theshot.espn.com/ 

Todays post is on once of the most recognized Fine Art and Commercial Photographers today, Stephen Wilkes. Wilkes is most noted for several projects including a look at Ellis Island, a portrait of America, and Chinese landscapes and factories. Representing Wilkes is the company of Bernstein & Andriull, a company specializing in commerical representation ranging from photographers, illustrators, styling, plus hair and makeup work. Make sure and check out each of the many many amazing photographers represented by Bernstein & Andriull. Stephen Wilkes Bernstein & Andriull

For all our readers and hopeful members to this years Photo Society, our first meeting will be on Wednesday September 9th @ 7:00 p.m. on the third floor of Journalism! Here are a few articles to checkout as well! Thank you to all who came to the barbeque last night out at the Rec Center to support photo society and meet everyone! We will have photos up soon! A Photo Student : Basically a blog coming from a new graduate student at School of Visual Arts in New York. This is a great way to see what goes on in the day to day life of a top student at arguably one of the best graduate schools in the nation. Great resource! Foto Fest ! : One of the largest photographic meetings in the world, a place where anyone who's anyone of the photographic world will be! Talk to Vaughn for more information and checkout the site! Adam Patterson : Found this photographer earlier this week and he has some really good documentary work for his two projects of "Another Lost Child" and "Squat...

I found this agency this morning while stumbling around on the web. Buena Vista has worked with several major companies with campaigns and is based out of Buenos Aires. Buena Vista Fotografia

Photo Society will be having a barbeque/meet and greet at the Texas A&M Commerce Student Recreation Center. Make sure to bring your bathing suits and come out for some free food, swimming and a chance to meet up with other art students and photography majors! Make sure to check the facebook event page When: Friday, September 4th 6:00p.m. - 8:00p.m. Where: Morris Student Recreation Center Why: Come out to meet your fellow photo majors with free food and a good time! Facebook Event Page

thought this was a cool video showing the start to finish process from studio to cover on the newest edition of Macworld Magazine by Peter Belanger Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo .