baumanphotographersblog.com » WPPI

Lonely Week

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:17:00 +0000

This week was a lonely week for me as the boys left me all by myself in our studio while they were all off playing at the WPPI conference in Las Vegas…actually I know they were working quite hard. In any case it was a sad week with no Bauman Lunch, leaving me with no restaurant to review. Instead I am going to post our new team pictures taken by our wonderful friend and photographer extraodinaire Sara France.

The team: Karey (me), Jared, Bronson, Eder, and Jacob. There was no wardrobe planning which in hindsight probably would have been smart because we had to carefully deal with some “twin”
issues…keeping Jacob and myself away from each other in every picture, next year I am going to wear pink.

Here is a crushed velvet chair in a lovely shade of yellow we found on the side walk that added some flair to our pictures…I really want to see the room this chair used to call home.

During my headshots Jacob and Bronson thought it would be funny to make cat calls behind me.

…then everyone decided to get in on that action. What a bunch of crazies…I am glad they are back home!

WPPI 2008!!!

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:10:00 +0000

Alright, here we go, another year of WPPI! WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) is the biggest photographers convention in the world, with other 10,000 photographers traveling to it last year. All in all, its an absolute blast for a photographer to go to – huge tradeshow, tons of great speakers giving presentations, parties and catching up with old friends. Oh, and did I mention its in Las Vegas?
I have the honor this year of speaking on a Platform Topic at this year’s convention. I’ll also be speaking at a couple of tradeshow booths. Below is my schedule for the week:

Sunday:
Pictage is hosting a half day photo conference, with some great speakers and a wonderful “Ladies of Photography” segment. This starts at 1pm and goes through the afternoon.
That night, Bronson and I will be at a liveBooks dinner and then to Sara France‘s soiree! Last year was a wonderful party, and this year they have a suite at the MGM.

Monday:

8:30am, Me Ra Koh is presenting on “Associate Your Way to The Top”, which is sure to be amazing. Me Ra and her husband Brian are wonderful speakers – you can’t help but instantly fall in love with them. They are also great friends of ours – we’ve been blessed to know them through their relationship with ShootDotEdit. Me Ra and I are teaming up to offer some awesome discounts on our DVD’s and info packets, so you won’t want to miss her talk!

Michael and Anna Costa will also be presenting at the same time, which is a huge bummer for me as I want to see both! These two are a wonderful photography team out of Santa Barbara, and have a really neat style to their images. Anna interviewed me a few months ago for her new photography forum Photo for the People.

And Marc Weisberg is ALSO speaking at 8:30am in a Master Class segment. Marc just joined the ShootDotEdit crew, and I’m really looking forward to learning more from him over the coming years! Going to be a busy morning!

3:00pm – liveBooks booth:
Our brand new website, which should be coming out in the next few days, was put together by liveBooks. We’ve been so blessed to start working with them, and our new site is looking absolutely fantastic. Bronson has been working tirelessly with the design team to get it done by WPPI, and I will be speaking at the liveBooks booth on “Adding Associates”.

6:00pm – Pictage WPPI Party – always a blast, it will be great to see all our Pictage friends. And afterwards, who knows – it is Saint Patty’s day!

Tuesday:
9am: Can’t say much (mainly because I don’t know much), but we’ll be doing some ShootDotEdit filming for the morning for a new video we’re working on. Thanks to Ron Dawson for helping us out with this!

11:30am: Time for the Thirst Relief mentor session. If you missed my posts on this earlier, WPPI teams up with Thirst Relief every year to do a photographer auction. Photographers can bid to have some mentoring time with other photographers at WPPI, and all money goes to a GREAT cause. Thirst Relief is doing some awesome things and I’m proud to be able to contribute some time for them. I’m looking forward to meeting Rowena Curtis and answering any and all of her questions!

7:30pm: My platform presentation! Two hours of speaking in front of who knows how many hundreds of people! Its alright, I’m actually not that nervous (yet . . . ). My topic is “Business 101, Structuring Your Business for Maximum Profit”. Basically, in a nutshell, I’m going to present on how to set up your business so it will be viable, but still afford you the luxuries a business needs to provide for you! I’m so blessed to have such an amazing team around me here at Bauman Photographers – it allows me to focus on my strengths and still have time away from work. I’d encourage any photographer to come check it out – I can promise you’ll walk away learning something! Also, Me Ra will be on hand and we’ll be blowing out our DVD’s and info packets – you’re not going to find a better price on those than at the presentation

Wednesday:

10am: back at the liveBooks booth for the “Adding Associates” presentation!

11am: at the Pictage booth hosting Q&A with Joe Buissink! I had the pleasure of meeting Joe, an icon in the wedding photography industry, a few weeks ago. To share time on stage with him is an honor, and I’m really looking forward to this hour.

Phew – then its home for me on Wednesday night! What a week!

Auction benefiting Thirst Relief

admin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:09:00 +0000

Bronson and I are really excited to be participating in this years Thirst Relief Benefit Auction. For starters, Thirst Relief is an awesome organization that provides clean drinking water to people around the world. As they say, $5 saves a life. Its a really cool organization that the wedding photography community has rallied around in the last few years.
Everyhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif year at WPPI, a mentor auction for photographers is set up. Photographers bid on a pool of other photographers for an hour or two of one-on-one mentoring time. All the money from the auction goes directly to Thirst Relief.
For all you photographers out there going to WPPI, I would really encourage you to bid on a photographer you’re interested in getting some advice from. Both Bronson and I will be hosting separate mentoring sessions. Bidding starts on February 9th at 10am EST and ends February 12th. Here’s the link to bid at – it will become “live” on the 9th.
For the rest of you, make sure you check out Thirst Relief – its a great organization to contribute too!

Live on the Pictage Forums -

admin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:35:00 +0000

I’m about to jump on the Pictage forums for Ask and Learn Wednesday. Pictage does this really cool thing each week where they ask photographers from around the country to host a question and answer period on their forums. There is SO much valuable information to be learned, and you get to hear from some of the best. For example, last week they had Denis Reggie! I’m really looking forward to speaking for Pictage at WPPI in March!
If you’re a photographer, come over and say hi!