All three of us will be heading down to Kansas City this year for Foundation Conference 2010 which promises to be a couple days of serious learning (and serious partying!).
The conference is run by Huy Nguyen and was held for the first time last year in Dallas.
This years lineup looks great, with another local photographer getting the chance to speak (Justin from Stillmotion).
Here’s the link to the conference.
Here’s the schedule:
SCHEDULE (subject to change)
Day Zero : Monday November 8, 2010
7 pm – 10 pm – Drinks with friends
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Day One : Tuesday November 9, 2010
9 – 11:00 am – DQ Studios Bendy Bendy
How’d they do that?!?!? From the in-between to the hero image, their ingeniously simple and spontaneously creative lighting and incredible relationship with their clients make all the difference. Dave and Quin will share their tools, tips and tricks they’ve learned along the path to imagery of passion, moment and light.
11 am – 1 pm : LUNCH BREAK
1 pm – 2:30 pm : Justin DeMers One Year
On my journey to crafting relevant and meaningful imagery I stopped in at a little conference last year named The Foundation Conference. One year later, here I am. Where do you want to be one year?
3 pm – 5 pm : JVS - Keep It Real
For the past twenty years, JVS has been capturing real moments in real time and hasn’t been afraid to use his strobes along the way. Whether it be wedding or portrait, JVS will inspire you to seek the moment in everything you shoot.
8 pm – Party Party Party
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Day Two: Wednesday November 10, 2010
9 am – 10 am : the Wedrockers – Raising the Bar for a New Generation
Mexico is a very traditional and conservative country in and its photography is not an exception. We come from a culture that regard wedding photography as the perfect portraiture of two persons posing like statues in front of a camera. That was it. It has been less than three years since the four of us met and started looking outside the box and outside our country and to try to push the limits of our way of shooting weddings. Suddenly we realized that this constant and constructive challenge among friends has started to change the way many people in Mexico is looking at wedding photography. We are making a difference in our country and we won’t stop. We are up to the challenge.
10 am – Noon – Anna Kuperberg – Being You
When you re-connect with your sense of curiosity, the one that first got you excited about photography, your photos become interesting. Clients are drawn to authenticity and passion. Everything else in your business– branding, marketing, customer service, and even your choices of products– builds on this. Nobody can be you as well as you. So have fun and take some risks.
Noon – 1:30 pm LUNCH BREAK
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm : Candice C. Cusic - Being Laid Off Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
Candice ruined her mother’s countertops with chemical stains while learning her darkroom technique at age six. Upon graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her passion for photography took her to positions with the Virginian-Pilot, the Concord Monitor, the Raleigh News & Observer and, most notably, the Chicago Tribune for 11 years. She currently teaches Photojournalism at Northwestern University and has created a business that specializes in photographic storytelling. Candice will share how she escaped from a daily newspaper, the lessons she learned in building a business and how photojournalism fits into modern day weddings.
2:30 – 3:30 – Lemon Lime Photography - Competitive Collaboration
After five years of shooting and debating, Neal and Eric spill how competitive collaboration works and fuels everything they do to make their mark in a small Midwest market.
4 pm – 6 pm – live photo competition judging/critique (judges: Huy, Mark P, Robert Mirani, Candice C, etc)
