Speaker's Meeting

Speaker: Ella Putney Carlson

Topic: Abstracts

Ella Putney Carlson is a photographic artist, illustrator and educator. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in visual art from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. She has also earned the professional photography degrees of Master Photographer, Master Artist, Craftsman, and Certified Professional Photographer from the Professional Photographers of America, and the Fellowship Degree and Educational Associate Degree from the American Society of Photographers. She won the 2019 Grand Imaging Award, the top prize in Professional Photographers of America international image competition, and was awarded the first prize GIA for her album "Most Wanted" and won another GIA in the Illustrative category in 2020. She has earned multiple Kodak Gallery Awards, Fuji Masterpiece Awards and Courts of Honor awards. She has been a PPA Diamond Photographer of the Year for the past 5 years.

Carlson's work has been exhibited in a number of museums and galleries including: Danforth Museum, DeCordova Museum, the Wren Gallery, American Society of Photographers exhibit, Artistree Gallery, the Vermont Center for Photography, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, Professional Photographers of American International Exhibit, the Cove Gallery, and the Lowell Arts League Gallery. Her work has been published several times in Professional Photographers magazine and the PPA Loan Books and General Showcase books. Her book, "Fine Art Photoshop" will be published in early 2017.

She has been teaching at the University of Mass, Lowell, since 1999. In addition, she teaches workshops in Photoshop and Corel Painter® for state and regional professional photography groups. She has also taught at New Hampshire Institute of Art, Middlesex Community College and DeCordova Museum.

https://www.ellaputneycarlson.com/

Mentorship - Fundamentals of Photography - Part 1

Photo Critique and Exhibition

Judge: Dennis Dunbar

Topic: Cold

Dennis Dunbar is a master visual craftsman. As the guy who adds the Photoshop Magic to movie posters and high-end ad campaigns Dennis loves working on beautiful images and helping his clients to realize their vision.

Throughout his career, spanning more than 30 years, Dennis has enjoyed working on a wide variety of images from complex composites to beauty & fashion to product shots. In addition to his work as a digital artist/retoucher Dennis has also served the photographic community both as the Digital Chair for the American Photographic Artists representing the organization on several standards committees and as a Board member for the Los Angeles Chapter.

One of the things Dennis enjoys the most is sharing his insights and experience helping others to become more fluent in their own work. By demonstrating the techniques he uses and discussing the concepts behind them he seeks to inspire others to take these ideas, experiment with them and make them their own taking their own skills as image makers to new levels.

To see more of Dennis’s work, visit his web site | David Dunbar.

WHEN;  Wednesday, October 27 @ 9:00 am

WHERE:  Alameda Bosque Trail 

ADDRESS:  South side of Alameda Blvd, NW between the river and Rio Grande Blvd

Meet at west side of parking area