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• Next Level Maternity with Karen Bagley

  • When
    23 Sep 2019
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    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Holiday Inn, 31 Hampshire Road Mansfield MA
  • Registered
    15 registrants

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  Next Level Maternity
  

  with Karen Bagley
  
  

  Monday September 23rd, 2019
  
  

  Registration starts at 9AM

  Program begins at 10 AM
  
  Location: Holiday Inn 31 Hampshire Street, Mansfield, MA

  
  
  
  

  "Next Level Maternity"
  

  Karen Bagley, owner of Signficant Moments Photography outside of Atlanta, Georgia will show you how to style, compose, and shoot modern maternity portraits that attract those high-end clients looking for art. Really push yourself to think outside of the box. This is about creating modern art your clients will hang on their walls. Learn how to create lifetime business from booking newborn sessions from your maternity clientele. Understanding the business side to maternity portraiture. It isn’t enough to take phenomenal pictures. We need to know how to BOOK phenomenal clients! Understand the good, the bad, and the fabulous to running a successful maternity portrait photography business!   

  Karen will teach you how she creates THE luxury maternity experience, which will leave your clients feeling spoiled and wanting to be a CLIENT FOR LIFE! She will go beyond the basics and will show how to properly style high fashion maternity sessions. By using posh gowns, posing for the modern mom, and the importance of picking the perfect location for these one of a kind sessions.  Karen will talk about how she uses OCF to create the most dynamic images for my clients, and how you can do the same. She will discuss how to maximize sales by booking newborn portraits after your maternity sessions. At end the day Karen tackle the more difficult areas of business such as marketing, outsourcing and budgeting. Get ready for the most jammed packed day of learning, and get ready to take your maternity portraits to the NEXT LEVEL!  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  Karen Bagley is a Fine Art Maternity, Newborn and Underwater Portrait Photographer based right outside of Atlanta, Georgia. She has become known for her dramatic and powerful maternity portraits which have become a staple of her business. While photographing for clients will always be a strong love of hers, she also loves teaching! She speaks nationally on her maternity portrait craft, and absolutely loves the idea that she may have helped someone come one step closer to living their dreams.  

  She has been around photography from the time she took her first job when she was 16 working developing film, then interning at a small studio in her home town. She opened her business, Significant Moments Photography, 5 years ago and has since grown to a 6-figure studio with maternity clientele alone. She is on a mission to change what people think of when they hear maternity portraiture. One client at a time.  

  As a wife to an amazing husband, mother to two perfect girls plus one pretty awesome fur- baby and a full-time photographer, her plate is full. Yet she never slows down. Her energy is contagious and she finds herself ready to make every moment a fun and exciting one, always ready to create her next art piece.
  

  
  

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• Demystifying Image Competition with Francie Baltazar Stonestreet

  • When
    04 Nov 2019
  •  
    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Holiday Inn 31 Hampshire Street, Mansfield, MA 02048
  • Registered
    32 registrants

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        Demystifying Image Competition

  with Francie Baltazar Stonestreet, MPhotog, Cr., CPP, IE

  
  

  Monday November 4th 2019
  
  

  Registration starts at 9AM

  Program begins at 10 AM
  
  

  Location: Holiday Inn 31 Hampshire Street, Mansfield, MA

  
  

  
  
  "Demystifying Image Competition"

  Image competition can be overwhelming. Where to start? What do I enter? What do all those numbers mean?  Why should I enter? And the list goes on! It’s scary and overwhelming. Or maybe you want to understand how to break through the Merit level and move up into the Loans. Wait! What’s a merit? What’s a Loan?
  

  In this program Francie will break it all down so that you can clearly understand the path into image competition and earning merits and loans. You will also learn:

  Why entering image competition can change the way you shoot
  
  What are the 12 elements of an Image?
  
  How do judges arrive at their score?
  
  Judges language – what does it all mean?

  What Elements are needed to move your score from Merit to Loan?

  Common mistakes new competitors make

  To enter prints are digital? Which is the best?

  Entering Albums into image competitions

  3 editing secrets to check your images

  Master Photographer and Master Artist, what’s the difference?

  Why feedback is painful yet essential to growth and learning

  Francie’s journey into image competition was long and painful to achieve success. She will share with you her lessons learned and inspire you to jump into image competition. Come and see how exciting image competitioncan be and how you can take your skills to a new level through actively competing in Image competition.
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Francie Baltazar Stonestreet is a professional photographer based in Kingwood, Texas. She is a Certified Professional Photographer, Photographic Craftsmen and Master Photographer. She entered her first image competition in 2010. Since that time she has been awarded Houston Photographer of the Year two times, Texas Photographer of the year two times, Texas Top 10 3 times, multiple Platinum Photographer of the year, Kodak Gallery Award, Kodak International Elite Award, Canon Par Excellence, Diamond Photographer of the Year, Grand Imaging Award Nominee 4 times and GIA third place winner in the Portrait Category. World Cup Team USA 2015, 2016, 2017 and Top 10 in the world 2017 in the wedding and portrait category. Francie’s images have been featured on the cover of Professional Photographer as well as several articles in Professional Photographer Magazine. Her work as also been highlighted at FotoFest International and her fine art line shows in galleries as well as in private collections. As an educator Francie speaks around the country share her knowledge with other photographers. She is presenting Love Stories, creating Emotion Art and Style in Wedding at Texas School of Professional Photography.

  
  
  

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