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Meeting Location: 3200 Lakewood Ranch Boulevard (East Manatee Fire Rescue District Admin Office), Lakewood Ranch, FL
5:45 to 6:15 pm: New Member Orientation
This presentation will be jam-packed with important and interesting information about our club and what the club has to offer its members. All NEW MEMBERS and those members who have never attended an Orientation are encouraged to attend.
6:15 pm: Gather, Socialize, Buy 50/50 Tickets, Vote for People's Choice
6:30pm: Meeting with Guest Speaker Kelly and Kalina Schneider
Topic: The Three Pillars of Powerful Portraits
Those who are the best in their field have one very common attribute in their approach: Mastery of the Fundamentals. I call this “Brilliant on the Basics.” Almost anything can be broken down to its more basic parts.
In portraiture, the entirety of the process of preparing, shooting, and post processing can also be broken down into the most basic parts. Too many times, we get lost in a sea of tiny MICRO actions and loose site of the bigger picture (You know, you can’t see the forest because of the trees concept).
Great portraiture fundamentals can be boiled down to the three MACRO things (PILLARS) that really matter.
- Accurate Flow of Light
- Correct Exposure on the Subject
- Logical and Visually Appealing Composition
There is no question that today’s portrait masters have a significant number of steps and processes they follow to get the result they are striving for. But most of the time, these “micro” steps can be placed into a smaller number of logical macro steps. Doing this helps make complex processes easier to understand and learn.
About Kelly and Kalina
Over the past few years, Kelly and his wife Kalina have been hosting and delivering workshops both in the US and in Europe with over 500 students trained. They have delivered 1-7 day classes all over the US including twice at Georgia School of Photography, Florida School of Photography, Mid-Atlantic Region School of Photography, California Center of Digital Arts School, and three years at Texas School of Photography.
The family photography business focuses on Intimate Portraiture/Boudoir and Fine Art portraiture and Professional Portraiture Education including international portrait-focused events. Kelly and his wife are hosting portrait inspired tours in Italy, Ireland, and Bali!
Kalina's Bio:
Kalina Schneider is an International Award-winning Master Photographer and digital artist based in Florida, who specializes in Fine Art and Fantasy Portraiture. Her work is full of color, magic with dreamlike aesthetics. She uses Photography as her way to tell stories and raise questions that her viewers can relate to and contemplate.
She has earned her Master of Photography, Master Craftsmen from the PPA (Professional Photographers of America). She is also 2 times Grand Imaging Award finalist for one of the top 10 portraits in PPA (for 2019 and 2022).
Recently, Kalina has been exploring a Journey of Self-discovery - an internal pilgrimage that we aren’t often fully aware of. She treats her work as photographic symbolic metaphors that just like music have power to reach and connect people from different cultures and various walks of life.
Kelly's Bio:
Born and raised in Coronado California and then moved to Gresham, Oregon and remained there until he joined the US Navy in 1980 where he served for 29 years. During his US Navy travels all over the world including 137 countries, he became aware of his passion for photography and “capturing” the life around him. In 2010, Kelly began his pursuit of professional portraiture and growing and developing his skills in creating “salient” portraits.
In 2012, Kelly his wife started the family photography business focusing on weddings and portraiture/Boudoir. Over time, he has become passionate about teaching others. Kelly holds a Master of Science Degree in Human Systems Integration from the Navy Post Graduate School in Monterey California. He has completed the Executive leadership course at both UC Berkeley and Duke University and is a certified Military Master Training Specialist. Kelly has been involved in authoring, developing, and delivery and funding advanced skills training for over 25 years and was the Director of Training for the $95 million a year FORD Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Program in Washington DC for over 10 years.
