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  • Welcome to the WPS!

    Welcome to The Wedding Photographic Society (WPS). We're a network of professional photographers who come together to collaborate on photographic ideas, thoughts, and information in an attempts to elevate the artistic, technical, and business standards of the wedding photographic community. Membership in the WPS offers many professional & personal growth opportunities via bi-monthly educational meetings, networking, critiques, and general camaraderie during such gatherings. WPS meetings, forums, blog submissions, & web pages are open to any and all professional wedding photographers throughout the world.

    The WPS's origins date back to 2005, when Raleigh, NC wedding photographer Christobal Perez organized quarterly photography meetings in an effort to help build relationships, share knowledge amongst peers, and help create a competitive, yet supportive photographic community. The spirit of Christobal's movement has grown exponentially since that time and has since evolved into the WPS(which became official in 2009) with the further support of other local photographers, Robin Lin, Martha Manning, Stacy Borelli, & Brian Mullins. Leaders & members of the WPS donate their time to organize topic discussions with guest speakers, collaborate on ideas and offer guidance, all without compensation.

    With an initial membership of over 60 photographers, the decision was made to open our doors worldwide in attempts to share this movement throughout the world. With that goal in mind, the WPS launched their website, forums, & blogs to bring together the professional wedding photographic community. Information presented at each meeting will be available on the web for all to enjoy and benefit from. To officially become a member of the WPS simply create an account on our forum and contribute helpful items and of course, your photographs!

    Thank you for being a member of the WPS and we look forward to your future contributions to the society.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

2nd Quarter Image Competition results

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2nd Quarter WPS Image Competition Winners

The WPS Board would like to thank everyone for their entries in the 2nd quarter WPS Image Competition. We had a ton of great work submitted (146 images) and it was very, very difficult for the judges to determine the winners.   All of the 1st place winners are below.and you can find the top 5 placements in each category and yearly standings in our forum here.

Cake Cutting Category

Q2 2010 - 1st Place - Cake Cutting

1ST Place – Kristin Oguntoyinbo | KPO Photo

Judges Comments:

This is a fun photo of the bride about to feed the groom cake. I am sure that this moment happened quickly. Excellent shot and I think he wants some cake.

Really great and funny moment captured – nice job staying with the photo and grabbing a fleeting moment.

Artistic Category

Q2 2010 - 1st Place - Artistic Category

1ST Place  | Tim Sayer | Sayer Photography

Judges Comments

All I can say is wow. This image stood out of the crowd quickly for me and I wish I had this in my book. This image has everything starting with a great moment, wonderful warm yellow tones, framing the subject, great light, repetition and pattern…what more could you ask for?

Beautiful use of space and capturing a seemingly whimsical moment. The “cross” back up in the trees is an “oooooh” kind of recognition (intentional or otherwise). Nice and simple.

LOL (Humor)

Q2 2010 - 1st Place - LOL(Humor)

1ST Place | Hilary Mercer | Hilary Merer Photography

Judges Comments

The more I look at this, the more I laugh. She looks like a SNL character who was allowed to participate in the wedding. The ballerina jump is wonderful.

Great job of keeping your eye in the camera and capturing a truly hilarious moment.

I love the action captured in this shot

Photojournalism

Q2 2010 - 1st Place - Photojournalism

1ST Place | Patrick Eilers | Patrick Eilers Photography

Judges Comments

What a nice moment of grandpa helping wipe away the tears. You can see how close they are with one another in this photo. I really enjoy the photographers option to show this moment in B&W.

Stands out head and shoulders above the rest. A near perfect moment between generations.

Details

Q2 2010 - 1st Place - Details

1ST Place | Michelle Gunton | Michelle Gunton Photography

Judges Comments

Nice eyes on that shooter to see what’s right in front of him/her. The shadows aping the action is a nice twist on the toast cliche.

Repetition of the shadow and the detail of it is interesting to look at. Different pays off.

Love the color and lighting in this photo it really makes a statement!

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Saturday, June 19, 2010

I am the WPS!

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The WPS is growing by leaps and bounds these days!  The WPS Board is working hard behind the scenes to bring the best possible educational, fun and networking events to wedding photographers everywhere!

At our May 2010 WPS meeting, you may remember alot of activity involving a video camera off in the corner.  It’s time to unveil that project and show you the awesomely hilarious video created by our own WPS member, Jason Arthurs.  I have watched this 20 times easily and each time I end up dying laughing!

A huge thanks to Jason for taking the time to do this!  If you want to know what the WPS is, this could be considered, I guess, a small introduction!

Meet the Wedding Photographic Society from Jason Arthurs on Vimeo.

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Thursday, May 27, 2010

WPS May Meeting Recap – Wedding Panel Discussion

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Our latest meeting of the Wedding Photographic Society was a huge success with over 50 people in attendance including wedding photographers, wedding planners, DJ’s, & florists!  It was an amazing meeting as many businesses in the wedding industry came together for our 1st ever “panel” discussion. We all learned and discussed how we can help each other for weddings, promotions and personally. Everyone in attendance got to hear how weddings are viewed from each discipline and shared experiences with what photographers (as well as dj’s, florists, planners, etc) can do to help as well as what hinders other vendors. Certainly an eye opening experience on how we can not only better serve our clients, but other vendors in the wedding industry.

The WPS would like to thank our panel for taking the time out of their busy schedules to meet with us!  Our panel of speakers is below:

Joe Bunn DJ
Erin McLean Events
Premiere Catering
McSound Productions
English Garden Florist

The WPS would also like to thank The Mint restaurant for accommodating our group and providing great service, food and beverages for the meeting!

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Alien Skin is IN!!

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Another tremendous sponsor coming through in the name of our sweet convention. Alien Skin Software is a local Raleigh based image Photoshop plug in software company who specializes in plug in enhancement tools for photographers and graphic designers. The company has generously donated over $1000+ in goodies for our convention attendees.

Honestly, your convention fee will pay for itself with all of the goodies we’ve received so far and we’re working hard to bring more sponsors on board.

So Join US! WPS Convention

We look forward to having you there!

Alien Skin Software

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Monday, May 24, 2010

WPS Meeting – May 25th

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Just a quick reminder to all that our WPS Open Panel discussion meeting is to be held at The Mint at 219 Fayetteville Street in Raleigh. This is going to be an open and lively chat with, candid in nature, with our local industry pros. Ask them anything you want to know.

We’re expecting a large turnout. Catering by The Mint . . . .yummy!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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