Shall we have another one?

You’re a photographer… you’ve got a special skill… wouldn’t it be nice to share those skill with people in need?

Help-Portrait is a movement of photographers, coming together in every major city, to use their photography skills to give back to the community.

On December 12th, 2009, photographers around the world will be grabbing their cameras, finding people in need, and taking their picture. When the prints are ready, the photographs get delivered.

A group of Milwaukee photographers are doing this, and you can get involved… Head on over to helpportraitmke.com for more info.

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One topic that came up during the session of entrepreneurial was on registering you photos with the United States Copyright office. Photocamp Sponsor PhotoShelter has an excellent article up on how this process works now that the process can be done online:

Electronic Copyright Registration for Photographers

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Photo by raster. Some Rights Reserved.

Michael Tackes ended up holding the winning ticket…

He took home a full version of Adobe Photoshop, a membership to Bucketworks, an iLovePhotos t-shirt, some SmugMug gear, and a few other goodies. (Thanks again to our sponsors, and to Adobe for kicking in Photoshop.)

Michael was extremely happy… as he was saving up to get the Adobe Creative Suite, and now that’s he’s got Photoshop, he has his eye on a DSLR.

Note: Yes, this is a terrible photo, but it was taken during the lens hacking session. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!

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Wow, PhotoCamp was great… we’re all still processing the event, but we’ll be sure to follow up and let people know the details…

Photo by vintagepix. Some Rights Reserved.

For now, checkout the PhotoCampMilwaukee pool on Flickr…

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Thanks to one of Bucketworks resident WikiBots, you can be at PhotoCamp virtually!

PhotoCampMilwaukee is here!  There were seven souls who brave the cold wind and brutal hour to catch the sunrise from a top Kilbourn Reservoir Park.

PhotoCamp officially opens at 9am at Bucketworks.  See you there!

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Wow, in less than 24 hours, the early risers will meet at Bucketworks for the 5AM Photo Walk…

So far Derek, Rachel, Erik, and Rich all say they will be there, ready to go!

There’s talk of heading to Kilbourn Reservoir Park in Riverwest in time for sunrise over the city, which according to Navy is:

Begin civil twilight       5:13 a.m.
Sunrise                    5:44 a.m.

If you’ve never been to this park, it is the highest point in the city and has an amazing view of downtown. The weather is looking good, and luck has it there will be some low lying clouds to provide some great color.

If you plan on joining them, I’d suggest you get to Bucketworks parking lot around 5AM and look for the bleary-eyed people holding cameras (and coffee)…

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Are you preparing a presentation for PhotoCamp?

If you are, you may want to share it on SlideShare. There’s even a special page there for PhotoCampMilwaukee:
www.slideshare.net/event/photocampmilwaukee

The cool thing is, you can upload your file in different formats (PowerPoint, Keynote, OpenOffice, PDF) and it will convert it into a presentation you can embed into your blog, or elsewhere, as well as create a transcript of the text.

Hey look, here’s one we did for PhotoCampMilwaukee!

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I know we already mentioned that Teecycle is a sponsor of PhotoCamp, but since it’s for a good cause, we thought we would go one step further.

Teecycle take your old shirts, and sells them, and then donates $1 of each sale to aid in the restoration of urban river trails and waterways in the Milwaukee area. When you donate a shirt to Teecycle it also says you care about the environment by keeping a perfectly usable item out of the landfill.

So here’s the deal… Tim from Teecycle will be at Photocamp, and he would love it if you bring any of the old shirts you no longer want along with you to donate to the cause. So go through your closet, find some old shirts, and bring them to PhotoCamp… Tim, Teecycle, and the environment will all thank you.

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