Shoot! The Day: Volunteer!

Final countdown, guys: Shoot! The Day is Sunday. Are you all signed up?! If not, you lose. It’s all booked up. Oh WAIT! I thought of a way you can come!! VOLUNTEER!

Look how happy it’s making those ladies above. That could be you. But with more photographers and maybe some beer.

Give PhotoShelter’s lovely Andrew a shout if you’d like to help out.

Here’s the line-up for Sunday, shamelessly copied from Allen’s blog (all clever jokes are his, I cannot take credit):

Rob Haggart from aphotoeditor.com (and former Director of Photography from a little magazine known as Men’s Journal) will present his famous “Editorial Bootcamp” presentation, and then he’s going to moderate an editorial buyer panel including:

• Leslie dela Vega, Photo Editor, TIME Magazine
• Whitney Lawson, Photo Editor, Travel+Leisure
• Michael Wichita, Photo Editor, AARP Bulletin
• Ryan Schick, Photo Editor, Conde Nast Portfolio

Yeah, that’s right, just a few photo editors from some of the largest and most influential magazines in the world.

Angela Natividad from adrants.com is going to lead an ad agency panel with an equally stellar grouping including:

• Belinda Lopez, Senior Art Buyer, Strawberry Frog
• Wanda Lau, Senior Art Director, Greater Than One
• Jen Santiago, Managing Art Buyer, G2 Direct & Digital
• Molly Aaker, Art Buyer, Unit7

Then Rachel Rein, Art Buyer at Hill Holiday,
New York,  is going to present “From Start to Finish: Finding the
Perfect Stock Photos for a Major Campaign,” which will highlight an
agency project that employed stock photography for a major
telecommunications provider.

But we’re not done.

On the photographer side of the fence, we have:

• Jazz Mandair and Gautam Pai from JaincoTech who will be discussing strategies for effective keywording.
• PhotoShelter co-founder, Grover Sanschagrin, will take you through his very popular “Killer Websites for Photographers” presentation that he’s given around the country
• Apple will be presenting a workflow seminar using Apple Aperture
• and Nikon‘s Sam Garcia will round it out with a discussion of photography in the digital era.

And
in case you get bored, you can head on over to the tradeshow room where
the following companies will be presenting their wares:

• Nikon
• Adorama Camera
• JPG Magazine
• Apple
• MAC Group (Profoto, Sekonic, Mamiya, Pocket Wizard, and more!)
• JaincoTech
• Regus
• Advertising Photographers of America
• Slideluck Potshow
• and of course, PhotoShelter

And
then when it’s all done, we’ll pony up to the bar and raise our glass
to the new wave of photography that you’re helping to create.

VOLUNTEER, YO!