Ever wonder what the story was behind the photos you see in the newspaper or how they were captured.  Come listen, interact and be inspired as Steve Szydlowski and Sandor Bodo, longtime award-winning photographers for the Providence Journal, explain the stories of some great images.  Many of the images they will present you may have seen, others you will not but you certainly will not have seen them in full format detail.  Join us as Steve and Sandor take us through a day in the life of a PJ Photographer.  Many of the images will stun you and they all tell stories, mundane, inspiring and tragic, of our region and our world through the eyes of a PJ Photographer.

Steve Szydlowski is an award-winning photojournalist for The Providence Journal, latest award, 2016 Rhode Island Press Association Photographer of the Year.  Steve has photographed local and regional stories for 29 years as staff photographer. Previously Steve worked as a freelance photographer for the Associated Press and The New London Day (New London, CT). Steve has also organized and curated the Providence Journal traveling photographic exhibit “Living Vision” an exhibition of photography that has been shown in Providence and Westerly, Rhode Island. Former co-founder Providence Center for Photographic

Sandor Bodo was born in Budapest, Hungary of artist parents, the young Sandor was carried under wraps and on shoulders as the Bodo’s fled Hungary during the Uprising of 1956, eventually to resettle in Nashville, Tennessee. Even as a lad, Bodo was always involved in the making of images and objects of art. Undergraduate work at Brown University brought Bodo up to Providence in 1971. After securing a BA concentration in Fine Art at Brown, he extended his education in England at Sheffield Polytechnic School of Art and Design and with an MFA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in London in 1978. He returned to Providence to live and work and since 1996 has been a staff photographer at the Providence Journal.

Low cost macro shooting delivering outstanding quality is easier than you think!

Art Vaughan has developed a method for macro photography utilizing the pop-up flash on most camera bodies to provide all the light needed to make stunning close up images.

In this program, photographer Art Vaughan describes a process for shooting macro photographs using lighting provided by the standard ‘pop-up’ flash found on many cameras. Using a simple home-made support bracket and a variety of close-up lenses, extension tubes, or stacked add-on lenses, anyone can produce amazing macro images having true ‘studio’ quality lighting, for a fraction of the cost of a system utilizing multiple flashes, ring lights, or expensive factory made support brackets. The set-up described provides maximum portability for hunting down and following small insects and spiders who aren’t going to sit still for photographers using cumbersome tripods. The program includes details of building your own low cost macro lighting rig. Anyone wishing to explore the world of macro photography and wanting to get top notch and very satisfying results should consider attending.

See some of Art’s amazing macro images at https://www.flickr.com/photos/61377404@N08/sets/

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While every picture tells a story and each one is worth a thousand words, certain photographs tell stories more directly, with more impact and emotion. David H. Wells has spent the last four decades telling stories with his photographs for publications, exhibition and organizations. In this presentation David takes you through his career path, from aspiring photographer to internationally published master photographer. Then David will take you through his photo-essays, where he tells in depth stories through a series of images. David’s photo-essays explore important political topics as well as places that David finds compelling. Photo essays are compelling, dynamic, vivid mission statements of a photographer’s work — every photographer should have a working knowledge of this narrative art form. With that in mind, David will end the presentation sharing resources for photographers interested in pursuing their own photo-essays.

David H. Wells is a freelance photographer/video maker using whatever technology he can to create visual narratives. He is based in Providence, Rhode Island, affiliated with Aurora Photos and is also a photo-educator. One editor described him as a “…specialist in intercultural communication and visual narratives that excel in their creative mastery of light, shadow and sound, stills and video.”
His project on the pesticide poisoning of California farm workers was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Over the years he has worked on assignment for such magazines as Fortune, Life, National Geographic, Newsweek, The Sunday New York Times, Time, etc. He also worked for corporations such as Consolidated Natural Gas and DuPont as well as for non-profits such as the Ford Foundation and the New Israel Fund. He has received two Fulbright fellowships, a grant from Nikon/N.P.P.A., a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation’s Program of Research and Writing on International Peace and Cooperation.

Take a look at David’s “demo reel”, the video equivalent of an artist’s portfolio at

https://vimeo.com/93850082.

Click on the link below to find out more about what is being offered at the NECCC conference this year.  There will be 31 speakers over the three day event, each giving their presentation three times so that attendees have the opportunity to put together a schedule that meets all thier interests.  Most of the speakers are top notch professionals, some made possible by sponsors such as Canon, Nikon, Olympus,Tamron, Sigma, Dynalite, Wacom, Rogue Photographic Design and Adobe.  There will be photographic opportunities, models in studio set ups and outdoors, and professional child models in a studio set prepared by our own Christina Beth Richardson who will also be presenting.  PSRI Photoshop wizard A. Cemal Ekin will be offereing an advanced Photoshop pre-conference workshop on blending modes as well as a presentation on outputing from Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hope to see you there.

NECCC 68th Annual Photography Conference Preview