I have some exciting news to share with you about our club. As many of you have heard through meetings, meeting notes, our website and discussions we have been working with Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce to take photographs around Hutchinson over the course of 2012. These photos will be used in their marketing material and you will receive photography credit. In exchange for our club services they are going to cover our 2013 membership at the Hutchinson Center for the Arts. This membership will provide us many benefits including a new home outside of the Public Library. The Public Library has been great to us but we are out growing the capabilities it provides.
We have a finalized 2012 photography services contract with the Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce and now we are asking each member to help with taking photographs by signing up on this Google document for the events or locations you are going to shoot.
There are roughly 130 required open spots and roughly another 130 optional spots. The optional spots are for people that have an interest in the location and event, but it is full and would still like to help cover it. We need to fill the required spots on a event/location before someone can sign up as an optional. Also note if there is an admission required for an event than the Chamber of Commerce will be providing us access, so please see BJ or Myself regarding those events.
At each meeting, starting in February, I will be collecting your final edited photographs in JPG electronic form. Then each quarter I will be meeting with the Chamber and delivering them the photographs. When you bring your photographs to the monthly meetings, you may bring them on CD, DVD, SD Card or USB Drive, then I will dump them onto my laptop.
Please make sure you follow the following format for naming the photograph file…
{location/event}-{Date}-{photographer}.jpg
example: “Orange Spectacular – 7_20_2012 – Timm Hagen.jpg”.
By using this format we will have the location, date and photographer to give proper credit. It also help organize the files when I give them to the Chamber. If you have any questions please contact BJ Christensen or myself.
I appreciate all the work that has been put into getting this contract and many thanks in advance for all the time that will be spent taking photographs of the Hutchinson Area.
Thanks,
Timm Hagen
President
Hutchinson Photography Club