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• Image Competition Watch Party (Club 79)

  • When
    March 29, 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM
  • Location
    Smitty's Cinema Topsham, 65 Topsham Fair Mall Rd, Topsham, ME 04086
  • Registered
    12 registrants

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  Join us IN PERSON for 2025 Image Competition Watch Party (Club 79) at Smitty's Cinema in Topsham!

  SEE YOUR PHOTOS ON THE BIG SCREEN! Stuff your face with food and full bar menu! Yell at the screen when the judges don't merit the image! Let's have some fun together! Did we mention that there's an arcade available during lunch as well?

  Please register so we can plan ahead! See you all soon!

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• 2025 Photographic Image Competition

  • When
    March 29, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • Location
    Online + Smitty's Cinema Topsham
  • Registered
    12 registrants

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  2025 Maine PPA Photographic Image Competition
  

  Why participate? You’re good at what you do, and we know it. Don’t wait for others to realize it on their own - go for it!

  Participating in MPPA’s annual image competition gives you the opportunity to show your work. It also provides an opportunity to get better at what you do. After all, the critiques that are given offer ways to improve your images. You’ll walk away filled with ideas and inspiration to fuel your creative soul. Below are some helpful links to help you get started.

  • The Twelve Elements of Print Competition
  • PPA International Photographic Competition

  
  

  Submit your images at printcompetition.com.

  
  

  • Any photographer may enter the competition for image judging and scoring.
  • Dues must be paid in full by Monday, March 24th, 2025 11:59 PM Eastern to be considered for member awards.
  • Entries must be registered and uploaded NO LATER THAN 2:00 PM Eastern Thursday, March 27th, 2025.
  • UNLIMITED entries are allowed per person. Albums count as one entry, allowed up to 2 albums. 
  • Entries for the Creative Challenge category are free for members and can be submitted by emailing them to info@maineppa.com with the subject “Creative Challenge 2025”. Entries are due by 08:00 AM Eastern on Saturday, March 22nd. 
  • Creative Challenge prompt for 2025 is: "Texture"
    

  Entry Fees per image/album:
  $12 MPPA members
  $15 Public
  Review the complete 2025 Rules here.

  
  

   JUDGING WILL BE DONE REMOTELY ON SATURDAY, MARCH 29th, 2025 AT 10AM

   Stream the competition on the Print Competition Game Day app:

  http://printcompetition.com/event/gameday

  OR IN PERSON ON THE BIG SCREEN at Smitty's Cinema in Topsham

  
  

  Please contact Allen Small at allen@flutterfocus.com with any questions. 

  
  

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• 75th Maine Photographic Convention

  • Start
    April 25, 2025
  •  
    2:00 PM
  • End
    April 28, 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    Hilton Garden Inn Freeport, 5 Park St, Freeport, ME 04032
  • Spaces left
    40

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  Join us for 3 days (and 1 BONUS day) of fun, education, and networking!

  Registration includes classes (except Bonus day) and welcome/after parties. Attendees earn 1 PPA Merit

  Learn more: https://maineppa.com/convention

  OVER $1,750 VALUE!

  Convention tickets included with MPPA Membership!

  
  

  FRIDAY, APRIL 25

  1:30 pm

  Registration Opens

  
  

  2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

  Social Media Bootcamp 

  
  

  6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  Dinner on your own

  
  

  9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

  Welcome Party at Hotel Suite TBA

  
  

  SATURDAY, APRIL 26

  8:30 am

  Registration Opens

  
  

  9:00 am - 9:30 am

  MPPA Annual Meeting

  
  

  9:30 am - 12:00 pm

  Barbara Peacock

  Creating Your Passion Project

  
  

  12:00 - 2:00 pm

  Lunch

  
  

  2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

  Barbara Peacock

  Marketing + Publishing Your Passion Project

  
  

  3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

  Break

  
  

  6:00 pm

  Convention & Speakers Group Photo
  

  
  

  6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

  MainePPA Award Ceremony & Banquet with DJ Rob Burnell

  $70

  REGISTER HERE

  
  

  9:30 pm - 11:00 pm 

  After Party at Hotel Suite TBA

  
  

  SUNDAY, APRIL 27

  9:30 am

  Registration Opens

  
  

  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Mandy Wright

  Destination Weddings

  
  

  12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

  Lunch

  
  

  2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

  Lindsay Adler

  Posing to Flatter Everyone

  
  

  6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  Dinner on your own

  
  

  9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

  After Party at Hotel Suite TBA

  
  

  BONUS DAY

  MONDAY, APRIL 28

  9:00 am - 5:00 pm

  Chris Knight

  Color: Directing the Eye & Influencing People

  + The Psychology of the Portrait

  MPPA $249 / PPA $299 / PUBLIC $399

  (PPA Merit Class)

  Lunch Buffet Included

  WAITLIST AVAILABLE

  
  

  All sales are final and non-refundable.

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• 75th Annual MPPA Awards Banquet

  • When
    April 26, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Location
    5 Park St, Freeport, ME 04032
  • Spaces left
    58
  • Registered
    11 registrants

  Register

  
  

  Black and White attire requested.
  Join us for the MPPA Image Competition & Awards Banquet and Dance Party on Saturday evening!
  This your chance to party in style with convention speakers!

  
  

  Menu: (all dinner options are gluten free & dairy free)

  Spinach Salad

  Green Salad

  Grilled Chicken Breast

  Glazed Salmon

  Sirloin of Beef

  Potatoes

  Green Beans

  
  Cake Display:

  Carrot cake,

  Boston cream pie,

  Gluten Free/Dairy Free Chocolate Torte

  
  

  6:00 pm | Group & Speakers Photo
  

  6:30pm - 9:30pm | MPPA Awards Banquet & Dance Party with Rob Burnell Music

  This ticket is for BANQUET ONLY. Tickets are $70 and are non-refundable.
  

  Please make sure you have registered for the full convention too - it's included in your Active Membership Dues!

  The MPPA Awards Banquet is a separate event. Tickets must be purchased by April 16, 2025.
  

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• Color Theory + Psychology of the Portrait Workshop with Chris Knight

  • When
    April 28, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Hilton Garden Inn Freeport, 5 Park St, Freeport, ME 04032
  • Spaces left
    0

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  Color: Directing the Eye and Influencing People

  Color is one of the most important elements in photography. As it’s been said, “It’s easier to make color look good, but harder to make it service the story.” In this class, Chris explores color from hue, saturation, and luminosity to harmonies, discordance, why we feel certain ways about color and where that comes from. He demonstrates how color helps tell your story and how to create and use it in a variety of ways. Color strengthens, binds, and elevates imagery - after this class, you’ll be able to harness it more effectively in your own work.

  The Psychology of the Portrait

  If you think that a portrait is primarily about lighting and apertures, then you are missing out what makes a portrait truly great! Join Chris Knight in a deep dive into the powerful interplay of the psychological and technical elements of portraiture that can help your images be more than skin deep. You’ll learn how to find the best angle, optimal lens choice, top posing tips, the power of composition, wardrobe guidelines, and (of course) lighting. Whether working with streamlined, 'beginner' gear on location or a studio packed with professional gear, this class will help you improve how you think about and execute your portrait work.

  
  

  ABOUT CHRIS KNIGHT:

  Chris Knight was born in Wiesbaden, Germany and hardened by the sweaty, nearly chewable, humidity of Florida. He combines his unconditional love of art history with his conditional love of technology, topping it off with a flair for the cinematic and an uncompromising eye for detail.

  His work has appeared in or on Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, L Official, GQ, People, MSNBC, ABC, Oxygen, Ocean Drive, and others.

  Chris is the author of The Dramatic Portrait, a Profoto Legend of Light, Fujifilm Creator, and an instructor at Pratt Institute as well as the New York Film Academy.

  https://www.chrisknightphoto.com/
  

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