Start your day with continental breakfast and coffee. Registration will also be open for late registration and to answer any questions.

With over 100k followers, Jerry Hughes will walk you through his process to make sure your next marketing and social media campaign is a success.

Jerry Hughes is a worldwide traveling, Las Vegas portrait, cheer, and sports photographer and the owner of Jerry Hughes Photography. Jerry is passionate about telling stories through creative imagery, and is excited to share his expertise with Summer Camp attendees.

In this workshop, we will run you through the recommended GotPhoto workflow for High School seniors from start to finish. This workshop is a beginner’s class for those new to, or interested in, the GotPhoto system, or for current users who need a refresher.

Take advantage of this great opportunity to learn the recommended workflow and ask questions from our customer care team onsite.

GotPhoto isn’t just for volume! Join GotPhoto’s own Matt Scoggin as he walks you through a complete workflow for mini sessions, demonstrating how you can save time and make more money along the way. Topics include:

• Scheduling & preshoot setup
• Leveraging the Entagged app to organize your sessions
• Efficient retouching and image upload options
• Maximizing revenue with a mixed digital & prints offerings in your GotPhoto shop

Chris Wunder, Cr. Photog. ASP has been in professional photography for over 35 years and is a leading educator in the world of volume photography. Chris has presented at SPAC for over 25 consecutive years. as well as at virtually every other major photography conference on three continents. He originated the popular School & Sports Photography Boot Camp series, which has helped over 1500 studios enter the market and grow their volume photography businesses.

Most people want new business and accounts, but not everyone is sure how to get it.  Join Carl Bott in this workshop as he shares his experience with landing new clients and giving you to the tools and confidence to generate new business for your studio.

Carl Bott, owner of CB Sports Photography in Nashville, TN, has taken his company from one football team to over 65,000 athletes within three years! With no formal photography training, CB Sports Photography is making waves in middle Tennessee with its green screen composite sports photography solution.

In this workshop, you will get a run down of how to set up and execute jobs in GotPhoto.

Many volume photographers are looking to expand their business but are not sure how to accomplish this within their current market or with their current team. But have you looked at your existing schools as an expansion option?

Neal Cowen will lead this knowledge exchange discussing how you can look at your current schools for expansion opportunities.

Neal Cowen, owner of Cowen Studios in Shreveport, LA, has been a photographer since 1978. He specializes in school and sports photography and has a passion for “playing the game!”. Neal is passionate about sharing his insights on how to make the most of a volume photography business with other photographers.

Leroy and his wife, Chelsea, have owned and operated Tademy Photography, a studio specializing in sports, senior, and commercial portraits, since 2011. During this time, their studio has worked with countless families, sports organizations, local businesses, and national businesses and brands.

Continuation of Carl’s $6 to 6 Figures

Carl Bott, owner of CB Sports Photography in Nashville, TN, has taken his company from one football team to over 65,000 athletes within three years! With no formal photography training, CB Sports Photography is making waves in middle Tennessee with its green screen composite sports photography solution.

Review the basic building components and all the features available – additional education on how to utilize all features of price profile that are needed for a given job.

Heather will teach you her formula for engaging preschool children to get the best poses possible. There will be a live demo during this workshop.

Heather Crowder has been delighting families, children, and professionals with her style of contemporary portraiture since 2007. Heather has put her own twist on traditional school photography with the launch of her brand Modern School Pictures, and has since photographed over 10,000 children at private schools in the Annapolis, Maryland region.

Are you ready to get picture day down to a science? In this workshop, Heather will break down everything you need to do to be prepared for picture day, including using Entagged and how to shoot 300 kids w/ 2 photographers in 1.5 hours.

Heather Waters is the owner and lead photographer of Watermark Photography. Watermark Photography, established in 2012, serves more than 20,000 clients annually with customized school and sports portraiture in the Athens, Georgia area.

Are you getting the most from the seniors side of your business? Join this Knowledge Exhange to discuss useful tips on how you can improve your sales!

Tye Allen, owner of TWA Photography, is a portrait photographer based in Eugene/Springfield, serving both the local area as well as the rest of the Pacific Northwest. He has an eye for amazing portraits and is always on the hunt for the next spectacular image. In addition to portraiture, Tye also has a flare for sports photography, creating one-of-a-kind, specially designed-sports composites.

Fireside chat with a panel of principals discussing school photography.

Join the GotPhoto team for a session on QuickComposite and QID.

Looking to add a lucrative photography segment to your business, and one you already have the skill set for? Join Leroy Tademy as he walks you through everything you need to know to get started with Corporate Headshots. Topics for discussion include expectation differences between school and corporate portraits, how to land your first job, being consistent with your lighting setup so you can nail it every time, retouching as an expectation, and maximizing your digital download revenue stream.

Leroy and his wife, Chelsea, have owned and operated Tademy Photography, a studio specializing in sports, senior, and commercial portraits, since 2011. During this time, their studio has worked with countless families, sports organizations, local businesses, and national businesses and brands.

Learn the art of training your school to brand themselves. I have quietly trained over 29 schools how to brand their sports program. Photos with team and individual images with a certain look. But more than that… utilizing team banners, individual banners, senior yard signs as well as sponsors posters.

Tye, will also discuss how to use the production part of GotPhoto to offer more than the print labs.

Tye Allen, owner of TWA Photography, is a portrait photographer based in Eugene/Springfield, serving both the local area as well as the rest of the Pacific Northwest. He has an eye for amazing portraits and is always on the hunt for the next spectacular image. In addition to portraiture, Tye also has a flare for sports photography, creating one-of-a-kind, specially designed-sports composites.

Capturing eye-catching shots requires not only excellent camera skills but also knowing how to pose your subject. Join Sheryl Bashore for a knowledge exchange on posing for cheer and dance photography.

Sheryl Bashore, owner of Sheryl Z Photography based out of Central Pennsylvania, specializes in high-volume artistic custom cheer, gymnastics, and dance photography. With over 25 years of experience in this industry, Sheryl creates unique photographs using the Lastolite HiLite, and mentors photographers with her posing and buy-all expertise.

Are you a new QMate user or thinking this just might be the right tool for you?  Learn the basics of setting up jobs, price profiles, creating QMate templates for memory mates and other products and getting those jobs set to selling fast! We’ll guide you through the process and follow up with a Q&A period.

GotPhoto isn’t just for volume! Join GotPhoto’s own Matt Scoggin as he walks you through the complete tethered workflow for corporate headshots, demonstrating how you can save time and make more money along the way. Topics include:

• Scheduling & Preshoot Setup
• Leveraging Tether Tools Smart Shooter to organize and proof your client images
• Easy Retouching and Image Upload Options
• Maximizing revenue with your offering in the GotPhoto shop
• Efficient delivery of selected images back to the business

Michele Celentano, owner and lead photographer of Michele Celentano Photography, has nearly 30 years of experience transforming photographs into treasured memories for families. She is the author of “Photographing Families – Tips for Capturing Timeless Images”, and her class on CreativeLive.com about photographing families was viewed globally by more than 30,000 photographers. In addition to running her portrait business, Michele continues to travel internationally to teach and lecture on the subject of portrait photography.

Neal Cowen, owner of Cowen Studios in Shreveport, LA, has been a photographer since 1978. He specializes in school and sports photography and has a passion for “playing the game!”. Neal is passionate about sharing his insights on how to make the most of a volume photography business with other photographers.

In this live shoot out Sean Bass will be demonstrating shooting on white for extraction.

Sean Bass, owner of Lake Photography, is a volume sports photographer who focuses on creating custom composite photographs for athletes that break away from the traditional style of sports photography. After spending nearly a decade photographing athletes, Sean knows what truly makes for an exciting, bold, and engaging image.

Michele Celentano, owner and lead photographer of Michele Celentano Photography, has nearly 30 years of experience transforming photographs into treasured memories for families. She is the author of “Photographing Families – Tips for Capturing Timeless Images”, and her class on CreativeLive.com about photographing families was viewed globally by more than 30,000 photographers. In addition to running her portrait business, Michele continues to travel internationally to teach and lecture on the subject of portrait photography.

In this Knowledge Exchange we will discuss how to grow your business as a 1 person studio. Hire the help you need when you need it.  Streaming lining your workflow so you don’t need a bunch of people to handle the backend of your job because you have set up the front end for efficiency.

Bob Kenward is the owner and founder of Fluvanna Sports Photography. Fluvanna Sports Photography specializes in enhanced composite photography for volume team and individual photos, and is the premier choice in their area for small leagues, clubs, travel teams, all-star teams, and other athletic events, including action photography.

Start your day with continental breakfast and coffee.  Registration will also be open for late registration and to answer any questions.

Join this Fireside Chat as these volume photographers talk about what’s ahead for the fall 2023 season and what you should be doing today to get ready for fall.

Heather Waters is the owner and lead photographer of Watermark Photography. Watermark Photography, established in 2012, serves more than 20,000 clients annually with customized school and sports portraiture in the Athens, Georgia area.

Tim Macdonald, along with his wife, Sara, own Image Art Studio located in Glen Rock, NJ. Together they have a combined 30+ years of experience and photograph over 35,000 heads a year in school, sports, and event photography. In the past three years, Tim has grown his business from 20,000 to 35,000 heads, a large part of which is due to offering online sales and secure galleries for his clients.

Join the GotPhoto team on the best way to use the communication profiles and newsletters.

Wes Kroninger is a world renowned editorial photographer and owner of Next Gen Photo Solutions, a system built for volume photographers using composite workflows. After years of working and winning awards as a portrait photographer, Wes founded Next Gen in 2015, and has continued to revolutionize the world of composite sports photography ever since.

Join Mitchell Moore for a workshop on whether or not you have the right systems in place to run your business.

Mitchell Moore comes to the platform with a history of over 25 years of teaching some of the top sales teams and studios in the nation! On top of being a sales and systems trainer, he owned a nationwide photography franchise which he sold in 2022. To bring his desire to help photographers to their fullest potential, Mitchell then started Systems 4 Volume Photographers – the complete online community and education platform specifically for Volume Photographers of all genres.

Now is your chance to practice your skills hands-on and watch some of the speakers do their thing! In this session, Bob Kenward will be demonstrating his virtual sports set up and posing techniques while Sheryl Bashore will be showing her multi posing techniques.

Sheryl Bashore, owner of Sheryl Z Photography based out of Central Pennsylvania, specializes in high-volume artistic custom cheer, gymnastics, and dance photography. With over 25 years of experience in this industry, Sheryl creates unique photographs using the Lastolite HiLite, and mentors photographers with her posing and buy-all expertise.

Get together with our Customer Success team and learn all about GotPhoto’s features and what you might not know about.

Continuation for Setting Up Your Business Systems with Mitchell Moore.

Mitchell Moore comes to the platform with a history of over 25 years of teaching some of the top sales teams and studios in the nation! On top of being a sales and systems trainer, he owned a nationwide photography franchise which he sold in 2022. To bring his desire to help photographers to their fullest potential, Mitchell then started Systems 4 Volume Photographers – the complete online community and education platform specifically for Volume Photographers of all genres.

With data management, many new photographers simply don’t have even a basic understanding of excel, spreadsheets, or how it is utilized within the GotPhoto system. We would like to share some of the methods we have used to get the crazy data we get from organizations reformatted into a useable table to use within the GotPhoto system. From there we then want to show what some of the things you can do with the data when you export it back out of GotPhoto.

Attendees will leave with enough tips and tricks that can save them countless hours having to be in front of the spreadsheets of doom.

Jonathan S. Billing, BFA Photography, MBA, is the CEO and Chief Photographer of both Archer Photography and PortraitEFX of the Pacific Northwest (a division of Archer Photography). Jonathan has been a professional photographer his entire adult working career, and with 30 years of experience, he knows exactly how to make everything from photo day to final photo delivery go like clockwork.

Are you getting the most from the seniors side of your business? Join this Knowledge Exhange to discuss useful tips on how you can improve your sales!

Tye Allen, owner of TWA Photography, is a portrait photographer based in Eugene/Springfield, serving both the local area as well as the rest of the Pacific Northwest. He has an eye for amazing portraits and is always on the hunt for the next spectacular image. In addition to portraiture, Tye also has a flare for sports photography, creating one-of-a-kind, specially designed-sports composites.

This is a continuation of the live shoot out with Bob Kenward & Sheryl Bashore.

Your school database is a goldmine. Use it to open doors to other genres of photography, including mini-sessions, headshots, specialty events, and more.

Heather Crowder has been delighting families, children, and professionals with her style of contemporary portraiture since 2007. Heather has put her own twist on traditional school photography with the launch of her brand Modern School Pictures, and has since photographed over 10,000 children at private schools in the Annapolis, Maryland region.

How do you maintain control over the parts of your business that you prefer to handle personally while eliminating tasks you dislike? Learn from Sean Bass in this Knowledge Exchange how he has done this over time to support his creative side.

Sean Bass, owner of Lake Photography, is a volume sports photographer who focuses on creating custom composite photographs for athletes that break away from the traditional style of sports photography. After spending nearly a decade photographing athletes, Sean knows what truly makes for an exciting, bold, and engaging image.

Join Heather as she explains why Entagged is integral to her workflow and why she will never return to her pre-Entagged days. Have questions about how you might use Entagged? This is your chance to discuss options and usage.

Heather Waters is the owner and lead photographer of Watermark Photography. Watermark Photography, established in 2012, serves more than 20,000 clients annually with customized school and sports portraiture in the Athens, Georgia area.

Join this Fireside Chat as these photographers discuss different equipment options for traditional versus composite.

Carl Bott, owner of CB Sports Photography in Nashville, TN, has taken his company from one football team to over 65,000 athletes within three years! With no formal photography training, CB Sports Photography is making waves in middle Tennessee with its green screen composite sports photography solution.

Bob Kenward is the owner and founder of Fluvanna Sports Photography. Fluvanna Sports Photography specializes in enhanced composite photography for volume team and individual photos, and is the premier choice in their area for small leagues, clubs, travel teams, all-star teams, and other athletic events, including action photography.

Tim Macdonald, along with his wife, Sara, own Image Art Studio located in Glen Rock, NJ. Together they have a combined 30+ years of experience and photograph over 35,000 heads a year in school, sports, and event photography. In the past three years, Tim has grown his business from 20,000 to 35,000 heads, a large part of which is due to offering online sales and secure galleries for his clients.

Maximizing sales with pricing, communications, labs and coupons more.

Capturing eye-catching shots requires not only excellent camera skills but also knowing how to pose your subject. Join Sheryl Bashore for a knowledge exchange on posing for cheer and dance photography.

Sheryl Bashore, owner of Sheryl Z Photography based out of Central Pennsylvania, specializes in high-volume artistic custom cheer, gymnastics, and dance photography. With over 25 years of experience in this industry, Sheryl creates unique photographs using the Lastolite HiLite, and mentors photographers with her posing and buy-all expertise.

In this knowledge exchange, we will discuss why setting your product prices correctly is so important. Discuss different strategies among the group.

Heather Crowder has been delighting families, children, and professionals with her style of contemporary portraiture since 2007. Heather has put her own twist on traditional school photography with the launch of her brand Modern School Pictures, and has since photographed over 10,000 children at private schools in the Annapolis, Maryland region.

Are you curious how other volume photographers approach their marketing strategies? Are you wondering if there’s anything missing in yours? Stop by this fireside chat and hear our panelists perspectives on this topic!

Panelists:

Jonathan S. Billing, BFA Photography, MBA, is the CEO and Chief Photographer of both Archer Photography and PortraitEFX of the Pacific Northwest (a division of Archer Photography). Jonathan has been a professional photographer his entire adult working career, and with 30 years of experience, he knows exactly how to make everything from photo day to final photo delivery go like clockwork.

Tim Macdonald, along with his wife, Sara, own Image Art Studio located in Glen Rock, NJ. Together they have a combined 30+ years of experience and photograph over 35,000 heads a year in school, sports, and event photography. In the past three years, Tim has grown his business from 20,000 to 35,000 heads, a large part of which is due to offering online sales and secure galleries for his clients.

Wes Kroninger is a world renowned editorial photographer and owner of Next Gen Photo Solutions, a system built for volume photographers using composite workflows. After years of working and winning awards as a portrait photographer, Wes founded Next Gen in 2015, and has continued to revolutionize the world of composite sports photography ever since.

Carl Bott, owner of CB Sports Photography in Nashville, TN, has taken his company from one football team to over 65,000 athletes within three years! With no formal photography training, CB Sports Photography is making waves in middle Tennessee with its green screen composite sports photography solution.

Neal will lead a workshop on how using GotPhoto to secure new business, while squeezing every drop of revenue out of the business you already have, will make your bottom line explode!
Neal Cowen, owner of Cowen Studios in Shreveport, LA, has been a photographer since 1978. He specializes in school and sports photography and has a passion for “playing the game!”. Neal is passionate about sharing his insights on how to make the most of a volume photography business with other photographers.

Leroy and his wife, Chelsea, have owned and operated Tademy Photography, a studio specializing in sports, senior, and commercial portraits, since 2011. During this time, their studio has worked with countless families, sports organizations, local businesses, and national businesses and brands.

Now is your chance to practice your skills hands-on and watch some of the speakers do their thing! In this session, Sheryl will show her process for glamour headshots for dance, cheer & gymnastics.

Sheryl Bashore, owner of Sheryl Z Photography based out of Central Pennsylvania, specializes in high-volume artistic custom cheer, gymnastics, and dance photography. With over 25 years of experience in this industry, Sheryl creates unique photographs using the Lastolite HiLite, and mentors photographers with her posing and buy-all expertise.

If you’re already using QMate with confidence but still want to know more, this is the session for you.  We’ll talk about creating templates using existing psd files:

• how to minimize the number of templates required when customizing products for each league or school
• how to create price profiles that make it easy for your customers shop buy those products they love so much
• and how you can create packages that include individual, group and memory mate type products easily!

We’ll follow up with a Q&A, and because some of you have such amazing ideas, will have a knowledge exchange period too.

Neal Cowen, owner of Cowen Studios in Shreveport, LA, has been a photographer since 1978. He specializes in school and sports photography and has a passion for “playing the game!”. Neal is passionate about sharing his insights on how to make the most of a volume photography business with other photographers.

In this Knowledge Exchange we will discuss how to grow your business as a 1 person studio. Hire the help you need when you need it.  Streamlining your workflow so you don’t need a bunch of people to handle the backend of your job because you have set up the front end for efficiency.

Bob Kenward is the owner and founder of Fluvanna Sports Photography. Fluvanna Sports Photography specializes in enhanced composite photography for volume team and individual photos, and is the premier choice in their area for small leagues, clubs, travel teams, all-star teams, and other athletic events, including action photography.

Let’s talk about what’s in the pipeline for GotPhoto and what you can expect to see from the system in the future.

Thank you for joining Summer Camp 2023!