I’m headed out to Las Vegas tomorrow morning for a big week of talks and meetings at WPPI. It’s always a great week and this year looks better than ever. If you’re headed that way, please stop by and see me. Hope to see you there!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – WPPI Las Vegas
2-5pm – WPPI LAUNCH PAD & @RFWPPI TWEET-UP sneak peek at all the new products being launched at WPPI
7-10pm – SONY OPENING NIGHT PARTY and Runway Show with Nigel Barker from America’s Next Top Model
MGM Grand Arena
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – WPPI Las Vegas
11:00-11:25am LIVE SHOOT: ‘Studio Portraits’ – SONY Booth 421
2:30-2:55pm TALK ‘Location Portraits’ – SONY Booth 421
3:30-3:55pm LIVE SHOOT: ‘Studio Portraits’ – SONY Booth 421
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 – WPPI Las Vegas
11:30-11:55am TALK ‘Location Portraits’ – SONY Booth 421
3:30-5:30pm PLATFORM TALK: ‘Secrets of Great Portrait Photography’ MGM Conference Center Room 313 – 316
Pre-register: CLICK HERE!
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – WPPI Las Vegas
11:30-11:55am LIVE SHOOT: ‘Studio Portraits’ – SONY Booth 421
1:00-1:25pm LIVE SHOOT: ‘Studio Portraits’ – SONY Booth 421
2:00-2:25pm TALK ‘Location Portraits’ – SONY Booth 421
I’ll be speaking about my favorite subject – capturing great portraits – at WPPI on February 22nd in Las Vegas. WPPI is always a great show for the portrait and wedding photography industry I’m looking forward to taking the show to Vegas after a full house when I gave this talk at PDN PhotoPlus Expo. I’ve added a lot of new images to the talk that will be shown for the first time including the latest photos from my project on burlesque. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the project from my friends at X-Rite:
Secrets of Great Portrait Photography Tuesday, February 22, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Room 313 – 316 in the MGM Conference Center sponsored by Sony
Celebrity portrait photographer Brian Smith will share the lessons he’s learned over the past 30 years capturing the faces of the famous, infamous and unknown as a top magazine portrait photographer. Brian will discuss his approach to editorial and commercial assignments from concept to final images, and detailing his approach to lighting and problem solving on productions both small and large. He will also share secrets about how to quickly capture the personality of the people in your photographs. He will also discuss how personal projects can be used to generate editorial and commercial assignments, and allow your personal style to evolve and grow while generating assignments you love to shoot.
Be sure to stop by the Sony booth on the WPPI show floor where I’ll be speaking and doing lighting demos each day.
Monday February 21:
11:00-11:25am ‘Live Shoot: Studio Portraits’ – Sony Booth 421
2:30-2:55pm ‘Location Portraits’- Sony Booth 421
3:30-3:55pm ‘Live Shoot: Studio Portraits’- Sony Booth 421
Tuesday, February 22:
11:00-11:25am ‘Location Portraits’- Sony Booth 421
3:30-5:30pm ‘Secrets of Great Portrait Photography’ – MGM Conference Center Room 313 – 316
Pre-register: CLICK HERE!
Wednesday, February 23:
11:30-11:55am ‘Live Shoot: Studio Portraits’- Sony Booth 421
1:00-1:25pm ‘Live Shoot: Studio Portraits’- Sony Booth 421
2:00-2:25pm ‘Location Portraits’- Sony Booth 421
It’s going to be an absolutely great show – hope to see you there!
APA|NY Image Makers Lecture Series
Featuring: Brian Smith: Advocacy for the Arts
Wednesday, August 12, 6:30-8 p.m.
Admission: Free (seating is limited)
SoHo Apple Theater, 103 Prince St at Mercer
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Smith will speak about his latest project, ‘Art & Soul’ shot in partnership with The Creative Coalition and Sony. The project features Smith’s portraits of celebrities along with personal messages from each artist on how exposure to the arts inspired them and positively impacted their lives.
Over 100 celebrities including Anne Hathaway, Ellen Burstyn, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, James Denton, Jamie Kennedy, Alyssa Milano and Taye Diggs have been photographed for ‘Art & Soul’ with the goal of producing a coffee table book aimed at raising the public awareness of the importance and impact of the arts by allowing creative artists to use their celebrity to shine a spotlight on the importance of the arts and arts education.
Smith is a Sony Artisan of Imagery and a X-Rite Coloratti and has appeared on Fine Living Channel teaching a Little League Mom how to become a Big League Sports Photographer. His photography career began as a high school swimmer clearly not destined for the Olympics in the pool, yet this provided him with the opportunity to photograph swimming and other sports as a stringer for the Ames Daily Tribune.
Smith is President of Editorial Photographers, an organization of 2,000 of the top magazine photographers and newspaper photojournalists from around the world. He is frequently a speaker at photography seminars and to photo students at colleges, universities and art institutes around the country and can often be found on a flight headed to the Caribbean, Latin America or the American South from his home in Miami Beach, Florida.
