Speakers and Judges
The List of Speakers and Judges is updated by Dan Charbonnet. Email Dan at ddrc3@msn.com. The listings are posted on the NECCC website for easy access by clubs. This will allow you more room for program descriptions, and allow us to keep these lists up-to-date whenever new information is received.- Speakers - Please provide a PDF or Word document with a detailed description of each program (all programs need to be listed in ONE document, not individually).
- All clubs need judges to judge image competitions, if you are willing to judge please send your form to Dan
- Would you like to judge or present at a New England Camera Club?
- Speakers and Club presidents, please use this form for new persons that qualify to be a Judge and/or Speaker from your club and mail or e-mail it to Dan.
Speaker Expectations:
- Present a one-hour TEACHING program 2-3 times over the weekend.
- FYI, This cannot just be pretty pictures and it cannot be an infomercial -- It must be a teaching program...in this current environment, we are competing with a flood of good images on Instagram, Facebook, 500px, etc. VERY rarely do we have a program that are based on a career, photo trip or history (literally 0-1 program of that genre per conference).
- Give either a hands-on class, an interactive session, a photo op and/or a photo walk
- Be willing to do a 50-minute one-on-one image review with one attendee (not all speakers end up giving one)
- About 1/3 of our speakers will also be asked to teach a three-hour hands-on workshop, typically Friday morning, but a few will be scattered throughout the weekend.
- Be involved and interact with our attendees. This is critical in this day and age where we compete with people watching CreativeLive, etc. in their comfy pants :-)
- We ask that speakers arrive before 4pm so on Thursday so that they can attend the 5pm speakers get together, meet with their pre-conference, photo-op, photo-walk liaisons and attend the pizza party Thursday evening. We ask that speakers stay until the end of the conference Sunday at 12:30pm.
- We are looking for more feedback from the attendees like this from this past weekend.
- On my first night at the conference, I was attempting to take a dusk photo of the UMASS Chapel & pond when I was approached by NECCC keynote speaker Darrell Gulin (at first I didn’t recognize who he was…it was dark!) …Darrell kindly asked what I was doing and offered some advice on shooting techniques…which I followed leading to this photo…Where else but NECCC can you get world-renowned photographers just passing by and offering to help you! WOW!
- The Ira Block Photo Walk & the Bobbi Lane/Lee Varis Character Portraits Without Flash were terrific! The in-room seminars and lectures were also wonderful and very, very helpful... But actually getting out into the field with experts is a key conference draw for me.
- Bobbi Lane & Lee Varis had creative and practical tips on how to take great portraits simply using a reflector…and then you got to practice these tips with colorful (and fun!) character models! What could be better!
- On his photo walk, Ira Block used his tremendous experience and knowledge as a documentary photographer to show us how to take great photos even when the light is not `dramatic’. His tips were followed up by active shooting. His explanations of how he went about shooting his images for `Cuba Loves Baseball’ <a terrific book by the way!> helped us to understand how photography can help to break down cultural barriers.
