MARCH TO THE BEAT OF A BSU DRUMMER

I just got the confirmation that I'll get to do the Ball State Marching Band pictures again this summer. I'm very thankful for the opportunity.

Curt (photocurt.com)
(765) 437-8048

INSPIRATION

One thing this so-called slow season does for me is give me a chance to focus a little more broadly on the world around me. I see so many opportunities for photography. For example, hardly anyone around here - if anyone at all - does really intimate, meaningful photography: a baby napping in dad's arms, a little child nosing around curiously and cutely in a guitar case. Now that you have the idea, you can come up with better ideas than I can. In fact, that's a good point. Please send me your ideas; if I like them, I'll photograph them for free! Just so I can post them on my web site.

Curt (photocurt.com)
(765) 437-8048

HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR MODELS

I'm probably like most people in that I'm looking toward spring and summer, but probably for different reasons. Sure, I welcome the warm weather, but I'm anticipating what I call high school senior season. So, during January and February I don't hibernate - I'm hunting to find high school senior representatives. The response has been pretty encouraging since I first put out the call a few days ago.
Anyway, though, I'd still like to find more. So, if you're a high school junior who likes being in front of the camera, and you can share your enthusiasm for what you believe in, please contact Spectrum Photography. Your photo session can be FREE! My e-mail address is spectrumphotography@photocurt.com; my phone number is (765) 437-8048.

Community Involvemenet

One of the many things I like about photography is that it puts me in contact with a diverse group of people who can make use of Spectrum Photography to help their cause.
Project Access, which is part of the Howard County Medical Society, is doing that. I've got the chance to do some photography next month for Project Access's mother-daughter event at the Kokomo Country Club. Ticket sales will help raise money for Project Access, which provides medical care for people without insurance - what a great mission!

SPECTRUM H.S. SENIOR PROMO

The first round (pictured left) of voting in the Spectrum Photography-Kokomo Beach high school senior summer promotion has Katie Unger leading the voting. Marlea Duncan is second, with Noel Horvath third.

Voting is closed for the first round. Voting on the second round started this week. The third and final round will start in about two weeks.

The winner gets a free senior session from Spectrum Photography.

Curt (photocurt.com)
(765) 437-8048

ANTICIPATING SUMMER

Spectrum Photography and the Kokomo Parks Department will partner on a fantastic summer promotion that will culminate with a free high school senior session for the lucky winner. To carry it off, I need models who'll get free mini-photo sessions.
Each two weeks a new large portrait will be posted on one of the most highly visible spots at Kokomo Beach. The portrait will have pictures of four different people; Kokomo Beach patrons vote on their favourite model. At the end of the summer, the model who got the most votes gets a free high school senior picture from Spectrum Photography.
In order to come up with the big display portrait, I need models who'll enjoy a free, abbreviated photo session. The contact outlets are spectrumphotography@photocurt.com or (765) 437-8048.

GOING GREEN

"Going green" has become a commendable and somewhat popular concept - having to do with people reducing the harm they cause to our planet's environment.
But for photographers, "going green" has another meaning: using a green backdrop that makes it easier to pull subjects from that scene and putting them in something entirely different. Previously, we'd have to do this through a painstaking and sometimes time-consuming process in some version of Photoshop. With green screens and the compatible software, a sometimes 12 minute process can take less than 30 seconds.
Spectrum Photography will begin offering this enhanced service in just a couple of weeks when we photograph the students at Sycamore Elementary School in Kokomo.