Our Speakers
PPM Fall Training Camp 2010 has a great speaker line-up this year. Just scroll down to find information on the speakers and links to their websites and sponsors.
Visit our program area for information on workshops and programs.
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Tom Bagby:
Don’t tell anyone but Tom is actually an 18 year old trapped in a much older body. Operating Tom Bagby Photography since 1976, Tom brings to this program both business and life experience forged by successes AND failures for without one the other cannot exist. A firm believer in the concept that life is meant to be lived, Tom is an avid guitar player, golfer, and a connoisseur of both ketchup and beer.
Kristen McGill:
With an eye for design and a love of dogs……and people too, Kristen came to the photography industry from a financial background. Seems like a long trip, but a worthwhile one. Kristen’s sense of style makes her duties of Marketing Director come naturally. Her marketing campaigns have won both SPI’s Marketer of the Year and a finalist in PPA’s AN-NE awards.
Sponsored by Millers Professional Imaging
A Native New Yorker, Steve Ragland, has refined the art of romancing the soul of his subjects through his lens. Ironically, Steve's love of photography was kindled through the career equivalent of a blind date, his friend and an aspiring designer, asked him to help her create a portfolio. When the photos exceeded her wildest expectations, she encouraged him to develop talent and strike out on his own. After attending New York's School of Visual Arts, Steve became a much sought after fashion and beauty photographer in cities such as Paris, London, Toronto and Taipei. Working as a true fashion photographer all over the globe has allowed Steve to bring a cosmopolitan look to images for a diverse group of clients. Now working in Detroit, Steve continues to photograph for local and national clients. The beauty of Steve's work, what he helps other photographers perfect, is how to achieve a luxury look and feel to images using tools readily available in any local store. Commercial, editorial, and portrait clients are facing ever-tightening budgets and Steve's skills have been much sought after. Steve is very high energy and his students always have fun while learning skills which will position them to produce refined images in less time with less money spent on equipment, set design and post production.
Steve's work has been seen in publications such as Vogue, Essence, Fitness Magazine, Playboy, Eating Well, Yoga Monthly, The Knot, Jet, Ambassador, Hour Detroit and Life Style Japan. Steve has an impressive list of commercial clients including Sony Music, Miller Brewing, Radio Shack, Kmart, Sears, Zima, Martini & Rossi, and Purely Pro Cosmetics.
Sponsored by Millers Professional Imaging
Ken Kneringer, PPA Master Photographer – Craftsman, CPP is a nationally recognized, award winning, photographer and photography workshop instructor. Ken’s passion is photography, and it shows in the images he creates for his clients. Ken is also recognized as one of the leading authorities on photographic lighting, photoshop, retouching, workflow, search engine optimization, and color management for photographers.
Ken started messing around with photography in the early seventies, worked a short time for a commercial studio in Philadelphia, and had a small glamour studio in the eighties shooting primarily boudoir photography. In 2002 Ken opened Studio K Photography in
Indianapolis, Indiana with the intention of becoming a wedding and portrait studio. After photographing his first and only high school senior in 2002 Ken was hooked on fashion inspired senior and model photography. Today, Ken is all about seniors, fashion, and model photography.
Ken photographs around 180 clients and models each year. Most of his clients are traveling over an hour to be photographed by Ken, with an ever increasing percentage traveling several hours or more. He has photographed seniors and models in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky, Florida, And Puerto Rico.
Ken is working on several new projects, one for an online fashion e-magazine, the other a photo book featuring lady bikers from all over the United States
Sponsored by American Color Imaging
Karen Walker is a Certified Professional Photographer and photographic artist specializing in portraits of families, children and high school seniors. In addition to her portrait services, Walker works to preserve family history through restoration of old photos and creates framed prints, collages and albums to be cherished for the next generation. She is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop and has won numerous awards for her work including 2009 and 2010 International Photographer of the Year from Professional Photographers of America, Michigan Electronic Imager of the Year and Michigan Top Seven. All four of her EI merit prints in this year's Print Competition were drawn from client work. Walker is on the Board of Directors of Professional Photographers of Michigan and teaches photography, framing and Photoshop to other professional photographers.
