Focal Point 2022

Your 2022 PPOC Ontario Convention goes live and in-person the weekend of October 22 & 23!

We have an exciting and informative mix of speakers. There will be a photo shootout for. We will celebrate PPOC-Ontario’s best at our awards banquet, the trades will share their latest at your trade show. Plus engage with speakers at a Fireside Chat. There will be prizes and more.

Welcome Back Ontario!

Are You Ready?

Your 2022 PPOC Ontario Convention goes live and in-person the weekend of October 22 & 23!

Where?

Four Points by Sheraton Hotel

Mississauga Meadowvale

2501 Argentia Road, Mississauga, ON L5N 4G8

www.marriott.com/yyzvf

NOTE - You will receive a link for room reservation in the ticket confirmation email. It will be in the attached pdf file you receive.

We have an exciting and informative mix of speakers, a trade show and even a shootout!!! We will celebrate PPOC Ontario’s best at our awards banquet and you can engage with the speakers at a Fireside Chat. There will be prizes and more!

Introducing your talented and inspiring speakers and what they are presenting:

Tina Weltz MPA

Royal Ontario Museum

Lions, Tigers and Bears….. well it’s more like

Dinosaurs, Mummy’s and Bugs! With more than 12 million objects and specimens in the ROM’s collections, ~only 1% is showcased in their galleries.

In 2017 the ROM undertook a 3-year project to digitize the many treasures from collection storage.

The scale and diversity of the ROM's collection presented unique digitization challenges. The team addressed these challenges by establishing workflow standards, metrics for tracking progress and enhancing access to the ROM collection. Bringing the collection online, the ROM can now provide greater access to the public and scholars around the world.

Over 3 years the team photographed 15,000 objects and created 45,000 images which is a milestone in the museum's history of digitization projects. Tina will talk about the challenges of some of the objects and the shooting situations.

Levarre McDonald

Canadian Forces Image Technician

Levarre’s specialties range from portraiture to technical photos, parades and ceremonies, funerals and repatriations and intelligence gatherings. Being an Image Tech has allowed her to do amazing things that other tradespeople do not often get the opportunity to do.

Levarre will speak about the history of Image Techs, and where her travels travels have taken her while responding to floods, fires, assaults and accident and even to the Arctic where she has encountered a wolf or two!

Bill Milne

Food Photography

Bill will present a humourous history of his life and experience growing up in Scarborough Ontario, going to Ryerson university and having a 30+ year career as a global food photographer based in New York.

Bill will cover lighting client associations, billing and everything in between. He will showcase a few hundred images taken within the last 12 months to help weave the fabric of his story.

Claude Brazeau MPA

Simple and efficient lighting for creative portraiture.

Claude Brazeau is a sixth bar master photographer working in the Ottawa Gatineau region as well as greater Montreal. He is the recipient of numerous awards both nationally and internationally.

Claude will cover portraiture, wedding photography, corporate photography, business portraits and will do a live demo and illustrate some of his post-production process.

Jess Bell

Animal Photography

Jess will touch on the following:

• Ethical approaches to working with animals

• Representing animals at their best

• Editing tips and tricks

• General workflow, from booking to photography to editing and sales (birds-eye view)

Jess will draw from her background as an animal trainer, and touch on experiences working with dogs, cats, horses, birds of prey, reptiles and more. She will present her powder photography which is quite popular.

Meaghan Olgilvie

Underwater Photography

Meaghan Olgilvie is recognized internationally for her underwater photography, garnering many awards, including a Smithsonian Finalist and Australia’s Cairns Underwater Photography Award.

Meaghan will present and discuss underwater photography, the techniques, the challenges and post processing.

Christopher Wahl

Photojournalism

Christopher Wahl is a Canadian portrait photographer. A newsman at heart, he’s built an award-winning portfolio as a photojournalist with assignment work featured in publications such as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Time magazine.

Toronto’s very own and talented editorial portrait photographer will close out our program Sunday afternoon.

Host or Publisher PPOC Ontario