Registration for the 2018 NECCC conference is now LIVE. Register online:
https://umass.irisregistration.com/Site/NECCC or via the flyer (
flyers were mailed to all NECCC camera clubs and to previous attendees). Combine individual registrations for a group discount (or combine clubs to get the group discount). View an online version of the flyer here
2018 NECCC Flyer 2018
- Conference price still only $205 ($180 group rate) for the entire weekend
- Over 25 hours of photography immersion
- Over 65 program sessions to choose from
- Most of the speakers have never presented at NECCC before!
- Lots of hands-on shooting opportunities
- Add-on one of 13 pre-conference activities http://neccc14.neccc.org/2018_conf/Preconference%20workshops.pdf
- Register early for some limited admission no-charge photo activities
- SPECIAL CONFERENCE PHOTO SHOOTS SATURDAY 2pm
- Run concurrent with 2pm programs
- Pre-registration required, see Registration Form each limited to 20 participants
- PS1. Special Character Model Photos Sessions
- (Models Sponsored by Sigma) Photograph people in character (Cosplay, Steampunk, Renaissance, etc.) Constant Lighting Session Led by Marc Farb (Sponsored by Sigma)
- PS2. Special Character Model Photos Sessions
- (Models Sponsored by Sigma) Photograph people in character (Cosplay, Steampunk, Renaissance, etc.) Natural Light Session Led by Jim LaSala (Sponsored by Moab)
- PS3. Lifestyle Portraiture Photo Session
- Led by Tamara Lackey (Sponsored by Nikon, On1, Imagely)
- PS4. Sony Photo Walk with Ira Block (Sponsored by Sony)
- PS5. iPhone/SmartPhone Hands-on
- Led by Melissa Fraser & Charles Needle
- PS6. Photography with Neutral Density Filters with Denise Silva & Geffrard Bourke
- Bring your own ND filter or borrow one from Hunts Photo and Video
- Register early for the air-conditioned North Dorms
- ~$380 for individual conference registration, housing, and meals
- Participate in an Image Critique/Review (pre-conference and during the conference)
- Canon is sponsoring Canon Explorer of Light Darell Gulin who will present "VISION: capturing moments on all 7 continents" as the Keynote program Saturday evening
- DEMONSTRATIONS AND INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
- Techniques for Real People Portraits (Demonstration with Bobbi Lane & Lee Varis (Sponsored by Fujifilm)
- Light Painting a Car with Jose Leiva (Demonstration)
- Interactive Sessions: Audience participation: Bring your Camera
- 1. The Importance of Perspective with Cusi Taylor (Sponsored by Panasonic/Lumix)
- 2. Beyond the Snapshot with Colleen Miniuk-Sperry
- PHOTO-OPS (Lower Level of Campus Center) Chris Germain, MNEC and Barbara Rozavsky, HonNEC) Main Room (CC 169) may include glassware, black light, still life; Mylar reflections, underwater flowers and other subject matter. Bring your PC cord adaptor for electronic flash.
- Special Sessions offered once throughout the weekend
- Curious Critters: Capture Your Own Animal Portraits David FitzSimmons (Sponsored by Sigma)
- Photograph Raptors (Borrow a Tamron lens) (Friday 1-2:30pm only) (Sponsored by Tamron)
- Snowflakes and Other Macro Setups Don Komarechka
- Special Character Models (Sponsored by Sigma)
- Table Top Abstract Photography Peggy Farren
- Still Life Charles Batchelder
- Frozen Flowers Mo Devlin
- Photograph flowers Kathleen Clemons (Borrow a Lensbaby lens) (Sponsored by Lensbaby)
- FEMALE MODEL PHOTOGRAPHY Lower Level of Campus Center (Skip Hoyt, MNEC)
- There will be monitored female model sets Saturday and Sunday. Indoors each photographer may photograph the model in three poses over a maximum time of two minutes. There will be different lighting set-ups in the model rooms on the lower level of the Campus Center. In the outdoor sets, also monitored but un-timed, the model will pose starting at one end of the group of photographers through to the end of the group and then start over. The model will make eye contact with each photographer and move to the next photographer. The locations will be at the pond, the Campus Center Concourse (under the hotel overhang-3rd floor) and at the church.
- WELCOME SESSIONS FOR FIRST TIME ATTENDEES
- A special session will be held to assist first time attendees in planning their activities for the weekend. Antoinette Gombeda, APSA,
- HonNEC (CT) will provide assistance regarding scheduling, locating classrooms, etc. This assistance will be open Friday from 10am until
- 4pm in the UPUB on Concourse Level of the Campus Center. Attendees may walk into this session at any time for assistance. Join us even
- if you are not a first-time attendee and need some help.
- CAMERA TESTING CLINIC: Precision Camera (Enfield, CT)
- Technicians will provide free camera testing Saturday 9:30am-4:30pm in CC904-08.
- SPEAKERS’ NOTES
- The Speakers’ notes will be available in two formats. A link to a free online version of the speakers’ notes will be sent to all registered
- attendees one week prior to the conference. In addition, we will have for sale a printed spiral bound full color copy. You may prepurchase
- the printed notes at the time of your registration at the discounted price of $24.72. On site sales will not be discounted. Prepurchased
- notes can be picked up at the NECCC Hospitality Desk.
- DOOR PRIZE EXTRAVAGANZA
- Come to the conference and you may go home with a brand-new camera or lens or another great prize from NECCC, our sponsors and
- vendors. In the past six years our attendees won over $70,000 in door prizes!
- USED PHOTO EQUIPMENT – PRICING AND TRADE-IN
- Bring your used photographic equipment to Hunt’s Photo & Video experts to sell or trade in towards new equipment
