SHOOTOUT
EVENTS
Tampa
Shootouts is a marketing and support site for our Tampa shootout and workshop
events. Although our two main shootouts events are for modeling photography,
being the monthly Athena Modeling Photography and Networking Event Series,
and the irregular, and more private, Beacon Modeling Photography Shootouts,
this site is used for other shootout events by us, as well as workshops.
The
Beacon Modeling Photography
Shootouts events were initiated in October 2011 in
the wake of our first failed attempt at launching the monthly Athena shootouts.
Although the first Athena shootout event was well organized, and would
have been worth attending, no one attended because of a combination of
bad luck and no-call, no-shows. It was then that we realized that we could
not depend upon outside photographers and models to make these events
work, and that the only way that the shootouts would be effective is to
have a core team of models and photographers to attract the outside participants;
the core team ensuring that we could proceed regardless of outside participation.
The Beacon shootouts were initiated by Aurora PhotoArts and Tampa Bay
Modeling to orientate, and prepare, models for both the Athena monthly
shootouts, which they would staff, and the Focus
Modeling Photography Workshops, primarily marketed
and supported on our sister site, Tampa Workshops, TampaWorkshops.Com.
Event organizer and photographer C. A. Passinault originally did not want
his model clients involved with the shootouts, as his photography company
and the Tampa Shootouts are separate business endeavors, and after the
first attempt, when it was decided that we needed to staff our shootout
events, Passinault created the Beacon program as a transitional program
for his model clients to be able to participate with the shootouts. Beacon
shootouts are closed, private sessions primarily for the model clients
of Aurora PhotoArts and Tampa Bay Modeling, and are classified. It serves
as a buffer, or a green room of sorts, and a filter for the other shootouts.
Beacon is the way to supply us with an endless supply of talented models,
all of whom are among the best of the Aurora PhotoArts and Tampa Bay Modeling
clients, while addressing security risks, especially in business.
Most of the photography done at our Beacon Modeling Photography Shootouts
will be used to
market our other shootout events, especially Athena, as well as our workshop
events, such as the Focus Modeling Photography Workshops.
Beacon, Athena, and Focus (For clients of Aurora, it would be Espy, Aurora,
Beacon, Athena, Focus, and additional paying work). Three photography
events which connect and lead-in to each other, and each with a specific
purpose. The way to Focus is through Athena.
It should also be noted that all of our shootouts, Athena and Beacon included,
are also symbiotic with our workshop events, such as the Focus workshops,
so models and others who work the workshops will also participate with
the shootouts, creating a cycle of qualified professional participation
once this all gets up to speed. No other shootout or workshop event in
the Tampa Bay market, as well as the rest of Florida, will be able to
match, or even approach, what we have to offer.
The Athena Modeling Photography
and Networking Events Series shootout events are
our backbone shootout events series, and are our primary shootouts. The
Athena shootout events will also be our most numerous. The primary purpose
of the Athena shootouts is for professionals to network. Another main
purpose for our Athena events is to screen and audition models, talent,
and photographers for subcontracted jobs at our shootout events; photographs
taken of models and talent at the Athena shootouts will be used to market
the workshops that they participate and/ or instruct in. Speaking of photographs,
photography is also an emphasis with the Athena Modeling Photography and
Networking Event Series. Although, in no way, is Athena, or any of our
other shootouts, supposed to be a way for any model or photographer to
build a full portfolio for free, as most participants are supposed to
already have professional portfolios, there are advantages; participants
will be able to walk away with some great pictures from the shootouts,
as well as worthwhile industry contacts.
We mean “most” participants because there is another purpose
for the Athena shootouts, and
that purpose is to market our workshops. While more for aspiring photographers
than aspiring models, our shootouts will give them a taste of what our
professional instructors have to offer, and give them an incentive to
invest in one, or more, of our workshop events, even though is must be
noted that no one is obligated, in any way, to buy anything or to pay
for a workshop when they participate in our shootouts, especially if they
are being auditioned and considered for a subcontracted job at one of
our workshops (the latter case meaning that they are not in the target
market of paying for a workshop to begin with, since they don’t
need it). New photographers and models will be encouraged to invest in
their careers. Established professionals, on the other hand, have genuine
opportunities to share their knowledge and skills while getting paid.
Of course, we will have other shootout events, too, under various schedules
and brands.
While our flagship shootout event, Athena, is family and career friendly,
we will have other types of shootouts to address other markets in the
photography and modeling industries, including high-risk work, if desired.
It is our professional obligation to provide a safe, professional, and
ethical alternative to glamour, boudoir, bikini, and other high-risk shootouts
which seem to plague the industry today. These shootouts are speciality
shootouts, all for professionals only, and will be developed and deployed
as needed.
Future
event dates subject to change without warning. Event titles, themes, and
other details subject to change without warning; all planned events are
tentative.
Athena
Modeling Photography and Networking Event Series
Athena photography events are monthly shootouts for modeling photography
and networking,
primarily. Shootouts are also used for evaluating professionals in working
auditions for subcontracted jobs. Other features, including regular features,
subject to individual event requirements.
ASE 0001:
The Outland
TBA, 2012.
Theme: The outdoors/ hiking.
Type: Casual outdoor.
Location session in Riverview, Florida.
Beacon
Modeling Photography Shootouts
The Beacon shootouts are private, classified shootout events done by Aurora
PhotoArts and its model clients. The Beacon shootouts are designed to
create marketing material for Athena shootouts and other shootout events
of Tampa Shootouts. There are at least two of these shootout events scheduled
for the remainder of 2011, and they will happen before the first Athena
shootout event. Beacon shootouts will not be marketed and will not be
announced, as they are private shootouts which may use primary Aurora
PhotoArts locations (Athena shootouts are limited to secondary Aurora
PhotoArts locations and less-sensitive locations, for security reasons)
and the model clients of Tampa Bay's leading modeling photography company,
Aurora PhotoArts. The Beacon shootouts will only be revealed after they
happen, and then, at that, most of the material developed from the Beacon
events will be used to market Athena and other shootouts. Again, Beacon
shootouts are classified, and are private shootouts not open to the general
public, mainly used to support other Tampa Shootouts shootout events and
workshops.
PUBLISHED 09/23/11
UPDATED 03/15/12
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Society - Tampa Bay Modeling - Aurora PhotoArts - Frontier Event Planning
- Frontier Stage Productions
in
association with
Modeling and talent expert
and photographer C. A. Passinault, Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography
and Design, and director of Tampa Bay Modeling. C. A. Passinault has been
the professional behind the modeling careers of several top models in
the Tampa Bay market, and has been Tampa Bay's original, and best, model
maker since 2000. C. A. Passinault is also an event planner, and owns
all of the organizations, web sites, and companies supporting his Tampa
Shootouts series.
Pioneer Class
web site by Aurora
PhotoArts, a Passinault.Com
company. Pioneer Class 0002, Commissioned 092311.1344hrs.
Webmaster and Pioneer Class
web site designer C. A. Passinault.
ONLINE 09/23/11
UPDATED 09/15/12 - 01/07/23/0059
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