NEXT PHOTOGRAPHY EVENT AND AUDITION FOR WORKSHOPS
TBA - Riverview (Tampa Bay), Florida
"The Outland"
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ALERT 05/28/13 - Shootouts will begin in late Summer, 2013, after a two year delay, perhaps as early as July, and our workshops will begin in late 2014. The shootouts will start out slowly, and then build up to speed by early 2014, with up to several shootouts per month; we will begin with a series of Beacon shootouts, and then will expand with the Athena monthly shootouts, which will be used as an ongoing working audition to screen professionals for subcontracted work in our workshops and in our second generation shootouts, which will be paid shootouts formatted like scaled-down workshops (without much of the instruction).
C. A. Passinault has stated that he will commit substantial resources from Aurora PhotoArts to support the shootouts, and that he will literally work with every professional model in Florida over the next three years, and will continue to work with professional models and talent. The defection rate of these models to our events and projects will be high, especially when they see that what we have to offer is superior, in every way, to anything that anyone else has to offer, and that we are, by far, the standard in the market. The models will also find out that we know what we are doing, and know more about the business than anyone else in Florida.
There is more, too. Passinault has announced that the monthly Athena shootout events will be used as working auditions for all of his modeling jobs and his projects, which include modeling events and fashion runway shows (the fashion runway shows will the only ones, that we know of, in the Tampa Bay area which will pay models and give support to their careers. This will force our competition to change in order to compete, and will help the overall integrity of the market). Passinault has also indicated that Aurora PhotoArts, and his upcoming second photography company, will undergo a massive research and development program starting this year, and that it will be ongoing; the research and development program will be done in the shootout program, testing new equipment and technology, and bringing those resources to operational use (that R&D program will be conducted under tight security in private, classified shootout events, with only the best professionals allowed to participate, as the latest Aurora PhotoArts equipment will be deployed and new techniques will be developed during these events. Don’t expect any of this to be revealed at any of the Athena shootouts; this new, secret shootout series is yet to be named. Passinault will be investing tens of thousands of dollars into that program over the next three years). This means that resources used in the shootouts and support of our events is guaranteed. This will happen, and will continue to happen. Literally thousands of models and other industry professionals will become involved in our events, and most will continue to be involved. We will retain and work with the best, and we all will benefit.
The shootouts and workshops, as well as modeling and talent jobs, will all be completely supported by our modeling and talent resource web sites and their job boards, which include, but are not limited to, Independent Modeling, Independent Acting, Tampa Bay Modeling, Tampa Bay Acting, Tampa Bay Talent, Tampa Bay Film, Tampa Bay Dancer, Florida Models, Florida Actors, and Advanced Model (We acquired both Florida Models and Florida Actors last year, which are the top modeling and acting resource sites in Florida; upon acquiring those sites, we immediately deleted several ads and links to thing that we did not agree with. Most of you know those sites, that is, if you know what you are doing and have done your homework in the industry. No one has the industry resources that we have, and that includes the modeling and talent agencies and the modeling schools. No one has our online and marketing firepower, either; they don’t even come close, even if you combine everyone in the industry).
The Tampa Shootouts web site will be overhauled this Summer, with new content added to reflect what we are working on. We are also going to be building an additional web site which will help to support our shootouts, and which will become an invaluable resource for both us and models. Our shootouts and workshop events are extremely important to our larger overall plan, and it will become obvious in the coming months and years.
All shootouts and workshop events will be covered extensively on Tampa Shootouts and on our affiliated web sites through video, photographs, and articles. If anyone decides to skip out on what we have to offer, they will be able to easily see coverage on what they have missed, and the smart ones will change their minds.
Although the original Athena shootout agreements from September 2011 are still in effect, we will be overhauling the agreements over the Summer, and the new ones will be used for the upcoming shootouts.
Photographers (Jonathan and David, this means both of you. You know what you have done, and are going to be held responsible for your actions. You both made the largest mistakes of your “careers”, and we will be constantly reminding you of this when you will be forced to be on the outside looking in, and, in the future, you want, more than anything, to get involved. Not that losing both of you is any loss for us, as it is our opinion that we would have to carry you, anyway, and that you both would have benefitted more from associating with us that we would have from you) and models who have been banned from participating with our events, our projects, and our jobs have been banned for life. This ban will be in effect this year, next year, ten years from now, and much longer than that. They did it to themselves. We do not work with or associate with unethical, unprofessional people in the industry. When we get started, many others will join us in our boycott of these people.

ALERT 05/10/13 - Work is progressing on our photography shootout, modeling, and workshop events. The Tampa Shootouts and Tampa Workshops web sites will be overhauled this Summer. The third web site in development will not be Tampa Shootouts/ Workshops branded, and will serve to market to established professional models and other industry professionals. The marketing will not be to sell them something, but rather to recruit; to let them know about legitimate industry job opportunities with our shootout and workshops, in addition to other jobs, and to set up an evaluation process for them so that we can consider them for the jobs that we offer (after all, isn’t that the point of being in a profession, to get work?). We need experienced, talented, good, trustworthy, legitimate professionals to subcontract into our projects. Tampa Shootouts, and anyone who we are associated with, directly offer these jobs, and are not an agency or any kind of other middleman (models do not need to go through agencies to get work, anyway, and we are going to be among the first to consistently prove it. We will work with models represented through agencies, and with agencies, as they are still legitimate parts of the industry, but it is not required, and frankly, both you and we save money by cutting out the middleman, so basic economics weigh into the consideration process. Think that you are going to be able to compete with professional independent models when we can get as-good, if not better, by avoiding paying agency fees?).
As a bonus, this new web site will directly link to the industry job boards of Tampa Bay Modeling, Florida Models, and Independent Modeling, all of which are the world’s top industry resource sites for independent models and independent professionals in the modeling industry, and all of which we are directly affiliated with. These modeling jobs boards are made available at no charge, and with no obligation to buy anything or any services, anyway.
Likewise, there is no obligation to buy anything to be considered for any of our jobs. If we did obligate someone to buy something in consideration, we would be a modeling job scam, which we are definitely not, as all of you will pleasantly discover. Don’t just take our word for it, though. Our actions and track record will define us.
Shootout events will begin this Summer with a series of private Beacon Shootout events, and we are on track to have our first public Athena Shootout event in the Fall of 2013, after a two year delay where we had to address some accountability and security concerns. Our workshops and new generation of shootout events (which will augment, and not replace the current ones) will begin in the first half of 2014.
Which brings us to this.
We are the standard in the Tampa Bay market for photography and modeling shootout and workshop events. We will become a leading source of paid work for models, photographers, make-up artists, and other professionals in the industry. Money will talk. So will our new professional benchmarks. Everyone will find out that we know what we are doing, and we do it better than anyone else. We will earn their trust.
What we do will force all of these so-called charity events and sub par modeling photography events to change their ways, and try to adapt to the new conditions which we introduce to the market. You have no choice if you wish to try to compete (and workshops such as modeling industry bootcamps, as the angry model tried to do, and modeling schools will fail, especially if they keep stressing the outdated concept that the “agency way is the only way”. An open market is superior to a closed market, especially when that closed market enables unethical conduct and the manipulation of others, and everyone knows that, even if they do not want to admit it). These events will be forced to start paying models and other professionals, and the main reason that this will happen is because our events will be superior, and we will pay the models and talent who work these events. Everyone will realize this, and no one will ever want to work for free again (and, we may add, the agencies will realize this too, although the ones whom have proved that they are unethical are going to find out that we will not work with them, and that they did it to themselves).
Additionally, this goes way beyond shootouts and workshop events. We are just one facet of something much larger. Tampa Shootouts and Tampa Workshops are produced by the same production companies that will be behind a new modeling event series, a fashion line, and a modeling team. Everyone will want to work with us. Some will not be eligible, however, because of things that they have done. The photographers whom were responsible for our cancelled shootout event attempt in January 2012 are banned FOR LIFE (Mr. “Pro Photo”, or whatever you try to call yourself to point out that you think that you are a professional, and David, as well as some others), as are others who were responsible for what happened on September 25, 2011. You are all going to find out that you are not welcome at ANY of our events, as well as any of our affiliated projects, and that you did it to yourselves by proving that you are unethical, irresponsible, and cannot be trusted. This may not seem like much now, but in the future, when this market is clearly ours and these people want to work with us badly (and our competition, which they are currently involved with, are crippled or out of business), it will be a very big deal. We remember, and we are going to make sure that some of you do, too.

ALERT 04/21/13 - Tampa Shootouts, and Tampa Workshops, will be overhauled this Spring and Summer, in preparation for the commencement of operations. A lot has been going on. What we have developed here was well ahead of anything else in the Tampa Bay market, as well as Florida, and it still is (even more-so, now). We’ve enhanced everything, including workflow and security. The issues of the past are no longer relevant.
The blogs will be discontinued, as well as some other site sections, as the sites will be optimized more for marketing and support, instead of opinion. A third marketing and support web site is also in the works.
The first shootout events will be this summer (2013), and the workshops are scheduled to follow, in early 2014. Everything will be up to full speed by 2014. Until later, enjoy what is on the site!

ALERT 09/30/12 - It was decided on September 28, 2012, that Tampa Shootouts will remain as our main site and business name covering the shootouts and workshop events. The alternate domain name, which would have been used for our new branding, will instead be used as a resource site to keep modeling photography shootout and workshop events in the Tampa Bay area in check and address issues with them, as well as educate the target market on how to evaluate shootouts and workshops to see if they are worth getting involved with, will also protect us from some unethical company using a brand which may confuse our target audience. Updates to this site will resume, and the content will be overhauled soon.
Our shootout events will begin in late 2012 with a series of Beacon shootout events, and the public Athena shootouts will begin in early 2013. Our first workshops will begin in the Spring of 2013. Please note that this schedule is tentative, and may change at any time, without warning.
Our shootout and workshop events will be supported and sponsored by Tampa Bay Modeling, Florida Models, Independent Modeling, and Advanced Model, as well as our other relevant resource sites and outside sponsors.

ALERT 09/16/12 - This web site will no longer be updated with new content. This web site is moving, and our branding will be adjusted for the new web site, which will replace Tampa Shootouts, Tampa Workshops, and the two support sites. We already have the new domain name, and will be uploading foundation content for it today. The names and branding of all our event properties, such as Athena, Beacon, Allure, etc, will not be changing. Additionally, we will maintain and protect the trademarks associated with Tampa Shootouts and Tampa Workshops, as well as our other brands. Domain names which we will keep will eventually lose the web sites connected to them, and will be forwarded to the new domain and web site. Domain names which we choose not to keep will be destroyed; we will trash the domain names in the search engines so that they will be de listed, and they will be useless. We are keeping Tampa Shootouts, however. We will also link to the new web site, once it has launched, from this web site, before it is decommissioned sometime next year. The new web site will be a Pioneer Class site, like this one, but with some advancements and design refinements. Regarding the shootout and the workshop events, they will happen, and they will be very popular, as well as effective, although we will not be inviting anyone who is not completely cleared through our security for a while (no unknown photographers will be invited to our events, as they were cause of the problems that we experienced a year ago, until we have the proper security infrastructure in place. There are too many unethical, unprofessional photographers in this market for us to take any unnecessary risks right now, and we don't want to deal with them). This means that the first shootout events will be handled by Aurora PhotoArts, with few invited photographers, if there are any at all.

ALERT 08/02/12 - Big changes are in the works here at Tampa Shootouts and on our affiliated sites! Our events will become the standard for shootout and workshop events in Tampa Bay area, eventually, but we can wait (right now, we are busy with something else, including the photography business of Aurora PhotoArts, which is the only thing more important than shootouts and workshops. We will wait to do these events until the proper support infrastructure is in place). Some of the information here is in transition, and will change. New things, as well as sites, are coming soon! For now, we are more than enough for our competition to handle without doing any events at all, with just the fact that our web sites are up forcing others to change and try to adapt to new conditions in the market; standards which we have already introduced. Without doing a single event, we are already the standard in the market. We can wait, and again, will wait until we are good and ready (and it is going to be a while, perhaps 2013, before we offer any public events, although we will proceed with private shootout events with our models, such as Beacon, before the end of this year. We are currently overhauling our screening and security procedures, as well as enhancing our event properties and marketing. All of our events will have trained, core staff on-hand. We will have meetings about what we are working on, and what we will be doing, this fall for invited professionals).

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Welcome to Tampa Shootouts, TampaShootouts.Com, home of the Athena Modeling Photography and Networking Event Series, a free monthly photography and networking photography shootout event, as well as other, more specialized, shootout events. This is an activities group, which does photography sessions primarily on location. It is our hope that photographers, models, and others in the industry come together to have fun, expand their skills, and work together to improve the integrity of our industries. The focus of our events is to help models, photographers, and other industry professional enhance their careers and be able to land legitimate work on their own. Judging from what we have seen from other "modeling photography events" in the Tampa Bay area, we are certainly needed, too. We are the events for working professionals. We stand for what we believe in, which is professional integrity and quality.
Tampa Shootouts is more than just a series of photography and networking events, however. There is more! We have industry workshops where aspiring talent can learn new skills and the business, and our shootout events are a way to evaluate professionals for help with these workshops. These are paying, subcontracted jobs at the workshops, and the only way to be considered for those jobs is to participate with our shootouts. As a result, we have a much higher ratio of professional models, photographers, and others in the industry participating in our shootout events, especially our flagship monthly photography and networking shootout event, the Athena Modeling Photography and Networking Event Series, the backbone of Tampa Shootouts, TampaShootouts.Com.
There is a lot more, too! Professionals who participate with our shootout events are also eligible to be considered for our regional photography association, or our regional modeling association. Members of these professional groups share many benefits, among them being able to be marketed and promoted through our array of industry resources.
We’ve put a lot of thought and work into how we organize our photography shootout events, and we’ve learned from experience over the years. Although our official shootout events are new, our experience doing shootout events goes back over a decade. Tampa Shootouts photography shootout events are heavily covered here on Tampa Shootouts, and we will have the most documented events in the market, with anecdotal accounts, video, and photographs. We want our readers to be able to follow what is going on, and to become inspired to become a part of these exciting events themselves!
Of course, there is even more, but we cannot go into it, here. Let’s just say that it is worth it! Get involved, work hard, and you’ll find out!

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Our first event, and the first of the Athena monthly Tampa shootout events, Athena is for models, photographers, Make-Up Artists, and Stylists. This is a free, but private event, and invitation-only. The Athena shootout events are our flagship shootout events, and will be the shootout which will have dominant coverage on this web site. Athena modeling photography events, held monthly starting soon, will set the standard for modeling photography shootout events in the Tampa Bay market. Athena photography events will also be family-friendly, which means that they will be career-safe for models.
We are going to make the Athena photography and networking events fun, too, and fun should be a part of it. We are going to work hard to not only make our shootout events the new industry standard for photography events!
The Athena Modeling Photography and Networking Event Series are usually held on various locations in the Tampa Bay market, as these are free events, and we have to keep our overhead down, but some of these shootouts may be held at various venues, residences, and photography studios in the area. There is even talk about hosting most of the Athena photography and networking events are a local studio in the future, which may either be the upcoming Aurora PhotoArts studio, or the Joint Photography Studio (JPS) of our regional professional photography association. Stay tuned!

Monthly modeling photography shootouts and networking events for professional photographers, models, makeup artists, and stylists. Specialized photography shootout events for specialized fields, such as high-risk photography work. Professional industry workshops and courses. Instruction by working, experienced professionals. Photography, modeling, and talent events. Paid opportunities for subcontracted professional photographers and models.

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Our first networking shootout event will premier soon*!

*Regular monthly shootout events can be expected thereafter, which will become the backbone of all of our events. Monthly shootout events are free of charge to participants, and are family-friendly. Participation in any monthly shootout event does not obligate the participant to buy any service, product, or workshop. We do not work with new models at our monthly shootouts, and although they are not obligated to do so, any new model inquiring on participating will be referred to a model testing program or other services from a professional photographer where they can invest in their career.

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All participants of any shootout event participate at their own risk, and assume all potential liability.
All participants of the Tampa Shootouts event are required to identify themselves with a photo I.D. and proof of age before being allowed to participate with any event. All participants are required to read, comprehend, and sign a written agreement before being allowed to proceed with the participation of any event.
Although there is no cost, unless otherwise specified, for participating with any shootout event, participants assume all responsibility of any costs which are incurred as a result of their participation with the event, which includes, but is not limited to, parking, traffic citations, fuel, milage, food, water, and other costs. Food, water, equipment, and supplies are NOT provided for at any of these events, and participants are responsible to bring what they need. Participants accept complete responsibility for any connections or agreements made as a result of participating with the event, which include people who they meet, and agree to hold Tampa Shootouts, the organizers, and our affiliates, sponsors, and partners harmless from any and all claims of liability and legal action. Potential legal action and liability are waived from Tampa Shootouts and all of the above affiliates.
Participants of our events are encouraged to bring business cards and other material, to meet other participants, and to let others know more about you, as networking is one of the main purposes of these events.
No promises of employment or jobs were made for the consideration of participation in any of our shootout events, and we are not obligated to refer any participants into any paid job.

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