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Ann Arbor photographer Aruna B. was generous enough to spend a couple of days with MIVA. At the Wednesday night meeting she presented the Art of Posing to MIVA members. It was a great turnout. The event was sponsored by LCD 4 Video, who provided a 7″ HD LCD monitor to raffle.
If you missed the [...]

There have been a number of great speakers and events over the past year. There will be a whole lot more coming in 2010!
Talk about starting off 2010 with a bang, we had a ginormous turnout for Chris’ presentation and now have the most members MIVA has ever known! Thanks to all for [...]

Special Guest: Steve Zugelter of Studio+Z Films in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Thanks to the Epic Motion crew for taking some images to share from the meeting.
Once again, we started our meeting showing a couple of our members’ videos and giving some feedback on their work. Special thanks to David from Lightshine Productions who shared his very [...]

August 2009 MIVA Recap Video from Lee Higginbottom on Vimeo.
Many thanks go to Wes from Wes Cardone Productions and Hyun & Adam from Two Penny Productions for sharing some of their recent work. They took part in a new portion of our MIVA meetings where they show an example of their work and MIVA [...]

Our meeting at Bastone’s in downtown Royal Oak featured Terry White- Director, North America Creative Pro Technical Sales for Adobe Systems, Inc. Terry has presented Adobe products before and does a great job showing us how Adobe products can help our workflow and ultimately increase our cash flow.
We were shown how Adobe CS4 Production [...]

The votes are in! We had a great time at the Main Art Theater on May 6th for the MIVA Spring Film Festival. 15 area studios submitted wedding related films for the contest. A number of different styles were presented such as: the classical and traditional; cutting edge and contemporary; and, even [...]

To get a short glimpse of what went on, check out the video recap… This was not produced by StillMotion, please check out their work at: StillMotion.
Canon and MIVA present StillMotion from Lee Higginbottom on Vimeo.
There was not a regular April meeting because we planned an all day seminar with the guys from StillMotion. [...]

MIVA Meeting Recap – March 4, 2009

MIVA Meeting February 4, 2009
MIVA February 4, 2009 from Lee Higginbottom on Vimeo.
Thanks goes to Lee Higginbottom for putting together the teaser video.
Make sure you read to the bottom because we have exciting announcements to make about upcoming events and meetings.
D’Amato’s 222 S Sherman Royal Oak, MI
Our February 4th meeting took place in Royal Oak [...]

Hey everybody! We had a great meeting this past Wednesday. If you haven’t attended the last few months of MIVA, you’ve really missed out. This time, Prem Mukherjee from Arising Images shared awesome secrets from his business, and Panasonic and ROSCOR spent the remainder of the evening giving us the low down [...]