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JOE BRADY sponsored by Joe Brady is a full-time professional photographer, educator, author, photo workshop leader and studio owner. One of his great joys is to see photographers in his classes have that “Ah-Hah!” moment leading them to capture beautiful images consistently. Joe represents many industry leaders and is an X-Rite Coloratti, a Nissin FlashMaster, a FotoPro Ambassador, an author on lynda.com, and holds both Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman Degrees from the Professional Photographers of America. As a producer and presenter, Joe creates and delivers educational videos for photo and audio industry companies. This includes Nissin, Hensel, X-Rite, Sekonic, Novoflex, Rokinon, Ilford, Fotopro, Tascam, Zoom, Saramonic and others totaling over 3.5 million views to date. A recipient of the Fuji Masterpiece Award for his landscape photography, Joe teaches photography workshops around the world, specializing in scenic and panoramic landscapes and environmental, location and studio portrait photography. Joe’s Landscape Photography website can be viewed at www.joebradyphotography.com Creating Consistently Great Landscape Photographs | Photography Seminar Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A South WEDNESDAY 9 TO 10:30 A.M. Price: $25 | Max No. People: 30 | Difficulty Level: All Levels What makes a great photograph? Of course, that adjective is sometimes subjective based on the viewers experiences and passions, but having an image with simplicity, a clear subject, balanced composition and storytelling draws the viewer into the photograph. When the viewer is drawn in and lingers, the full impact of the scene unfolds, and you understand what the photographer means and share. Join host Joe Brady as he takes you on a journey through the preparation and thought process to create great Landscape Photographs. It’s not just about gear (though some of it does help!) but about visualizing the final print hanging on the wall. Size, shape, color, composition and editing are all very important concepts to nail down if you want to get consistently beautiful results! This talk also includes a few quick demonstrations to fully illustrate the effects of reshaping color, tone and light in your digital captures. Joe will share his approach to creating images that draw you in and how to answer the challenges of light, composition and the limitations of our cameras. Come learn how to shoot less but shoot better, get great images more often and more consistently, and prepare to share them with the world! PHOTO: JOE BRADY Using Plug- Ins for a Speedy Way to Add Impact to Your Photographs | Photography Seminar Advanced Photo Edits: Enhancing Landscapes in Lightroom & Photoshop | Photography Seminar Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A South SATURDAY 3 TO 4:30 P.M. Price: $25 | Max No. People: 30 | Difficulty Level: Beginner to Intermediate While the combination of Lightroom and Photoshop can do practically anything to a digital image, sometimes it’s so much easier to get some help to accomplish your editing needs. Plug-Ins like Luminar, Aurora, Nik and others can enhance your images with just a couple of clicks and create amazing results! From HDR to B&W Conversions to details enhancements to color and contrast adjustments, come see what’s available on how it can make your edits both simple and fast. Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A South WEDNESDAY 11 TO 12:30 P.M. Price: $25 | Max No. People: 30 | Difficulty Level: Advanced After Learning the basics, when you understand what you can and should do with both Lightroom & Photoshop will help you capture better images from the start! These demonstrations will start easy, but quickly explore advanced tool usage to shape your image into the best photograph it can be. From adding skies, color and light in Landscapes to lighting fur, moving objects, removing distractions and adding power and sparkle to the eyes. Your goal should be to tell a story about each image and direct the viewer to the most important parts of the subject. These tools are today’s darkroom and since our cameras don’t see the world the way our eyes to, it’s important to understand how these tools can shape our images into the photo- graphs that made us stop and take the picture in the first place. While we will cover some advanced techniques, everything will be presented in an easy-to-follow and step-by-step method that you can put to use for your own images! Hands on Print Workshop | Photography Seminar Location: Whitney Laboratory Center for Marine Studies, 9505 N. Oceanshore Blvd. SUNDAY 8:30 A.M TO 12 P.M.  Price: $79 | Max No. People: 30 | Difficulty Level: Beginner to Advanced Is it too much to ask that we get prints that look like the image we see on our computer screen? When you understand the tools and process, you can make this happen most every time! Color workflow and profiles don’t have to be scary- come see how easy they can be to create and put to use and how much better your prints will look.  Join host Joe Brady, X-Rite Coloratti and author on lynda.com of “How to Get Images That Match Your Monitor” in this workshop dedicated to presenting all the steps, ac- cessories and hardware that can make the goal of Perfect Prints Every Time as reality. We’ll cover the entire process from capture to edit to output. You will learn how to get great results when making your own prints and how to send files to the lab for perfect and consistent results. We’ll have a printer available so that you can see the reality of great color prints that match the monitor as closely as possible. End the frustration of lousy prints of your beautiful images- Once you understand the steps, you too can produce beautiful prints every time! Suggested Gear List: *Optional: sample image on USB drive Shaping Wildlife & Bird Portraits to Bring Out Their Full Beauty | Photography Seminar Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A South WEDNESDAY 1 TO 2:30 P.M. Price: $25 | Max No. People: 30 | Difficulty Level: All Levels As both a Landscape and Portrait Photographer, Joe considers animal and bird portraits as the perfect combination of these two passions. Shaping the light and composition of an animal image shares similarities with people portraits but also presents different challenges. What they both share however is the importance of the eyes, their placement in the scene and the need to draw the viewer to the face while inviting them to linger and explore the environment as well. Come join Joe as he leads you into an exploration of what can and should be done in post-processing to give your animal portraits the beauty and impact that they deserve. 9