IE On TWITTER ! | Photography Workshops Image Explorations

Yes we are folks !

Image Explorations is finally on TWITTER !!!!!!!!

Come and Follow us and keep up with all the NEWS at Image Explorations !!!!


Twitter handle:   @IExplorations 

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2014 INSTRUCTORS | Photography Workshops Image Explorations

Here are the Image Explorations 2014 Instructors and Classes !

Bios and Class Descriptions coming shortly !


4 Day Long Classes


Photography Classes


1. Cris Duncan  - The Complete Photographer

2. Joel Grimes - Commercial Photography
                           Taking Your Creative Vision To The Next Level

3. Kay Eskridge - Boudoir Photography 
                              Bold and Beautiful Photography

4. Clark and Rachel Marten  - Portraiture and Marketing

5. Storey Wilkins  - Wedding Storytelling and Marketing

Video and Photoshop Classes

1. Suzette Allen - Hybrid Video Photography and Photoshop



Advanced Classes

1. Carl Caylor - Advanced Portraiture

2. Thom Rouse - Photoshop Creative



2 Day Long Classes 



Business Classes

1. Ann Monteith - The Business of Photography

2. Corwin Hiebert - Marketing Mix


Photography Courses

1. Craig Minielly - Workflow and Glamour Lighting Photography

2. Jane Conner Ziser - Advanced Painter and Photoshop

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BRANDING YOUR BUSINESS COURSE | Photography Workshops Image Explorations

This year at IE 2014 we are so excited to announce an amazing BONUS PROGRAM for all students at the school.


We are please to announce that David Trust (CEO of Professional Photographers of America) will be presenting a bonus program for us all and a Special Workshop on Sunday Afternoon.
   




On MONDAY night, David Trust will presenting a lecture BRANDING in Business. This will be a jam packed presentation with a practical application at the end for students. 



SUNDAY Mid-day David Trust will be giving a special workshop on Leadership Development. So if you desire to have staff under you in your business in the near future, then this workshop if is for you. 

Please contact Don and Carol MacGregor directly on the Workshop Fee and details for Sunday Afternoon. 

email: don@macgregorstudios.com 

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IE TUITION & LODGING | Photography Workshops Image Explorations

For 4.5 Days at Image Explorations, you get all of the following things: 


1. Choice of ONE or TWO Instructors for 4.5 days !

2. Tuition for your Class(es)

3. Lodging and 3 meals a day (professionally catered)

4. Amazing Bonus Programs on top of your Classes

5. Full Access to all instructors during your stay at IE !




IE Tuition and Lodging is as follows. 


Tuition   = $750

Lodging = $450

Total Cost for 4.5 Days of Intensive Learning :  $1200


***This is a mere $300.00 a day for your 4.5 day investment !

This literally is pennies compared to other workshops where you only get a message. 

At IE, not only do you get Class Lectures, you also get Class Instruction from your Instructor with real time Hands on help.



Don't Wait. 

Register Now for your Class or Classes before they fill up. 






2014 REGISTRATION OPENS FEBRUARY 1st, 2014

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NEW WEBSITE COMING ! | Photography Workshops Image Explorations

In case you are wondering, the Image Explorations Website is down and under construction. 

Yes we are getting a brand spanking NEW LOOK to our website. 

And we so can't wait to share it all with you. 


So in the mean time just keep checking in here on our blog to get the "skinny" on all details and NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS !

And don't forget to subscribe to our Blog so you get all the NEWS right HOT off the PRESS !


Rockie 

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IE 2014 Dates | Photography Workshops Image Explorations

                    Image By Andreas Feininger.                

In Case you missed the Announcement .... the NEW DATES FOR Image Explorations 2014 are ...

JULY 27th to 31st, 2014 

So start booking it off on your calendar and start saving up 
airmiles and saving $100 a month away for this. 
It will be so worth it. 

We have a few NEW INSTRUCTORS COMING for 2014 and some New mini workshops that you won't want to miss out on !



See you all soon and keep checking back for more details and information. 

Infact, just subscribe so you get the NEWS HOT OFF THE 
PRESS !


Rockie

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Photography For Profit | Photography School Image Explorations

How many of you want to make good profit from your photography business ?

How many of you want to "increase" your profits in your photography business for the following year ?

Of course you do  right ? !

Well meet Cris and Deanna Duncan, instructors this years Image Explorations 2.0 !

If you don't know anything about who they are, then just click on the video below and watch.
Both Cris and Deanna have designed a course that will help you move into better profit with your business.

For more information on Cris and Deanna and their course on "Photography for Profit",
check out the Image Explorations website. 

See you all soon !


Rockie

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Joel Grimes 2013 Instructor | Photography School Image Explorations

This announcement has been one that has been long in the making. And one I am so excited about.
I started following this photographer 5 years ago and since that time dreamed about having him join us at Image Explorations on our instructors team.

After almost having him join us in our 2012 Season, I am finally pleased to announce that Commercial Photographer JOEL GRIMES is our 2013 Image Explorations Instructor. 

If you are not familiar with who Joel Grimes is then read and on and find out just how much fun and how unique your learning experience is going to be with Joel for 4 DAYS  Straight !

BIO OF JOEL GRIMES

In 1984 Joel graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Photography and soon established a commercial studio working out of Denver Colorado. 

For over 27 years Joel has worked for many of the top advertising agencies and corporations across the globe for clients such as AARP, AES, Abbott Labs, Archer Daniels Midland, Arizona Office of Tourism,  AT&T, Broncos, Comcast, Febreze, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett Packard, Hyatt, Kodak, Nikon, Pentax, Phillips 66, Philip Morris, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, Qwest, Sony, Sturm Ruger & Co, United Global, USA Boxing, Visa, Volvo, Xcel Energy, and most recently Red Bull.   Over the years his assignments have taken him to every state across the USA and to over fifty countries around the globe.

In 1990 Joel produced his first coffee table book, ‘Navajo, Portrait of a Nation’ which received a number of photographic and design awards and produce an eighteen-month solo exhibit at the Smithsonian American History museum.

Driven by the creative process, Joel views himself as an illusionist, creating portraits larger than life. “There is no face on the planet that is the same, and my vision as an artist is to capture that individual uniqueness through the creative photographic process.”

Joel is also an ambassador for this process by teaching workshops and lectures across the country.  “I feel that by being an open book with my process I have an opportunity to inspire others to follow their dreams and passions to create”. 

Joel currently has a photo studio located in Old Town Pasadena California where he resides with his wife Amy.  

Course Title:  Taking your creative vision to the next level

Description: This class is a must for those who what to take the mystery out of using strobe lighting and learn to become a creative force and THINK LIKE AN ARTIST.

Throw out those lighting diagrams, those annoying lighting ratios and sell your flash-meter on eBay. Well, that may be a bit drastic, but think about this; a technical instrument can never make a creative artistic decision, this is reserved for the human mind.  

Over this course I will be covering how to use all sorts of modifiers such as soft boxes, the beauty dish, octagon banks, umbrellas, grids, etc., while working from an intuitive, feeling approach.  This is without question the key to the whole creative process.  You will be presented with ways on how to develop your personal creative vision that is unique to you.

And not to be overlooked, I will be covering my Photoshop techniques used in my photographs, including the HDR techniques used for all my backgrounds.  I hold back nothing in revealing my photographic process. 

Workshop Outline

Taking your creative vision to the next level

1. Recognizing your greatest asset.
2. Developing your personal vision.
3. Promoting yourself as an artist, not a technician.
4. Keeping up with the industry trends.
5. The basic fundamentals of lighting.
6. Breaking the established rules.
7. Experimentation is the key to innovation.
8. Hands on lighting demonstrations.
9. Capturing the image is just the beginning.
10. Mastering Photoshop is a necessity.
11. Some tricks of the trade.
12. Keeping it simple.
13. Marketing - Competing in todays marketplace.

4 things that you will learn on top of photography 

skills, that you will be absolutely taking away with you.

1)  You are unique one of a kind and there is no one on the planet just like you.  

2) To rock the world you have to think like an artist and focus on the creative process not just techniques.  

3) Lighting really easy if you know the basics on how light and modifiers work and have a sense on where you want to end up.  

4)  In life, rejection is a 100% guarantee, but it doesn't have to derail you from following you passion and dreams.

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