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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 !
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
- Recognizing your greatest asset.
- Developing your personal vision.
- Promoting yourself as an artist, not a technician.
- Keeping up with the industry trends.
- The basic fundamentals of lighting.
- Breaking the established rules.
- Experimentation is the key to innovation.
- Hands on lighting demonstrations.
- Capturing the image is just the beginning.
- Mastering Photoshop is a necessity.
- Some tricks of the trade.
- Keeping it simple.
- 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.
