Joe Brady
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.
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Joe's Seminars & Workshops
The 10 Things in Photoshop that You Need to Know!
WED 11 A.M. - 2:30 P.M.
Photoshop is a powerful program for image editing and enhancing, but because of the breadth of its capabilities, it can become overwhelming in its complexities. In reality, there are really only 10 or so things that every photographer should learn that will take their photos to the next level of beauty and impact.
This class will cover the how and why’s of each of these 10 tools and techniques in a simple to follow way so that everyone can put them to use on their own images. You don’t need to know everything Photoshop can do - these ten will do the most important jobs that Photoshop is best at!
Photography Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A S.
Price: $50
Difficulty Level: All Levels
Max No People: 30
Creating Impact in Landscape, Travel & Wildlife Photography
THU 1 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
Composition, Color and Light all work together to create flow in a photograph. It needs to be clear what we are asking a viewer to look for in our photographs, and if we fail, then the image will be glanced at and then forgotten. Our goal as photographers is to encourage the viewer to look not at, but into our photographs and spend some time to explore and linger in the scene.
While getting the exposure, color and composition right at capture is an important starting point, since our cameras don’t see the way our eyes do, we need to understand how to shape the image, add color and light where needed, and adjust the composition to create an image with impact and direction.
This class will use both Lightroom and Photoshop demonstration specifically designed to help make that happen!
Photography Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A S.
Price: $25
Difficulty Level: All Levels
Max No. of People: 30
Telling the Whole Story with Panoramic Photographs
THU 3 - 4:30 P.M.
Some scenes simply don’t express the feeling of the place with a standard size image. When you encounter a vast landscape and take it all in, there is no way to capture what you saw with an 8x10 print.
This class will explore the techniques, the gear, and the how-to’s of capturing, combining and editing panoramic images. Using both Lightroom and Photoshop, you will understand how to use the software tools and settings to produce the best panoramic images possible.
Photography Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A S.
Price: $25
Difficulty Level: All Levels
Max No People: 30
Shooting Architecture and Landscapes in Historic St. Augustine
THU 6 - 8:00 P.M.
Join Joe Brady in Historic Downtown St. Augustine to discover what to look for when photographing architecture and landscape to create photos with flow and impact.
Field Workshop
Meeting Location: Castillo de San Marcos, 1 S Castillo Dr.
Price: $100
Difficulty Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Max No. of People: 14
Suggested Gear List: A tripod is recommended for slower exposures. We recommend a wide-angle lens and an additional lens capable of close focusing for the details in this beautiful city.
Adobe Lightroom from the Beginning
FRI 10 A.M. - 2:30 P.M.
Adobe Lightroom is for many photographers, the best place to start - and possibly even finish - your image editing and enhancements. There are however some aspects of Lightroom that cause headaches for many, and this is mostly centered around organization and storage of all your digital files. Once you understand how to set up your image organization and learn how to move, copy and export photos within Lightroom, many a headache will be solved.
Since Lightroom is also a great image editor, we will also cover the most basic, common and necessary tools you need to know so that your image editing will become fast, simple and repeatable.
Photography Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A S.
Price: $50
Difficulty Level: All Levels
Max No. of People: 30
Portraits with Available Light
FRI 3:30 - 5:30 P.M.
The light that is naturally occurring in your location can create beautiful portraits, if you learn how to use the light to shape your subject. In this hands-on class we will learn to see and use various types of available light, handheld light shapers and posing techniques to create stunning photos. Everyone will have an opportunity to both photograph and be photographed!
Field Workshop
Meeting Location: Festival Headquarters, 5205 A1A S
Price: $100
Difficulty Level: All Levels - All we ask is that you be willing to try shooting in manual and setting iso, exposure and shutter speed on your camera.
Max No People: 14
Suggested Gear List:
Camera and medium range lens, such as 24-70mm range or equivalent. If you wish to pursue shooting shallow depth of field styles, a lens with an aperture of f2.8 or faster would be great!
A light meter is nice if you want to see how it can improve exposure!
Mastering Adobe Lightroom’s Advanced Capabilities
SAT 10 - 11:30 A.M.
As Adobe Lightroom Classic CC continues to become more powerful, many photographers are finding that most of their image editing can be handled without needing any other programs.
Lightroom’s newest masking panel now makes it much easier to select, isolate and combine masks so that making local adjustments has become incredibly powerful. Once you master these masks and some of the other more advanced tools (such as those found under HSL, Detail, Transform and Effects panels), you will be able to quickly shape your flat, boring raw files into the beautiful images that made you stop and take the picture in the first place!
Photography Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A S.
Price: $25
Difficulty Level: Must have basic understanding of Lightroom
Max No People: 30
Seeing, Capturing and Shaping Composition in Landscape Photography
SAT 1 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
Composition in Landscape Photography is possible the single most important aspect of a successful photograph - perhaps that is why Joe wrote a book specifically about this subject!
This class will explore what makes for great compositions and will cover the tools and techniques in both Lightroom and Photoshop to help your compositions have the flow and direction needed to make them successful photographs. Even when we capture a good composition, limitations in weather, light and location can get in our way, so we will also explore some tools that can help you to create more refined photographs.
Photography Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A S.
Price: $25
Difficulty Level: Must have basic knowledge of Lightroom
Max No. of People: 30
Photographing Horses on the Beach at Sunset
SAT 6:15 - 8:30 P.M.
Join us for a fantastic opportunity to photograph graceful horses and riders running on the beach as the sun sets. Learn the proper settings to capture a moving subject, dealing with the direction and effects of the available light, and finding the best composition to create a stunning image.
Field Workshop
Meeting Location: Frank B. Butler County Park EAST, 5860 A1A South
Price: $100
Difficulty Level: Intermediate to Advanced (The student should be comfortable with their camera and understand how to make shutter, aperture and ISO adjustments and override automatic settings.)
Max No. of People: 14
Gear List: Camera and medium to long lens covering 24-70mm and 70-200mm.
How to Get Prints That Look Like the Image You See on your Monitor: Hands-on Printing Workshop
SUN 10 A.M - 3 P.M.
Join Joe Brady as he covers color workflow from capture, to edit, to print and covers all the techniques, gear and details needed to consistently get great color from your prints. This includes how to prepare files to be sent to a lab for printing, as well as printing on your own inkjet printers. Joe will will have a printer on hand so that we can show the process from beginning to end and create prints during the workshop.
Indoor Photography Workshop
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A South
Price: $75
Difficulty Level: Beginner to Advanced
Max No People: 50
Suggested Gear List: *Optional: sample image on USB drive