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.
Joe's Seminars & Workshops
What’s New in Photoshop - New Tools, Techniques and Capabilities to Improve Your Photos
WED 10 - 11:30 A.M.
Classroom Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A S
Ticket Price: $25
Difficulty Level: Beginner to Advanced
Max No. of People: 30
Photoshop has added new tools and increased the options for some of the old standards. Add in Generative Fill, easy subject, sky and background selection and combine it with masking and blending techniques for some powerful, useful and fun image transformations!
Photographing Horses on the Beach at Sunset (Co-Leader: Diane Bollen)
WED 6:15 - 8:30 P.M.
Field Workshop
Meeting Location: Frank B. Butler County Park EAST, 5860 A1A South
Ticket 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: 10
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.
Suggested Gear List: Camera and medium to long lens covering 24-70mm and 70-200mm.
Hands On Printing Workshop - Getting Prints that Look Like the Image on Your Monitor - from your Lab and Your Desktop Inkjet Printer
THURS 10 A.M - 1 P.M.
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A South
Ticket Price: $75
Difficulty Level: Beginner to Advanced
Max No People: 50
Suggested Gear List: *Optional: sample image on USB drive
This class will take you through the world of digital color workflow, with the end results being consistently great prints with accurate colors! It won’t matter if you are printing on your own inkjet printer or sending your images out to a lab. We will cover color from capture, to edit, to output, including monitor calibration, color proofing in both Lightroom and Photoshop, and how to export and print your images.
No more disappoints prints with dark and/or bad color - just consistently great results!
Suggested Gear List: *Optional: sample image on USB drive
Lightroom Editing from the Beginning - Simple Adjustments with Big Results
FRI 10 - 11:30 A.M.
Photography Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A South
Difficulty Level: Must have basic understanding of Lightroom
Max No People: 30
For those who are somewhat new to Lightroom, this class will focus on the basic edits that though simple, have huge impact on your photos. We’ll learn how to judge and adjust exposure, fix color and light and make some basic selections to make easy yet powerful adjustments to images that transform them into great photographs!
Amazing Transformations to Your Photos - Painting with Light and Color in Lightroom
FRI 3 - 4:30 P.M.
Photography Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A S.
Ticket Price: $25
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Max No. of People: 30
Adding light and color is one of the most fundamental and most powerful edits we can make to our photos, but it often is ignored! When we used to print in the darkroom, burning and dodging was a basic operation, and now with our software, we can burn and dodge with both color and light. During this class, we will focus on techniques in both Lightroom and Photoshop that will completely transform your photos and help guide the viewer right to the subject.
Using AI Tools in Your Photography - When is it useful, when is it appropriate?
SAT 10 - 11:30 A.M.
Photography Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A S.
Ticket Price: $25
Difficulty Level: All Levels
Max No People: 30
The past year has been filled with news about AI and the threat to photography, but how much of that is hype, and how can we photographers put more of the newest tools to use in our own photography. Whether we create a completely new background using tools like MidJourney, or simply use Photoshop’s new Generative fill to expand a canvas or remove a distraction, there are some great capabilities we can take advantage to create our art!
Lightroom Organization - Starting Over or Starting from the Beginning - Making your images easy to find, easy to move and easy to print
SAT 3 - 4:30 P.M.
Photography Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A S.
Ticket Price: $25
Difficulty Level: All Levels
Max No. of People: 30
As easy to use as Lightroom can be, the part of the software that gives people the most headaches is keeping image organization under control. Learn how to set up your image storage so that you can always find your images, understand how to use Catalogs and Collections and learn how to bring in, move and re-link images when they are on another drive. Once this is under control, you can concentrate on the fun part of bringing out the full beauty of your photos!
The Ten Things You Need to Know in Photoshop
SUN 10 A.M. - 1 P.M.
Photography Seminar
Meeting Location: Celebration Hall at St. Anastasia, 5205 A1A S.
Ticket Price: $50
Difficulty Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Max No People: 30
You don’t need to know everything Photoshop can do to make it a powerful partner for your image editing! Join host Joe Brady as he demonstrates the ten tools and techniques that every photographer should know, to really take advantage of the powerful tools unique to Photoshop.
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