Keynote Speakers


Don Komarechka

Exploring The Macro Universe

Photographers often travel to distant landscapes or push themselves to physical extremes to capture unseen beauty in nature. Taking a closer look into our own backyards can reveal a similar sense of natural wonder. From the detailed structure of pollen to the intricate geometry of snowflakes, there is an astonishing world worth photographing right at your feet. Refracted images in water droplets turn simple ingredients into surreal compositions, but the best images come with unique challenges.



Andrew Collett

Crafting the Fine Art Photograph

Fine art photography is a marriage of technical mastery and creative vision. Both are essential to creating photographic works of art, however, rarely do these "works of art" happen by accident.   Let professional nature photographer and fine art print maker Andrew Collett give you a behind the scenes look at how he crafts many of his best selling fine art photographs.  From composition and field techniques to his complete digital workflow, Andrew will be demonstrating what it takes to "craft a fine art photograph".

Program Tutorials

Morning Tutorials

Afternoon Tutorials

Smoke Photography

How to do this amazing type of image creation. Live demonstration as well as a step by step description on the process.

Composition & Perspectives

Learn the rules as well as a full discussion on all types of lines and space. How to create and deal with perspective. Some post processing.

Blurb Photo- Book Workshop

This workshop will show you differences in papers/ formats provided by Blurb. Pros and cons in how to use your images.Help you start a book.

Light Room 5 Level 2 Workflow

Using the latest software instruction of workflow improvements and how this effects your final output.

Human Form Photography

Learn the basic techniques on shooting a model in artistic different positions and then a live shoot right after.

Luminosity Masking

Learn the new techniques that your Photoshop CS versions have in making your post processing of images even more stunning than they were before.

External Flash Techniques

Exploring the full range of techniques available with TTL, wireless, multiple flash units. How to blend flash lighting with natural light sources.

Street Photography

A review of what is "Street Photography" followed by a "How to see" session. Included will be an actual video and the results of what you were taught.

Magic with Manual Settings

Learn to use these setting to the max. Creativity, shooting night skies, and working in difficult settings.

Natural and Continuous Light Portraits "Finding the Light"

Learn the techniques and then put them into practice. Live model shooting. Over the course of the presentation it will be explained how to use available light with a few modifiers to the photographers’ advantage when shooting portraits and weddings.