STRETCHING YOUR FRAME OF MIND
ONLINE WORKSHOP

START DATE AND COST

This workshop costs $199. Classes begin:

January 10, 2011
February 7, 2011

To sign up, please contact us at sold@lesliev.com or 512-636-7373.

If you've been looking through your viewfinder lately, and find yourself seeing things as usual, then this course is for you.

At some point in our lives, we can all use a little inspiration. A push on the old caboose, if you know what we mean; someone to help you look at things differently. In this four week class, Joe will help you rediscover the energy you may have lost. You'll become more productive while on assignment, on vacation, or just in your own back yard. Finally, you'll be learning how to explore the creative process while getting better at what you love doing.

In the next four weeks, Joe will help advanced amateurs and working professionals learn new tools in the ongoing process of becoming better photographers. He can't give you the 'eye', you already have that. What Joe can do is to help develop your 'eye' by showing you how to incorporate the important elements of design into your imagery. Some of these you might already know, but some of these are perhaps a little more obscure, but equally important.

SUBJECTS COVERED

Making a photograph rather than taking one.
Mastering negative space and learning to incorporate it into your imagery.
You'll learn to incorporate point, plane, and line, the three elements of vanishing point.
How to control perspective and use it as a tool to create third dimension.
Ways to incorporate Tension into your photography.
How to really use light to express an idea.
Using color as a stimulant for our eyes and tying the elements of a photograph together.
Knowing where the sun and the shadows will be 24/7/365 antwhere in the world.
Using texture, pattern, form, and line, the four basic elements of design.

ASSIGNMENTS & CRITIQUES

This is an four-week online class and includes lessons and assignments uploaded each week followed by Q&A. Your photos will be critiqued by the instructor in a very professional and encouraging way, and the critiques will be viewable to all students. Have no fear, there will be NO “smackdowns” ! These critiques are the real power behind this class, having an A-list photographer teach you and form your photographic eye to see as he does.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR

After receiving his BA in Journalism, Joe ventured out into the freelance world and never looked back. For the past forty years, Joe has shot for clients from Coca Cola to Hennessy, Cessna to IBM. He has photographed the full line car brochures for Acura, Saturn, and Range Rover, not to mention campaigns for Jaguar, Ford, and Toyota. The tourism departments for Alberta Canada, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Texas have contacted Joe for their state campaigns. Editorial clients such as National Geographic, Life, Texas Monthly, Time, Geo, and the New York Times magazine have used Joe for several assignments.

His honors include two gold medals in the New York Art director’s show. Gold medals in the national Addy’s, Photo Design, Studio Magazine’s premier award, and the Don Belding award in Los Angeles. He is in Texas Monthly’s 100 best photographs, and has been on Adweek’s Southwestern All star Team. Several of his photographs were selected to be in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

Joe has had feature articles written about him in Communication Arts Magazine (plus the cover), Photo Design (plus the cover), Design, Japan’s premier magazine (plus the cover) and Studio Magazine. Joe’s work has appeared in Communication Arts, Graphis, and The Mead Annual Report show. He was also invited to judge the prestigious Communication Art’s Photography Annual.

Joe is currently a member of Fuji’s Talent Team, giving seminars at national trade shows. His work can be viewed at www.JoeBaraban.com, and www.JoeShoots.com.

For more information or to sign up, contact us at 512-636-7373 or rep@kevinv.com

WORKSHOPS

TESTIMONIALS:

Photographers Rehab is amazing. I learned more on the first day than all I had known before coming to this workshop.

-Camdon Littleton