Owner and Lead Instructor
Future Light Digital Workshops are primarily taught by Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop Brad Polt-Jones, MFA. He has more than 20 years experience as a pro photographer and 10 years as a digital media artist. In addition to developing the Future Light workshops, Brad continues to teach digital photography classes for UCLA Extension and San Francisco City College.
"My philosophy is simple; I am passionate about the future of art and photography and want to bring the power and elegance of a new generation of tools to a wider audience. Digital photography allows everyone to participate in the image making process with an unprecedented ease of use and with total control."
- Brad Polt-Jones
Uwe is recognized as one of the leading photography workflow experts. He is not only a master of digital workflow tools, but has also influenced many well known products. Uwe has published numerous books in German (twice winning the German “Photobuch Preis”/Photobook Prize) and English. For Uwe the photographic result is paramount and the technical aspects are only the means to get there. This means Uwe does not teach what tools can do, but instead how they help you express your own vision.
Uwe works with his wife Bettina as a photographic team, with Bettina focusing on artistic expression, and Uwe handling both the art and the digital workflow. Together they produce Digital Outback Photo (www.outbackphoto.com) which is one of the premier digital fine art websites in the world (6 million visitors per year).
What's Uwe Teaching?
Mastering HDR Challenges • 05/2/2009 - 05/3/2009
Ben Long is a freelance writer, photographer, and videographer based in San Francisco. A long time contributor to a number of computer magazines, his hundreds of reviews, how-to’s and essays on graphics, video, 3D, and photography have appeared in MacWeek, MacUser, MacWorld, MacWorld UK, eMediaWeekly, Computer Graphics World, 3D Artist, Maximum PC and more. Currently, in addition to being a regular contributor to Macworld magazine, he is a senior editor for CreativePro.com where he writes “Framed and Exposed” a regular digital photography column.
He is the author of many books on digital photography including Complete Digital Photography (now in its third edition), Getting Started with Camera Raw, the Apple Pro Training Manual for Aperture, and the forthcoming Real World Aperture. He has taught photography classes around the world, and is a regular speaker at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco and Mac Expo London. He runs the web site completedigitalphotography.com, where you can read articles, follow along with how-to’s, and download free software.
What's Ben Teaching?
Joseph is a cinematographer and interactive media producer based in San Francisco. Since completing his master's degree, he has worked on a wide array of independent films and commercial productions, honing his unique visual style. Joseph also runs www.cinestudio.info, a cinematography consulting service, and is Creative Director for the SF Media Collective.
What's Joe Teaching?
