Master the Light: How to Create Stunning Portraits

Monday, March 2, 2026 10:00am - 4:30pm

If you want to master how light strikes the face and create any lighting technique or scenario on the planet, this workshop is for you.

Follow Joel as he strips away the complexity, teaching light with such crystal-clear simplicity that even a third-grader could understand. Ditch the lighting ratios, rigid schematics, and clunky flash meters. Instead, tap into your ultimate tool: your intuition.

It turns out, your intuition is what drives you as an artist, and it is your intuition that will forge new ground and separate you from the masses. It is your intuition that will tell you when you are on the right track. It is time you took your portrait lighting to a whole new level

Early Bird Pricing until 1/31/26 $179

Regular Pricing $200

Monday, March 2, 2026 10:00am - 4:30pm

Joel Grimes

Joel graduated from the University of Arizona in 1984 with a BFA in Photography and soon established a commercial studio in Denver, Colorado. Over the past ten years Joel served as one of Canon's exclusive Explorer Of Light photographers and now has been awarded a prestigious Canon Legend. Joel is also a Westcott Top Pro Elite photographer, and Adobe has also designated him as one of their Photoshop Feature Artists.

For over 40 years, Joel's assignments have taken him to every state across the USA and over fifty countries around the globe, working for many of the top advertising agencies and corporations.

In 1990 Joel created his first coffee table book, 'Navajo, Portrait of a Nation' which received several photographic and design awards and produced an eighteen-month solo exhibit at the Smithsonian American History Museum.

Driven by the creative process, Joel views himself as an illusionist, creating portraits larger than life. "There is no face on the planet that is the same, and my vision as an artist is to capture that individual uniqueness through the creative photographic process."

Joel is also an ambassador for this process by teaching workshops and lectures worldwide. "I feel that by being an open book with my process, I have an opportunity to inspire others to follow their dreams and passions to create."

Joel goes back and forth between his photo studio in the Arts District in Los Angeles and his home in Wickenburg, Arizona.

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