Scott Kelby

Scott is an award-winning photographer, designer, and author of more than 100 books, including Photoshop for Lightroom Users; The Landscape Photography Book; Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It; The iPhone Photography Book, The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers; The Flash Book; The Natural Light Portrait Book; The Travel Photography Book; and his landmark book, The Digital Photography Book, which is the #1 top-selling book ever on digital photography. He is the host of The Grid, the influential, live, weekly talk show for photographers; producer of LightroomKillerTips.com; is CEO of the KelbyOne online educational training site; and is founder of the annual Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk.®  Scott is Conference Technical Chair for the annual Photoshop World Conference and a frequent speaker at conferences, trade shows, and workshops around the world. He is featured in a series of online learning courses at KelbyOne.com and has been training photographers and Photoshop users since 1993. 

“The Stuff They Don’t Tell You”

 These are the kind of things photographers talk about one-on-one at the bar after a shoot that they either don’t or won’t share in public. I broach these topics, and I talk about them, in a very plain, straight-to-the-point way, and I think it opens a lot of people’s eyes. I was fortunate enough to do this talk in the UK last year, and photographers would come up afterward and say, “Oh my gosh, why didn’t anybody tell me these things before?” I think it’s because these are often difficult to discuss and not something you often see online, where everyone is focused on settings and gear, yet these things are such an important part of photography. If you’re not learning as an apprentice, you might never learn these things. I try to uncover those topics in an honest, straightforward way, telling people the often unspoken things that will actually move them forward in their photography without having to do it the hard way, without struggling along for years, or having to pay their dues before they can create great images