Rick Sammon, a Canon Explorer of Light, has published 36 paper books, including Secrets of HDR Photography, Exploring the Light, and Digital Photography Secrets. 
Rick also has four apps on the iTunes store:
• Rick Sammon’s 24/7 Photo Buffet for – an e-book that offers 24/7 access to Rick’s best photo tips, tricks and techniques. iPhone and iPad versions available.
• Rick Sammon’s Social Media Marketing for Photographers, a series of Quick Time movies that features Rick’s tips on Social Media.  iPhone and iPad versions available.
• Rick Sammon’s Life Lessons We Can Learn From Mother Nature, a collection of Rick’s favorite wildlife photographs accompanied by inspirational quotes. Mini-lessons on wildlife photography are also included, as well as quick Photoshop tips. iPad  version only.
• Rick Sammon’s Butterfly Wonders, a beautiful collection of Rick’s favorite butterfly photographs accompanied with information on each animal by butterfly expert Alan Chin Lee. A comprehensive course on close-up photograph is also included.
Rick’s book, Flying Flowers won the coveted Golden Light Award, and his book Hide and See Under the Sea won the Ben Franklin Award.
Rick, who has photographed in almost 100 countries around the world, gives more than two-dozen photography workshops (including private workshops) and presentations around the world each year. 
Rick co-founded the Digital Photography Experience (www.dpexperience.com) with Juan Pons. DPE is on-line digital photography learning center that offers podcasts and articles – and more!
Rick also hosts several shows on kelbytraining.com.   
Rick, who has been nominated for the Photoshop Hall of Fame, is considered one of today’s top digital -imaging experts, cutting through lots of Photoshop “speak,” making it fun, easy and rewarding to work and play in the digital darkroom.
When asked about his photo specialty, Rick says, “My specialty is not specializing.”

See www.ricksammon.com and www.dpexperience.com for more information.

Jim DiVitale has been an Atlanta commercial advertising photographer and instructor for more than 25 years. Going completely digital capture in 1992, his award winning digital photography has been featured in several industry magazines.
Jim has lectured before audiences at Photoshopworld, Seybold, Photo Plus Expo, Imaging USA, MAC Design, HOW Design, Orvieto Fotographia, Photo Fusion, APA, ASMP, WPPI, and World Council of Professional Photographers. He has made presentations to students and faculty at art schools nationwide, including Brooks Institute, San Francisco’s Academy of Art, and The Portfolio Center. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Photographers and a Canon “Explorer of Light.” Jim has authored several Adobe Photoshop training CD’s with Software Cinema. As a member of National Association of Photoshop Professionals Instructor Dream Team since 2000, Jim writes the “Digital Capture Workshop” that goes out to over 100 countries, and is a three-time nominee to the Adobe Photoshop Hall of Fame.
www.divitalephotography.com

Hanson Fong of San Francisco, California, is globally recognized as one of the premier photographers in the industry today. With over 30 years of experience, Hanson has earned the photographic degree of Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman. He is also a member of the prestigious and world-renowned Society of XXV and Canon’s Explorers of Light.

Hanson’s photographic experience and educational credentials are unsurpassed. As an award-winning wedding photographer and instructor, Hanson is on the cutting edge of photography. His work sets the standard for wedding photography around the world.
Hanson has lectured at every major school of photography across America and has been invited to speak at various national and international conventions.

Jennifer Wu, a professional photographer since 1992, is a nature, landscape and night photographer. She received a BA in Photography from California State University, Sacramento, where she previously taught photography courses. Jennifer was named by Canon USA to the elite group photographers, The Explorers of Light. A group comprised of the top professional photographers in the country.

Her images, featured in numerous magazines and books, have won a wide variety of prestigious awards. Whenever she is not on nature expeditions at some of the most beautiful locations in the world, she exhibits her images at nationally recognized galleries and art shows. She teaches photography workshops and courses for Sierra Club, Light Photographic Workshops, BetterPhoto, Canon U.S.A., and aFilm International Film Workshops Barcelona, Spain.

See www.jenniferwu.com for more information about Jennifer’s work.

Hal Schmitt is the Director and Lead Instructor of LIGHT Photographic Workshops in Los Osos, California. Although new to the industry, Hal instructs all levels of photography, Lightroom, and Photoshop as if he’s been shooting for decades. His workshops and photo tours are recognized around the world as incredible learning experiences.

As Director of the Lepp Institute, Hal was fortunate to train with photography and Photoshop’s best and brightest and is now an expert in all aspects of the digital workflow. Although the subject matter is a little slower and safer, Hal teaches his digital courses using the same techniques he mastered at TOPGUN. Polished and confident but down to earth and approachable, Hal delivers an incredible workshop experience. Hal’s teaching style delivers results. He believes in teaching the theory and basics of everything necessary in the digital workflow. More importantly, he takes the mystery and technical complexity out of a subject allowing access to the how. With a strong foundation, it is amazing how quickly you can learn and improve.

Juan A. Pons was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and has held a passionate interest in photography since high school. As a nature and wildlife photographer, he is a strong supporter of wildlife and natural habitat conservation and is a member of several conservation organizations.

Although much of his photography is focused on native wildlife in North Carolina, Juan and his family also travel frequently to other regions of interest, such as Yellowstone National Park, Puerto Rico, New England, and the Southwestern states. Juan never ceases to be amazed by the natural subjects he photographs and hopes that sharing his photographs will inspire others to appreciate and respect natural life. Juan shares his tips and experiences about wildlife photography on his website WildNaturePhoto.com.

Juan’s work has been featured in numerous publications, including Sierra Magazine, Nature Conservancy, Audubon Magazine, Wildlife in North Carolina, and others.

Together with Rick Sammon, Juan co-founded the Digital Photography Experience dpexperience.com, an online digital photography learning center. He also co-hosts the bi-monthly Digital Photography Experience podcast (http://bit.ly/DPEPodcast).

Tim Grey is regarded as one of the top educators in digital photography and imaging, offering clear guidance on complex subjects through his writing and speaking. He has written more than a dozen books on digital imaging for photographers, including the best-selling Real World Digital Photography, Photoshop CS4 Workflow and Color Confidence. He has also had hundreds of articles published in magazines such as Digital Photo Pro, Outdoor Photographer, and American Photo, among others. He publishes the Ask Tim Grey email newsletter, as well as the Digital Darkroom Quarterly print newsletter. Tim teaches through workshops, seminars, and appearances at major events.

David began working for Playboy magazine in the fall of 1979, soon after becoming a staff photographer, moving to Chicago. In 1987, he would take a title change to Contributing Photographer where he would continue with Playboy until 2002. During this period he would begin to expand on his photography style to include fashion, beauty, and celebrity work for various editorial and advertising assignments worldwide.

Called upon to shoot Petersen Publishing’s Sport magazine swimsuit issue four successive years, the final year would culminate with it being broadcast on ESPN, ESPN-2, and PRIME TICKET, where he would serve both as narrator & host. Not long after, he would be thrown into an acting stint in a made-for-TV movie titled Posing, aired on CBS, when, while working as a technical advisor, the director tapped David to play the fictional Playboy photographer instead of their actor. From 2000–2003, David was co-host and photographer on Playboy TV’s, Sexy Girls Next Door.

In 2001, David founded, David Mecey’s FotoFantasyCamp®, www.fotofantasycamp.com, a workshop that has grown to become one of the premier photographic workshops in the world. Featured in American PHOTO, David brings a select number of photographers together to a fantastic location for three days of intensive training in his style of lighting, posing, rapport with models, literally everything that makes up professional-level photography.

 

Jack Davis is best known as the coauthor of the award-winning and best-selling guides to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book, and How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography – as well as being an award-winning designer, photographer, and contributing editor to numerous other books and magazines on digital tools and the creative process.

For over 20 years, Jack has also been an internationally recognized spokesperson on digital imagery, and has given keynote address’ at conferences and universities throughout the US, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, Brazil, Europe and Australia as well as leading countless hands-on workshops around the US and abroad. Jack routinely teaches as part of the “Dream Team” at the National Association of Photoshop Professional’s Photoshop World Conferences, where he was recently inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame for his life time contributions in the field of educations and digital imagery.

Jack has undergraduate degrees in Graphic Design and an MA and MFA in Digital Imagery, and when he’s not in his studio in San Diego, he’s usually on the beach somewhere in Polynesia with his digital camera and analog paints capturing the local color.

Jane is a photographer, media artist, independent consultant and teacher for the professional photography industry. With over 25 years of experience, 19 of them in digital imaging and evolving technologies, the techniques Jane developed for facial retouching and enhancement and portrait painting are widely emulated by photographers and digital artists worldwide through her classes and educational products.
She participated in Canon’s Explorers of Light PrintMaster program, is an Adobe Photoshop expert, a Corel PaintMaster and a Craftsman Photographer of the Professional Photographers of America. In addition, she is past co-chair for the Digital and Advanced Imaging Committee for the Professional Photographers of America.
Jane worked with the Dicomed team in creating the first ever retouching station for bulk portrait retouching and presented the first industry program on “Electronic Retouching for the Portrait Wedding Industry”. She consulted with the Burrell Professional Labs to open their Rainbow Digital Imaging Center, the first major imaging center providing service to the corporation’s ten national labs.

http://www.janeconner-ziser.com/janecz/Welcome.html

Helene Glassman is an award winning photographer/businesswoman in Santa Barbara, California. Her company, Imagery Photography, has been a well-respected and successful portrait-event and fine art photography studio in Southern California for over 25 years.
Educated in music and art at the University of Memphis, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, as well as a Master degree in Communications. Her creative juices have been rounded out with a Bachelor of Science in Photography at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, and Photographic Craftsman degrees awarded by Professional Photographers of America. Helene is a PPA Certified Professional Photographer and is on the board of governors of The American Society of Photographers.
Helene has presented programs on creative photography and marketing at schools and conferences across North America and Europe and is a member of the NAPP Photoshopworld Instructor Dream Team.

Rob Sheppard has had a long-time and nationally recognized commitment to helping photographers connect with digital imaging technology. He was one of the small group of people who started PCPhoto magazine nearly eight years ago to bring the digital world to photographers on their terms. He is the editor of PCPhoto as well as Outdoor Photographer magazines (second only to Popular Photography in circulation), group editorial director of all Werner Publication photo magazines (PCPhoto, Outdoor Photographer and Digital Photo Pro) and is the author/photographer of over a dozen photo books, including Adobe Camera Raw for Digital Photographers Only, and the PCPhoto Digital SLR Handbook.

He also writes a column in Outdoor Photographer called Digital Horizons and teaches around the country, including workshops for the Palm Beach Photographic Center, Santa Fe Photography and Digital Workshops, Digital Landscape Workshop Series and the Great American Photography Workshop group.

His photography has been published in many magazines, ranging from National Geographic to The Farmer to, of course, Outdoor Photographer and PCPhoto.

www.robsheppardphoto.com

David H. Wells is a freelance photographer focusing on in-depth photo-essays for publication and exhibition. Between 1986 and 1996 he produced 16 photo-essays for the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine. His photos have also been published in Aramco World, Chicago Tribune, Geo Magazine, Life Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, and U.S. News and World Report among other publications.

In 1988, Wells received the Nikon/N.P.P.A. Documentary Sabbatical Grant. In 1989, he received a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for his photo-essay on the pesticide poisoning of California farm-workers.
Wells’ photographs have been shown in over forty exhibitions. His work has been featured in one-person exhibits at the University of Rhode Island, London’s Gallery Ezra, the Centro Colombo-Americano of Medellin, Columbia, Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard University. His work has been included in group exhibits at the National Center for Photography as an Art Form in Bombay, Houston FotoFest, Perpignan, France’s Photojournalism Festival, and the Museo Bardini of Florence, Italy. His work is in collections across America and overseas.
A selection of David’s work can be viewed at: http://davidhwells.com/