Instructors

John has been a professional photographer serving the central Indiana market for over 20 years. He has a broad range of experience in both consumer and commercial photography. In addition, John has served as an adjunct instructor at Ivy Tech Community College in the Visual Communications Department where he has instructed students in visual design, Photoshop and photography. As a commercial photographer his current focus is on architectural photography and business portraits. He was the commissioned photographer for both Lucas Oil Stadium and the Indianapolis International Airport. His portfolio can be viewed at www.mediawright.com.

Mindy McCain trained as an art teacher and spent 10 years as a fiber artist traveling the art fair circuit showing her handwoven one-of-a-kind artwear and limited production clothing.  Following this, she studied graphic design and has continued to work in the advertising/marketing arena for the last 20 years. For 18 years she worked as a designer and technical manager at Miller Brooks, an Indianapolis based advertising agency. As the technical manager at Miller Brooks, Mindy trained the staff designers in the new features of all Adobe software for each new version of the creative suite. She also setup mini-classes for particular features of InDesign for groups and one-on-one training. Mindy has been an adjunct instructor at Herron School of Art, and also writes documentation for and trains users in the use of content management systems for web sites. She is highly skilled in Adobe  software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash) and in  HTML, CSS and content management systems for web production.
 

With a degree in graphic art from Ray-Vogue Design School in Chicago, Emily has worked in the photography industry for 24 years, starting as a traditional retoucher and art/production manager for a local Master Studio.  As part of Fuji’s Professional Team she has taught digital workflow software management and retouching seminars on the PPA convention circuit.  For the past thirteen years she has managed her own studio in Indianapolis providing retouching, printing and photo-restoration services to the photographic industry.  As writer, poet, photographer, and digital artist she enjoys teaching private workshops and sponsored classes across the US and in Canada, NewZealand, Japan, France and Ireland.  Experience her enthusiasm for teaching while learning skills to improve your portraits!

Troy currently serves as an adjunct professor with Butler University, where he teaches News Photography, Troy has been a professional photographer since 1987. He graduated in 1986 with a bachelors degree in (Photo) Journalism from Ball State University, where he had the privilege of being instructed by NPPA Founder Joseph Costa. After graduation, Troy was a staff photographer for three of Indiana's award winning daily newspapers (Lebanon, Greenfield and Goshen.) His work as a news photographer has been recognized by booth UPI of Indiana and the Hoosier State Press Association. Troy began his wedding photography business 15 years ago, and quickly became one of the most well known Documentary-Style Wedding Photographers in Central Indiana. Troy uses Lightroom and Photoshop on a daily basis in his business.

Jim has a broad range of experience he brings to MediaWright Workshops. Probably his most famous co-worker would be Jim Davis the creator of Garfield the Cat. During his tenure at Paws, Inc. Jim did a variety of product design projects including posters, t-shirts, books, calendars, roller skates, figurines etc.  About anywhere you can put an arrogant cat, Jim had a hand in it. After leaving that loveable feline, he went to Thompson Consumer Electronics to work as a traffic manager. Then, he was stolen away by a little start-up called RealMed. Not so little anymore. At RealMed he created the user interface for their website and became their one-man art department. He designed all types of sales-support materials including sell-sheets, postcards, brochures, custom folders, trade show banners and displays. He also created a large number of informational graphics for use in presentations and reports. Jim is currently freelancing out of his office in Muncie, IN. using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign on a daily basis.