9-Week Pro-Level Mentorship.
Focused, Intensive Mentorship For Serious Pros Ready to Level Up.
2 Hours of Weekly Private Video Content • Weekly Coaching Calls • Membership in Our Private, Professional Photographer Community
I’m here to inform, inspire, push, nurture, provoke, and share what I’ve learned in 23+ years as an industry leader. I’m here to to help you grow. And to turbocharge that growth. In's an intensive process, diving deep into technique, unleashing creativity, equipment and lighting, artistic growth, business and marketing, niche and curation, mindset resets and more. his is mentorship, not “coaching,” customized for each photographers unique talents and challenges. All with one specific goal: To put you in fast forward.
Intensive Work Review & Assignments
A deep dive into your work to identify what is holding you back and map out fixes. From the technical, to the artistic, to working with subjects, you'll be given shooting assignments designed to help you refine your work with intention. You'll grow through practice, feedback, re-assignments, persistence practice and accountability as we track your progress week-to-week.
Studio Lighting Plus
From 3-point lighting, to Rembrandt lighting, to cross (split) lighting and much more, we'll deep dive into HOW to create myriad setups, but also into WHEN and WHY to use each setup to help execute your vision. Strobes, continuous lights, umbrellas, and modifiers — demystified. Walk away knowing how to shape, control, and own any studio lighting setup with confidence.
Curation and Niche Population
Locking in and populating your niche, architect your client-magnet positioning, strategic curation and design of your website, social media, and portfolio - refined to attract the right clients and communicate your value instantly. Brand clarity and presentation, social media strategies, and more. This is vital work to help you stand out in an increasingly saturated marketplace.
Mindset Resets
As an professional artist, there will be many obstacles on your path. Those exist everyone, and there are ways to knock them down. But the bigger issue is when there are obstacles that you have constructed yourself. These are the mental blocks and limiting beliefs that keep you stuck. Our work is to demolish these blocks, to give you the calm and confidence needed to ascend
Natural Lighting. Control the Sun.
Discover the secrets to mastering natural light in virtually any condition - including how to overpower and bend it to your vision using supplementary lighting. No more being at the mercy of the environment. From the 6-5-6 rule, to bounce rules to shadow rules, to using HSS to overpower backlight and more, you'll learn to make the natures light your friend and your servant.
Business Practices & Work Flow
Pricing psychology, marketing secrets that make them think they are discovering you, SEO and AlO and indexing strategies. Bidding strategies that get you a yes and the right bidding platforms. Contracts, copyright, releases, licensing, and more. A streamlined workflow from booking to shooting to final delivery including monetizing outsources services. Work smarter, not harder.
Duration: 9 Weeks
Downloads and Zoom Calls
Price: $2,000
Artistic Mastery
Every successful portrait, whether in-studio or on location whether environmental or closeup, tells a story. Through insights into composition, strategic use of location, and internalizing the "four corners" framework, every image you make will become a complete, cohesive visual story - no just a shot. This is about unleashing creativity and finding yo unique artistic voice.
Directing and Working With People.
Master the art of directing and posing any subject. You'll know exactly how to draw out authentic emotion and comfort fro every single person you photograph. You'll learn the "first 3o” method, opposite/mirror energy technique, the "control because" framework, reactive work, and more. All so you ca get the best out of anyone who steps in front of your camera. Every time.
Community and Accountability
I will put you in a private group with other professional photographers where you can share work, success stories, insights and inspirations. All in a supportive and safe space. Not only will you learn from me, but through input from other professionals and through group accountability. As artists, we can look at each other as sources of inspiration not competition.