Studio Lighting Essentials is everything you need to get started in the world of Studio Lighting for portrait photography. Mark is known for his easy-to-understand teaching style and ability to take concepts and put them into practical use. This class is packed with content.

Topics include:

- Direction of light

- Understanding shadows

- Properties of light

- Equipment Essentials

- Light modifiers, grip, and expendables

- Understanding the 3-light setup

- Metering techniques

- Color theory and setting your white balance

- Studio Lighting setups

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

- Beginner to Intermediate portrait photographers

- Photographers with little or no studio lighting experience

- Anyone wanting to know more before buying studio lighting gear

- Photographers who wish to understand studio lighting principles and build a solid foundation

SOFTWARE USED:

- Adobe Photoshop CC 2021
- Adobe Lightroom Classic 2021
- Nik Silver Efex Pro 2

Establishing yourself as a professional illustrator or designer requires a lot of dedication to building skill, brand and visibility. Equally important, yet often underestimated, is the development of client interaction skills. Working with clients takes practice! It’s not easy and it’s not always intuitive. Knowing how to communicate with clients clearly and effectively is a skill that will ultimately set you apart as a professional illustrator.

Fine artist, illustrator and author Lisa Congdon has worked with over 75 clients around the world, including MoMA, REI Co-op, Harvard University, Martha Stewart Living, Chronicle Books, and Random House Publishing, among many others. In this class she will share the knowledge she has acquired during her successful career, highlighting time-proven strategies for working effectively with clients. She will also discuss common mistakes to avoid when dealing with clients.

Lisa will teach you the skills you need to enter into client relationships with clarity and confidence.

In this class you will learn:

- How to communicate effectively and professionally with potential clients.

- What questions to ask when being approached by a potential client

- What to look for in a creative brief

- How to consider phases and deliverables of a project

- How to consider fee negotiation.

- How to read through a contract.

- How to address change of project scope with a client.

- And so much more...

If you're new to the idea of using your mobile device for serious work, join us for an introduction to the potential of mobile cameras. No matter your skill level, you'll discover new perspectives on how to make serious photography with a mobile device. After taking this boot camp class you will be up to date on the best equipment, tools, and apps for shooting, enhancing, and editing your photos.

If you love capturing, processing, and sharing images with your mobile device, this class is guaranteed to up your game. In this class, you will discover and learn how to use some of today's most powerful photography apps to correct, enhance and transform your photos. Take the ordinary to the extraordinary. Make day turn into night. Adjust color and tone, even vertical and horizontal lines add lighting, texture, and special effects to your images using 3rd party apps like Lightroom Mobile.

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

- Anyone who wants to explore the potential of mobile cameras.

- Photographers wanting to learn more about mobile processing and editing.

SOFTWARE + GEAR USED:

- Lightroom Mobile (V 6.2.0)
- iPhone 12
- A variety of 3rd party apps for iPhone, iPad

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Lisa Carney is a high-end retoucher who has spent over two decades working with the most dynamic players in the print, motion picture, and television industries. Art Center trained photographer, (Grad ’92). Lisa remains a prolific photographer, most recently showing MoVID Manhattan 2019.

Join Alex Blumberg, award-winning reporter and producer for This American Life and co-host of NPR's Planet Money, for Power Your Podcast with Storytelling, and learn podcast tips on how to tell powerful, memorable stories through audio.

Storytelling is in our DNA integrating its principles into a podcast not only helps you tell better stories, but it also allows you to authentically and emotionally connect with your audience. In this class, you will learn the unique approach to interviewing and story composition, which has made This American Life a fan favorite on public radio stations across the country. Alex will share production techniques you can use to create a multi-layered sensory experience and share tips for standing out in the ever-growing field of podcasts.

You'll learn:

- How to develop your narrative instincts

- How to prepare for an interview to get the best answers

- The elements of a good story

Alex will teach you how to create a driveway moment that experience when the story is so good, it makes the audience pause what they are doing just to listen through to the end.

Whether you already produce a successful podcast, are a creative entrepreneur looking for a new marketing method or just a public radio-loving audiophile this class will help you tell better stories.

Portrait photographers capture moments in time for families, parents, and children. But in order to tell the whole story, you need to switch your camera to video mode, and become the storyteller behind the camera. Join Courtney Holmes, family photographer, filmmaker, and founder of FilmingLife Academy as she empowers you to add video to your photography business.

In this class, Courtney takes you on location to a home in Seattle to see how she organizes a family shoot from start to finish. You will learn in a unique way how Courtney works to capture authentic family moments on video and how to stay flexible in a new home environment that you’ve never filmed in before. 

Courtney will teach you:

- How to change your mindset from photographer to videographer

- How to add videography to your brand

- Pricing and marketing tips

- What to ask in order to capture the best story for your clients

- The technical skills you’ll need for video

- Post-processing using Adobe® Premiere Pro®

- How to choose music, import, organize, create, and polish the final product

Courtney has learned how to make filmmaking into a viable business and is going to give you the tools to move forward and tell the stories that families will treasure for a lifetime.

Learn how to capture genuine, emotional images of families. In Family Photography: Modern Storytelling, Kirsten Lewis will teach you how to take meaningful documentary-style family photographs.

Kirsten Lewis takes a unique approach to family photography, leaving posing techniques and studio light at the door to capture real moments, as they are lived. In this class, Kirsten will share her techniques for creating the relationships and environments that help her subjects feel at ease and open up in an authentic way while she shoots. You’ll revisit the art of storytelling through still images and how to bring storytelling into your work with families. Kirsten will teach you the steps to developing client relationships that allow you to honestly document a family, from birth onward, while nurturing your business. You’ll learn new ways to approach composition and editing so your final product is both beautiful and true to reality.

If you want to deepen your relationships with the subjects you shoot and deliver photographs that are joyful and authentic, join Kirsten for this in-depth class on documentary-style family photography.

Intimidated by studio lights? In Studio Lighting 101, fashion photographer Lindsay Adler deciphers the complexities of studio light, breaking it down into simple concepts for beginners. In this class, you'll learn everything from basic lighting terminology to creating multiple light set-ups. Start with the basics like how to adjust your digital camera settings for studio strobes and layer in the details you'll need to light your first photo studio portrait.

Photographers on a budget will learn how to light a portrait using a single light, modifier, and photography light stand. Then, learn to work with two and three-light kits to create drama, background separation, and more. You'll see dozens of studio lighting set-ups, from start to finish, behind the scenes in this live-recorded class. Develop the skills to troubleshoot several common photography studio lighting problems, like lighting large groups and correcting reflections on glasses.

By the end of this class, you'll know how to buy your first studio lighting kit and how to shoot that first in-studio portrait. This class is ideal both for beginning photographers that don't understand much beyond the exposure triangle and experienced natural light photographers ready to try a studio setting.

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

- Beginners with a grasp of the exposure triangle

- Intermediate and advanced natural light photographers new to studio lighting

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Fashion photographer Lindsay Adler is one of the most well-known in her field noted for her style, posing, and mastery of the studio lighting system. Along with working as a photographer, she's also a respected educator, a Canon Explorer of Light, and the author of three instructional photography books. Her work has appeared in publications such as Marie Claire, Elle, InStyle, Noise, Essence, Zink Magazine, Rangefinder, Professional Photographer, and dozens more. Lindsay is a sought-after speaker for her experience and straightforward, easy-to-follow teaching style.

Creating a great photo for a client is one thing - but turning your passion and ideas into a series that is shared, shown, and sold is a whole different business. If you do it right, you’ll be shooting what you love all the time. Learn how to choose which ideas to create, how to turn your concept into production, and steps to getting your work seen and even sold in Fine Art Photography: A Complete Guide with Award-Winning Photographer, Brooke Shaden.

This is an all-inclusive workshop that provides the tools you need to run a successful and creative business as a fine art photographer. You’ll learn creative exercises to find and develop your ideas, how to create an original narrative, how to produce your own photo series, post-production techniques, and skills for compositing and retouching, how to write about your work, ways to pitch to galleries and agents, and how to print your pieces so they look like art.

This workshop will take you on location with Brooke as she creates a photo series from scratch. She’ll walk through every step for her photoshoots including set design and location scouting, she’ll cover techniques in the field for capturing your artistic vision, post-production and compositing techniques, as well as printing and framing essentials.

She’ll round out this experience by discussing all of the details that will help make your career successful like licensing, commissions, artists' statements, social media plans, gallery prep, and pricing of your work.

This comprehensive course is a powerful look into the world of fine art photography led by one of the world’s most talented photographers, Brooke Shaden. Included with the purchase is exclusive access to bonus material that gives exercises and downloads for all of the lessons.

Flowers are the perfect subjects for both beginning and professional photographers alike. Not only can they be found almost anywhere, but they offer a wide range of colors, textures, and shapes to explore and experiment with. But as perfect as flowers are for photography, the dominance of similar pictures makes it hard to capture a unique image.

This course takes you on an in-depth journey into the glories of flower photography, with expert photographer Kathleen Clemons as your guide. You’ll learn everything you need to know to take captivating shots that will wow your audience and celebrate the beauty of nature. Learn how to take flower photographs that stand out.

In this class, you'll learn how to spot the best flower to photograph with your naked eye, whether you want to capture artistic or documentary images. The flower will become the star of the shot as you learn to eliminate distractions in the background. At the end of the class, work confidently with fields of flowers and single flowers, at each stage in their life cycle.

Whether you have a Nikon, Canon, Sony, or mirrorless camera body, Kathleen will show you all the essential tools of flower photography, from macro lenses to plant clamps to extension tubes. She’ll cover technical details such as aperture settings and your depth of field, as well as stylistic issues such as composition, backgrounds, and close-up or macro shots. The course ends with a demonstration of a real shoot in a garden so you can see Kathleen in action as she takes different angles and close-up images of different flowers and flower petals.

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

- All levels of photographers are interested in macro photography.

- Photographers who want to learn how to shoot close-up images of small subjects.

- Photographers who want to better understand special equipment for shooting macro and how to deal with difficult lighting situations.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Kathleen Clemons is a nature photographer known for her painting-like images of flowers. The Maine-based photographer works with Corbis and Getty images. While she's known for her photography, Kathleen also has a degree in education, which she mixes with her passion for flowers to teach other macro photographers.

Humans are social creatures. We love to reflect on ourselves and the people we cherish, and we like to have that ability whenever we please. Portrait photography is an excellent skill to cultivate for anyone with a camera - whether you're simply taking better photos of your family or want to build out your business's portrait portfolio.

Lindsay will walk you through everything you need to know to take great portraits. 

You’ll learn about:

- Camera selection, settings, and accessories

- Lighting and lenses

- Posing and directing men, women, full-figured subjects, and groups

Portrait Photography Bootcamp will start at the very beginning and help you establish a foundation for all styles of portrait photography. You’ll learn about the essential elements of a good portrait; lighting, posing, and expression. Then you’ll learn how to work with what you've got, with instruction on shooting with window, natural, indoor, and studio lights.