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Quality AND Quantity – Connecting High School Senior Portraits, Sportraits, and Volume Sports Teams
Ready for an adventure into all things high school senior? Feel like you need a creative push alongside others that have been in business for a while? If you have an established senior business and are looking to break into Media Day style Sportraits or Varsity Teams (or vice versa), this advanced lighting, posing, and business class is where you need to be. Learn how to plan & attack the pre/on-site/& post processes to keep you organized and moving forward...
Photoshop Painting with Sandra Pearce
Unlock the full potential of Photoshop as your digital paintbrush. In this immersive, hands-on class, I will guide you through the tools, techniques, and creative processes behind turning photographs into painterly works of art. Whether you're brand new to digital painting or ready to refine your skills, you'll gain confidence using brushes, textures, layers and blending modes to transform images into expressive, painterly pieces...
Mastering Commercial Photography: Vision, Lighting, and Client Confidence
In this comprehensive master class, photographer Ab Sesay will guide you through the creative and logistical framework behind successful commercial shoots. You’ll explore advanced lighting techniques for photographing people, products with people, and people within real-world spaces both in-studio and on location. But lighting is just the beginning...
Unveiling Creativity: Transforming Ideas into Painterly Storytelling Imagery
Transforming Ideas into Painterly Storytelling Imagery is an immersive workshop designed to deepen your understanding of visual storytelling and enhance your post-processing skills. You’ll learn Amber’s step-by-step award-winning portrait capturing process from start to finish...
Taking Your Studio to the Next Level
Enroll in this class to be personally guided toward your next level of success. Takeaways include a roadmap for building a successful business, learning how to embellish portraits, generating marketplace buzz, unique and cost-effective marketing strategies, “Trigger Marketing” concepts, stunning image creation with available light, natural group posing, developing an Experience Base Brand, and photography methods for substantial sales...
The Story-Driven Portrait: A Masterclass in Emotion, Technique, and Creative Impact
The Art of Vision & Story: A Hands-On Masterclass in Portrait Photography and Cinematic Storytelling Step into the next level of your creative journey. This immersive class is not your average photography class—it's a transformational creative experience designed for visual artists ready to go beyond technical proficiency and into emotional, narrative-driven mastery...
The Hybrid Studio Blueprint: Hands-On Systems to Grow Portrait Profits Without Burning Out
The Hybrid Studio Blueprint is a hands-on workshop designed to help photographers build a profitable and balanced studio offering both senior/commerical portraits and high-volume work. You'll learn how to streamline your workflows, master both creative and efficient shooting/editing techniques, and implement systems that scale without burnout...
Learning to See and use Light to Tell Stories
This class will transform you as a photographer. It does not matter where you are in your career; each participant will receive specialized instruction from concept to print. Learn to see differently before you even put the camera to your face. Carl will cover; the psychology of the portrait, the right light for the situation, the power of seeing shape, form, and lines, and learning how to harness whatever light you have. This class will open your eyes to the world of natural light and artificial light portraits in an all encompassing learning experience...
Mastering the Art & Business of Photography
This course is designed for professional photographers ready to elevate both their imagery and their income. Whether you’re refining your style, restructuring your pricing, or simply ready to grow, this class will meet you where you are—and move you forward. Each morning covers proven strategies in branding, pricing, sales, AI-driven marketing, and sustainable business models. Afternoons shift to hands-on instruction in posing and lighting for both studio and on-location work...
Architecture + Interiors Photography / Commercial Photography and Business System for High-End Clients
This real estate/architectural/commercial photography class is designed for photographers seeking to enhance their skills and attract high-end clients. This class will discuss the system Randy uses to photograph architecture for architects, interior designers, corporate, and high-end builders that will help you attract the high-paying clients you want...
Like a Fairytale – Natural and Artificial Light Photography
Step into a space where photography becomes more than a technical act — where portraits breathe emotion, color sets the tone, and each frame tells a quiet story. This class is a journey into visual storytelling through portraiture. Together, we’ll explore the poetic side of photography - how to craft atmosphere, evoke feeling, and use subtle tools like light, composition, wardrobe, color, and posing to create images that resonate...
Landscape Photography: Artistically Expressive Images with Technical Excellence
Great landscape photography is about making images that connect with viewers, making them feel something about the subject. If you are seeking knowledge and skill to improve the impact and artistic appeal of your landscape photography, then this class is just what you are looking for. Beyond craft and technique, it is most important to communicate emotions and bring artistic vision and quality to your imagery...
The Complete Photographer: Mastering Your Camera, Flash and Composition
This course is designed for photographers who want to take command of their camera functions and who are eager to explore the creative potential of flash photography. This course covers essential aspects of photography, from camera controls, lenses and flash to creative composition techniques. This course is ideal for photographers who want to gain a solid understanding of camera operation, explore the nuances of lenses, master the use of flash, and enhance their composition skills...
Fine Art Storytelling Advanced Composites:
Dare to let your creativity soar with Richard Sturdevant’s Advanced Compositing Process. This is the most in-depth composite class you will ever take. Take a journey into to composites and all the different categories of composites to classify them. What is a simple composite? What is a complex composite and how do you approach each?...
Light Painting: The Art, the Science and the Business
Light painting is one of the most creative expressions in photography, allowing you to use continuous light to sculpt and shape your subject with precision not possible by any other means. John Hartman has developed a systematic approach to light painting that will help you learn how to both light and edit your subject, providing a look unlike any photograph you have ever made...
Photoshop Zero-Sixty in a Week
Learn the basics (and not so basics) of Photoshop in a week-long program. You’ll work Hands-On learning the tools, actions, other techniques for speeding up your images snap, crackle and pop. Camera Raw, retouching, cloning, healing brush, keyboard shortcuts and many more ways to help build your skills. Learn the easiest ways to remove people and objects from your image. How to composite, change colors of various things...
Heart, Art & Profit: A Family Portrait Blueprint
Heart, Art & Profit is a transformative weeklong course designed for photographers who want to build a meaningful, sustainable family portrait business rooted in emotional storytelling, beautiful artwork, and real profit. Whether you're just beginning your portrait journey or ready to refine your client experience and sales model, this course offers a complete blueprint - from artistic foundation to business strategy...
Booked & Branded: Build Your Photography Website, Brand, and Business Systems
This isn’t just a website class—it’s a complete reset and relaunch of your brand and business. Over the course of the week, you’ll build a stunning PhotoBiz website and develop a complete brand and business playbook that helps you show up with clarity, attract your ideal clients, and operate like a pro—even if you’re not “techy.”...
Nature, Macro, Floral, Landscape and Animal Photography
This is a wide-ranging class covering lots of ground. It is based on being creative, artistic and leveraging your camera's strengths. Through discussion and hands on learning, this week promises a whirlwind of imagery and education. Studies will include Macro, Floral, Animal and Cityscape. Content from these programs will cover camera strategies that you can apply regardless of where your photographic interests may take you...
Leg Day – Finding Childlike Creativity Again Through Photoshop Techniques.
In this immersive class, award-winning portrait artist Shannon Squires-Toews will guide you through reconnecting with the fearless, imaginative creativity we all had as children—and learning how to practice it with purpose. We’ll explore actionable strategies to ignite your creative thinking, break through blocks, and approach image-making with playfulness and intention...
Built for More: Growing a Portrait Business When No One Believes You Can
This class is for the photographer who's ready to go from “just getting by” to confidently booking dream clients, posing with intention, and actually making money doing what you love. During this week learn to elevate your work and boost your bottom line by adding in new offerings like boudoir. We’ll dig into natural, flattering posing techniques for wedding couples and individuals that create images your clients can’t stop talking about...
Movie Magic: Lighting & Storytelling Inspired by Film
Learn how todraw inspiration from iconic movies and translate those looks and moods into still photography. You’ll get tons of hands-on experience trying new tools and techniques — things you may not have had the chance to play with before. From classic items like gels, grids, and reflectors to more advanced tools like gobos, flags, nets, and scrims, you’ll discover how each shapes and motivates light in unique ways...
Travel Photography – Leveraging Your Camera and Creativity Wherever You Go
Travel offers unique opportunities to express your photographic creativity. Knowing what to capture, when to show up, and how to compose and shoot the scene before leaving home, helps maximize limited travel time to capture photographic gold. This class will explore envisioning the travel photographic process from beginning to end through discussion and hands-on-experiences designed to cultivate compositional inspiration, identify APPS & tools for locating subjects that tell the stories of time, place & people, and planning the best time to shoot...
Commercial Photography: Beyond the Basics
In this hands-on class, you’ll learn how to apply solid, professional techniques to real-world assignments — from product photography to food styling, reflective surfaces, interiors, and architectural exteriors. We’ll cover working with art directors and clients, and how those relationships affect your workflow and creative decisions. You’ll start with product photography fundamentals, then move on to challenging subjects like chrome, glass, and highly reflective surfaces...
Unlocking the Future of Imagery: AI Composite and GPT Masterclass
In this intermediate program we will cover AI and how it can have a huge positive impact on your business. We will then explore many of the tools available and go in-depth into many of them throughout the course. This will also include Large Language Models like ChatGPT and how to actually use it at an expert level...
NEXTFRAME: A Mastermind Experience for High Level Portrait Art Photographers
If you’re a portrait photographer who’s tired of working harder just to stay in place, NextFrame™ is your next big leap. This isn’t another course filled with fluff or one-size-fits-all templates. This is a mastermind experience—designed for high-performing professionals who are ready to scale into the top 5–10% of the photography industry. Whether you’re already doing six or seven figures and want more time freedom, or you’re on the brink of a breakthrough but unsure how to make the leap—this is where the transformation happens...
The Photographer’s Edge: Posing & Lighting Secrets of World-Class Portraits
This is a 5-day, hands-on class where you’ll master the art of posing and lighting at a level that will set your work apart. No more memorizing stiff poses or endlessly copying others, here, you’ll learn the posing system that works for every genre: weddings, portraits, fashion, families, seniors, and more. Posing is a language not a set of rules. We will learn the language of posing together so you never how to never run out of things to "say" during a shoot...
Unlock Lightroom (and Upgraded Your Life!)
This class is for anyone who wants to improve their workflow, enhance their images, and who wants to get back their life with time-saving and productive ideas they can implement right away! A greater understanding of the amazing features and benefits of Lightroom Classic can mean less time at the laptop, giving you more time with your family and friends, and more time enjoying your camera!...
Harness Flash: From Fearful to Fearless in One Week
If flash feels frustrating, confusing, or like it’s holding your work back — this class is for you. You’ll learn how to control your light instead of letting it control you — and more importantly, how to use it with purpose.
This class is built for photographers who understand the exposure triangle, sync speed, and the difference between flash and continuous light...
This class is built for photographers who understand the exposure triangle, sync speed, and the difference between flash and continuous light...
Beyond the Photo Booth: Profitable Photo Experience that Sell
This weeklong class is designed for photographers who want to break into — or level up — their photo booth and event photography business. You’ll gain real-world experience by working two live events during the week, including the high-energy Monday Night All-School Party and our very own in-class Costume Party. You’ll rotate through multiple photo booth and print station setups, mastering both digital delivery and on-site printing workflows...
The Signature Switch: From Overlooked to Overbooked
Transform your photography business from ordinary to extraordinary in just 5 days! This intensive class will guide you step-by-step—from foundational branding to crafting a signature style, social media and branding strategies, to high-ticket client attraction. Leave with a clear roadmap to stand out in the industry and scale your revenue like never before...
Inside the Box – Mastering a Successful Studio
This class is great for a newer photographer, but you will be on overload! It's also a great refresher and refining class for the well experienced. Those in between with absorb so much content! Gary's goal is to take your photography and your business to the next level. No matter where you are, there is always another level to achieve. Gary is very fast paced, in speaking and moving, so take your vitamins so you can keep up!...