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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.”

Booked & Branded: Build Your Photography Website, Brand, and Business Systems2025-08-11T14:51:42-05:00

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.

Movie Magic: Lighting & Storytelling Inspired by Film2025-08-13T11:39:01-05:00

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.

Photoshop Painting with Sandra Pearce2025-08-13T11:45:32-05:00

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.

Light Painting: The Art, the Science and the Business2025-08-12T17:14:15-05:00

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.

Like a Fairytale – Natural and Artificial Light Photography2025-08-13T11:38:02-05:00

The Signature Switch: From Overlooked General Photographer to Overbooked High-end Studio

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.

The Signature Switch: From Overlooked General Photographer to Overbooked High-end Studio2025-08-13T11:39:39-05:00

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!

Inside the Box – Mastering a Successful Studio2025-08-11T15:00:54-05:00

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.

Mastering Commercial Photography: Vision, Lighting, and Client Confidence2025-08-13T11:37:10-05:00

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.

The Hybrid Studio Blueprint: Hands-On Systems to Grow Portrait Profits Without Burning Out2025-08-11T15:07:42-05:00

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.

Photoshop Zero-Sixty in a Week2025-08-13T11:43:30-05:00
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