If boudoir has been calling your name, this class will show you how to build it with confidence, intention, and purpose. Over four immersive days, you'll spend time behind the camera through live demonstrations, guided shooting sessions, and hands-on learning designed to strengthen your posing, client communication, and creative confidence.
Beautiful images alone do not create a profitable newborn photography business. In this immersive week-long class, Lindsay Walden will teach photographers how to combine exceptional artistry with proven luxury business strategies to create a studio that attracts higher-end clients and generates sustainable profits. Drawing from her own journey from selling $250 CDs to building a luxury portrait studio with an average sale exceeding $8,000, Lindsay will share the lessons, systems, and mindset shifts that transformed both her business and her life. Students will gain an inside look at the strategies that helped her move beyond competing on price and create a brand that luxury clients actively seek out.
In this immersive week-long class, you'll learn a complete lighting system designed to help you confidently create beautiful portraits in virtually any environment. We'll simplify off-camera flash by focusing on the principles that matter most: understanding light, controlling it, and adapting it to any location. Throughout the week, you'll discover how small adjustments in light placement, modifier choice, camera settings, and ambient exposure can dramatically change the final image.
Learn how to draw 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.
This intensive week-long class covers the complete image-making process, from lighting on location to professional post-processing. Students will learn how to see and shape light using natural light, constant light and portable flash, control mood and depth, and create consistent results in any environment. In post-processing, the focus is on efficient, repeatable workflows using Lightroom (and Photoshop where needed) to refine color, contrast, skin tones, and overall polish and cinematic color grading, and understand qualities of an award winning image. The goal is mastery through simple systems, not complicated setups.
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 serve real people in real communities. You’ll work directly with the subjects Mandy photographs every day—high school seniors, families, and business headshot clients—using both studio and on-location lighting scenarios. Some time will be spent on post-production to polish up the images that are taken in class. and how to deliver high end products to your clients. We'll also talk about forming mutually beneficial relationships in your community that will make you the person people want to do business with. This class is for newer photographers who are ready to build (or strengthen) a studio-based portrait business—whether they’re just opening a studio in a retail space, working out of a home studio, or sharing space with other photographers.
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.
Gen X photographers, meet Gen Z seniors. It’s time to be authentic and intentional with how you approach these kiddos. If you aren’t creating an experience, you won’t stay booked. Spend a week with me and learn the systems I’ve refined over 23 years. Sure, it’ll include a healthy dose of intentional lighting and natural posing prompts but be ready to level up your marketing strategies via Instagram and TikTok. Yep, I said it. Get on TikTok and get your face on BTS clips whether you like it or not. That’s where your seniors are.
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.
