Modern Heirloom Portraiture
Jessica Vallia
Course Number: 32
Level: All Levels
This course will be a deep dive into creating an heirloom portrait session for the modern family & client. Your instructor, Jessica, works not only at providing clients with posed images, but also pairing those with authentic moments. Her clients are well posed and engaged along with real moments of happiness & closeness to cherish for a lifetime.
Her clients have a full experience from style guides for their session (so their images look like they were crafted for their home) to helping choose their location based on their family style. Each family session is truly unique and tells a story of who they are.
She will dive into what style portraits are best paired with different products as well as easy ways to prep and bond with your clients for a successful portrait session.
Why You Should Take This Class:
- Posing for the modern family: during this course we will move from posed images into emotionally driven authentic moments.
- Editing: we will dive into fine art editing and clean, bold post processing for albums and photographic art. We will literally move mountains and retouch skin for amazing portraits that stand the test of time.
- Sales & Business: we will dive into the world of sales, pricing, and being a profitable business. We will look into the who, what, where, when, why & how of sales for non-salesy kinda people.
Meet the Instructor:
Jessica is a Colorado born & raised photographer specializing in scenic, emotionally driven family portraits. Jessica’s love for family moments comes from her love of her perfectly blended family of four children. She has been photographing families full time for 15 years and practicing her skills in photography for just over 24 years.
She’s proudly a member of Professional Photographers of America, the Vice President of the Professional Photographers of Colorado and a member of both the Texas PPA & Florida PPA. She has a large commercial studio in Colorado Springs, CO and enjoys being able to create gorgeous, heirloom Folio boxes and albums along with impact pieces of wall art for her clients.
