Personal One-on-One Photography Education And Coaching

So, you want to improve your photography, and scheduled classes, YouTube videos, books aren’t working for you. Personalized photography education may be the answer. Each engagement begins with a free virtual session where we discuss your desires and goals for your photography. Then frame up the learning plan that will meet your needs.

I will meet you wherever you are on your photography journey. Our sessions will be tailored to specifically help you achieve your goals. Whether you want to improve your family snapshots or turn your hobby into a side hustle, I am here to help.

Lessons at your pace, tailored to your specific needs and goals

The list of topics and skills below provides a sample of the areas we can explore to help you level-up your photography.

Building a Sound Photography Foundation

  • Photographic Principles & History

  • Concepts of Photography

    • It’s All About Light

    • Exposure controls & the exposure triangle (using your camera in “M” mode)

    • Lenses, Field of View, & Focal length

    • Composition

  • Fundamentals of Digital Photography

    • Sensor sizes

    • ISO and Noise

    • File types (Jpeg vs. RAW)

    • White balance

    • Understanding and using histograms

  • Increase “keeper” rate

    • Capturing sharp, in-focus images

    • Nailing exposure

    • Fine tuning your compositions

  • Introduction to digital photography printing

    • Printers, inks, and papers

    • Photo editing for print making

    • Color management: capture to print

    • Making accurate high-quality prints

      • ICC Profiles

      • Soft proofing

Introduction to Landscape Photography

  • Applying photographic fundamentals to effectively make landscape photographs

  • Selecting subjects & composition in landscape photography

  • Understanding light in the landscape

  • Pre-visualization: Begin with the final image (and print) in mind.

  • Planning & researching: Using apps and online tools to take your landscape photography to the next level

  • Landscape photography equipment

Advanced Landscape Photography Topics

  • Focus Stacking

  • Exposure Bracketing and multi-image compositing

  • Creating panoramas by stitching multiple images

  • Long exposures and neutral-density filters

  • Finding your creative voice and photographic style

Field Shooting Sessions

  • In-field coaching

  • Composition challenges

  • Real-time feedback and suggestions

Other Topics in Photography

  • Digital Photography Workflow - Capture to Print

  • Introduction to Adobe Lightroom

  • Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

  • Color Management - Capture to Print

Price: $75/hr

Length: 2 - 20 hours

Portfolio Reviews

For many the very idea of having your work reviewed and “judged” by someone is intimidating and anxiety ridden. I know, I have been there myself. A good portfolio review is not about getting a grade on your work or assessing your value as a photographic artist.

A good portfolio review begins with establishing a clear goal for the review. Getting yourself and the reviewer on the same page in terms of what you want to get out of the review is essential to making the feedback valuable and actionable. If this is your first portfolio review and you are not sure what your goals should be, I will help you identify your strengths and provide some suggestions on ways to improve your images to achieve your photographic goals.

A portfolio is a well-organized collection of images with a coherent theme that ties them together in some meaningful way. It is not a group of your “best” or “favorite” images. If you are struggling with which images to select for a portfolio, we can focus our session on the process of building your first portfolio.

If you have a portfolio, you would like me to review, I suggest a collection of 10-15 images as a place to start. In addition to providing your objective of the review I ask that you provide the organized portfolio in digital or print form. To save us time and keep us focused, I ask that the portfolio of images be separated from the rest of your work so that I may easily flip back and forth through the images. Ideally, I like to review the portfolio at least a day prior to our review session to allow me to spend some time with your images to maximize the value of my feedback.

Portfolio review sessions can be conducted virtually or in person (may incur additional cost if I need to travel to meet you), depending on your preference, schedule and logistics.

Price: $150

Length: 1.5 hours

Number of images: 10-30

Coaching and Mentoring

Growing and improving within a creative discipline is not unlike an athlete developing their mind and body to deliver their best athletic performance. Having a coach not only provides you access to their experience and knowledge, it provides structure and accountability to help you meet your goals.

Mentoring relationships are built around a regularly scheduled meeting time, often weekly or monthly. Our sessions will typically be held virtually. The length and content of those sessions will be driven by your goals and objectives. I will often give assignments to be completed prior to our next meeting where we will discuss your experience with the assignment and any completed work.

If you have a project idea that you are having trouble getting started or finishing, we can use our sessions as progress checkpoints to help you keep moving the project forward and provide a space for dialog should you need to make adjustments along the way.

Price: $50/session

Length: 30 min per session

Minimum: 4 sessions

Looking for a longer-term relationship? Consider a subscription. Subscriptions can save you 30-50% off the standard rate depending on frequency and length of commitment.