
Here’s What You Get:
This is the foundation of the entire course – I’ll teach you exactly what I do at a session, from start to finish. This includes how I set myself and my clients up for success, as well as my actual, step-by-step process for directing families, creating interaction, and photographing them beautifully. With this process, you will never be lost or stuck, yet you’ll also have the freedom you need to stay flexible and creative.
One of the most common frustrations I hear from photographers is that their galleries lack variety, and I am also teaching you the easiest secret ever that guarantees you’ll never feel that frustration again.
Ready to run incredible sessions and create dreamy photos with extremely little creative energy required? I thought so!
Topics We’ll Cover In Detail Inside This Course
- How I prepare clients for a successful session
- My super easy session flow
- How to create authentic connection between subjects
- How to photograph for maximum variety with minimum effort
- My process for shooting in homes or studios
- Newborn sessions made simple
- What photos are essential in a great gallery
- Working with stressed and stiff adults
- Making mom look genuinely gorgeous
- The secret behind my creating favorite family images
- Managing wild, shy, and uncooperative children
- How to make your images actually look natural
- Creating well-composed photos
- Customizable cheat sheets so you’ve always got backup
- Five full recorded sessions (indoor and outdoor), along with my commentary and image galleries
- Setting realistic expectations, and implementing change in a healthy way
- Addressing and fixing common session struggles
How to Rock Even the Most Challenging Sessions
Grumpy dads. Uptight moms. Kids who cry and don’t cooperate and couldn’t care less what you have to say. Stiff subjects who are uncomfortable in front of the camera and would rather cheese for an hour than just play with their kids.
Friend, it’s time to stop waiting on dream clients, and realize that everyone who values you and invests with you is already a dream client if you know how to handle their quirks!
I’ll teach you how to bring out the best in your clients, and create gorgeous galleries even when you have almost zero cooperation. (Watch the included recorded sessions for proof of how little cooperation you really need!)
How to ACTUALLY Create Gorgeous Images
Pretty images don’t happen by accident, and even the smallest changes can have an enormous impact on your final product!
I’m going to teach you all about how to compose beautiful images as you shoot and edit, what it takes to create images that actually look relaxed and natural, and how to make mom look and feel incredible without relying on her to be photogenic.
I know, everyone says they’ll teach you how to make moms look pretty, but they’re also posting photos of moms with double chins and wrinkly necks.
Let’s be real: we don’t want those, and neither do our clients.
All of this and so much more is covered in extremely detailed lessons full of example images so you never have to guess at what exactly I mean.
Realistic Expectations, and What You Don’t Need
You don’t need models, you don’t need amazingly relaxed clients, and you hardly need cooperation.
But you do need a trained eye, skills for managing stressed subjects, and confidence that you can get exactly what you need even when everything goes south.
I teach from authenticity, always, and this course is no different.
In fact, some of my most challenging sessions of the season are included in this course.
Ready to watch me work with toddlers who don’t listen to a word I say for 90 minutes straight? You got it!
I’m not teaching you what to do when everything goes great, but how to handle it masterfully whether it all goes right or wrong.
And honestly, when working with children, most of our plans go wonderfully, magically wrong.




