These series of tutorials are from Peter and Julia’s second shoot together one year after their first. As Julia shoots so often, Peter goes heavier with his training, pushing Julia to be sexy for women and trying to get his look on to her.

Join us for the Basic Strobe Setups course! Learn some basic and beautiful one and two light strobe setups. This course is broken up into 3 sections. In the introduction, Sue will give you a rundown on the different strobes. She will give you a few tips to help you find which one will work for your business. In the second segment of the Basic Strobe Setups course, you will see the Elinchrom Video. In this video, you will sit in on a shoot with Sue where she shows you a comparison in the different lights and how to angle them to get different looks.

Gerson Lopes demonstrates his method of “speed shooting” celebrities and high-profile clients who don’t have time for a standard shoot. Celebrities don’t book standard photo shoot because there are so many photographers who already want to shoot them. They typically will hire a photographer before hitting the red carpet, so that they can have their own images of red carpet looks that they have approved of. This means a photographer will typically only have about 15 minutes with them in a hotel room before the celebrity heads to the event. Learn how to get amazing shots in just 15 -20 minutes. While Gerson developed this speed shooting method for working with celebrities, you can adapt this to your own studio for other clients who are pressed for time, or just so you can make the same amount of money in less time.

Ask yourself, “What am I hearing from the people around me?” These people are telling us what we need to hear because they are reflecting what we are expressing to them. Their objections reveal where our perceived shortcomings are holding us back. We need to confront these negative limiting beliefs so that we can overcome them, get past them, and re-write them. These old beliefs no longer serve us. It is time for us to acknowledge them and our path to growth so that we can get out of our own way and build successful businesses.

Two of the most asked questions are how do you choose your lighting? And how do you manipulate it? Sue “sheds some light” on how to create soft constant studio light that’s the warm, muted tone she’s going for. Watch her do this as she prepares for Caitlin’s shoot.

Get creative with fabric! In this video, Sue shoots Rayna in her ballet pointe shoes while blowing black chiffon fabric over her. Then learn how to composite the fabric to end up with the perfect shot!

In this video, we will learn how Vogue creates its simplistic signature portraits, and Sue teaches us about the many variations of a black-on-black photoshoot. She then shows us how to effortlessly introduce black into our studios, how to create our own black velvet backdrop, and answers the most requested question, “How did she tape those V-Flats together?”, so you can create a multi-paneled and multi-purpose studio fixture that is one-side-white, one-side-black and can be a reflector, tunnel, or background.

In this course by photographer Nancy Beale of Studio This Is, we will learn everything about marketing to wedding planners (and why a wedding planner is not the same as a wedding coordinator!)

The lenses that you take with you to a wedding effect the story that you tell. In this special deep dive, Susan Stripling goes through how the lenses you use effect the photos you make, and how you can use your tools to tell a better story.

The lenses that you take with you to a wedding effect the story that you tell. In this special deep dive, Susan Stripling goes through how the lenses you use effect the photos you make, and how you can use your tools to tell a better story.

This class with Monique Melton focuses on diversity, inclusivity, and taking a long, hard look at how your business succeeds and fails on each front – and what to do about it.

It’s not enough to have beautiful work. It’s not enough to have a meticulously curated social media profile.  It’s not enough to respond to emails quickly, be kind and caring, and to do your best.  It has to be all of this and more…but what more?  How? In this course from Susan Stripling, you’ll learn how to do precisely that : differentiating yourself from your competition.