Fundamentals of Photography
John Greengo
a comprehensive guide to senior portrait photography.
High school seniors are energized, creative, and fun – and the best photographers know how to take portraits that capture that spark. Join Leslie Kerrigan for a guide to designing, marketing, shooting and sustaining a senior portrait business.
In this course, you’ll learn everything you need to know to create senior portrait sessions that aren’t just a photo shoot, but are memorable, once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Leslie will share her unique approach to creating a style closet, providing wardrobe consultations and keeping up with the of-the-moment social networking tools teens use. You’ll learn about connecting with seniors’ personalities, interests, and sense of style to ensure their portraits are every bit as unique as they are. You’ll hear from the teens, themselves as Leslie hosts a roundtable discussion with a group of teenagers who will talk honestly about what they want out of their senior portraits and how to reach them. You will also explore ways to leverage that personal connection into more sessions, sales, and referrals.
Don’t miss this opportunity to become the dynamic, must-have senior photographer for every teen in your area!
Leslie says it herself - her clients are traditional, so she has traditional offerings that appeal to them. This class is perfect for anyone looking to build a business specifically around senior portraits and creating a custom experience, and it goes into all aspects of the business and management. For posing or technical pieces of shooting seniors, there are great supplemental classes from other instructors.
I LOVED EVERYTHING LESLIE TAUGHT, IF YOU WANT TO VENTURE IN SENIORS, THIS IS THE CLASS TO TAKE!!!!!!!!!
Great course. Very informative. Leslie shares everything in this course. Leslie was an open book in this course. Leslie was very prepared.
ASOLUTELY get this class if you want to shoot high school seniors! Leslie covers every single aspect of a successful senior portrait business from reaching the senior market and first contact with a client, all the way to a live shoot, editing and product delivery! I honestly don't think she missed even one thing! She's a great teacher and her enthusiasm is contagious.
Leslie is a super-engaging instructor who will convince you to broaden your horizons to include senior portrait photography if you're not already doing so. I loved this course and highly recommend it. It is concise and very informative all the way through. If you're considering doing Senior portraits, or are already doing so but could use some helpful ideas, don't miss this class!
I learned a lot from this course. I watched all day when CL replayed Sal Cincotta's senior course and I wanted a second perspective, so I bought Leslie's course. I'm really glad I purchased Leslie's course because it was a great complement to Sal's course. Leslie covered different things like using a style closet that I especially found useful. She also did a beach shoot with a male and female model, which I found very useful and different from Sal's style. Leslie is so excited about "her girls" that she photographs - it's very engaging. I highly recommend this course.
Highly recommend. Leslie is wonderful and extremely creative
Leslie's fun and upbeat approach to senior portraits is very helpful in getting me amped up for each new session. I love her flow posing, and have reviewed this course before every senior session. Winner!
FABULOUS COURSE! Jam packed with information.
This was an exceptional course. I support my wife's photography passion, and as she seeks to grow her expertise I learn with her. We watched this live and the rebroadcasts. There's too much information if there is such a thing. Thank you Leslie for taking the mystery out of this photography genre for us. Leslie's energy and passion for what she does helped to fuel our creative fires in this arena. Wife's birthday is coming up...guess what she's getting?!
5 Stars. A++. Best class yet. Leslie is so friendly and open this class will make you want to reach out to her (I did!). She covers so much information, so well. She'll make you want to be the best senior photographer you can be, and will make you believe you can succeed at all of the things she is telling you about.
I can't say enough great things about this course! I went into it thinking I gain a little bit of info on posing and social media ideas... boy was I wrong! Leslie covers topics that I didn't even know where apart of Senior Photography. I highly recommend purchasing this course, if for no other reason then for the awesome senior panel that lets you know really want seniors want, are looking for, and actually care about in regards to their photos/social media/etc... I hope to meet Leslie one day and thank you personally! :)
I kept checking in on this course throughout the day, and I feel like I learned nothing. At one point she was talking about custom camera straps, (pointless to learning photography imo) and then later she was talking about style, and where to buy clothes at good prices. Everyone knows where to buy clothes, and I didn't learn any good information. I would've loved for her to start off the class with bullet points on what exactly she would be covering over the course of each day, so that I could come back for the sections that I am interested in. (senior portraiture) I feel like there was too much time wasted and would have loved for it to be more organized.
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