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Mentoring
I help people to capture and cherish their most precious memories in beautiful photos; entrepreneurs to grow their business by taking better photos from their products; and photographers to bring their photos to the next level.
If you wish to take better photos from your production, products or place without becoming a professional photographer, I will show you how to do that with your own mobile or camera.
I'll show you how to use the available light and the best compositions. How to produce simple and effective scenes and find backgrounds that will make the difference to your business.
Your mentoring program will be covering the specific topics that will help you. I'll show you how to pose or take natural photos, how to use the available light and the best compositions. How to register that special holidays with landscape and street photography easy techniques.
If you don't know where to start or have some knowledge gaps that still bothers you, we will go through your needs and wishes to build the most appropriate mentoring for you.
We can not only cover the very basic, eg. what is aperture, shutter speed, ISO, types of composition, etc, but also go into details of portrait, landscape, travel, product, food and macro photography.
Everyone has a different need. Everyone learns in a different way.
Why should everyone take a standard workshop or course?
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I created this mentoring program to give my students a personalised experience that fit their needs and fill the gaps from the traditional workshops. For this, all mentoring programs and advanced skills workshops include:
- 1 hour free online consultation, where we will discuss your needs and goals.
- In person or on-line lessons (4h)*
- Practical exercises, based on your goals, that will be done during the lessons.
- Field/freestyle practice (1h). Depending on your location it can be done together with me. Otherwise, we will make a plan and I'll be available for (video-)calls for guidance and questions.
- Editing together a selection from photos taken during the practice. 1h, in person or online.
- Feedback on the photos from the field practice session
- 2 month followup consulting for questions and feedback related to the mentoring topics.
* The duration for "Mentoring for photographers" program is bigger as we will go deeper in the topics. We will discuss the needs and duration during he consultation call.
I want you to be proud of your own photos!
How it works in 3 easy steps
Book your 1 hour free consultation
In this consultation, I'll introduce myself and the mentoring program, and we will talk so I can better understand your needs and which goals you want to achieve.
Receive your personal mentoring program
After our call, I'll carefully prepare your customised mentoring program including the appropriate topics, exercises and field trips/practice session. You will receive this by e-mail.
Pay & book your lessons
Once you are happy with your learning program, we can start our lessons. We can do a intensive program with all lessons in one day or 2 days with 2 hours.
Teaching photography is one of most rewarding things I could do.
Business
In this mentoring, I'll show your everything you need to know to take better photos from your products and/or place, using the equipment that you already have whether it's your mobile or a camera.
We will start with the basics of photography that will make difference for your business including, for example, how and when to use a blurry background, where to place the products in the photo, how to include a whole room, use of the available light, how to make a dark photo lighter, etc. (Translated from the technical terms: aperture, shutter speed, ISO, composition and lighting )
Then we will go to the specifics photography needs for your business. Photographing a clothing store is different from a restaurant that is different from a hand made products or food.
The last part of the technical part of the mentoring is how to easily enhance your photos during pos-processing, also for mobile!
People & travel
"Why my photos aren't good?", "How do I take better photos?", "Is there a way to improve my photos without buying a new mobile or camera?" If you have ever asked yourself any of those questions, this mentoring program is for you.
I'll show you the techniques, tips & tricks to improve your photos already after the first lesson, using your own equipment.
We will start with the basics of photography including, for example, where to put a person/object in a photo, how to blurry to the background, what to include in a photo, how to make a photo darker or brighter (translated from the technical terms: aperture, shutter speed, ISO, composition and lighting).
Then, we will move to a more specifics, for example, how to pose people; how to capture the candid moments from kids, family, friends; how to photograph a beautiful landscape that you are visiting; a city's iconic architecture.
The last part of the technical part of the mentoring is how to very easily enhance your photos during pos-processing, also for mobile!
For (future) photographers
Are you ready for your next step? Do you want to deep dive into the photography world, learn (more) about shutter speed, ISO, aperture and how the exposure triangle works; understand compositions and the effects of the light in your photos? Then, this mentoring program is for you!
It does not matter if you have already some knowledge or is just lost and don't know where to start. I can help you!
I'll show you how to work with the aperture, ISO and shutter speed to achieve the best exposure. We will talk about the types of composition and different lights, indoor and outdoor. There will be also an introduction to people, landscape, cityscape and street photography.
And then, I'll show you how to post-process your own photos using Adobe Lightroom.
Advanced skills modules
If you are interested in learning more advanced topics, I also have a practical 2-hours workshop + follow up on the topics:
Lighting
In this module, you will learn how to work with studio and natural lights, how to position them and choose the correct one.
Food photography
You will learn how to make photos that will make people want to eat the screen, after all, the more mouth-watering the photo, the better.
Macro photography
Learn how to reveal the tiny (and not so tiny) world in amazing photos.
Flower photography
Show the beauty of a flower in different and unique ways.