Studio Photography Classes

Learn Photography. Understand Your Camera. Master Studio Lighting.

Want to take your photography to the next level? My hands-on studio photography classes are designed to help photographers build confidence, understand their equipment, and learn how to create professional-quality images.

Whether you're just getting started with your camera or you're ready to take your lighting skills to the next level, these classes provide practical, hands-on instruction in a professional studio environment.

📷 Learn How to Use Your Camera

This course is designed for photographers who are new to photography or want to better understand how to use their camera.

You'll learn the fundamentals of photography and how your camera settings work together to create the image you want.

Topics include:

• Understanding your camera and its controls

• Aperture, shutter speed, and ISO

• Exposure and how to properly expose an image

• Understanding depth of field

• Choosing the right camera settings

• Autofocus and focusing techniques

• Understanding lenses and focal lengths

• Composition and framing

• Working with natural light

• Tips for getting sharper, better-exposed images

The goal is to help you stop relying on automatic settings and start understanding why you're choosing specific camera settings.

Ready to move beyond natural light? This hands-on class introduces you to the fundamentals of studio lighting and teaches you how to take control of the light.

You'll learn how to set up and use studio lights to create professional portraits and images.

Topics include:

• Understanding studio lighting equipment

• Different types of studio lights and modifiers

• Key, fill, and background lighting

• Understanding light direction and quality

• Light placement and positioning

• Creating flattering portrait lighting

• Controlling shadows and highlights

• Using one-light, two-light, and multiple-light setups

• Understanding light ratios

• Metering and proper exposure

• Hands-on shooting with studio lighting

You'll have the opportunity to work with the equipment and actually photograph in the studio, allowing you to see how changing the position, direction, and intensity of the light changes your image.

Take your lighting skills further and learn how to create more sophisticated, professional-quality images.

This advanced course is designed for photographers who already understand the basics of photography and studio lighting and want to expand their creative and technical skills.

Topics include:

• Advanced multi-light setups

• Creating dramatic and creative lighting

• Controlling light spill

• Advanced light ratios

• Using grids, flags, reflectors, and modifiers

• Lighting for different subjects and body types

• Portrait and editorial lighting techniques

• Lighting on white, black, and colored backgrounds

• Separating your subject from the background

• Creative use of shadows

• Troubleshooting difficult lighting situations

• Building lighting setups from scratch

• Creating consistent results for professional clients

This class is focused on understanding light rather than simply copying lighting diagrams. You'll learn how to look at an image, determine how it was lit, and build your own lighting setup to achieve the look you want.

Learn From Real-World Experience

With more than 20 years of professional photography experience, I’ll share the techniques, knowledge, and practical skills I've developed working with commercial, portrait, medical, industrial, event, and editorial photography.

These are hands-on classes, not just lectures. You'll have the opportunity to work with professional equipment, photograph in a real studio environment, ask questions, and learn through doing.

Whether you're picking up a camera for the first time or looking to sharpen your professional skills, there's a class designed for you.

Learn your camera. Understand light. Create better photographs.

From Camera to Finished Image — Build a Better Photography Workflow

Taking great photographs is only part of the process. Knowing how to organize, edit, and deliver your images efficiently is an essential part of becoming a successful photographer.

This hands-on class is designed to teach photographers how to build a professional workflow using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop—from importing your images and organizing your files to creating polished, finished photographs.

What You'll Learn

Lightroom Workflow

• Importing and organizing your photographs

• Creating folders and collections

• Using keywords, ratings, flags, and color labels

• Selecting and culling images efficiently

• Understanding Lightroom's editing tools

• Exposure, white balance, contrast, color, and tone adjustments

• Using presets while maintaining a natural look

• Batch editing multiple images

• Creating consistent edits across an entire shoot

• Preparing images for print and web

Photoshop Workflow

• When to use Photoshop instead of Lightroom

• Opening and transferring images from Lightroom

• Layers and layer masks

• Retouching and removing distractions

• Skin and portrait retouching

• Color and tonal adjustments

• Cleaning up backgrounds and unwanted objects

• Working non-destructively

• Saving and organizing Photoshop files

Creating an Efficient Professional Workflow

We'll also focus on how Lightroom and Photoshop work together so you can spend less time behind the computer and more time photographing.

You'll learn how to move from thousands of images to a finished gallery efficiently, maintain organized files, create consistent edits, and prepare your final images for clients, websites, social media, and print.

This class is ideal for photographers who are overwhelmed by their post-production process or want to take their editing workflow to a more professional level.

Shoot it. Organize it. Edit it. Deliver it.

Learn a workflow that helps you work smarter, stay organized, and get your images finished faster.