Photography Mentoring
It’s more of a personalized workshop.
What I don’t want is to give you one hour of my time, answer a few questions, and leave you with only a few ideas or editing tips. Instead, I want to help you dig deep, put you on a path that will help you ask the right questions and figure out your own answers. I want to push you out of your comfort zone, or maybe help you find your comfort zone.
What does mentoring look like? Here’s the basic structure:
You fill out a pre-session, in-depth questionnaire so I know where you are and what you want to get out of our time together. You will send me the questionnaire and a specialized portfolio (I give you instructions on what to include) before we move on.
While I’m reviewing your portfolio and questionnaire, I will send you a guide outlining my creative philosophy and ideas for pushing your limits and setting boundaries for yourself.
Next, I will send a video response to your questionnaire and portfolio, and give you a personalized assignment based on what I find.
When you send me your completed assignment, you will also include questions/topics you'd like to address during our live video chat. I'm sure I'll have my own list as well.
Finally, we schedule our live video chat where we go over anything and everything we've been working on and discuss some goals and ideas for where you can go from here.
During the video chat, we can cover anything you'd like, including technical questions (film or digital), shooting techniques, editing techniques, business plans and ideas (including school portraits), social media, finding your voice, finding your direction, daily creative practices, personal projects, goals and dreams, plans for the future, etc. Pretty much open book kind of stuff. Be ready to open up, be ready to answer some hard questions, be ready to make some changes OR stay right where you are and be happy with that. Who knows what will happen! My 12+ years of obsessive knowledge acquisition is at your disposal. After we've laid the foundation, we can continue with additional check-ins, or we can decide to be done! I’d say a video chat is one hour long, but I do like to talk, and I really don’t like rules. We will chat as long as we need. And it’s safe to say I will give you a new assignment or challenge each time we talk.
If you are local or visiting Utah and you’d rather hang out in person, do a shoot-along, or just sit next to me at a computer until everything starts to make sense, you can choose the in-person mentoring session! This is the exact same thing as the mentoring package, but instead of the video chat, we figure out a time and place to meet face to face. Cause that would be amazing and fun.
You want in on this action? Check out your investment options below. You can make this a long-term relationship or just a wake-up call. You decide!