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A Crazy Family Portrait

Unlock Your Creative Edge: Mastering Energetic Family Portraits Tired of stiff, traditional poses that miss the real spirit of your clients? In this class, I’ll…
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120 min
Skill Level
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Unlock Your Creative Edge: Mastering Energetic Family Portraits

Tired of stiff, traditional poses that miss the real spirit of your clients? In this class, I’ll guide you through transforming ordinary family shoots into vibrant, wall-worthy masterpieces that families love—without revealing the step-by-step secrets here.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Strategies to infuse energy by reading clients’ vibes, building rapport, and prompting fun, spontaneous moments—ideal for creating joyful, connected sessions.
  • Technical insights for achieving sharp results even at wide apertures with large groups, including how distance and positioning create stunning focus and backgrounds.
  • Natural lighting approaches to capture flattering, even illumination with eye-catching details.
  • Efficient post-processing workflows to enhance colors, refine details, and add polish while keeping edits natural.

What You’ll Take Away:

  • Skills for dynamic portraits that elevate your portfolio and encourage client prints.
  • Confidence in handling group shoots with professional in-camera results.
  • A blueprint for editing that makes subjects pop and adds dimension.
  • Inspiration to experiment with lively vibes, making sessions fun and memorable.

Perfect for beginners or pros—enroll to discover the techniques that bring your portraits to life!

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6 reviews for A Crazy Family Portrait

  1. Clifton Yaney –

    Best group project yet! Thanks.

  2. Renson George –

    Wonderful.

  3. Agnieszka Zmuda –

    You are like a revelation to me! There are no words to express how happy I am that I found your website. I finally understand what it takes to take photos with a low aperture when photographing a larger group of people. For a long time, I was shooting at f5. Thanks to you, that has changed, and I can’t wait to see the results! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

  4. Brandon Johnson –

    Fantastic work! I really like how you went through all the color changes. I’m not sure I would go through all of them, but I completely understand why they were made. That is a whole lot of work for each photo. But it completely changes the image to make it look a lot better.

  5. Chad Kotter –

    Wow, great example of a photo with multiple challenges to overcome! Thanks for the meticulous step by step examples, including first trying methods that didn’t work, to overcome the significant color changes and color casts in this example. I hope you didn’t have to edit very many of those large group photos for the customers in this set!

  6. sassymamaphotography –

    The focal plane information is mind-blowing. I have been shooting at 3.5 and up with large groups. I am going to challenge myself and shoot in a low aperture, remembering to double my Shutter Speed to what my lens is!! THIS IS BEYOND A FANTASTIC TUTORIAL!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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