FAQ’S

No.

My photography mentorship is for commercial (B2B) photographers. I do not do consults with consumer photographers. There are others far better equipped to handle that kind of photographic consultation.

Yes for the 3-month mentorship. We need to have you pretty ready to go.

No for the 6-month mentorship. We will spend 3 months on shooting and preparing your portfolio.

Yes. Absolutely.

All of my mentorees are added to the current Project 52 Pro System class where one assignment per week is created. In addition, we will look at your current portfolio and find the gaps that must be filled. I expect that you will be shooting a great deal of the time to add to your portfolio.

If you have no current portfolio or body of work, the 6-month engagement will spend the first three months shooting and building a commercial book for you to work with. We continue on throughout the engagement to make sure your work is tight and ready to be seen.

Not all who apply will be accepted. I need to see your work and chat with you a bit to make sure we are a good fit and that you are not simply going to waste your money with me. I don’t want your money, I want you to be successful.

Absolutely.
If necessary.

I will push you to refine and design your lighting if you need it, or I may push you to develop a bit more of a unique look that will be more powerful than what you are doing. Or, I may leave it alone if you are a skilled lighting person. I don’t want you to light “like me” – I want you to light like YOU.

We can also do live shoots with me in the studio with you – virtually, that is. Using ZOOM and a tethered camera, I can be with you as you shoot there in your studio, and you will learn more than you can imagine if you are new to lighting.

Well, we can talk about the specifics of the gear you need when we do our initial chat, but it is no more than you need to do the work you want to do.

Food photography and product / tabletop is going to require a boom. Or two. Same with editorial portraiture. You will need lights, tripod, computer and software and some way to shoot tethered. Laptop tethering or wireless to a tablet is all good as long as you can see what you are doing in real time.

Different genres call for different and varying equipment. An editorial portrait shooter may be able to do everything they want to do with a 24 – 105 / 24 – 120 zoom. A food shooter may do most of their work on a 35, 50, 85 prime.

Having the right gear is far better than having a lot of gear that is never used. (Like a food shooter with a 300MM f4… really?)

Been there. This can be a confusing time and the brain runs overtime trying this scenario and that. I can help you narrow the focus, get the outline done, and get to the writing part. Many methods of writing the book can be found, and we focus on the one that makes sense to you. A book can be a bittersweet disappointment or a successful launch piece. So much of it depends on the way it is constructed.

I do. I have built community sites, pay-for-content courses, live interaction courses, and self-running courses for Udemy. There is no easy way to do it, but there are tried and true methods that can mitigate the pain. We look at what you want to do, how you want to do it, and lay out the planning for the course. This is real one-on-one coaching, and I stick with you till the end.

A commitment to excellence, and a work ethic that understands how hard all of this is. It is supposed to be hard. If it was easy, everyone and their sister would be doing it… and then it has no value. I will push, cajole, yell, and challenge you when you go off tasks. My total success is YOUR success.

No excuses.
No ‘reasons’.
No whining.
No quitting.

We do this and we do it straight on.