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{life as art} Workshop in a Box
Cost: $549 (shipping included—add $25 for shipping to international addresses)
Can't come to an in-person workshop but still want the {life as art} Professional Workshop experience? The {life as art} Workshop in a Box is for you! The Workshop in a Box includes all the learning materials and goodies from the {life as art} Professional Workshop. You get everything that we discuss at the workshop—knowledge that will help you better your skills as a photographer, giving you back precious time to do what you want to do.
In particular, the workshop covers the following topics:
- classical composition and theories on creativity,
- getting perfect exposures with every shot,
- creating powerful compositions,
- getting perfect light in your photos,
- the basics of on-camera and off-camera flash,
- advanced workflow and editing in both Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2,
- RAW workflow and competition editing, as well as
- ways to effectively target a market and structure your business.
This workshop focuses primarily on child and family portrait photography, though many aspects of what I discuss apply to wedding photography as well.
The {life as art} Workshop in a Box includes the following items:
- The {life as art} Professional Manual. This is a 230-page textbook of my personal insight into creativity, composition, in-camera technicalities, digital workflow and business strategies. The book is an actual textbook, not just a copy of powerpoint slides and includes hundreds of full color images and illustrations, as well as review questions, exercises and worksheets that you can do to practice principles in each chapter. You can see a Table of Contents and images from the book in the Gallery section of this website.
- The Workshop in a Box DVD. This is a 75-minute DVD of me shooting an engagement session and a family session and showing how I implement the principles outlined in the book. This is not just a recording of me teaching the workshop, but real-world examples of how I deal with actual shooting situations.
- The {life as art} Professional CD. This CD contains over $350 worth of products that are completely unique to my workshop CD. You can't get these items on my Flourish website. Specifically, the Professional CD includes:
- A set of custom actions designed specifically for the {life as art} workshops. These include shortcut actions for Photoshop techniques discussed in the manual, prepping actions for goodies on the CD, as well as a web prep action, texture action, BW action and gentle boost.
- A folder of business forms and client contracts. Included in this are sample contracts for weddings and portrait clients, session preparation information for clients, sample list of session policies and FAQ's, copyright release form for clients, outline of client booking process, and questions for wedding and portrait client booking consultations. All contracts and forms are given in MS Word format, so you can tweak them to your liking. Also included within this folder is a sub-folder that has the client contract and session info sheet prepped for printing as a mailer to clients.
- A folder of PS compositional guides. These are guides that are discussed in the Professional Manual. You can overlay these guides on your images to improve your cropping and compositional structure.
- A template for creating custom client websites. When each client books a session with me, I create a personalized website for them that includes all the info for their session, as well as print pricing info, their contract, my business policies and more! It's a wonderful and economical way to communicate important information with a client. This is an amazing set of templates that will allow you to create such custom websites for each of your clients. Included in this are all the templates, text, code and easy-to-follow instructions for setting up the websites on your server. These templates have been designed for easy customization, so you can make them match your current branding. You can see sample images of the custom client website template in the Gallery section of this website.
- A folder of workshop goodies that includes 3 textures, a fine art texture, a transparent Baroque pattern, a grungy border, 3 storyboards, a folder of MOO card templates, and a folder of holiday card templates. You can see sample images of some of the templates in the Gallery section of this website.
- A template for an html sideways pricing guide. When clients see your pricing for the first time, it's important to sell them on your work. This pricing guide allows you to layer your pricing and your images into one slick html page that scrolls left to right, instead of up and down, providing a unique look for prospective clients. This template includes all the templates, text, code and easy-to-follow instructions for setting up the pricing guide on your server. This template has been designed for easy customization, so you can make it match your current branding. You can see sample images of the pricing guide in the Gallery section of this website.
- A folder of Photoshop templates. This folder includes templates for creating a custom printed CD, custom postcards, thank you cards, copyright cards, client image printing cards and other goodies. Again, you can see sample images of some of the templates in the Gallery section of this website.
- A $50 Flourish Emporium gift certificate.
- Two-years access to the {life as art} Workshop Forums, which include online live chat nights with me.
- Vendor gift certificates, information and offers.
Additionally, just like any other workshop, there are door prizes with the Workshop in a Box! Consequently, when you purchase your box, you will be entered into a drawing to receive a door prize!
The {life as art} Workshop in a Box is an incredibly comprehensive resource that will grow your skills as a photographer and provide you with resources to make your business run more efficiently.
