From Erica's first class:

Thank you so much for all of your fabulous teaching! I had a wonderful day that just flew by! I learned so much my brain hurts!

I know you have laid the foundation for me to start a successful business. There are so many tidbits you shared which are still resonating with me now. Your willingness to tailor the day to my needs helped me get what I needed most from the experience.

Your advice and expertise will be so important as I move forth with my business. Not to mention, it was just fun to hang out with you! I can't say enough about the experience and I am anxious to come for my follow up session this summer!

Erica

P.S. Be looking for my follow up questions and thoughts to follow!

From Erica's second class:

Thank you for a fabulous experience with my follow-up mentor session. I feel so fortunate to have been able to work with you the first time but, the second time was absolutely essential! We were able to cover so much about pricing, sales, products, lighting and posing; it was just awesome! I also was able to ask all of those questions that have come up since our first session. I learned so much from seeing you interact with a model in the mock session and have already put some of the things I learned to use! I feel much more confident launching my business with the information I have a gained from you. Thank you again for a great day!

Erica

Phil:

It's hard to believe the mentoring session we had was a week ago. The things we covered are still resounding in my head as loudly now as they were on the drive home, and we covered quite a few things. I still can't believe you were willing to share you knowledge with me and make certain what we were doing and why. I phoned a member of my family who knew I was doing this and the question was, "well was it worth it?" I told them if I would have come away with just learning one thing it would have been worth it, and that was achieve in the first 30 minutes, and I tried to absorb as much after that as humanly possible.

Thank you for your honesty with my portfolio. The constructive criticism and posing techniques have me looking at my previous shoots in a whole new light and anxious to get out and shoot more. I appreciate the way you did not just knock the photos but help me see ways to achieve better ones next time. And to also make me realize I do have some good ones.

The mock sales session we did and you looking at my business pricing was a tremendous help as well. I knew this is where I was hoping to learn from you and it paid off in spades. The critical information you shared with me not only on pricing, but how to get the higher sales I not only want but need if I expect this to be a full time job had my head spinning most of the way home. The fact that you were willing to share subtle nuances and the step by step of your in person sales sessions blew me away. I only wish I had a recorder or video to capture what we did as I'm sure I will forget something.

The time we spent actually shooting and working Photoshop seemed to go by so fast after all the other lessons. Even though our model backed out late the night before, you were able to show a different kind of magic as you were able to get us another within hours. Working with this model, and covering tips we spoke of in the morning was a great reinforcement, as well as learning other ideas for shooting(Less is More). I can't believe you were willing to help by getting in a couple of the photos yourself. Finally getting to work with Photoshop I watched you transform photos in front of my eyes, making sure I was following along and understood how you were doing it so easily anybody could have understood.

Sad as I was that our day was done, I was looking forward to getting home to my computer and start playing with the photos we took that afternoon. Which is exactly what I did until about I wasn't seeing straight. I have worked with different photos and also worked on some of my previous photos as well to see how much I could help them.

I do owe you a big THANK YOU for willingness to share your wealth of knowledge with all of us for such a reasonable price. If anybody has any questions send them my way as your help has set me on a whole new track and outlook. Now I just have to buy some software(already bought the step stool). Maybe do a follow up?

THANK YOU AGAIN

Phil Murphy Leisure Time Images

Melissa:

I had my mentoring session yesterday with Jessica. I can not even tell you how much I learned/soaked in/asked etc. It was invaluable and I am thrilled that I got the opportunity!!

I was afraid that I was too new to even be eligible, but Jessica made sure to explain things in a way that I totally "got it". She puts terminology into clear language. She is super skilled with her camera (I swear, it's an extension of her hand). She has the most amazing ability to pause the conversation during sales session w/ clients, making them comfortable while making choices.

We had a fantastic senior shoot. She showed me some of the amazing products from MpixPro. I could go on and on!! I learned so much that I can now do apply to my business. I've typed up some of my chicken scratch notes and already had the camera out this morning working on my new skills. If anyone is even possibly considering this ~ DO NOT WAIT! You will NOT be disappointed!!

Here are just a few of the many subjects we covered: posing, studio lighting, choosing locations, shooting on location, going over subjects clothing choices & matching clothes to locations, using reflector, shooting with family pets, business building, marketing, web design, setting prices, running promotions, sales sessions, Photoshop how-to (must-know basics plus using templates), shooting in RAW, converting to jpeg, further education, must have equipment, future ideas for equipment and so much more.