Alyssa & Matt
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As a husband and wife team, there's nothing that our hearts enjoy more than helping other creatives grow and achieve their goals! We are heavily invested in being a positive addition to our community and in giving back the knowledge that we have been blessed to learn through experience, trial and error, and from so many other talented people in the industry! We have created this FULL immersion mentorship program to share EVERYTHING we have gleaned from numberless resources, hours behind the camera, books, classes, workshops, mentorships, podcasts, youtube videos, courses, styled shoots, Masters in business degree, blogs, software certifications, and the top educators in the business!
Cincinnati's favorite
photo and video team
all things business + photography // Hands on // one on one
editing, workflows, pricing, seo, client communication, branding, shooting + directing + utilizing all types of light, gear, timeline management, portfolio review, work-life balance, and most importantly, how to run an efficient and self-sustaining business.
Full - immersion Mentorship
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Empowering Fellow Photographers through
1.) Start off with a video phone call that sets you up with all the initial knowledge you'll need for a successful photo shoot. We share all the communication we have with our clients before their sessions, including our exclusive style guide, email templates, and all the perks we include in our client packages.
2.) Join us on a real engagement or senior session! You will shoot side by side with us and we will explain all the WHY's to everything we do and say! We will teach you our posing system, how to capture genuine happiness and confidence, how to completely win over your clients, how to find the best light, background tricks, and more!
4.) Come to our in-home studio for a full day of culling and editing education with lunch included! Together we'll cull and edit the session we shot together. We'll hold nothing back here as we give you our personal preset that is like nothing you've seen before! We have invested the most time and education into our editing style. We love the light and airy look, but hate how most photographers lose the richness and vibrance of their photos when they edit that way. We have developed a secret way to get the best of everything and we'll show you EXACTLY how we do it!
6.) Join us on a real wedding day! Not only will you get all our pre wedding communications, email templates, wedding day timelines, package details, gift ideas, and prep guide, but then you'll also be with us for an entire day of on the job training! You'll see how we proactively keep stress levels down, keep the timeline on track, love on the full wedding party from bride and groom, to parents, to impatient groomsmen and guests! You'll see how we ensure getting referrals to upcoming weddings while shooting the current one. How we serve the other vendors, and never miss a single picture worthy moment (including some major emotion filled shots that almost every other photographer doesn't even think about!) You'll learn flash and reception lighting techniques and how to get the best sparkler shots!
-Our workflow from start to finish
-Prepping for a shoot: must learn habits, checklist and pre-shoot client communication (i.e weather report, style tips and session guide, clothing/colors etc.)
-Shooting: mastering manual, using reflectors and finding natural reflectors,, composing images in camera, lighting (and how to find light anywhere), rule of thirds, using an expo disc for flawless white balance every time, discovering how backgrounds influence final images, how to tell a story with your images and much more!
-Posing- next to our editing, posing is where we've put a lot of effort in to make our business stand out! We will teach your our posing system that guarantees you'll never run out of posing ideas. You'll learn how to flatter EVERY body, pull beaming confidence out of even the shyest people, and get magazine worthy pictures, all while maintaining a natural feel!
-Editing: Giving you our secret preset, or helping you create one that is custom to your business + brand, how to have post-production consistency
-Organization: File Management, Back Ups, Lightroom Organization
-Maintaining personal boundaries. Make sure you're building a business you WANT to have!
-Client management
-Project organization
-Tracking Inquiries & Landing Leads
-Branding, Marketing + Advertising (and knowing the difference!)
-Social Media + Online Presence
-Curating your Instagram feed
-Portfolio critique: We will review your portfolio and website and recommend changes
-Networking, community + collaboration
-Pricing
-Business finances
-Equipment and software recommendations
-Camera gear recommendations and tips
-Reception lighting and flash education
-Client experience they'll rave about
-Contracts
-Templates for all our emails, details checklist, asking florist for extra loose flowers for styling, initial responses, wedding questionnaire, style guides, wedding guide, etc.
-How to submit galleries for publication
-Flat Lay tips and tricks
-How to attract and book your ideal client
-How to get the most out of a styled shoot
-Hosting your own styled shoot
-And so much more!
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We are an open book and will not hold back on sharing everything we know, cheering you and your business on, and becoming your number one supporters and life long friends!
