With 30+ years of experience in photography, one-on-one mentoring for photographers looking to improve their shooting, lighting, retouching, workflow, or portfolio. Focused on your questions, your work, and your goals. Available virtually or in person.
Every session is built around your work and your goals, not a fixed curriculum. We focus on the areas that will actually help you move forward.
Reading natural light, camera settings, and the habits that turn a lucky shot into a repeatable one.
Developing an efficient process for reviewing, selecting, organizing, and preparing your images without getting buried in the process.
Editing your work down to a strong, cohesive set and creating a portfolio or website that makes sense to potential clients.
Getting more from your images through thoughtful editing, color, tonal adjustments, skin, cleanup, and natural-looking retouching.
Talking through your photography, creative goals, projects, and the questions that come up as you develop your own voice and approach.
Honest feedback on your work and finding the visual throughline that makes your images feel like yours.
You don't need much to get real value from a mentoring or coaching session, but a little preparation helps us make the most of our time together.
You're comfortable with your camera but want to move beyond auto mode and start making more deliberate choices about exposure, light, composition, lenses, and settings. Maybe you're unsure why your images aren't looking the way you imagined, or you simply want to understand your camera and photography better.
You're serious about your photography and thinking about turning it into a business. We can work through things like building a portfolio, finding your style and direction, pricing your work, finding clients, presenting yourself professionally, and figuring out the practical side of working as a photographer.
You're already booking clients, but you want another experienced set of eyes on your work or someone to help you work through a specific challenge. That might be lighting, shooting technique, editing and retouching, workflow, portfolio development, client communication, pricing, or the business side of freelancing. You don't have to fit neatly into one of these categories. Bring whatever you're working on, and we'll focus on what will be most useful to you right now.
Reserve your session and send a quick note about where you're at, what you're working on, and what you'd like to focus on. If we're reviewing your photography, feel free to include images, a portfolio link, or anything else you'd like me to look at beforehand.
We spend the session working through what matters to you — reviewing images, discussing technique and lighting, looking at editing and workflow, talking through business questions, or simply figuring out the next step. We'll screen-share whenever it helps.
You should leave with a clearer understanding of what to work on and some concrete takeaways you can actually put into practice. If useful, I can also provide a short written recap of what we covered.
One-on-one mentoring for photographers who want to grow — from lighting and style to portfolio development, retouching, and workflow.
No. You don't need the latest or most expensive gear. Good photography is about understanding how to see, make decisions, and get the most out of the equipment you have. Bring your own camera and gear, and we'll work with what you already have — whether we're talking technique, lighting, workflow, editing, or the business side of photography.
Absolutely. Some photographers come back for a single tune-up or to work through a specific question. Others book several sessions while developing their portfolio, refining their work, or building their business. There's no set program. Book what makes sense for where you are and what you want to work on.
Sessions are not recorded. If you'd like, I can provide a short written recap of what we covered — just let me know when you book.
That's completely fine. Send me a quick message describing where you're at, what you're working on, or where you're feeling stuck, and I'll let you know honestly whether mentoring or coaching is the right fit — or if something else might make more sense.
Sessions available in-studio and on location — Phoenix, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and beyond.