Why work with a professional photography coach?
Working with a professional photographer has all kinds of benefits. The longer you immerse yourself in the thought processes that go hand in hand with your goals the more you establish habits that manifest the achievements that you are striving for.
The sessions are set up to last for up to 2 hours. Most of my clients have found this to be about right. One hour is sometimes just not enough. Two gives us enough time to review our previous session, do exercises, discuss and set goals for the next session.
My coaching packages are available as follows: .. Please note: tutoring is not just for nature photographers, but applies to all kinds of photographers. I work with all levels from novice to professional.
I tutor you wherever you are in the world! Through the wonderful world of video conferencing we will see each other's computer desktops through "gotomeeting". Wherever you may be in this world this conferencing program makes us neighbors!

  • 1 hour tutor session @ $150
  • 2 hour tutor session @ $275
  • 4 week coaching commitment : $800. Includes 4 x 2 hour coaching sessions @ $100 / hour
  • 12 week coaching commitment: $2040. Includes12 x 2 hour coaching sessions @ 85/ hour
  • 6 month coaching commitment: $3360. Includes 24 x 2 hour coaching sessions @ $70/ hour


Testimonial:
Through the course of a webinar and one-on-one consultation, I have found Kristen to be remarkably open and giving of her considerable business, technical, and artistic expertise. She has helped me identify strengths and trends within my work of which I myself was unaware, and is guiding me on the path to professional success. Always patient, kind, and generous of spirit, Kristen is a joy to work with and the ideal mentor.
 Jack Johnson,www.jackjohnsonphoto.com
 What do I offer?

  • The Business of Photography
    • Finding your niche & Making a Plan
      • Exploring your passionI
      • Identifying your strengths
      • Finding focus - Staying focused
    • Become your own Critic
      • Identify your strenghts
      • Learning to cull your images
      • Cull again - keep only your best for means of exhibiting
    • Exhibiting your work
      • Finding a theme / body of work
      • Presenting your work
      • What size, how many?
      • Pricing your work
    • Selling - exploring options
      • Publications
      • Fine Art through galleries & Exhibitions
      • Website sales

Consulting & Instruction for Photographers:

  • Capture
    • It all begins here
    • Know your equipment
    • Getting the exposure right at capture!
    • Understanding exposure
    • shutter speed, Aperture, ISO - putting it all together
    • Learn to SEE creatively
    • getting out of programmed modes and learning manual - Don't let the camera control your images!
    • more - ask your consultant questions!
  • Post Capture / Pre-Process of RAW images in Adobe LIghtroom
    • Understanding the Histogram
    • Working with Raw images in Lightroom
    • Hightlight Recovery
    • Exporting
    • From LIghtroom to Photoshop
    • more! ask your tutor questions!
  • Post Capture / Processing in Adobe Photoshop
    • Photography Workflow
    • Adjustment Layers
    • Cleaning up images, removing unwanted artifacts,dust spots, etc
    • Cropping, expanding canvas
    • Actions - Creating and Using
    • Batch processing
    • Creating Web Galleries in Photoshop (or lightroom)
    • Creating & Adding your signature to photos
    • Saving your work
    • Any other photography related questions - ask your coach!
  • Photography critique
    • Learn to see with a critical eye
    • Show only your best images
    • more!


What can I expect? - A quicker learning curve. By consulting with a professional photogapher your learning curve will soar rather than crawl. Consulting saves time, money, and the headaches of going it alone. Get ahead so that you can do what it is that you want to do!

One on one consulting is tailor made to fit your current skills, your needs, and your goals.
Questions? contact me please.
These testimonials says it well:
This is an amazing professional. Take a look at her gallery..it speaks for itself! She knows how to take all of the golbedegook-talk of photography jargon and tune it down to my level (beginner) so that I could understand how to use my camera properly to capture specific lighting techniques and other important issues. I was so impressed that she efficiently and quickly found the talents I possess as an artist and expressed them to me in a way that let me know she was not touting me, yet also critiqued the technical issues that show up in my work without berating me and while also remaining encouraging.  

She has taken me from beginner level, helped me explore my talents, and guided me into the realm of the expansive professional level of photography with such wonderfully detailed guidance. She is honest in her assessments of my work, while being patient with me when I come across technical difficulties with my apperture and ISO settings! She is helping me learn via helping me to follow my own intuitive process, as opposed to teaching me counter- intuitive technical things to a beginner whose attention span is next to nothing! I hope she can be my teacher for LIFE!  
Pamela