Lens & Light 2025 Summit

Get ready to unlock the full potential of your camera and expand your creative skillset. Intro to Video for Photographers is designed specifically for photographers who want to step confidently into the world of video. Whether you’ve never switched your camera to video mode or you’ve dabbled but feel unsure about the more technical and storytelling aspects, this class will give you the foundation you need.


Steve and Jean will cover essential settings, basic gear considerations, camera movements, and how to think in sequences rather than single frames, whether it's for client work, social media, or personal projects. By the end, you’ll gain more confidence and understanding around how to capture great looking video with the camera you already own.


Join us and take the first step toward adding video to your creative toolkit!

 Building a Successful Photography Business – From Passion to Profit

Join award-winning photographer Amanda Akokhia for a three-hour masterclass designed to help photographers turn their passion into a profitable business. This session blends creative techniques with essential business strategies, giving you the tools to thrive in the commercial photography industry. You’ll learn lighting for commercial briefs, develop compelling mood boards, and master creative direction and  elevate your work. Beyond the technical skills, Amanda will guide you through monetizing your craft, pricing competitively, branding your business, marketing effectively on social media, and getting published. Through interactive group activities, real-world commercial briefs, and hands-on portfolio-building exercises, you'll gain practical insights that will set you apart in the industry. By the end of the session, you’ll walk away with a clear business roadmap, fresh portfolio-worthy images, and the confidence to build a thriving photography career.

Want to serve EVERY CLIENT with an album?
This three hour masterclass will dive into the entire workflow for adding albums to your wedding and portrait workflows and to your client experience.
Shaun Gordon was a wedding photographer for 15 years and photographed around 500 weddings. He will unpack his proven system that will help you serve more, if not all, of you clients with albums. Offering albums is scary, and Shaun understands why many of us don't show up fully in all the things that we can do to build a better business and a better life.
A year after this masterclass, you can be proud of doing scary things and you will see the impact that you are having on you clients and your bank account.
In this course, Shaun will cover:

• Social Media
• Website
• Consultation
• Communication
• Engagement Album Offering
• Emails to Clients
• Client Gifts
• Parent album sales
• How to create YOUR version of the client journey