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Mastering the Shoot and the Business is Overwhelming.

Whether you are struggling to nail your off-camera lighting on set, or drowning in the backend systems behind the screen, putting all the pieces together is exhausting. Mentoring is for the photographer who is:
  • Piecing together lighting advice from Instagram reels.
  • Freezing up when trying to pose a reluctant senior boy.
  • Stressing over how to efficiently run a massive sports media day.
  • Drowning in pricing spreadsheets and clunky workflow software at 11 p.m.
You don't need another unfinished online course. You need someone who has stood where you are standing to show you exactly how to execute the art and run the business.

Credentials & Expertise

Certified Professional Photographer (CPP)

Credentialed through the Professional Photographers of America (a distinction held by fewer than 2% of photographers nationwide)

SYNC Conference

(2025, 2026 & 2027) Destin, Florida

Luminaries Master Mind

(2025, 2026 & 2027) year-round membership. Yearly in person precon at SYNC

Seniors Unlocked

(2020 - Present) Ongoing Mentorship from Dan Frievalt with Seniors Unlocked

West Coast School of Photographers

(2026) under Alison Carlino (High School Senior & Media Day Methodology)

Texas School of Professional Photography

(2024) under Carl Caylor

(2023) under Ashley Siegert

(2022) under Alison Carlino

(2021) under Gary Box

All Senior Workshop

(2024) a three day intensive High School Senior Workshop in Wisconsin with Dan Frievalt, Josh Hanna, and Nathan Loker

Createography Workshop

(2018) Three-Day Intensive Game Changers by Shirk Photography, LLC with Ben Shirk

Local Masterclasses

(2023) Two-Day Masterclass with Alison Carlino (Phoenix, AZ)
(2024) The Light Exposed Workshop with Audrey Woulard (Phoenix, AZ)
(2023) One-Day Workshop with Josh Hanna (Prescott, AZ)

Backend Systems & AI Efficiency Training

Continuous monthly training through SYNC Luminaries with Jonathan Mast
AI Command Center Certification
AI Command Center 2.0 Certification
AI Agent Advantage Training
NotebookLM Content Factory Training

Formal Collegiate Education

Extensive college-level coursework dedicated to professional photography, lighting, and composition.

What You Will Learn:

  • Mastering the Solo Business Workflow: The exact business systems I use to run a boutique senior photography business as a solo operator, including client experience design, workflow, and the technology that keeps a personalized process from becoming unsustainable.
  • Building Authentic School Relationships: How to build real relationships with schools and coaches instead of doing transactional vendor work. You will learn the exact approach that has kept me on the Liberty sideline for eleven years and earned me a seat at staff lunch, not a spot in the vendor line.
  • Winning Over the Resistant Senior: How to work with the client nobody else wants, the resistant teenage boy who says he does not want senior pictures, and turn that session into the kind of work that gets referred.
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Capture undeniable images. Build unbreakable systems.

"Standing out is a choice...
... and ordinary is never acceptable."

~ DANI MACK

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