Led by light

Level-up Your Photography

A one month online course that will simplify storytelling, composition and teach you to follow light, fine tune your images and help you find your signature style. This course will provide a lot of content on Landscape photography but can be applied to most natural light situations!

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Led By Light

What is included:

  • 4 weeks of 30 minute sessions 5 times a week (a total of 20, 30 min lessons)

  • 1 video a week of me talking and showing you how I work!

  • A printable worksheet for each lesson

  • A printable guide for each week

  • 20 shooting prompts

  • An entry for a 1hr. zoom photography mentor session once a week for four weeks IF you post daily and tag sydneysmolla_art on instagram.

This is for you if:

  • Maybe you don’t have your own business but want to improve and learn for your job or your hobby!

  • You love photography and want to learn how to capture more compelling images!

  • You have a DSLR and Mirrorless Camera and know Manual setting like the back of your hand

  • You love photographing outside

  • You love to capture the details and learn new ways to elevate your images

  • You know how to use your camera but want to find a style that says YOU when people see it

  • Light catches your eye but you don’t know how to capture it in a compelling way

  • You have a photography business or want to make a living off of photography

  • You have been a photographer for a couple years

  • You are a portrait photographer and want to increase your knowledge with landscape shooting to elevate your work

Investment:

  • 5 days a week, 45 minutes a day 4 weeks

  • You picking up your camera and shooting everyday there is a lesson

  • $400.00 upfront (discount offered if you sign up for newsletter and the email list)

I want to sign up!

  • This course will open in 2024

  • Those who sign up for a newsletter will hear the launch date first and receive a 20% discount off the course!

  • Sign up will be located on this page once it is open!

Lesson Sneak Peaks!

Week 1

The lens you see the world through

  • Discovering what catches your eye

  • A breakdown on colors, textures, and light

  • Times of days and what the light does

  • Expectations for the perfect shot and missing out on better views

  • Studying the sun and weather patterns, and how wildlife and nature reacts to those patterns

Week 2

Light and Framing up a shot

  • What to do when you face beauty overwhelm or underwhelm

  • Setting up the shot

  • When the light isn’t what you wanted

  • Shooting with overcast skies and making it intriguing

  • Learning to love shadows

Week 3

Shooting in a familiar environment

  • Training the eye and mind

  • Straying from what you usually shoot and trying something new

  • Thinking what if

  • Seeing everything as a possibility

  • Shooting in a familiar location will train you to think outside the box.

Week 4

Telling the story you want to see in the world

  • What is creative storytelling?

  • Looking around you for beauty even in places you didn’t think you could find it

  • Breaking down concepts to visually tell the story

  • Taking time to study the environment and read the story before you tell it

  • Tell the story