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Union Station provides the perfect backdrop for hands-on learning and spacious classrooms for lecture and live demo classes.
With over 100 classes, there’s something here for everyone!

How do I register for a class?
You will be able to select classes 
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Specialty: Boudoir, maternity, portraiture, beauty, fine art, underwater, retouching, compositing

Don’t Complicate Your Lighting!

Speaker: Ric Lewis (Website) (Social Media)

Hands-On   

Beginner, Intermediate   

Are you a natural light photographer who wants to learn studio lighting? Are you new to off camera flash or continuous light? If you answered yes, this class is perfect for you. In this class I breakdown and simplify the most common portrait lighting setups. These setups are fool proof and guaranteed to deliver beautiful results every time. Learn to use lighting in a way that can evoke emotion or feeling from your image. Or, just learn how to get really beautiful light in a really easy and simple to remember way! It’s time to level up your photography and become more than a natural light photographer.

Specialty: Boudoir, maternity, portraiture, beauty, fine art, underwater, retouching, compositing

If You’re Not Taking Advantage Of Same Day Client Reveals What The F*ck Are You Doing?!?!

Speaker: Ric Lewis (Website) (Social Media)

Lecture   

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced   

Boudoir clients are the most excited the day of their session. Think about it! They’re feeling confident, empowered, recharged and on an emotional high from their session. This is the prime time to share with your client images from their session and increase your sales! This is when they’ll upgrade to a larger package or order more a la carte. Thus, increasing your profits!!! In this class, you’ll learn the techniques that I use in my session workflow to be able to do same day session reveals while ensuring images are already culled, edited, and ready to be printed!!!! Learn these techniques and learn how to apply them. Learn to reduce your editing and retouching time while still delivering quality work.

Specialty: Boudoir, maternity, portraiture, beauty, fine art, underwater, retouching, compositing

Retouching For Fine Art

Speaker: Ric Lewis (Website) (Social Media)

Lecture   

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced   

Since starting photography, one thing that I’ve been asked over and over again is “”How can I make my image look like a painting or like Fine Art?”” This class will be a combination of Hands-on and Lecture. You may not be shooting but you are welcome to bring your laptops and edit with me. In this class I teach you my post processing and editing work flow to create images that look like classical pieces of art. We will be editing images to look like and inspired by renaissance paintings. In the end, you’ll learn the tools, techniques, and tricks that you’ll need to have a portfolio worthy of an art gallery.

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April 22-25 2024 | St. Louis MO.

SKILL LEVELS

Beginner: Just starting out or relatively new to a given subject matter. Basics will be covered and the course will move at a slower pace. The instructor will spend a little more time trying to explain concepts to ensure everyone is following. On a scale of 1-10 consider this level a 1-3 on the given topic.

Intermediate: Has a grasp of some basic concepts. This course level will move at a faster pace and assume you have basic knowledge covered on the given subject matter. On a scale of 1-10 consider this level a 4-6 on the given topic.

Advanced: You have working knowledge of the given subject matter, but are looking for more fine-tuning and some advanced topics to take your work to that next level. DO NOT expect instructors to explain basic concepts in this course. On a scale of 1-10 consider this level a 7-10 on the given topic.

Class Types

Hands-On

These are shooting courses. You will be shooting and working. Bring your camera, gear, or whatever you need for the course and to create create images. Expect to have some level of shooting.

Live Demonstration

These are instructor-led courses where you will see a live demonstration of what the instructor is teaching. You can still bring your camera to these courses and you can photograph, but the goal of the course is NOT for you to shoot or to ensure you get a shot. The goal is for you to see how and why the instructor does what he/she does in order to get the final result.

Lecture

These are non-shooting courses. Typically classroom-based, bring your laptop and notepad and focus on learning!