Mentoring, Teaching, and More

Update: This post includes information on different types of learning. I just want to remind you that I teach private lessons in the studio (2 hours for $100, 3 hours for $130). We start from where you are at in your photographic journey, whether with a new camera and just learning settings, or to polish your work as a portrait artist. Please be in touch to set up a couple of hours of learning ~ break out of the plateau that you're on, the feeling that you're not improving or gaining skill. Hands on with a Master Photographer beats youtube videos... from now to Sunday = )

From being fascinated with the printed image at seven, to celebrating over 40 years in the portrait studio… A few key moments ~

• Circa 1965 ~ Created first portrait with b&w film and Argoflex Seventy-Five camera at the age of 15
• 1984 ~ Opened June Jacobsen Portrait Studio on Long Island, NY
• 1986 ~ Graduated New York Institute of Photography
• 2000 ~ Earned the Master Photographer Degree from the PPA
• 1997 thru 2000 ~ 4-Time Winner of the ‘Top Portrait Photographer of the Year Award’ from the Professional Photographers of Greater New York (PPGNY) 
• 2024 ~ Celebrating 40 Years of ‘Creating Portraits with the Essence of a Painting and the Reality of a Photograph’
• Covering a few decades ~ Travelled to All 7 Continents (about 40 countries) to photograph wildlife, track Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda, swim with Humpback Whales in Tonga, dive with Bull Sharks in Fiji, and plenty more = )
• Published by National Geographic, Disney, BBC Wildlife, Travel + Leisure, Newsweek, Amazon, Professional Photographer Magazine, and many more international publications.

So what’s going on now? Summertime and the living is easy, sort of. Sessions out in the garden are special, but trickier than in-studio, and I have a LOT of tips and tricks for those who wish to create more artistic, painterly, and classic portraits, despite the challenging conditions of outdoors. Besides shooting sessions, I’m offering a variety of training, mentoring, teaching sessions, which I’ll explain more in the coming days.

One of the teaching methods will be ‘In-studio Coached Sessions’. If you are a photographer of any skill level and feel you would like to level up your sessions, and you have a child/children/adult who you would like to photograph in my studio, with your camera, my lights and props, etc., then be in touch and let’s talk about planning such a session. The cost for a 2-hour portrait session is $300. I am there to help with lighting, give instruction where you need it, answer questions, work on beautiful posing, the goal being to create what I call a ‘Wall-Worthy Piece of Art’, not a nice snapshot that only looks good as an 8x10, or worse yet, stuck on your phone or in the cloud, whatever that is. (#PrintYourPictures = ).

Another type of help session will be Edit Sit-Downs ~ working on your photos, start to finish in Lightroom and Photoshop.

That’s all for now, please be in touch via my email, just to get the conversation started. Talk soon! = )

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