For the first time, the body of a blog post isn’t going to be written by me. Per request, I’ve started to offer in person mentor sessions to other professional photographers. Kimberli Kravitz was the first photographer to take advantage.
I asked her to write a blog post about her experience. Here it is!
I traveled to Lamar, Missouri two weekends ago to do a mentor session with Jessica Edwards Photography. I am so happy I choose to do this. The day started out with a early morning senior session with Caleb. I am by far not a morning person, but I got my sugar free red bull, grab my equipment, and headed out with Jessica. The session started out at a local park with Caleb and a beautiful Chevy Nova. Being that it was so early in the morning, we had great fog to work with. It gave the shots a very vintage feel. During this part of the session I most observed Jessica to see how she interacted with her clients and ran her shoots. I did, however, get a few shots of my own.
I really enjoyed seeing Jessica’s perspective of certain shots. For this next shot, I would have probably done the “mirror” shot one of the side mirrors, but I was happy to try it from a different angle. I think the shot came out great, and she showed me how to “bounce” the flash in different directions to get different lighting on Caleb’s face in the mirror.
Next, we ventured out to some farm land to finish up the outdoor portion of Caleb’s shoot. This place had so much to offer. Again, I wanted to observe but still got off a few shots. The sun was coming out and the fog was slowly fading so it was a perfect opportunity to discuss lighting. It was, also, nice to be able to compare shots of the exact same pose and discuss why they looked different. I am a visual learner so that was awesome for me to be able to do.
After we finished with Caleb’s outdoor shoot we headed to the studio for his indoor session. During and after we discussed so many things! Jessica gave me some great ideas for my studio equipment that I can’t wait to try out. We were able to discuss advertising, pricing, posing, camera settings, post processing, and just about anything you could think of that would be involved in the “business” side of things. I, also, got to sit threw a viewing session. I had never thought about doing view sessions, and was amazed by how well this went! I am definitely going to be looking into adding this to my business.
I am so happy I was able to join Jessica for the day. She was AWESOME!!!! I really feel like my business will benefit from doing this mentor session. If you are a photographer looking to have a one-on-one mentor session I highly recommend Jessica!
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Thanks, Kim! I absolutely love teaching and hanging out with other photographers, so I’m very glad that we did this.
If any other photographers decide you want to do this as well, just remember to bring water proof shoes! haha *that will make more sense when I blog about Caleb’s senior session and shooting with Kim* 
by Jessica Edwards
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