Mastering Authentic Connection
The Complete Posing Course For Family Photographers
Mastering Authentic Connection
Posing Families is SO much more than just “put your hand here. Tilt your head that way.”
It’s making every member of the family feel comfortable enough to be their authentic self.
It’s facilitating genuine emotions between parents and their children. It’s creating a fun environment for real family memories. It’s making mamas feel confident and beautiful. It’s getting to know your families so they feel seen and loved and you can capture their true personalities. It’s being able to deliver galleries that make mamas cry happy tears because you captured this season of life for their family perfectly.
The Mastering Authentic Connection posing course is SO much more than just a list of prompts and poses, although you WILL walk away with SO many new prompts and poses to (literally) have in your back pocket during photo sessions.
But you will also learn how to tailor your prompts and poses to each family. How to create an amazing client experience through posing. How to never run out of ideas during your sessions. How to overcome challenging situations. And SO much more!!
And the BEST part, you’ll get to virtually shadow me at FOUR different full family sessions behind the scenes.
Watch me photograph four full family sessions and hear exactly what I say to clients to achieve each pose, how I make everyone feel comfortable, how I create a fun environment, and how I structure the flow of my sessions.
Watch me Photograph These Four Family Sessions!
Come with me behind the scenes and watch me photograph these four full family sessions! You can hear exactly what I say to families to achieve each pose. Watch how I make every member of the family feel comfortable enough to be their authentic selves. Watch in real time as I deal with difficult situations like toddlers yelling “no!” or kids only wanting to be held.
What you’ll learn
✨ The Bonuses ✨
My Family Session Questionnaire
Download the questionnaire that I use to get to know my families before our session in order to tailor my prompts and poses specifically to them (and without adding any time onto my workflow)
My Family Prep Guide
Get the guide that I use to prep my families before their session in order to be prepared for those fun, snuggly, authentic candid images filled with genuine emotion. Use my exact words if you want!
My Posing Deck
Take my posing deck with you to your sessions to literally have right in your back pocket!!
Virtually Shadow Me!
Virtually shadow me at four full family sessions behind the scenes. And see the full galleries that I created for my families from those sessions!
Watch me photograph these Four sessions!
Here are the family session videos that I created during the photoshoots that you will get to watch me photograph behind the scenes! I take photos and videos during my sessions, so of course you will see how I achieve the photos as well! All of my prompts and poses work perfectly for both photo AND video!
Meet your instructor
Michelle Poteet
Hey there! I’m Michelle. A wife, mama, photographer+videographer, and photography educator.
My absolute FAVORITE part of what I do is getting to teach photographers like you how to elevate your business, love and serve your clients well, raise your prices, and bless your families with your business.
I’ve been where you are! I remember the days of drawing blanks at my photoshoot and not knowing what to do next. The days of being shy behind the camera and not knowing how to take control of the situation. The days of letting grumpy dads dictate the mood of the session. The days of longer for those authentic, genuine, emotion-filled candid family images but not knowing know to achieve them.
I’ve spent the last 10 years honing my craft, learning how to love and serve families (and photographers) well. And I’m ready to share everything I’ve learned with you, so you can take the short cut to success instead of the long way!
What’s inside
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The Complete Posing Course For Family Photographers
What if you could:
Never run out of posing ideas at your family sessions
Always feel confident taking charge at your family sessions
Learn how to get to know your clients in a way that makes them feel seen and loved WITHOUT adding any extra time to your workflow
Create an amazing client experience that your families rave about
Have TONS of prompts and poses in your back pocket to bring with you to your family sessions
Know how to tailor your prompts and poses to each individual family's personalities
Love and serve families with special needs well
Shadow me at 4 full family sessions
Mastering Authentic Connection: The Complete Posing Course For Family Photographers will revolutionize your posing at family sessions, your client experience, your portfolio, and your business.
Want to shadow me at a photoshoot? How about shadowing me at FOUR different photoshoots?!
I get messages from local photographers all the time asking if they can shadow me at my sessions to learn how I pose my clients, take charge of the session, and make everyone feel comfortable enough to be their authentic selves.
And while I don't allow photographers to shadow me at my paid sessions, I do offer a service like this as part of my in person mentor sessions ($800 value). I set up a styled session and we photograph the session together, helping my mentee through posing, working with the clients, etc.
But what if you could virtually shadow me at my sessions (and for a MUCH cheaper price tag)??
You CAN virtually shadow me! Inside of Mastering Authentic Connection: The Complete Posing Course For Family Photographers, you get to virtually shadow me at four different full family sessions.
Watch how I structure my sessions, hear how I talk to my families, and learn exactly what I say to my clients to achieve each pose.
Ready to Create the authentic Images filled with genuine emotion that you’ve always dreamed of??
Enroll Now
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The Complete Posing Course For Family Photographers
What Makes Mastering authentic connection different from other family posing courses out there?
I’m glad you asked! My heart behind this course was to create something truly unique that focuses on how to love and serve your families well through posing.
Mastering Authentic Connection is NOT just another list of prompts and poses. It’s not a “three step system” to use at every family session.
What I DON’T want is for you to come away from this course with a memorized list of exactly what poses to do at every session. Because 1) how boring would that be and 2) it would not be genuine or authentic for you families.
In this course, I focus heavily on how to tailor your prompts and poses to each individual family and their personalities. How to create a fun environment where every member of the family feel comfortable enough to be their authentic self. How to guide your families into prompts that are natural for THEM and show off their unique love and connection. No two families love each other in the same ways. And no two families should have the exact same posing experience with you as their photographer. At least not if you want to showcase their authentic connection.
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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This is a video based course! You will see my face the entire time while I teach you about posing families! You will also get to watch me photograph four FULL family sessions behind the scenes as if you’re virtually shadowing me!!
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As long as you need! This is a self-paced course. You will always have access to the course, and you will receive any updates I make to the course forever!
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All skill levels are welcome and encouraged to take this course! If you’re a beginner - you will learn SO much! And if you’re an experienced professional, you will STILL learn so much. You can never know so much that you’re ready to stop learning. I’ll give you TONS of new poses and prompts to have in your back pocket, as well as TONS of tips and tricks to help your sessions run more smoothly
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You can schedule a mentor session with me here!
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My posing style in natural, genuine, and authentic. I always get those good looking and smiling at the camera photos (and I teach you how to get them) BUT the majority of my sessions focus on candids, playing, games, and fun. I aim to create a fun environment where every member of the family feels comfortable enough to be their authentic self. I facilitate real family members that I capture as they unfold in front of my camera. In this course, I teach you how to create those authentic connections that make mamas cry tears of joy!
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Yes! You can see all of my education here! Want a course you don’t see? Reach out and let me know!
