Online school for beginners and professional photographers "Art photography from A to Z"

Learn new skills of child and family photography by making a selling portfolio and become a top photographer in your city!

- Clients will queue up on their own

- No need to sit up nights for processing

- The school will pay for itself in one photo shoot

Do you want to shoot and edit stunning photos that will take your friends 'and customers' breath away?

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$158

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School "Children and Family Art and Creative Photography and Editing from A to Z"

Lifetime access to the lessons

~~2 videocalls of the VIP group with Elena Mikhailova with a analysis of your photos and answers to your questions~~

~~Personal Whats App chat with Elena for 2 months, where you can ask any questions~~

~~Analysis of the graduation project and reaching the desired result~~

Certificate of completion "Children and Family Art and Creative Photography and Editing from A to Z"

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Study with mentoring by Elena Mikhailova

$398

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School "Children and Family Art and Creative Photography and Editing from A to Z"

Lifetime access to the lessons

2 videocalls of the VIP group with Elena Mikhailova with a analysis of your photos and answers to your questions

Personal Whats App chat with Elena for 2 months, where you can ask any questions

Analysis of the graduation project and reaching the desired result

Certificate of Education with my personal mentoring. "Children and Family Art and Creative Photography and Editing from A to Z"

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And learn how to create spectacular photos that you can’t take your eyes off

If you:

Do you really on luck to take great photos?

You struggle to create the desired effect, but the result is that the photo is different from the picture in your head

Are you afraid to start taking money for shooting, because you are not sure about your own work

You would have started creating stunning images long ago, but

1. You lack technical skills

2. Don’t know how to compose a frame

3. Your photos after processing look too unrealistic or fake

4. Don’t understand how to control the light to get beautiful color patterns and convey emotions and states

5. Don’t know how to choose the right image of heroes and find a beautiful location

This is what most photographers face But things can be very different…

Just imagine:

You create outstanding photos that will take your friends and customers ' breath away

You have become a sought-after specialist and earn decent money

You give people happiness, joy and magic with your art

My name is Elena MikhailovaI’m among the Top 3 best children’s photographers in the world according to 35 AWARDS.

I have been working in professional photography for more than 10 years and teaching 6 years. And helped over 6,000 people master the art of photography.

And also a mother of four children, thanks to whom she found herself in the photo industry.

Before the birth of three daughters, she worked as a top manager of a movie theater chain and even made a good career. But after going on maternity leave, I had a new hobby that brings joy and pleasure — photography.

Children were my first models. And my first first photos were, to put it mildly… not outstanding/terrible. I’ll show you a few (please don’t laugh!) 🙈:

As you can see, my pictures were pretty mediocre…

I wasn’t born with a talent for photography.

I haven’t always held photography workshops all over the world… I didn’t have a queue of clients…I was as much an budding photographer as most people.

And I didn’t know how ISO differs from the aperture. But at the very beginning of my career, I realized one thing — I lack knowledge and experience.

And the best way to quickly teach how to take amazing photos is to learn from the best.

For almost 10 years I have been looking through all the best photos to find what unites them.

And my photos gradually got better as I continued to decipher the secrets that professionals used and created my own!

And now the good news!

You can also become a great photographer and take pictures that take your breath away. Even if you think you have no talent at all… or have already tried everything…

And you don’t have to spend years doing it like I do. You can achieve huge improvements almost instantly, because…

There are certain techniques that all great photographers use when shooting and editing

And everyone can take great photos if they use these techniques. I collected all this knowledge and skills in my school:

School of photography

from the world’s TOP 3 children and family photographers

“Art and editing photography from A to Z”

Self-study

$158

Popular tariff

School "Children and Family Art and Creative Photography and Editing from A to Z"

Lifetime access to the lessons

~~2 videocalls of the VIP group with Elena Mikhailova with a analysis of your photos and answers to your questions~~

~~Personal Whats App chat with Elena for 2 months, where you can ask any questions~~

~~Analysis of the graduation project and reaching the desired result~~

Certificate of completion "Children and Family Art and Creative Photography and Editing from A to Z"

Pay by Card

Study with mentoring by Elena Mikhailova

$398

VIP tariff

School "Children and Family Art and Creative Photography and Editing from A to Z"

Lifetime access to the lessons

2 videocalls of the VIP group with Elena Mikhailova with a analysis of your photos and answers to your questions

Personal Whats App chat with Elena for 2 months, where you can ask any questions

Analysis of the graduation project and reaching the desired result

Certificate of Education with my personal mentoring. "Children and Family Art and Creative Photography and Editing from A to Z"

Pay by Card

Pay PayPal

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Check out the works of my students:

School of photography

from the world’s TOP 3 children and family photographers

“Art and editing photography from A to Z”

22 lessons, 16 hours video

1. Great Photo Art Workshop “My Artistic Processing from A to Z” ($250 Value) (7 hours)

Workshop program: сlick here

1. Conversion from RAW in Adobe Camera RAW. Qualitative basic correction.We will gradually go through all the tabs: basic, calibration, detail, effects, lens correction, HSL adjustments, split toning.This will show what artistic tricks we can use when developing a RAW file.

- Correct cropping and transformation of a photograph. Frames merging.

- Work with plasticity of faces and bodies. Correction of defects. Nuances of work.

- Work with backgrounds. Deleting extraneous content. Different types of blurring.

- Retouching skin. Skin fast processing (multiple options). Peculiarities of child and adult retouching.

- Work with a skin tone (few options). Skin tone equalization.

- Methods of adding contrast (few options).

- Draw a light and shade pattern (few methods).

- Work with the overall color scheme of a photograph (few options).

- How to get lush, clean colors.

- Work with plug-ins. Helper filters that I use. Explore their settings.

- Actions: learning about recording and setting the basic ones. Hot keys for easy work.

- Enhance artistry, volume, and space in a photo. Make your picture look more airy.

- How to reduce noise in a photo (multiple ways).

- Sharpening (multiple ways).

- Blending modes. Working with layers and masks.

- Work in curves.

- Matt toning. When is it appropriate?

- My secrets and “tricks” that greatly speed up the processing.

- Preparation for printing.

- Preparation for posting on the Internet.

- Complete scheme of photo processing.

The programs in which the training will take place: Adobe Camera RAW; Adobe Photoshop.

2. Lesson “Skin tone” ($70 Value)

You will learn how you can make your skin tone more attractive if your skin tone is red, yellow or green already at the development stage in Camera Raw/ Lightroom…

3. Backlighting retouch ($70 Value)

This is a lesson on how to process a backlight photo. I purposely took a bad photo to show you how to edit a photo with problems.

4. Lesson “The harmony of a perfect photo” ($60 Value)

This lesson will show you how to use light, colour and the right clothes to create a harmonious photo.

5. 158-pages Guide All Secrets by Elena Mikhailova “Artistic photography through my eyes” ($60 Value)

In this guide I have collected all the secrets accumulated over many years of work and it contains everything I use in practice; there is nothing superfluous!

6. Bonus ($100 Value)

More than 2 300 textures and overlays (snow, autumn leaves, flower petals, bokeh of multicolored night lights, soap bubbles, balloons).

7. The Backlighting Video Lesson ($50 Value)

In this tutorial, you will learn one of the most beautiful techniques in photography: backlighting:

The work and peculiarities of shooting in backlight

Special effects in shooting and additional props

Shooting from a low point with photographic effects

8. The Backlighting Guide ($15 Value)

How to become a successful and in-demand photographer?

Learn one of the most beautiful techniques in photography: backlighting!

Have you noticed how eye-catching are photos with backlighting and how often do you want to look at them again? Here is the secret of backlighting!

9. “3D effect in photography” ($70 Value)

How to find the right locations, perspectives, so that photos immediately look deep and three-dimensional.

How to use Perspective

How to use light and its directionality correctly

How to make a photo light and airy.

Achieving depth of volume in photos. Artistic Processing

The secrets of processing in Photoshop.

10. “Boy with a rabbit” ($50 Value)

In this lesson, we will analyze a step-by-step algorithm for processing photos. You’ll learn how to work with plugins, filters, curves, layers, and masks

Image editing in Camera Raw — basic colour correction, working with gradients, brushes, cropping.

Using Photoshop for artistic processing

11. “Posing models in photography” ($50 Value)

In this lesson you will learn how to pose and expose models of different ages. I believe that this lesson refers to the mandatory basic knowledge so that you can grow quickly in photography and earn more.

12. “Children and Family Shooting on a Summer Day in the Outdoors” ($50 Value)

In this video I will show how I choose different locations in practice, how I work with the model, and how to do a complete photo shoot for a client.

How to work with non-professional models.

How to choose a location of the shooting

Shooting from different points

Backlight with a photographic flashlight

Shooting by the water

Sunset Side Light Shooting

13. “Shooting in bloom" ($50 Value)

In this tutorial I show in practice how I place the heroes respect to the flowers in order to get a beautiful blur in the background.

Shooting with white flowering.

Shooting in the evening.

Shooting in sunny weather

Shooting the model in flowering

14. “Portrait shooting in a studio with natural light” ($50 Value)

In this lesson I will show how I take a portrait in the studio, how I work with the model, how to find the right light, and do some experiments.

Work with the young model. Preparing for the shoot.

How to use a light reflector correctly

Shooting with a light torch.

15. “All about the eyes in a portrait” ($50 Value)

You will learn my secrets of working with models and discover 3 easy ways on how to beautifully process the eyes.

How to enlarge the eyes shape

How to remove eye defects

How to whiten the whites of the eye

How to add highlights to the eyes

How to make the eyes more volume

Secret-shine eyes and corneal tinting

16. “Shooting at noon” ($50 Value)

I’ll show where I put the model when shooting on a sunny midday. How I look for reflective objects to illuminate the model.

First pictures of shooting in the shade

Shooting with the sun (secrets and techniques)

Shooting the model with her back to the sun.

Shooting at noon at 12:00

17. Video Lesson “Shooting with animals” ($50 Value)

It’s no secret that animals and children are loved all over the world. I learned a long time ago that this is the most sought-after genre that people are willing to pay a good price for.

Why does everyone like photos with children and animals so much? Interaction with animals is always a special experience and a great joy for our characters!

At the moment of communication with them, children, and even adults forget about the photographer, relax, and give out natural and sincere emotions. Such shots will not leave anyone indifferent.

18. Webinar “Ideal shot with animals” ($50 Value)

I’ll show you my favorite tricks for taking and artistically processing photos of animals.You will learn the special features of animal photo processing: how to show the structure of animal hair, how to combine 2 frames into 1 successful one.

How to prepare models and animals.

Peculiarities of shooting with animals

Working in Photoshop. Artistic photo processing.

19. “Girl with an Owl” ($50 Value)

The lesson demonstrates a detailed step-by-step processing of photos, working with textures, plug-ins and filters. You will also learn how to work with curves, layers and masks.

20. Video lesson "Shooting pregnant women"

A pregnant photo shoot is a special kind of shooting that I love very much., because waiting for a baby is a magical time for parents and I really want to emphasize all the femininity, tenderness and beauty of the expectant mother.

In this lesson, I will tell you how to choose the locations correctly, which moments should be paid attention while shooting. How to get wonderful pictures and have a lot of positive emotions.