The Photography Mentor

The Photography Mentor Sustainable growth.

Helping photographers & small business owners grow online. ✨
📸 13+ years full-time photographer
🎥 Content Studio Owner & Business Coach
🚀 Teaching content, Meta Ads & sold-out mini sessions
🤍 Real strategies.

30/08/2026

Maybe you’ve had the thought…

“I actually think I could be good at this.”

You’ve bought the camera. You LOVE taking photos. Your friends keep telling you that you should do photography properly.

But secretly, you have absolutely no idea where to start.

You see photographers talking about aperture, shutter speed, ISO, RAW, focus modes and white balance and think…

Am I supposed to know all of this already?

You change settings without really knowing why.

You take 20 photos hoping one is sharp.

You’re terrified someone will ask you to photograph their family because suddenly it’s not just your own kids in front of the camera.

And every time you try to learn, you end up with 15 YouTube tabs open and somehow feel more overwhelmed than when you started.

This is EXACTLY who I created The Family Photography System™ for.

I want to be the person who says:

Start here. I’ll show you.

I’ll teach you what gear you actually need, how your camera works, how to shoot in manual, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focus, RAW, white balance, natural light and the settings I use.

And then I don’t just leave you with the theory.

Come with me on a real family session.

Watch where I put them.
How I prompt them.
How I use the light.
How the session actually flows.

Then come home with me and watch me edit the full session.

You’ll also get my outdoor preset + Family Photography Guide with my settings and posing prompts.

After 14+ years as a professional photographer and 1,000+ families photographed, I’ve created the course I wish someone had handed me when I was standing at the beginning thinking…

“I want to do this. I just don’t know how.”

You can learn.

And this could genuinely be the beginning of something you end up doing for a living. 🤍

The introductory price is just $47 USD.

Comment FAMILY SYSTEM and I’ll send you the link 📸👇

30/08/2026

After 14+ years as a professional photographer and photographing over 1,000 families, I can edit a full family session in around 30 minutes. But I definitely didn’t start there. 👀

If you’re photographing a family for 45 minutes and then spending your entire night editing the gallery, tweaking the exposure on every image, changing colours back and forth, trying to get skin tones right and wondering why nothing looks consistent, you don’t need to become a faster editor. You need a better system.

And that system starts before you even open Photoshop.

Getting it right in camera. Understanding your settings. Knowing how to use natural light. Creating consistency while you shoot. Then having a simple editing workflow you can repeat every single time.

That’s exactly what I teach inside The Family Photography System™. 📸

I teach you how to actually use your camera, shoot in manual mode, understand aperture, shutter speed + ISO, focus, natural light, golden hour and my family camera settings. Then you’ll come BTS with me on a REAL family session, before watching me edit the full session in Photoshop so you can see exactly how I get from RAW files to a finished gallery.

PLUS you’ll get my outdoor preset + Family Photography Guide with camera settings and posing prompts.

Because a 45-minute family session shouldn’t mean another four hours sitting at your computer. 🤍

The entire system is currently just $47 USD as an introductory offer.

Comment FAMILY SYSTEM and I’ll send you the link 👇📸

30/08/2026

You LOVE photography. You’ve invested in the camera, maybe even a beautiful lens, but if someone asked you what aperture you should use for a family of five, when to increase your ISO, what shutter speed you need for running kids or WHY your photos keep coming out slightly blurry… you’re still not totally sure.

So you Google settings. Save posts. Screenshot other photographers’ advice. Change random numbers until the photo looks right.

That’s exactly who I created The Family Photography System™ for.

After 14+ years photographing over 1,000 families and teaching other photographers, I’ve taken what I teach and put it into one easy-to-follow course.

We start at the BEGINNING. What gear you actually need, how your camera works, manual mode, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focus, RAW, white balance, natural light, golden hour and the settings I actually use.

Then you come BTS with me on a REAL family session and see how I put it all together.

You’ll watch my full editing workflow, get my outdoor preset AND my Family Photography Guide with camera settings + posing prompts.

It’s time to actually understand what you’re doing behind the camera. 🤍

And right now, the entire system is just $47 USD.

Comment FAMILY SYSTEM and I’ll send you the link 📸👇

29/08/2026

IT’S FINALLY HERE 🤍📸 The Family Photography System™ is officially LIVE. I created this for the beginner photographer who bought the fancy camera and quickly realised they have no idea what half the buttons actually do. For the photographer still Googling camera settings before a shoot, wondering what aperture to use for a family of five, panicking when the light starts disappearing, taking 20 versions of the same photo because they’re not sure they nailed focus, running out of things to do with a family halfway through a session, or spending HOURS editing because they don’t have a workflow yet. You don’t need a better camera. You need to understand how to actually USE the one you have. After 14+ years as a professional photographer, photographing over 1,000 families and teaching other photographers, I’ve put everything I know about family photography into one system. We start right at the beginning with what gear you actually need, understanding your camera, shooting in manual mode, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focus, RAW, white balance, natural light, golden hour and the camera settings I use for families. Then we take it into the REAL world. Come behind the scenes and watch me photograph an actual family session from start to finish, see how I direct and prompt families, then watch my editing process as I work through a full family session. You’ll also get my outdoor preset + my Family Photography Guide with my camera settings and posing prompts so you have something to refer back to when you need it. This is about getting you out of guessing mode and helping you finally understand what you’re doing behind the camera and WHY. And because it’s brand new, I’m launching it at a CRAZY introductory price of just $47 USD 🤯 If you’re ready to become a more confident family photographer, comment FAMILY SYSTEM below and I’ll send you the link 🤍📸

29/08/2026

You don’t need another YouTube tutorial telling you to “shoot in manual.” You need someone to actually show you what to do when a real family is standing in front of your camera. 📸 Because I know what keeps photographers stuck. You’re changing your settings without really understanding why. You’re terrified of getting home and realising half the gallery is out of focus. You’re wondering what aperture to use when there are five people instead of one. You’re watching the light disappear while trying to remember what ISO, shutter speed and white balance should be. You’re running out of poses, the kids are losing interest, the parents are looking at you waiting for direction and suddenly everything you thought you knew about photography disappears. Then you get home with hundreds of RAW files and spend HOURS trying to make the gallery look consistent. That is exactly why I created The Family Photography System™. After 14+ years photographing families and building a multi six-figure full-time photography business, I’m taking you behind the scenes of how I actually photograph a family session. I’ll teach you how to understand your camera, shoot confidently in manual mode, understand aperture, shutter speed and ISO, find beautiful natural light, choose your settings for families, direct and prompt your clients, photograph a REAL family session with me and then see my editing process from RAW files to finished gallery. You’ll also get my outdoor preset + 22-page Family Photography Guide. You don’t need a more expensive camera. You don’t need to memorise random settings from Instagram. You need to understand why you’re doing what you’re doing so you can walk into a family session knowing you can handle it. And I’ve put everything I wish someone had taught me when I was learning into one system for just $47 USD. 🤍 Ready to stop second-guessing yourself behind the camera? Grab The Family Photography System through the link in my bio.

29/08/2026

Every Christmas I release hundreds of mini sessions and they sell out FAST. Last year, I sold 200 bookings within an hour. 🎄📸

After 10 years of running sold-out mini sessions, here’s what I see photographers getting wrong 👇

They spend more money on the set. More props. More backdrops. More styling. Hoping that if it looks incredible enough, people will book.

But the set usually isn’t the problem.

There’s no actual marketing system behind it.

No strategy for building demand BEFORE bookings open. No waitlist. No emails warming people up. No urgency around the release. And no plan for filling the remaining sessions once that initial launch rush is over.

I don’t use elaborate set designs. My Santa doesn’t even have a real beard, he’s my husband 😂 and I definitely didn’t have a huge following when I started.

What I did build was a SYSTEM.

After more than a decade of refining it, I’ve put the entire process into my $27 Mini Session System.

I walk you through my set design and lighting, BTS editing, client experience, pricing calculator, marketing strategy and the exact systems I use. PLUS you get my email templates, client contract and more.

Stop putting your entire budget into creating a prettier set and start learning how to actually SELL the sessions.

Comment MINI SESSION and I’ll send you the details 🤍

26/08/2026

I’d tell her this… stop comparing your year one to someone else’s year ten. Learning your art takes time. It takes practice, mistakes, terrible shoots, beautiful shoots and thousands upon thousands of photos before you start to really understand your craft. A better camera isn’t going to make you a better photographer either, learn how to use the one in your hands first. Invest in education. Learn from people who are already where you want to be and never stop being a student of your craft. And when you suddenly start doubting yourself or looking at your work thinking it isn’t good enough, don’t automatically assume you’re going backwards, sometimes that’s actually a sign you’re growing. Your eye is evolving and you’re starting to see what you couldn’t see before. Set boundaries from the beginning. Your business doesn’t need unlimited access to you to be successful. And above everything else, never lose sight of what a privilege this job is. People trust us with their babies, their families, their milestones, their grief, their love and pieces of their lives they can never get back. Be grateful you get to tell those stories and guard the love you have for doing it with your life. 🤍

New photographers, find each other in the comments below 🤍👇 Tag your photography page, tell us where you’re from and let’s fill these comments with photographers who are just getting started so you can connect, follow and support each other. 📸

26/08/2026

RIP to the incredible Dolly 🤍 Drop a ✨ in the comments if you loved her too x

26/08/2026

I sell 300 mini sessions in 24 hours every single year and after more than a decade of refining exactly how I do it, I’ve put the entire system into one course for $27 USD. And when I say the entire system, I mean it. My 40+ minute masterclass walking you through my set design, lighting, editing, client experience, pricing, systems AND marketing, plus the exact email templates I use to build demand and sell my sessions, my client contract, Flodesk template, pricing calculator and the full Mini Session Guide. Honestly, at $27 I’m basically giving it away 😂 because I want you to stop thinking you need to spend thousands creating a bigger, better, more elaborate set and start understanding the system behind actually selling the sessions. This is the process I’ve refined over 10+ years of consistently selling out hundreds of mini sessions, and you can literally take it, follow it and make it your own. Comment MINI SESSION and I’ll send you the link 🤍

25/08/2026

About 6 years ago, mum casually says to me, “just a heads up, she’s really gassy… like really gassy.” I laughed it off thinking, how bad can it be?

Not even 5 minutes later… I hear the most insane noise come out of this tiny human. I pause, look at mum and go, “I think she might have done a poo…” and mum goes, “no no, that’s just wind, she does it all the time.”

…ma’am.

I slowly look down and see green stuff leaking out the sides… and I mean everywhere. All through the wraps, pooling underneath, just absolute chaos.

We rush over to the change table and as we’re trying to clean her up… she keeps going. And going. And GOING. Mum wasn’t wrong about one thing though 😳 I have never smelt anything like it in my life. I’m standing there trying to be professional while quietly dry reaching and questioning all my life choices.

Eventually, we get her cleaned up, reset, and keep going. Session runs a bit over but we got there in the end.

Now here’s where it somehow gets worse…

I had to rush straight to school pick up. I’m standing there chatting to another mum, casually telling her this exact story, feeling very proud of myself for surviving the situation…

And then I look down.

And I freeze.

There is baby poo. On my stomach. On my shirt. Just… sitting there like it’s been there the whole time.

HOW did I miss this?! I had even changed my shirt?!

I eventually worked out it must’ve been on the change table and I leaned against it at some point… but honestly, I don’t even want to know.

Safe to say… that was a once in a lifetime experience.

Please tell me I’m not alone l… drop your craziest newborn poo stories in the comments 😂

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