Want to master your camera and take epic shots?

Why is it absolutely normal to ask for help? I will tell you with my story.

I had my first digital camera in 2004. It was a ridiculously expensive Minolta with a resolution of 5 megapixel (!).

After my first shots with it – I was disappointed. But the sample pictures from the official looked so great! – I told myself.

I took “OK” images for 5 years with this camera, without ever asking for help.

Hilarious, that I had a 1000$ equipment, but I didn’t want spend a few bucks on my skills.

One of my best shots from my early days

Later with my first Canon DSLR, I was again not so satisfied with the pictures.

They were OK, but they just didn’t look that great as I wanted.

I knew that I should improve my on-site camera skills, like lighting, composition, exposure settings.

And also I should improve my digital post-processing skills. Yes, photos need to be edited!

So I enrolled into a portrait photography class with world-famous Martin Szipál. He was 85 years old at that time, and he didn’t need an LCD monitor to see if the image was good or not.

Martin Szipal organizing fill light — Martin Szipal organizing a whiteboard as fill light

I learnt lighting and composition are keys to make an epic picture.

He looked at the scene with his eyes only, and with brutal honesty he would say: this will be crap. And he was right.

And I slowly started to train my eyes to see those subtle differences.

Paralell to this course, I started to use top image processing softwares like Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. The learning curve was steep but my images finally started to look like I wanted them to.

What I’ve learnt from my story is that asking for help is a necessary thing to do.

That is why I’m doing one on one coaching.

If there’s anything in your photography you’re not 100% satisfied with, I’m here to help YOU resolve it.

Each coaching session is unique, because everyone of us is unique.

Usually a coaching session involves: