The first thing I noticed when I looked through the sections was that it didn’t include a PDF or anything written. I have about 15 CPS courses, and this is the first one that hasn’t included something written/printable as part of the course. Depending on the course, I often get more out of the PDF than the videos, and I like to use the PDFs as quick reviews before sessions, so it was disappointing that this course didn’t include a PDF at all.

Individual topic reviews:
The Child-Led Photography section was my favorite. It has a full session behind-the-scenes video plus another video of Hilary describing her approach to child-led sessions. I enjoyed watching how she prompted & interacted with the kids during the session. I would have loved to have had a list of prompts she commonly uses included with it!

Using Framing for Storytelling was a lecture/discussion with slides and lots of photos. I got a few new ideas for framing to try out. I would have loved to have a PDF overview of this topic so I could really study the images presented in the context of the type of framing she used.

Golden Hour Play is almost entirely editing. There’s no real behind-the-scenes–those videos only show the location and a quick view of how much sun enters your frame based on camera angle–2 minutes of total video. There’s about 24 minutes of editing videos, which are great & helpful, but just know up front that you’re only really getting editing videos for this topic.

Timeless Treasures is another lecture. There were only a few pictures or slides, so it’s mostly just talking, and the presentation was just so incredibly dry that I gave up on watching it 6 minutes into the video.