BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Golden Hour:The Photographer’s Ultimate Guide
with Nicole Houser, Francesca Marchese Reeder & Clare Ahalt
$60
AVAILABLE IN THE CLICK & COMPANY STORE
all materials are downloadable & yours to keep
Learn everything you need to know about taking photos during the most magical time of day.
Watch and learn from three photographers as they take you along with them on six golden hour sessions that span from late afternoon to early evening. You’ll discover proven techniques for capturing luminous halos around your subjects, achieving perfect color & exposure, producing images with depth and dimension, and working with flare & haze.
Then you’ll find out their editing secrets in a series of processing videos that show everything from balancing backlit exposures to enhancing sun-drenched scenes as they process their golden hour portraits to perfection.
what you’ll get
ULTIMATE GUIDE TO GOLDEN HOUR PHOTOGRAPHY
A downloadable eBook filled with practical tips & tricks that cover everything you need to know about Golden Hour photography
6 GOLDEN HOUR SHOOTING VIDEOS
5 Outdoor Videos (including a beach session, backyard/neighborhood session, and field/farm session) 1 Indoor Videos featuring natural light sessions at home
3 EDITING VIDEOS
Learn how each photographer edits golden hour images from start to finish – without actions or presets!
STUDENT Q&A
Submit questions to the Presenter anytime during the program's duration, and receive acopy of the recorded Q&A video at the end of the breakout's run.
what you’ll learn
// TOP 10 TIPS FOR GOLDEN HOUR IMAGES
Tips to create beautiful backlit images & mistakes to avoid in golden hour sessions
// LIGHT AND SHADOWS
Learn to use pockets of light and shadows creatively
// HOW TO USE FLARE & HAZE EFFECTIVELY
Learn about the different types of flare & haze and then learn to use it in your images
// HOW TO TRANSITION FROM THE GOLDEN HOUR TO BLUE HOUR
How the light changes and what you can do to compensate
// WHITE BALANCE SHORTCUTS FOR PERFECT COLOR
White balance tips during the golden hour that make achieving perfect color easy
// HOW TO BALANCE EXPOSURE IN TRICKY LIGHTING
Exposure tips for fast-changing light
// ACHIEVING VARIETY DURING GOLDEN HOUR
How to go beyond backlight and get golden hour variety in your galleries
// EDITING TIPS FOR BACKLIT EXPOSURES, HAZE, AND MORE
Learn how to edit your golden hour images beautifully
about your presenters
Nicole Houser is a light seeking photographer located in Sarasota, FL. Her strong love of light mixed with the passion of photographing her three children, results in the unique story of their day to day life with a touch of magic. She also enjoys photographing clients throughout the year, creating lasting memories enhanced with light. You can view more of her work at nicolekristinphotography.com.
Clare Ahalt is an award winning fine art portrait artist based out of Frederick, Maryland. She aims to capture both the soul and essence of her subject, as well as a moment of peace and serenity that is so often missed in todays hectic society. You can view more of her work at clareahaltphotography.com/.
Francesca Marchese-Reeder is a family, lifestyle newborn, and maternity photographer in Long Beach, CA. She is mom to three little wild ones that are her favorite subjects to photograph. Capturing movement, details, connection, and added bonus if it’s in fabulous light, is inspiring for Francesca. Francesca serves the Orange County and south Los Angeles areas. You can view more of her work at, francescamarchesephotography.com.
This breakout is incredible! Who doesn’t love golden hour?!? The tricky part can be shooting in this type of light. The PDF is full of so much information. I love being able to learn from three different artists who are experts when it comes to this type of light.
This breakout makes me want to run outside to find the golden light! I love hearing from 3 photographers and their excitement for beautiful light. The tips section gave me lots of ideas and I can’t wait to try them out!! And the editing videos were so great to learn from! Thanks ladies!!
In this break out you get to learn from three photographers! What a great deal! I’ve previously purchased Nicole’s BO and I am pairing that knowledge with this one, I am so excited! I want golden hour to be my style, my art, my image! You will love this breakout, get it soon!!
Love Love Love this breakout! Im learning so much. These 3 beautiful ladies are amazing.
I was so excited to hear about Golden Hour: The Photographer’s Ultimate Guide. This breakout has so much great information about shooting during golden hour, and it is full of beautiful and inspiring images! I loved learning how these talented artists shoot and edit their gorgeous backlit images. You do not want to miss this awesome breakout!!
Figuring out how to nail your images during Golden Hour can be so tricky, but absolutely worth it. This guide covers all the ins and outs from these three wonderful photographers. I really enjoyed reading each photographer’s tips and tricks and seeing all their many amazing examples. Golden hour images can be so hard to edit, so I loved seeing how each of them shoot and edit in the videos. Looking forward to using the inspiration from this breakout to add some golden hour magic to my photos.
Such a great breakout! The PDF is super informative and breaks down each presenters take on how they shoot in golden light. So much information packed into this breakout! Loving the videos and being able to hear the thought processes on how they achieve those amazing golden light images. If you are wanting to improve your lighting skills and tap into those gorgeous golden images this is the breakout for you!
I have been waiting for this to come out because I feel like my golden hour photographs have so much potential – but never end up quite like I want them to. I haven’t even finished all the material and already feel like I have figured out so much. this breakout is definitely a game changer for me!!
So glad to hear that Carolyn! Yippee for it being a game changer.
This breakout is amazing! I have only gotten through a third of the videos and PDF and I have already learned SO much and I am not a newbie! Do yourself a favor and buy this breakout right now!