Allison Watkins - Strengthening Your Family Portrait Skills
Sunday, February 26th 1:30pm - 5:30pm
This program is specifically designed to strengthen your family portrait skills with the ultimate goal to increase your portrait sales. Allison will break down an actual family session, step-by- step, so you can learn to create beautiful, flattering and emotionally impactful portraits for your own clients. This class will teach how to pose families of all different sizes. Allison will share how to communicate with your clients so they are always focused on creating a spectacular final portrait to display in their home. Learn how to get the whole family dressed for success with Allison's family portrait clothing guide. Allison will also share her 3 signature family poses that help in the sales room.
- Learn how to get the whole family dressed for success
- Learn the 3 essential poses that need to happen at every family session
- Learn the skills of posing family groups
- Learn how to pose families of all different sizes
Creating family portraits is one of the most honorable and important responsibilities given to a photographer. Allison believes displaying family portraiture is essential to creating a strong home environment where our children feel a sense of love and belonging in this great big world. The focus of Allison's business model is creating wall portraits that celebrate and nurture a family's bond. Great family portraits displayed in homes, can provide emotional support for families when the world feels overwhelming. When it comes to creating family portraits, we are no longer just photographers, we are authors, writing biographies with photographs.
Allison operates her professional home studio from the mountains of Park City, Utah. Allison’s passion for family portraits began as a child because her own home did not have any family portraits displayed. Allison vowed when she grew up that her most valuable treasures, her own family, would be the foundation for decorating her home. This passion is the driving force behind Allison’s business model.
Allison English Watkins- Master Photographer, Craftsman, CPP
Allison is a proud member of Professional Photographers of America and Intermountain PPA. She's one of just a few people in the state of Utah to hold her Master's of Photography degree as well as her Photographic Craftsman and also be a Certified Professional Photographer. She has won countless local and regional awards for her portraiture and is a recipient of multiple Fuji Masterpiece awards, numerous Kodak Gallery awards and the Sunset award from Lexjet. She has been honored as "Photographer of the Year" from the Intermountain PPA and "Master Photographer of the Year" and reached the coveted Diamond Level "Photographer of the Year" from PPA. Receiving the National Award for her service to the industry was a career highlight. Her images have been published in both PPA Loan Collections and the Professional Photographer Magazine. Allison is the first person from the state of Utah to become an International Photographic Judge and she is also currently serving on the Professional Photographers of America Board of Directors.