KRISTIN JONES

After Dark: Night Light Magic for Sessions

Join senior photographer and educator Kristin Jones for After Dark: Night Light Magic for Sessions, a hands-on night shoot that transforms the street into your studio. With over a decade of experience photographing 600+ high school seniors, Kristin brings her signature mix of creativity, technical precision, and infectious energy to every session.

Learn how to work with city lights, flash, gels, and creative lighting setups to craft bold, scroll-stopping portraits that sparkle with life. You'll gain insider tips on gear, lighting placement, color control, and posing with confidence—all while shooting in real-world conditions.

Perfect for photographers who want to level up their night photography and walk away with one-of-a-kind images that push creativity while nailing the technicals.

AARON NACE

BONUS FULL DAY HANDS ON WORKSHOP

Aaron is the founding father of Phlearn – a learning community dedicated to helping photographers and graphic designers learn and improve their craft. With 21.7M subscribers on YouTube, Phlearn has been one of the largest photography-based education platforms since 2011.

$249 MainePPA / $299 PPA / $399 Public

PPA Merit Class + Lunch Buffet Included

All sales are final and non-refundable

REGISTER HERE

The Art of Photoshop

Join Aaron for this comprehensive intermediate to pro level Photoshop workshop. The morning session covers essential nondestructive editing techniques, layer styles and blending modes, gradient maps, and the benefits of smart objects and filters.

After lunch, dive deeper into advanced techniques including camera filters for global adjustments, dodge and burn techniques without color shifting, advanced compositing and masking with refined edges, layer blending and photo stacking, plus how to create customized brushes.

Perfect for photographers ready to elevate their post-processing skills from intermediate to professional level.

www.aaron-nace.com

YouTube: @phlearn

JEN STITT

7 Steps for Client Experience

It's time to put down the camera for a minute and focus on creating a client experience so good it's practically sinful. In today's fiercely competitive, experience-first world, taking stunning photos is just one piece of your business puzzle. Offering a devilishly good, 5-star experience? That's the secret ingredient that will set you apart and make your photography business utterly irresistible.

Today's experience-driven clients crave more than beautiful galleries — they're looking for connection, effortless service, and an overall magical experience. Inspired by the seven deadly sins, Jen will share her insider secrets from fifteen years in the wedding industry to create an exceptional framework for crafting a targeted client experience for your business. She'll help you identify your standout strengths and create an experience roadmap that makes clients rave about you to all their friends.

Former Maine resident and co-founder of Fox & Brazen with a storefront studio in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, Jen brings a unique blend of photojournalism roots, cinematic lighting expertise, and keen business sense to help photographers thrive in today's market.

www.foxandbrazen.com

PATRICK WINE

The Big Picture: Wildlife

Surprises and Discoveries in Wildlife and Landscape Photography

In wildlife photography, we're often swept into the adrenaline of the moment—the flash of a bird in flight, the tense focus of a predator. Yet in chasing these fleeting encounters, we can lose sight of something equally powerful: the bigger story unfolding all around.

Award-winning Maine photographer and filmmaker Patrick Wine, founder of Story Stroll, guides you beyond the close-up "wildlife portrait" and into the broader canvas where animal and environment intertwine. Drawing from over a decade of fieldwork across Colorado's Rocky Mountains, Wyoming's vast wilderness preserves, and New England's enchanted wilds, Patrick reveals how zooming out can bring depth, context, and wonder to your images.

Learn to compose wildlife images that balance subject and landscape, capture moments that feel alive and deeply connected to place, work with light and environment to tell layered stories, and approach every shoot with ethics, safety, and respect for the animals you encounter. This class will expand the way you see and shoot wildlife—it's about the joy of discovery and the hunt for stories that live in both the wildlife and the wilds themselves.

www.storystroll.com

MEG LOEKS

Elevating the Ordinary: Portraiture

Explore artistic ways to create emotive portraiture with a strong narrative foundation. In this portraiture workshop, Sigma Ambassador Meg Loeks will discuss creative inspiration and the importance of detail and nuance. Attendees will learn lighting techniques that enhance storytelling by shaping mood and influencing color and clarity.

Meg will also discuss the importance of lens choice and creative settings. Explore inspiration, light and color with Meg to deepen your artistic vision and create portraits that tell powerful stories.

A fine art and portrait photographer from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Meg's nostalgic work centers around the home. She is honored to be a Sigma Ambassador, Profoto Legend of Light, 2022 Lightroom Ambassador, and volunteer photographer for The Gold Hope Project, gifting sessions to families battling pediatric cancer.

www.megloeks.com