
Senior Style Guide’s Real Talk series brings you face-to-face with other photographers and creatives who are going through exactly the same things you are. It’s about going beyond the technical parts of photography and diving deep into what struggles have they faced, how they got to be where they are today and what they learned along the way. Hosted by Sean Brown, join us as we sit down and have conversations with photographers whose stories you’ll want to hear.
Episodes

Monday Apr 01, 2019
Real Talk 09: Adam Hommerding of The Modern Collective
Monday Apr 01, 2019
Monday Apr 01, 2019
Adam Hommerding is a senior and family photographer based out of Minnesota. Together with his wife Amanda, they form a photography duo that is known for personality filled portraits throughout the midwest. Adam and Amanda founded The Modern Collective, a design shop that caters to photographers and provides them with curated marketing and sales products in an effort to make the lives of modern portrait photographers easier. Their photography brand has been going for over a decade strong and continue to produce photos and designs that lead the industry.

Monday Mar 25, 2019
Real Talk 08: Tara Rochelle
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Tara Rochelle is a senior photographer who infused fashion and editorial elements into her photography and has established a signature style that is known throughout the industry. She is located outside of Los Angeles, CA and has been photographing since high school. She has photographed celebrity weddings and celebrities, but now focuses on the high school senior market. Tara also loves to teach other photographers and has been a speaker at workshops and is always highly requested to be a keynote speaker at industry conferences!

Monday Mar 18, 2019
Real Talk 07: Hope Taylor
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Hope Taylor is a senior and wedding photographer based out of Fredericksburg, VA and loves to help educate other photographers when she’s not off shooting. She began to pursue photography full time at 17 years old because it felt like it was exactly what she was supposed to be doing. Hope is considered an expert on social media and helps out photographers across the country through her online and in-person education.

Friday Mar 08, 2019
Real Talk 06: Spanki Mills
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Spanki Mills is a photographer and educator based out of Austin, TX telling the stories of families and seniors every day. Photographing the cover for the very first issue of Senior Style Guide Magazine, Spanki has been involved in the senior industry since the beginning. She believes that photography should have an emotional connection and it’s her goal to provide that experience for her clients and inspire other photographers to create work that they love.

Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Real Talk 05: Mario Masitti
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Mario Masitti is a senior and fashion photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA with a passion for creating images with a fashion inspired look. He is an educator and loves helping other photographers be able to take their images to the next level and be the absolute best they can be with his educational courses and teaching.

Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Real Talk 04: Claire Anderson
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Claire Anderson is a photographer specializing in seniors with an editorial flair based out of West Palm Beach, Florida. She has had the opportunity to work not only with seniors, but also famous bloggers and is the owner of Clara Bella Photography with locations in Dallas, TX and West Palm Beach, FL.

Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Real Talk 03: Nate Grahek
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Nate Grahek is the creator and founder of StickyAlbums, one of the go-to marketing tools for photographers today. With a background in technology and being a portrait photographer, he works to create tools that he knows photographers will use and help them to become more efficient marketers and book more clients.

Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Real Talk 02: Amanda Holloway
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Amanda Holloway is regarded as one of the leading senior photographers in the industry. Not only is she incredibly talented at what she does, she also cares about photographers getting the best education possible and has made it a mission of hers to help educate as many photographers as possible and empower them to run successful businesses that are profitable. Through her Kitchen Sink Workshop, she has set the standard for what is expected in photography education and has allowed photographers from across the nation to follow their dreams of running a successful business.

Monday Feb 11, 2019
Real Talk 01: Latasha Haynes of Ike & Tash
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Latasha Haynes is a senior, wedding and family photographer based in the Seattle, WA area and part of the Ike & Tash duo. She is best known for cultivating a community through the INT Street Team and And Her, a sisterhood of young women who want to give back, serve their communities & are leaders at home, in their schools & communities.
We are stoked to bring you this episode where we sit down with her and dive in to her story.
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