The Portrait System 101

This five-module intensive offers in-depth training on every aspect of running a photography business, covering key topics including lighting, posing, pricing, sales, and marketing.

Camera 101 Masterclass

When you fully understand your camera and how to use it, your confidence behind the lens grows immensely and your work inevitably improves.

Marketing Intensive

Master marketing for portrait photography! Understand client needs, elevate your pitch, and skyrocket your sales. Success is just a pitch away!

The Sales Intensive

Learn the fundamentals of business — having a product to sell, pricing it, and telling the world what you and your product are worth.

The Confidence Workshop

This workshop teaches you how to shift your mindset, set healthy boundaries, and navigate life with unshakable confidence.

The Pose Series

Master posing fundamentals & techniques—sitting, standing, wall, floor & table—for confident clients & stunning, connected portraits.

The (Marketing) Hot Seat

Personal Branding and Headshots

In today’s world of social media, the need for online headshots, otherwise known as personal branding, has opened new doors for attracting clients. Headshots are a great tool in your studio’s mix of services. Not only do they work for quick revenue, but they also provide a great introduction for longer-term relationships and up‑selling clients to full portrait sessions.

Film Noir

Sue shows how to create dark, sultry, low-light Film Noir images using natural light. These photos are all about capturing the dark, passive emotions. When you’re posing dark form, it’s no longer a normal portrait, it is going to be no eyes to the camera.

188 Poses – Women with Curves

In this course, you are going to learn all about curves, shaping people’s bodies and learning how to make them look good. The gorgeous Bailey and stunning Ally will model for us. Watch, as we put what we learned in the POSE course and use it for curvier women.

204 Poses - Women

It’s important to be quick when you're posing your clients.  We often get stuck on what to have our clients do next! Watch as Sue brings us through her continuous flow. Sitting, standing, and kneeling with one woman and then two women together. Never get stuck again with this incredible resource of over 200 poses.

Overcoming Fear to Network Like a Boss

Don't let fear stop you from creating a successful business.

Business Confidence

This workshop is designed to empower you with practical strategies to scale your business, enhance your marketing efforts, and discover the profound impact of self-value in your professional journey.

As I Am: Mitzi's Photoshoot of Sue

Watch Mitzi Starkweather do a raw portrait session with Sue Bryce and see the client reveal afterwards.

The Makeup Guide

Three hours of video content 12 different how to makeup videos by the amazing Christina Lerchen (Website | Blog). Build your team, take the time to train your HMU artist’s to provide the most incredible experience for your clients (also great as a personal tutorial!).

2 Dresses, Infinite Looks

Draping and Wrapping Styling Technique---25 different ways to wrap dresses by the amazing Kenzie Olds and photographed by Gerson Lopes with model Tolu "Tee" Lawal.

Creating Dynamic Marketing Videos

Follow Caitlin as she shoots Sue for one of her epic gorgeous promo videos watch her process.

The Studio Tour Series

Learn inexpensive tips and tricks each studio owner uses to maximize their space, market themselves, and grow their business.

Running a Glamour Studio as a Male Photographer

Let Sue show you how to attract women into your brand (learn to speak “woman” in your marketing), and how to shoot beautiful contemporary portraits that sell.

Marketing to Women 50+

In this course Sue teaches how to market to women 50+, who have historically been underserved as customers.

Mirror Posing

Join Sue as she teaches photographers the tricks and trades of mirror posing. In this she explains the best ways to pose your clients to find what angle works best by having them mirror you.

Posing Breakdown

Posing is one of the most important parts of being a portrait photographer. You MUST be able to pose women of all different body types if you want to book women as your clients. It took Sue a lot of practice, but she can say that she has mastered posing women and she wants you to master it, as well! Watching our Posing Breakdown course is the first step!

Posing & Direction

Join Sue as she teaches you how to best pose and direct your clients during two different photoshoots. Learning these techniques will give you and your clients the confidence you need to have a fun and successful shoot that will produce stunning images they are sure to love!

The Posing Rules

Learn the posing rules from the beginning. So when a woman walks through your studio door, you know exactly which poses will flatter her, and can you focus on giving her great service instead of worrying about how to pose.

Headshots

In today's world of social media, the need for online headshots, otherwise known as personal branding, has opened new doors for attracting clients. Headshots are a great tool in your studio's mix of services. Not only do they work for quick revenue, they provide a great introduction for longer-term relationships and up‑selling clients to full portrait sessions.

Personal Branding and Headshots

As you know portrait marketing is a different animal, as it’s not based on event marketing like weddings. Instead, we have to sell as a desirable purchase. Having a headshot genre in your business opens up a whole new marketing avenue based on people’s immediate needs — and this gives you a perfect way to bring more people to your brand.

Photoshoots with Women 50+

In this course we will watch two separate photoshoots with Linda and Robyn.

90 Day Challenge

Created in 2021, this collection of Sue's lessons was put together to help kick start your business in 90 Days.

12 Month Startup

Curated in 2023, this study program featured bonus commentary by Cat Ford Coates and Saray Taylor Roman

Fine Art Storyteller with Erica Manning

Marketing Raw Portraits with Mitzi Starkweather

Goal Setting with Hadonica Murphy

The Art of Self Portraits with Erin DeGroot

The Art of Self Portraits with Erin DeGroot

Personal Branding: Shooting to Sell with Nikki Closser

Go behind the scenes with Nikki during 2 different personal branding photoshoots.

Speak Like a Boss

Make Big Money w/ Personal Branding with Tammy Zurak

Dive into Personal Branding Sales Strategy with Tammy

Goal Setting Coaching Session with Hadonica Murphy

Craft feasible goals and devise actionable strategies with the amazing Hadonica Murphy – mindset coach, portrait photographer, and board-certified nurse practitioner.

Small Studio? No Problem! with Ashleigh Taylor

Ashleigh's here to talk about making the most of tiny studio spaces so that you can create plenty of variety for high sales, and so that you can make your small studio an asset rather than something you feel embarrassed about.

A Body of Art with Teri Hofford

Dive into the beauty and diversity of the human form through photography in this empowering course.

Start to Finish: Creative Session with Bella Kotak

Bella is a fine art and fashion photographer that works in the US and the UK. Bella is extremely talented at her craft, and today you will get experience it! This is a full shoot from start to finish.

Something Personal: The Big Picture with Matthew Jordan Smith

In this poignant talk from the TPM 2022 Conference Main Stage, Matthew Jordan Smith celebrates the photographer’s calling in life by bringing its importance sharply into focus.

Setting Boundaries: Make Your Business Work for You with Nikki Closser

Nikki Closser talks about the importance of setting boundaries, so that we can both have success in our businesses and enjoy the rest of our lives with less stress and feelings of being overworked, overtired, or resentful.

Fearless: Rewriting Your Narrative with Tabatha Coffey

Who you are is not the narrative of your identity that you present to the world. Who you are is what you dream to achieve. How can you overcome the fears that are holding you back from achieving those dreams and being who you truly are?

Beauty Beyond Age: from the Boardroom to the Bedroom with Ann Landstrom

Join Ann Landstrom for an exclusive live session where she will dive into the art and empowerment of branding and boudoir photography and the reasons behind her specific photographic techniques.

Networking with Angie Whitten

Join Angie as she breaks down how to networking as an introvert, as an extrovert, and as something in-between. Follow professional student Wendy Adamson as Angie guides her how to network in different social settings.

Connect With Clients On and Offline: A Marketing Workshop with Damaly Shepherd

Damaly is going to walk you through how she creates a deeply connected client experience, both in person during a photo shoot and online with her content.

Creative Photography: Ideas, Imagination, and Impact with Alana Lee

Join creative photographer Alana Lee as she explores the art of creative photography with special guests Kayla Douglas and Ric Lewis.

As I Am: Raw Portrait Session with Sue Bryce and Mitzi Starkweather

Watch Mitzi Starkweather do a raw portrait session with Sue Bryce and see the client reveal afterwards.

Speed Shooting with Gerson Lopes

Join Gerson for this workshop on how to take beautiful portraits on location in with a short amount of time and learn how to apply to portfolio building, networking and more.