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Are you showing up as your best and brightest self online?
Does your online presence and brand reflect who you are right now?
Now is the time to express your unique vision,
Shine your light,
Communicate with purpose.
I invite you to the
DIY Photography & Self Portrait Workshop
Learn how to make your website and social media images reflect who you are.
Create exciting new ways to share your story and message with visual storytelling techniques.
Grow in an intimate group where you will be seen and encouraged.
When your online presence
accurately reflects what you offer,
you can spend
less time selling,
and
more time doing what you love
and being paid what you deserve!
Be Your Own Best Photographer
Feel like it is easy and fun to create content!
Create Stunning Photos with just your phone!
Take Your Own Self Portraits
Communicate authentically to your dream clients
Develop Your Unique Style
to make your brand unforgettable
Feel Confident and Empowered, not intimidated!
I am a pro photographer and Gateless writing teacher who helps clients creatively express their soulful and genuine selves.
I help clients feel seen first within themselves, then in their writing and images. My website is melisinestudio.com.
My intention is for you to develop skills to feel confident showing who you are and making memorable images.
We will go beyond typical writing and photography classes, utilizing my extensive experience with coaching, healing, art therapy, mindset, and personal growth work.
The goal of this course is to give you foundational skills and a feeling of energy and empowerment to create your own photos.
Creative Confidence Accelerator!
"Working with Melisine is a gift from the Universe.
She has the ability to shine her light into your world and capture the magic of you with photos.
Melisine's playful, yet serious approach invites you into a safe space to explore deep creative self-expression.
I highly recommend working with her regardless of your comfort level with a camera."
Elisha Starr - Therapist
Photography Training with a focus on Self Portraits, Creative Photography Techniques, and Visual Storytelling
Group teaching with Q&A.
My goal is to get you feeling capable and confident in taking meaningful photos.
I distill years of photography experience into easy-to-use photography techniques, and methods to coach yourself on mindset, thoughts, and emotions around photos and visibility.
We will also draw upon my extensive experience crafting creative self portraits, to help you understand creative and meaningful ways to explore photographing yourself and creating images to illuminate your experiences. (I do creative self portraits professionally for my brand clients worldwide.)
This class is designed to help you clarify your unique vision and what images you want to create. You will learn technical skills you can use to take any kind of photos, including portraits, headshots, and product images.
Please note that this class will not tell you to mimic a particular style or poses. This class is designed to empower your vision, to help you find what style and poses feel right to you.
Photoshoot Inspiration Guide with Melisine's Proven Step by Step Process ($100 value)
Photoshoot Clarity and Planning Written Guide with Melisine's Proven Step by Step Process ($100 value)
Photo Editing Basics Library with step by step videos by Melisine ($200 value)
1 private one-on-one 30 minute mentorship call with Melisine in September to bring your vision to life. ($250 value)
All of Melisine's years of experience focused on you and your vision.
Melisine made the whole process so simple. She helped every step of the way. Her guidance and expertise were so valuable!
The results speak for themselves! I couldn't be happier!
Courtney Rolls - Therapist
Top brands trust Melisine to present their image to the world. I have trusted her to help me tell stories in new ways—through my writing and photography.
Melisine encouraged me to dig deeper into the meaning and perceptions I make of photos and has helped me see a new, alternative narrative to the stories I tell myself. This has helped me connect more meaningfully.
Catherine Hormats - Psychotherapist
This is a wonderful class! I had trouble connecting images of me to the creative and invigorating work I do. Melisine showed me how to bridge that gap!
Melisine does a terrific job of creating supportive community and of helping us SEE ourselves and our work.
Amy Lynch - Keynote Speaker & Author
Before, I looked at my creativity with a critical eye and lens. I felt blocked and stressed.
Here the lens is positivity and compassion, seeing value in everything I create: “What do I like? What am I enjoying? What is strong?”
With this process, as long as its authentic and aligned, I feel good sharing with the world.
Now it is easy to keep creating! My creative floodgates are open!
Aarti Gurnani Awatramani - Health Coach
Melisine is one of those rare finds, a photographer of extraordinary talent who infuses each image with a quality of light that allows for unprecedented beauty. Because she has worked for such high end brands, she knows how to both stage and position the coveted shots you have always wanted that can move your ideas and your brand to the next level.
She focuses on a different beauty than you are used to, finding your inner power and ethereal light in an extraordinary process of listening and reflection. She brings out the beauty and light in every single situation! And every person!
I LOVED this course!!
I recommend this class to anyone who is afraid to show up online, or who wants to love it or who wants to take photos but "doesn't know how" or who wants to find a creative release, have a blast and remember the power of what art really is.
Suzanne Kingsbury - founder of Gateless Writing, Inc.
The investment for DIY PHOTOGRAPHY AND SELF PORTRAIT WORKSHOP is $300.
Consider the lifetime value of activating your inner creative power.
Consider the value of learning how to plan and take your own photos so your voice and images can be unified, amplified, and aligned.
Learn to think like a pro photographer, and build your confidence quickly.
You are paying for speed, so you don't have to spend time "figuring it out" -- you can just start being creative!
This is much less than the price of ONE photoshoot or coaching session with Melisine, and the skills and benefits you will gain will last far longer than one session.