Host a boudoir photography workshop at your studio
You fill the seats and keep every ticket. I bring the curriculum, teach the day and shoot alongside you. $5,000 plus travel, in your space, in your city — and it can be split in half.
Don't think your following is big enough? Six to eight seats is the whole room. That's a handful of local photographers — not a conference, and not an audience you need to build first.
Questions first? Text 801-797-3156 with your city and how many sets you've got.
The deal
How hosting actually works
You pay a flat teaching fee plus travel at cost. You set the ticket price, you sell the seats, and you keep one hundred percent of the ticket revenue. There's no split to argue about afterwards.
Which means the upside is yours. If you sell out the room at a healthy ticket price, the day pays for itself and then some — and if you price it low to fill it fast, that's your call to make, not mine.
What the math can look like
Eight seats at $900 is $7,200 in tickets against a $5,000 fee plus travel. Six seats at $1,200 is the same room, a different price point and a different kind of photographer. Your market decides which of those is realistic — this is an illustration, not a projection.
And the seats aren't the only return. You spend a day being the photographer who brought this to your city, in front of the people most likely to refer overflow clients to you afterwards.
Investment
$5,000 plus travel
$5,000Split it in half: $2,500 holds the date and $2,500 is due thirty days before. Paying in full is fine too.
Travel, handled honestly
Billed separately at cost — flights, two hotel nights and ground transport. Quoted and agreed before you commit to anything, then invoiced sixty days out.
Sixty rather than thirty for one reason: flights bought inside a month cost roughly double, and that's your money, not mine.
Two-day formats and multi-studio weekends are quoted separately. Book eight to ten weeks ahead so there's time to sell seats.
Who does what
I bring
- The full curriculum and the teaching, start to finish
- Lighting demonstrations and posing direction all day
- The pricing, consult and reveal material — the business half
- Promotional copy and graphics you can use to sell seats
- Follow-up support for every attendee for thirty days
You bring
- The studio and its sets, plus lighting gear for the room
- Two models and a hair and makeup artist
- The seats — your list, your local photographer network
- Ticketing, payments and attendee communication
- Lunch, and a signed release from each model
If you'd rather not source models or hair and makeup yourself, say so early and we'll build the fee to cover it instead.
The day
What gets taught
The same day that runs in Salt Lake City, adapted to your sets and your market.
- Morning: lighting taught on your own sets, one light moved five ways
- Late morning: posing and directing a woman who has never modeled
- Midday: the long shooting block — every attendee behind the camera
- Afternoon: pricing, the consult call, the reveal, and the $2,000 sale
- End of day: a live edit, and three specific changes each person takes home
If your room needs a different weighting — heavier on sales, lighter on lighting — that gets decided on the planning call, not on the day.
Read this first
Who should host
Host if
- You have a studio with two or more real sets
- You know six to eight photographers locally, or can reach them
- You want to be the education hub in your city
- You'd rather learn by co-teaching than by attending
Don't host if
- You want me to sell the seats — that part is yours
- You're hoping to profit without doing the promotion
- You want the curriculum to resell later as your own
If you'd rather just attend one, the Salt Lake City workshop runs in the Blushed studio with everything already set up.
Questions
Hosting a workshop FAQ
How do I pay, and when?
$2,500 holds your date and $2,500 is due thirty days before it. Travel is quoted separately and invoiced at sixty days out. You can also pay the $5,000 in full if you'd rather have it done.
Why is travel invoiced earlier than the balance?
Because flights bought inside a month cost roughly double. Booking at sixty days keeps your total lower — the timing is in your favour, not mine.
What if I don't sell enough seats?
The teaching fee is owed either way, which is why the deposit is only half and why we set a realistic seat target on the planning call. If sales stall we'll talk about moving the date rather than running a room of two.
What should I charge per seat?
That's your call and it depends on your market. Comparable one-day boudoir workshops run from several hundred to around $1,600 a seat. We'll talk it through, but the number and the revenue are yours.
Do I get to attend as well?
Yes, and you should. You're in the room all day, shooting alongside everyone else — it's the cheapest education you'll ever get, since the attendees are paying for it.
How far will you travel?
Anywhere in the US, and international is worth asking about. Travel is billed at cost, so the distance changes the total but not the teaching fee.
How much notice do you need?
Eight to ten weeks minimum. Most of that isn't my scheduling — it's the time you need to actually sell the seats.
Who owns the images from the day?
Every attendee keeps what they shoot, under the model releases you provide. I may use a handful of behind-the-scenes images to promote future workshops, and you're credited whenever your studio appears.
Can I record it or resell the material?
No. Attendees can take notes and photos, but the day isn't filmed for resale and the curriculum stays mine. That's the one hard line.
What if my studio is small?
Two good sets and room for eight people is enough. Small studios often teach better, because everyone can see what's happening.
Am I training my own competition?
Some hosts worry about this. In practice the photographers in that room already exist in your market, and the one who taught them is the one they refer overflow to.
What if I want two days instead of one?
Quoted separately and worth considering if you're selling at a higher ticket price. Two days lets everyone shoot far more and makes the seat easier to justify.
Tell me about your studio
Fill in the form with your city, your sets and roughly how many photographers you can reach. You'll get an honest read on whether your market can fill a room before anything is booked — including when the answer is no.
Or text 801-797-3156 if you'd rather just ask.
Blushed Boudoir · 629 S State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84111