Ready to see what a real picture day is like?

An intense, hands-on day learning from the top school photography experts how to run a smooth and successful school picture day.

  • Running a smooth and successful school picture day

  • Get real experience with a live school photo shoot

  • Hands-on training working up the orders

  • Learn from those that do

School Picture Day Should Not Be a Mystery

Think you have what it takes to Run a smooth and successful school picture day? Join us at Schools Bootcamp on June 12, in Kansas City for an intense, hands-on course, where you’ll learn from the top school photography experts. We’ll kick off with a recap on the basics for how to plan and prepare for picture day. Learn how to set up your equipment, engage in a live photo shoot using QR code, and work as teams to develop projects and submit orders. You’ll even get a chance to meet one-on-one with our team members to make sure you are ready to go!

Schedule

  • 1

    Before the class begins....

    • Details About Schools Day --Monday June 12, 2023

    • Pre-Event Survey

  • 2

    Setup Picture Day

    • Equipment Setup

    • Check-In Table

  • 3

    Live School Picture Day

    • Live Picture Day

  • 4

    Picture Day Teardown

    • Packup Picture Day

  • 5

    Why We Had a Successful Picture Day

    • Review of live shoot and Q&A from Schools 101 prework

  • 6

    Submit Orders

    • Data Match Demo

    • Placing the order

    • Workflow simplifications

  • 7

    Review

    • Order Delivery

    • School Administrative Service Items

  • 8

    Next Steps

    • Schools Preseason Checklist

    • Schools Day Attendee Feedback Survey

  • 9

    Evening Fun!

    • Main Event

Instructors

Scholastic Reflections

Jeff Edwards

He has worked for a national school portrait company as the director of sales as well as consulted for other companies that were in the school photography markets on a national level. In addition to two volume senior portrait studios his business operated it’s own color lab. Jeff has worked closely with the H&H team, sharing his unique perspective and history in school and senior portraits to advise and help shape the decisions of H&H Color Lab for over a decade. Jeff has made presentations at numerous conventions including: The Professional School Photographers Association, Wedding & Portrait Photographers International, School Photographers Association of California, Various educational and training events.

H&H Color Lab

Jeff Locklear

H&H Color Lab

Shawn Cantrell

Shawn leads the school and sports program at H&H Color Lab. Over the last 10 years, he has been part of an amazing team that adapts best practices and systems to help established and aspiring photographers grow their business and compete with the large national companies.
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Inspired

Tressa Cash

I learned so much! Loved one on one time with instructors and individuals currently succeeding with schools!

I learned so much! Loved one on one time with instructors and individuals currently succeeding with schools!

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Good first day

Jen Raley

Was hoping to get plenty of info to start our journey into school photography. Feeling pretty confident after today that we can take it on!

Was hoping to get plenty of info to start our journey into school photography. Feeling pretty confident after today that we can take it on!

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Jeff is the man!

John Wright

This was the 2nd time 'round for me. A great refresher. Starting with the live shoot made sense and put me in the frame of mind to receive all the info. (an...

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This was the 2nd time 'round for me. A great refresher. Starting with the live shoot made sense and put me in the frame of mind to receive all the info. (an improvement from last time) Good job!

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Schools Review

Armetrice Cabine

Excellent course, I feel confident that I can now go out and photograph my first school.

Excellent course, I feel confident that I can now go out and photograph my first school.

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School set up

Kim Stevenson

Great information

Great information

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Lots of inside knowledge shared

Orlando Hidalgo

The presenters obviously know what their talking about and shared their hard fought knowledge. Additionally there was plenty of opportunity to network with o...

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The presenters obviously know what their talking about and shared their hard fought knowledge. Additionally there was plenty of opportunity to network with other professionals gaining contacts and more inside knowledge. Well put together and professional.

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