Senior Ideas by John Hartman

What is Senior Ideas?

Get your creative juices flowing!

John Hartman’s new Senior Ideas CD is packed with hundreds of posing, lighting, expression and post-production ideas you can use to keep your senior portrait photography fresh and relevant to today’s senior clients.

Photographers from all over the US are already reaping the benefits from this powerful learning tool. Here’s what some of them say about John’s Senior Ideas CD:

“A great product, easily worth the price. There was plenty of content and the descriptions were easy to understand as well as lots of variety.

The CD was a snap to install and navigate.

I plan on incorporating quite a few of these ideas into our senior season this year.

The CD is a fantastic product, it would easily be worth twice the price. It's easily the best buy I've seen anywhere for a senior posing guide!”

— Hadley Stonner, Jefferson City, MO

“I just finished reviewing your new Senior Posing Guide and the first words to come out of my mouth are.....WOW!

I love it! You have done an incredible job with showcasing your great photography and then giving easy to understand details on how the images were created. This is a must for any studio! I can't wait to incorporate many of your ideas into this years seniors. Thanks for a great product!”

— Christopher Yates, Winter Park, FL

“Senior Ideas 3 rocks! John has outdone himself with this instructional CD. It is so much more than posing ideas. Although they are great. It's more than retouching ideas. It's more than creative print manipulation. John has included some of the newest location lighting techniques along with his long standing studio lighting set-up. This is a great idea starter and review for seasoned pros, but even more - it's information that new photographers must have if they are going to succeed in today's marketplace. At this price the information is a steal!”

— Bob Coates, Sedona, AZ

“If you are stuck in a posing rut, this is a must-have CD! Your seniors will thank you for all the fresh, new posing ideas.”

— Gene Gibbs, Holly Hill, FL

“Even after having a studio for 28+ years, earning both the PPA Masters and Craftsman degrees and having photographed over 10,000 high school seniors I still look to John Hartman for the best information, marketing and techniques regarding the senior business. If you want to fill your schedule with profitable seniors that are eager to spend their money with you, order your copy of the Senior Ideas CD today. Don't settle for boring poses and an empty bank account...join the hundreds of successful studios that use the Hartman magic to build your future.”

— Tom Schmidt, Redding CA

“Your New Senior Ideas CD is outstanding. Where do you come up with all the new exciting ideas and techniques?

When I got it today, I thought I would just scan it for a few quick ideas, but like a good novel, once I started, I couldn't put it down. Almost 200 PDF pages and two hours later, I wanted to start all over again from the beginning. Even for someone that has been in this business as long as I have, it is possible to learn new tricks and styles.

This CD will be invaluable to any photographer, whether photographing seniors or whatever. Every new photographer should get a copy. It would start them on the road to success right from the beginning and save them months of trial and error.

Thanks for putting this together.”

— Cliff Carroll, Milwaukee, WI

“As senior season approaches each year, I begin to wrack my brain for new ideas. I want to challenge myself to NOT do the same thing over and over. It is often difficult to see things outside my own interpretations. To that end, it is exceptionally helpful to spend some time reviewing images from another photographer... to see what he sees when he looks thru his viewfinder. It helps to open my eyes to new possibilities, and challenges me to see thru my viewfinder a bit differently.

In reviewing John Hartman's Senior Ideas CD I was able to step outside my own box, and begin to see how I can change small things here and there to add a breath of fresh air to my own work.

Using ‘regular’ kids, and not supermodels, John shows us how, in real world situations, we can improve our posing and lighting. It's great to have a few ‘Hey, I never thought of that!’ moments as you view the CD.

By studying the before and after images you can piece together John's lighting and by examining the subjects you can begin to understand how body and hand placement dramatically add to the over all impact of the image.

Well worth the investment...even after multiple viewings, I'm still wanting to go back for more! Making changes in my style already!”

— Keith Trammel, Pumpkin Hook, NY

"John Hartman has created a powerful learning tool with his Senior Ideas CD. The number of images and effects that this CD contains is amazing. From the before and after photographs to the step by step process on how John creates his final image, his senior posing guide will help you kick your senior portraits up a notch. I've been in business 30 years and I can't believe what I'm learning! Thanks John.”

— Mark Allan M.Photog.Cr., Wolcott, CT

“I just had to let you know how AMAZING your new Senior Ideas CD is! Love the way you have structured the information, especially showing how each image changes with each application. Ordinary senior photographs will no longer be acceptable - you make it too easy to create extraordinary images without having to ‘reinvent the wheel’! Can't wait to share this with my digital artist - we're going to have the best senior season ever!!”

— Carol Melton, M.Photog.Cr., CPP, Danville, Virginia

“After 39 years in business it's easy to turn a little stale and cookie cutter in senior posing. John's CD is a wealth of posing ideas along with great new ideas to modify the normal file with great new effects all with standard store bought filters to add that extra WOW Factor to our proofs. Thanks for a great easy-to-use CD of posing ideas!!!”

— Gary Alan Strain, M.Photog.Cr.,Conway, AR

“I was amazed at how much useful information is on this CD. It is packed with great images, poses, lighting ideas, Photoshop tips and techniques. I have been in business for 28 years and there are may things on the CD that I can use for years to come. I will be reviewing this for the entire senior season coming up. Great work John!”

— Rock Tweten, Grafton, ND

“Your Senior Ideas CD is INCREDIBLE! I was thinking it was just going to be a bunch of poses ... NOT! What you have created is an easy to follow RECIPE, for SUCCESSFUL imaging, and more importantly increased PROFITS! I can't thank you enough!!”

— David M. Humphrey, M.Photog.Cr., CPS Certified, MPS, PPM-SA, ASP, NAPP, Flint, MI

“John what can I say? You have done it again! This guide will help kick start new ideas for anyone who buys it. Lots of great poses and ways to kick them up. I recommend this to anyone.

— Mike Kleber, Ft. Wayne, IN

“Well, John Hartman has done it again by providing the professional photographer with a fantastic source of inspiration, information, and explanation. His latest Senior Ideas CD is so much more than a posing guide for the latest and greatest in senior portrait photography. It's so much more than an idea collection for great application of digital techniques. It's so much more than an mere source of inspiration. It's all of those things, and more. If you feel that your senior portrait images are stuck in a rut, if you keep falling back to the same old poses, techniques, and styles that you've been doing for years, this CD is like a breath of fresh air. Heck, it's like a jolt of pure oxygen! In fact, since there are hundreds and hundreds of senior portrait images on there, it's more like a month of fresh air.

Get it, be inspired, learn.”

— Dennis Kelly, Blackwood, NJ

“John, this CD continues your tradition of providing impeccable educational, marketing, and marketable concepts. The portable flash instruction is easily worth a CD alone...the salable poses and recipes for producing them as distinctive styles will save many hours of experimentation. Thanks for making this available...if a CD can be well-thumbed, this one will be.”

— John Malloy, Topeka, KS

“I just finished going through all 934 slides for the second time in as many days. Thank you for taking the time to not only share your fantastic photography, but to also show the raw image and the steps you took to get your amazing results. Your use of DOF and posing is outstanding. My retoucher is going to watch the CD today to get some new ideas as well. What a great kick start to the senior season for me. Yet another product to help our studio make money from John Hartman...”

— Rob Ownby, Sioux City, IA

“Okay, so, today I got my ‘Senior Ideas CD by John Hartman’ and let me tell you, it is a gold mine and a STEAL at the price.

These are some of the best image CDs I have ever bought. They are very inspiring! I love ‘em!

With John sharing all this stuff for such a modest fee, it is definitely worth purchasing. He has a TON of different poses he shares and what he does with them.”

— Michael Plumeyer, New Braunfels, TX

“Wow! You are truly a genius! What a colossal idea! Even a guy who has been photographing seniors for years can't help but need something like this. It's like a kick in the pants. I will probably look at this every other day in the senior season to refresh the idea machine. Your special effects/ finishing techniques are processes that I never thought of. This will surely help everyone who shoots seniors. (even guys who have been in the business 35 years!)”

—Dave Savarino, Monongahela, PA

“I appreciate how you have the CD laid out to also give guidance and many, many ideas to the photographer with an end product in mind. Each example is laid out so that the average photographer will be able to say 'I can do this' and then give it a try.

Another part I like about the CD is the guidance you have shown in the retouching—not too much—which I think many could have a tendency to do. Now they can compare what they make and what you have presented.

Again John, another home run and thank you for you leadership to all in the industry.”

—Clark Marten, Columbus, MT

“John's CD is a must-have for any photographer. It not only gives posing demonstrations but goes much further, and gives details on how each one was achieved by lighting and computer enhancement! John has truly put his heart and time into this in hopes it will help others excel!”

—Keith Branch, Fayetteville, AR

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