The BlueHour Mentorship:
Learn the secrets of the professionals;
an advanced and personalized approach to photography education.

Accelerate

Your Learning

Unlock your full creative potential with our immersive Photography Mastery Mentorship Program, designed for photographers who want to rapidly elevate their craft through comprehensive learning and skills development. Over the course of a month, you'll dive deep into both the art and technique of photography through a customized blend of 4 interactive online lessons and 3 full-day in-person training sessions with your own personal photography mentor, and gain lifetime access to a library of digital and printed study materials created by our team of award-winning instructors.

In this truly personalized program, you, the mentee, work with your chosen mentor to design your own journey towards photographic mastery, whether your goal is to elevate your images to a competition-winning level, create exquisite and expressive fine art pieces, or you simply view expertise in photographic skills, tools, and artfulness as a worthy end in itself. 

“This program provided mentoring to help me grow my photography business. They listened closely to what I wanted from the mentoring program and delivered exactly what I needed. This was an excellent experience. As a team they have many years of experience, are extremely knowledgeable, professional, organized, talented, proactive, creative and responsive.”
— Eugene B., Mentor Student

The program

Interactive Online Learning

Start your journey to mastery from the comfort of your own home

  • Four 2-hour interactive online learning and discussion sessions with your mentor of choice

  • You choose the skills you wish to dive into and discuss from your mentor’s library of over a dozen different comprehensive technical and artistic topics

  • Sessions are spaced one week apart

  • Receive assignments from your mentor to be completed independently, with review and critique at the beginning of each subsequent session

  • Access and study all the remaining web sessions independently at your own pace

One-on-one Field Sessions

The heart of our program, and where the real magic happens

  • 3 full days of on-location learning with your chosen mentor

  • Choose from a wide selection of stunning New England locations that specifically complement your desired topics of study

  • Real-time assignments and challenges that accelerate skills development and invoke new thought processes 

  • Study and work in real-world conditions, and learn to adapt to changing weather and lighting

  • Photography is more than just using your camera; this portion of the program teaches patience, resilience, and commitment to the goal of acquiring the best images possible

Follow-up Consultation

Two months after the conclusion of your program, your mentor will reach out to you to follow-up on your progress and see if you have made the desired improvements, and help you determine what additional directions your photographic journey may take. 

Additional materials

Our learning materials have been personally developed and curated by us over a decade of teaching all aspects of photography. You will receive lifetime access to our entire archive of web lessons, and a physical, bound copy of over 20 instructional documents that outline various photographic techniques.

Optional add-ons

Additional photo critiques, available either as interactive sessions or as written critiques, may be purchased after the conclusion of your program.

Additional online discussion sessions or field sessions with your mentor may also be purchased after the conclusion of your program.

Expectations

The entirety of the program shall be completed in one month, from the first online or field session to the final online or field session.

You are responsible for bringing your own camera equipment to the program, and are responsible for purchasing additional accessories, such as filters, that have been mutually agreed upon as necessary for the completion of assignments. Your mentor may provide certain accessories that you will be able to try out during your field sessions

After deciding to invest in quality photo equipment, I found BlueHour through the SunSurveyor app. I decided their mentorship program would be a good investment. It was a great decision. BlueHour knows their stuff. They know equipment of all kinds; they are able to assess how to teach the student to learn or improve; their eyes are constantly scanning for photographic opportunities and unique perspectives; and they patiently answer question after question.

They are excellent at seeing to it that the student learns skills by doing, not lecturing. I totally recommend the program. It takes a person's abilities magnitudes ahead of where they started.

— Cynthia M., Oregon

Schedule a free phone consult

Schedule a half hour with your prospective mentor to discuss whether this program is right for you, and see if you and your mentor are a good match before you enroll.

Mentors

Hope Pashos

  • Hope, hailing from the North Shore of Massachusetts, has embraced the digital medium after shooting on film since she was a child. Her specialties are nature, landscapes, and astrophotography. She loves to photograph the world around her, but focuses on New England and its shores and abundant waterfalls and travels frequently to Iceland as well as many US National Parks.

    Hope’s passion is to share her knowledge with others. A former Pro and Genius with Apple, Hope has been able to teach iPhoneography and develop techniques with the iPhone for both taking and editing photographs. She developed one of the first iPhone photography workshops, teaching her signature macro technique on an iPhone 4. As the iPhone camera developed, so too did her techniques. With the built-in capabilities of the newest iPhones and additional attachment lenses, Hope can now photograph any type of subject, under any conditions. And using a combination of the latest mobile editing apps, she is able to digitally process her images - both from her phone and from her full-sized Sony camera - while on the go.

    Hope has had her collection ‘Boston After Dark’ displayed in a collective exhibition. She has also been exhibited in locations around the US, including an exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography, and printed in various publications.

    You can see her work at www.hopepashos.com

  • Hope excels at teaching her students about the technology and equipment associated with photography, whether it’s the latest lenses for smartphone cameras, or a star tracker for astrophotography. A self-professed gearhead, Hope will get her hands on any piece of equipment in existence, learn how to use it proficiently, and teach you to become an expert at it. She is also an FAA-certified Part 107 Drone Pilot.

    Hope is adept at capturing grand perspectives and traditional landscape photography, long exposure and astrophotography, birds and wildlife, and aerial and drone photography.

    • The Night Sky: Astrophotography

    • Digital Apps & Scouting Tools to Improve All Things Photography

    • From the Air: Drone Photography

    • Filters: Mastering Long Exposure

    • Getting Up Close: Macro

    • The Camera in Your Pocket: Smartphones

    • Intentional Camera Movement & Abstract Photography

    • Advanced Techniques: Focus Stacking, Bracketing & More

    • Experiments with Light: “Lightpainting”

Dave DeMarco

  • Dave is a Rhode Island-based fine art photographer. He has had a love affair with making photographs for 40 years. For Dave, sunrise and sunset represent powerful forces of peace, tranquility, and rejuvenation. These forces are the common theme of Dave’s photography. Dave’s work is published in local calendars and publications, including the cover of South County Life Magazine. Dave also works on commissioned projects where the subject, mood and feel of a photograph are specially crafted for the buyer and their space. Dave is a natural teacher and mentor. He enjoys the creative process of discovery, learning and growth. Dave offers individualized photography coaching sessions through his course “Yes You Can Photography” where he teaches you how to move from taking photographs to intentionally making photographs. Sessions are held both virtually and in person.

    You can see his work on his website http://www.ospreywindsphotography.com/

  • Dave’s expertise is artistic expression, and he believes that a photo is only as good as the story it tells and the emotions it conjures up. While a camera is necessary for capturing an image, it takes careful composition, attention to color and detail, occasional abstraction, and the finishing touches of post-processing to produce a fine art photograph. Whether it be capturing the colors of blue hour or the wonderment of wildlife, let Dave teach you how to take your images to a new level of professionalism.

    Dave is skilled at abstract photography, birds and wildlife, traditional landscape, and lifestyle photography.

    • The Art of Monochrome

    • Capturing the Colors of Blue Hour

    • Creating Captivating Compositions

    • Putting the Wild in Wildlife

    • Making Abstract Art through ICM

    • Powerful Post Processing

    • The Hidden World of Macro

    • Fine Art Seascapes

Pricing

$4000

Each program includes

  • 3 One-on-one Field Sessions

  • 4 Interactive & online learning sessions

  • Lifetime access to online and physical learning materials including a spiral-bound book spanning 50+ pages

  • Follow-up consultation

Payment can be a single payment, or with a non-refundable deposit,
with the balance being due a week before your program begins. Upon enrollment, a contract outlining program terms will be sent to you.

Enroll.