KARA MARIE EDUCATION LIBRARY

  • IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS

    In-person learning is a top inspiration for creatives to jump start their motivation for improvement. Kara Marie’s in-person workshops are always fun, informative, and thoughtfully curated . Workshop topics range from style development, creative processes, confidence building, and fine art nude photography. Be amongst the first to know of the next announced in-person photography workshops with Kara Marie by clicking the button below.

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  • LEGENDARY CUSTOMER SERVICE 5-WEEK COURSE

    Kara Marie’s most results-driven class is a self-paced customer service overhaul that will skyrocket your customer satisfaction and therefore your referral and repeat business and revive your passion for your work. Jam-packed with lessons, templates, checklists and a workbook that’ll guide you through every step of this game-changing transformation for your business.

    $369 LEGENDARY CUSTOMER SERVICE

  • THE BOUDOIR SERIES VIDEO COURSE

    Deep dive into The Art of Boudoir Photography with Kara Marie. This video course in collaboration with The Portrait Masters will take you through the fundamentals of studio boudoir photography including posing, lighting, the business side and more.. Course includes
    8+ HOURS OF EDUCATION | 48 VIDEOS | 4 DOWNLOADABLE GUIDES

    $299 BOUDOIR SERIES VIDEO COURSE

  • BOUNDLESS BOUDOIR VIDEO COURSE

    In this follow-up to Kara Marie’s original Boudoir Series, you’ll follow along with her for TWELVE uniquely styled boudoir style photo shoots demonstrating that there isn’t just ONE look to this wildly popular genre. This video series contains over 5 hours of video education, plus 3 bonus lessons and 2 PDF guides to help you explore this genre and really make it your own.

    $299 BOUNDLESS BOUDOIR VIDEO COURSE

  • $99 BOUDOIR POSING CARDS

    Instantly download 100 boudoir pose variations with the bonus verbal instructions so you can seamlessly coach your clients into your favorite poses. These digital cards are a fantastic tool to start out with the boudoir genre until posing your clients becomes second nature. Play with each pose and make them your own!

    DIGITAL BOUDOIR POSING CARDS

  • BLACK AND WHITE LR PRESETS

    After many requests and lots of fine-tuning, I’m thrilled to present you with twelve Lightroom presets for your raw images that will make your little black and white heart skip a beat.With six original presets plus an additional variation with grain for each, you’ll have plenty of options to play with. All twelve Lightroom presets can be fully tweaked to your liking and shoot style and are created to work with raw files.

    $99 BLACK AND WHITE PRESETS

  • A Boudoir Photographers Manual to BOOK HER FRIENDS

    A Boudoir Photographer’s Manual to BOOK HER FRIENDS : A guide to keep business flowing with the tools you already have: your existing clients. This is a comprehensive 32-page guide full of instructions on how to increase business drastically by using a strategic method of gaining referrals, INCLUDING the tried-and-true Kara Marie referral voucher method.

    $79 BOOK HER FRIENDS

  • A Guide to Self Portraits for Photographers

    A beautiful self portrait can be one of the most rewarding and inspiring pieces of work that a photographer can create. Join me on a journey to create the perfect self-portrait.

    $59 GUIDE TO SELF PORTRAITS

  • Guide to Productivity for Creative Professionals

    Being blessed with a creative brain does not have to mean that you are cursed with being scatterbrained and unproductive. While it may not be in our nature (Hi, I’m Kara Marie, and I am in possession of a creative brain), it is absolutely possible to train yourself to be productive and high-achieving. Beyond being possible, becoming a highly productive person will also change your life in all the best ways.

    $20 Guide to Productivity

  • Guide Bundle

    Get all three of my guides at an incredible discount! Includes:

    + A Boudoir Photographers Manual to BOOK HER FRIENDS

    + A Guide to Self Portraits for Photographers

    + Guide to Productivity for Creative Professionals

    $129 Guide Bundle

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“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” -Virginia Woolf, a Room of One’s Own The legendary @alessiafferraro captured at my last workshop in Milano . @alessiaferraro_makeup @beautyfull_models @
We’re mane-deep in Leo season and from my extensive experience with Leos...being one myself and soul-friending many...we've got this whole "Leave me alone! Why aren't you paying attention to me?!" energy during our birth month. It's
Different sides of Karin. 🖤 #ipreview via @preview.app @karin.e.mccarthy @beautyfull_models
May we all channel this kind of fringe warrior goddess energy today. Muse: @bendnotbreak42
I balanced on the very tips of my toes on the very edge of a stool above the bathtub, my camera's swivel screen pointed down at me, but every time I tried to check my composition, I began to lose my balance. Falling on top of @bendnotbreak24 would h
"Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension, and I do not have time for things that have no soul." -Charles Bukowski Back in May, I had another 2-day shoot sesh with one of my muse-on-
Sofia is a whimsical garden daydream and I am so happy we snuck away for 3 minutes to create these images together at @graphistudio @ceconicastle . The first image looks like an abstract watercolor painting and I want to make it a mural on my wall 😍
“You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes dr
“All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Working through these images of the forest muse @mystic_bones
Part III May 2023 self portrait series, Como, Italy To the artists who can’t bear to look at themselves as the subject of their own art: Try again. Keep trying. See yourselves as you would any other subject. When you break your glorious figur
Part II May 2023 self portrait, Como, Italy. I’ve long felt disenchanted with the contrived. I suppose that’s why I took a bit of time away from self portraits. It’s more challenging to capture something natural, authentic, and le
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with those stories…water them with your blood and tears and your laughter ‘til they bloom, ‘til you yourself burst into bloom.&rdquo
RESTING IS DOING “You don’t need to be busy. You don’t need to justify your existence in terms of productivity. Rest is an essential part of survival. An essential part of us. An essential part of being the animals we are. When a d
“All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Registration is now open for an all-inclusive cup-filling crea
Dearest Lake Como, Amore, I adore you and all your moods, your floofy clouds, your brisk water, and your ability to render speechless absolutely everyone I introduce you to. I love being around/on/in you, you work of mother nature's art, you. XK
This is what I like to call “TA-DA!!!” lighting, swipe to see this intricate and super advanced 😏 set-up in a hotel room with @emilyjoymodels . ⚡️
"HOW WILL YOU MAKE IT YOURS???" On repeat to the photographers in my shoot group at the @graphistudio workshop. "How will you make it yours? How will you make it different?" When there's a group of photographers all photographin