Glow Up: Beauty Photography & Editing Intensive

Polish your craft with this full-day intensive designed for photographers ready to refine their approach to beauty and portrait photography. This workshop combines practical shooting experience with professional post-production techniques used across the industry. Participants will deepen their skills in lighting strategies, composition, and model direction to capture striking, editorial-quality portraits. The session then transitions into high-level retouching, covering skin refinement, frequency separation, color grading, and non-destructive editing workflows.

Ideal for photographers looking to strengthen portfolios or sharpen technical expertise, this workshop delivers the tools and knowledge needed to produce polished, publication-ready beauty imagery that resonates in today’s competitive visual landscape.

Christopher "Sancho" Smalls, was born in Beaufort, SC, and raised in the rich Gullah culture of the coastal sea islands. While in Beaufort, he developed an appreciation for the intimacy and instinctual beauty of visual art. He received his Bachelor's in Fine Arts from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC in 2014. It was there that his traditional mediums such as painting, drawing, and mixed media, intersected with wearable art, fashion, and computer-aided design. Now living in Charlotte, he primarily uses photography as his tool to create empowering themes that highlight minority subjects. He aims to find himself within the process of creating each piece and embraces the transformative quality of photography. He adopted the moniker Sancho Smalls, the name of his 4th great grandfather, in 2019 as a tribute to his ancestry and his evolving future as an artist.