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Guides

The technique behind the look.

Short, practical PDFs written for the phone in your pocket at 1 a.m. No theory chapters, just what to set, where to point the flash and how to get the gallery out.

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The guides

Read tonight, use tomorrow.

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Guide

The Party Flash Playbook

$24

Settings, angles and bounce tricks for rooms where the light is never on your side.

  • 70-page PDF guide, built from five years of real parties
  • Starting settings for every common venue type
  • Flash positioning diagrams you can check on your phone mid-shoot
Buy The Party Flash Playbook
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Guide

Edit the Night, Fast

$19

A Lightroom workflow for culling, syncing and delivering a 1,200-frame night before lunch.

  • 40-page PDF plus a printable checklist
  • Culling rules, batch syncing and export recipes
  • Client gallery and delivery templates
Buy Edit the Night, Fast
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PDFFree

Free download

Dancefloor Cheat Sheet

Free

Ten starting settings for dark rooms, on one page. Free.

  • One-page PDF for your phone
  • Settings for direct flash, bounce and ambient-only
  • A taste of the Playbook
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Who they are for

Three kinds of photographers show up here.

New to parties

You shoot weddings or portraits and a club night just landed in your inbox. Start with the Playbook and the cheat sheet.

Already shooting nights

Your frames are fine but your delivery takes two days. Edit the Night, Fast is the one to read.

Phone-only shooters

Promoters and content creators who shoot on a phone. The Playbook has a chapter for you, and Club Mobile is your pack.

Presets

Pair a guide with the pack it was written for.

The Playbook and Afterhours were made together. Shoot it the way the guide says, drop the preset on, and the look falls into place.

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