everyBODIES education with Teri Hofford
What previously started out as a small pdf guide called Confident Curves has emerged into a beautiful community called everyBODIES education. As an educator in the photography community I strive to provide my students with uplifting and challenging content designed to help them create an impact within themselves as well as with their clients. Whether it be educating people on self limiting biases or beliefs or shaking shit up with neon lights, my methods tend to be direct, humorous, and impactful. It is important to me that regardless of a person’s learning style, they are not only able to understand and process the information, but also execute and apply it shortly after. I am a resolution - results oriented educator who has earned the nickname “tough love teri" for obvious reasons.
I know that as one person I can only affect so many people, but it is photographers like you - the ones that know photography can heal, empower, and change lives - that I want on my side, helping me fulfill my mission of impacting as many humans to live their most authentic and beautiful lives all while recognizing their worth and value on this planet.
While some of the courses lend themselves to the more technical side of things, others tend to focus more on the heart side of things. However, they all have the same thing in common: they are all designed to challenge you to think beyond what you know is possible and to help you grow as a human AND as a photographer!
SUBMISSIONS
Out of 100 boudoir websites surveyed, nearly all of them talked about empowering all women, yet only 30% of those websites showcased visibly fat bodies. Out of those 30 websites, only 15 showed more than FIVE plus sized women on their sites. Upon looking further, many other marginalized bodies were also missing from the majority of websites and this included color, abilities, age, and those with visible skin textures. While this isn’t mandatory for photographers to include these things in their work, at everyBODIES we are striving to let the world know that every BODY is worthy of being photographed.
Below are a few ways that you can join in our mission to improve the diversity of the bodies we see in the photography industry by submitting your images!
ADVOCATES FOR BODY DIVERSITY
Empowerment is not as simple as SAYING we empower our clients, but rather SHOWING that we do it. Therefore we have created the Advocates for Body Diversity pledge. By taking this pledge you will be recognized and featured in our online database as a photographer who strives to provide an amazing experience for all clients. In addition, you will be provided with a badge and mini-pledge to put on your website AND social media so your clients can be made aware that you will provide them an amazing, non-judgemental, empowering boudoir experience.
Instagram Submissions
The everybodies education instagram account is full of diverse and beautiful bodies to help improve diversity of the media around us! We would love to feature your images! Simply click the button below and submit your images, ensuring that your files are named with your instagram handle so we can credit you properly!
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Foundational Courses
Foundational courses are the more in-depth, intensive courses offered by Teri Hofford. These are the ones recommended to give you a strong start to finding out who you are/want to be as an artist, how you can help your clients by helping yourself, and of course, give you the structure needed to start your
Getting Started with the Art & Business of Boudoir - ebook
This is an everyBODIES Education resource guide created by Beth Olsen. It is a comprehensive guide to walk you through different facets of the boudoir photography industry and provide you with links to dig deeper. THIS IS A GUIDE.
Be Your Brand
The BE YOUR BRAND PDF is a great start to understanding why you do what you do and who you do it for. We all know it’s important to “speak to your target market” but how do we find out who they are? This e-book will walk you through a series of questions and activities designed to help you figure it out!
Goal Setting pdf
After years of hustling, I started to realize that fitting my life around my business wasn’t conducive to my mental health, so I had the thought “What if I built my business around my life?” Not only did I become more productive, but I was finally able to achieve contentment, better relationships with my family and friends, and I actually had mental energy to start learning Spanish and start a new creative hobby. We were not put on this earth to work and then die - so why do we goal set this way?
Body Image Reset Program
The Body Image Reset program will walk you through the 5 step model to resetting your mindset. While this course specifically focuses on body image, the techniques you learn can be applied to any thoughts that are getting in the way of you living your best, most optimal life!
Body Image & The Boudoir
This is the most in depth course yet! Combining my Body Image Bootcamp information with my standard boudoir workshop information, it is a well rounded course to help you understand YOUR body image, so you can help your clients with theirs!
Shake Shit Up Courses
These courses are designed to literally shake shit up. Far too often I find photographers get stuck in a rut which eventually leads to burnout and a dislike for our craft (I experienced it first hand!) These resources are designed to teach you technical ins and outs of how to shake shit up in your work, whether you do it just for you or for your clients! The goal here is not to achieve perfection, but rather to fail while having fun!! Get outta that box and tap back into that artist mind that was present when you first started your photographic journey!
SHAKE SHIT UP
The original Shake Shit Up PDF that started this whole series! This PDF is designed to give you challenges, ideas, and ways that you can take a standard portrait/boudoir session and - well - shake it up a bit!
Shake shit up with neon
Shake Shit Up With Neon is a full course including videos, pdfs, and lighting guides to help you harness the power of using continuous neon/colored lights to add a flair to your work. Having the ability to use constant lights allows you to create cinematic images and truly tell a story in addition to giving you the skills necessary to work in any lighting condition!
Shake Shit Up with webcams
The infamous Shake Shit Up With Webcams course is one of the most popular, partially because of it’s cost ($10) but also because of it’s ingenuity during a time of uncertainty! It relies on the old adage, the best camera you have is the one you have with you and in a time where many of us are isolated, webcam sessions will provide you and your clients a way to connect AND create!
Shake Shit Up With Light Leaks
Light leaks add beautiful dapples of light to add a bit of flair to your creative or client images. This collection of retro light leaks include hundred of jpgs inspired by the 60s/70s/80s/ and 90s for you to use as overlays on your images to create a cinematic feel.
Shake Shit Up With Textures
Textures are another to way to take an image from dull to intriguing. Textures give you that old scratched feel from the film days but they can also serve to provide a painterly effect, drawing your viewers eye towards the subject. Hundreds of texture jpgs are just waiting for you to shake shit up with your images!
Shake Shit Up With Digital Collage
Shake Shit Up With Digital Collage is all about expanding your mind beyond the confines of your camera! Make a mess, capture treasures, and create some magic in this course designed to help you hone in on your artistic intuition and “go with the flow” to create some magical images!
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POSING GUIDES
While these posing guides were created to give people the confidence to photograph their curvier clients, these poses and the mindset that is explained through these guides should be applied to EVERY body that comes in front of your lens. Photography does not discriminate on body type, but photographers do. These guides are intended to help you understand that every body is not only worthy of being photographed, but that they CAN be photographed in a bad ass, sensual, and empowering way!
Confident Curves PDF + VIDEO
Before everyBODIES there was Confident Curves! After seeing photographs ask over and over again how to photograph women over a size 12 I realized something had to be done! I compiled my favorite top poses into this handy dandy guide/video to give you the confidence to work with bodies of all sizes.
CONFIDENT CURVES 2: PDF + VIDEO
Confident Curves 2 is the follow up to the original Confident Curves posing series, this time following up with a little more of the communication side of things in addition to more top selling poses, angles, and lighting suggestions!
CONFIDENT CURVES POSING APP
The Confident Curves posing app is an app for you to download to your phone to have access for inspo at your fingertips during your session. Seeing is believing and having these images also allows you to show your client that ALL bodies are capable of doing a boudoir session.
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Downloadable E-Books/Templates
SCRIPTS FOR BODY IMAGE CONCERNS
“I need to lose weight first”, “That doesn’t look like me!” “I don’t like X,Y, & Z about myself. Can you hid it?” are just some of the main questions photographers get asked.
I give you my body neutral/body positive answers for the 10+ most commonly asked/said body image concerns from clients!
Guide to Confidence Maintenance Template + text
After your client leaves their session, we want their high to last as long as possible, so this guide will help give them tips and tricks to truly empowering them long term! I have created 2 PSD file templates for you to pop your own images into, as well as provided you the text files so you can create your own branded guide!
Setting Body Image Expectations
This guide is going to cover every expectation I set in my studio from the consult all the way to the reveal. I will show you how I help my clients understand the value of why they should go with me and how I can set them up for a more positive mindset during their reveal!
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THE UNIVERSE DECIDES - CARD DECK
The Universe Decides deck was created to help you stay inspired, creative, and challenged. The deck features 6 "suits" which are designated to send you on a wild adventure an unknown location to create art on a whim as your location, wardrobe, lighting and mood will all be determined by the Universe! Click on the image to purchase!
FREE SHIT
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DICKIN’ AROUND WITH TERI - LIVE EDITING SESSIONS
It all started when…
I was on a ZOOM chat with some fellow photographer friends teaching them some of my tips and tricks in Lightroom and Photoshop and I kept using statements like “I’m just gonna dick around with some color here.” and “We just dick around with the overlays to see how we like them.” Essentially, the only thing structured about these events is that they happen on Wednesday’s at 8pm CST and are limited to 5 attendees. A day before I send a file folder with the images we will be working on so you can work alongside me (or afterwards) and apply the skills through the software. As well, I will follow up with a recording of our ZOOM meeting so you can catch anything you may have missed if you were indulging in bevvies while we are hanging out! Long story short, it’s like Paint Nite but with 0 paint and a lot of swearing.
IN PERSON WORKSHOPS
We have a handful of different workshops to help you grow both personally and professional as a heart driven creative! Take a look below for the one to go in the direction that you need the most!
Body Image Workshops
Our Body Image Workshops are designed for the individual wanting to improve their relationship with their body. Working under the premise of Body Neutrality, these courses will help you heal your current body image issues, dig into your past to recognize where they came from, and move forward with coping techniques to create resilience from that negative voice in your head!
We have both online & in person workshops available.
everyBODIES education for photographers
Take your boudoir and intimate portrait business to the next level by improving the diversity of the bodies that you showcase. All of the everyBODIES education or Shake Shit Up workshops and shoot outs will feature a diverse crew of models to help you build your portfolio, one on one attention from Teri, and a guarantee that you will laugh, be fulfilled in heart and soul, and you might even shed a tear or two as you work through your own body image and creative experiences with Teri!