The heirloom portrait,
taught end to end.
Philip’s complete workflow — the gear, the lighting, the exact settings, the signature edit, and the finished oval-matted print — as a self-paced course you can take anytime. The same look, the same steps, no live Zoom required.
14-day money-back guarantee — full refund as long as you’ve watched less than 30% of the lessons.
By the end, you can run the whole thing — from the moment a client books to the moment a finished print ships.
Four validated cohorts. The same gear, the same settings, the same edit Philip uses on every paying client — distilled into short, watch-at-your-pace lessons.
Five assignments, in order, ending in a paid session.
Philip hands out an assignment on camera five separate times — nobody asked him to. Do them in order and you come out the other side with real images and a real client, not a folder of notes.
- The software stack Order the gear standing between you and a working kit, and get Adobe going today.
- Pricing the heirloom Open the pricing worksheet and write your number down. A number on paper is a business; a number in your head is a wish.
- Go shoot your first session (free) Book your first heirloom session for free. Keep the RAWs — you’ll cull, proof, edit and print them alongside Philip for the rest of the course.
- Delivering the gallery Edit the three images from your practice proof sheet start to finish. Six finished files. Chase finished, not perfect.
- Your first heirloom — the assignment Within thirty days, book one real, paid heirloom session. Charge the number you wrote down.
No baby to photograph? Philip’s practice RAWs come with the course — the exact frames he culls, proofs and edits on screen. Every rung is completable from the day you enroll.
The new heirloom photographer
You love the look and want a repeatable system — from booking to print — instead of guessing your way through it.
The working portrait pro
You already have clients and a camera you know. You’re here for the edit and the lighting — Module 01 and Module 04 are yours; skim the rest or don’t.
The photographer ready to charge more
A matted heirloom print is a product, not a service. Learn how Philip prices it, packages it, and turns one session into prints for the whole family.
Photographers who already did this, before it was a course.
Philip taught the heirloom workflow as a live two-call intensive before any of it was filmed. These are the people who sat through it.
As a very new photographer, this course gave me so much clarity and confidence. The way the material was explained made something that felt intimidating suddenly feel achievable.
So far I have created a portrait studio based on the setup taught in the course, and I have my first heirloom client coming next week.
Philip's heirloom portraits are special — the best I've seen — and with the technical understanding gained in this class, I now feel ready to launch heirloom portraits in my own business.
Philip takes the beautiful art of heirloom photography and teaches it in a way that's easily digestible.
This was such a great course! I think you should charge more because there is so much value in this course!
From photographers who took the Heirloom Intensive live. Collected through an anonymous feedback form, shared with permission.
5 modules. 27 lessons. Nothing locked.
About 1h 45m of instruction, averaging three and a half minutes a lesson — short because it’s dense, not because it’s thin.
Set Up Your Studio
6 lessonsThe exact kit, the rig, the light, and the settings — everything you need before a client ever walks in.
- Welcome + what you’re about to learn 2:46
- The gear 7:42
- Building the set 8:17
- Light placement — the edge-of-softbox rule 2:51
- Camera + flash settings 6:13
- The software stack 4:11
Working With Your Client
6 lessonsHow a session is won before the kid ever sits down — wardrobe, the room, marketing, and what to charge.
- Expectations + the wardrobe playbook 4:42
- In the room with a subject 6:44
- Travel, timing + when to reschedule 4:34
- How Philip markets the heirloom 3:27
- Vetting clients + safety 1:54
- Pricing the heirloom 3:49
Shoot + Select
3 lessonsGo run a real session, then cull it down and build the proof sheet your client picks from.
- Go shoot your first session (free) 0:25
- Culling in Photo Mechanic 6:55
- Building the proof sheet 4:55
The Edit
9 lessonsThe whole heirloom edit, start to finish, on one real image — Lightroom through Photoshop to export.
- The base edit + cleanup 10:16
- The masking step 3:14
- Soften skin 1:51
- Opening in Photoshop 1:24
- Sharpening in Photoshop 1:26
- Crop + generative expand 2:27
- The heirloom oval 6:11
- Flatten, save + the black-and-white 3:04
- Exporting your final files 1:45
Deliver & Print
3 lessonsGet it to the client, order the matted oval, and go book the real thing.
- Delivering the gallery 1:15
- Ordering the matted oval print 2:31
- Your first heirloom — the assignment 0:44
The edge of the softbox — not the middle.
Most photographers point the brightest part of the light straight at the subject, and it comes out harsh. Philip aims the soft edge of the softbox at the subject and bounces the bright middle off a reflector. It’s the single trick that makes a heirloom portrait look like a heirloom portrait — and it gets its own lesson, with the lighting diagram to match.
Everything, for $397.
The complete heirloom workflow — the kit, the light, the settings, the signature edit, and the finished matted oval — plus the five assignments that get you to a paid session.
14-day money-back guarantee — full refund as long as you’ve watched less than 30% of the lessons.
Philip Winham
Philip is a heirloom, portrait, and brand photographer based in College Station, Texas. He built the Heirloom Approach over four live cohorts — refining the gear, the lighting, and the edit until it was a system anyone could repeat — and then turned it into this course.
“My biggest fear in making this course is that people would walk away and feel like they didn’t get anything out of it. I really want this to actually work for you.”
— Philip, Cohort 1