Pye Jirsa | Photographer and Educator

About Pye Jirsa

Pye Jirsa is a photographer, educator, and author in Southern California. He blends his passions for learning, coaching, creativity, and photography to create educational frameworks and training systems. His education has become popular in the photography space due to his ability to take complex subjects and make them easy to learn/master. Pye believes that good education must be simple and intuitive in order for it to be effective.

Pye is the co-founder and partner of SLR Lounge, Impossible Things, Lin and Jirsa Photography, Visual Flow Presets and other related projects and businesses in the photography, wedding, and self-help industries.

Where to Learn From Pye Jirsa

pye jirsa slrloungeSLR Lounge Premium – Pye is the creator of the workshops and training systems inside the SLR Lounge library. The workshops, based on real-world success, have trained over 20,000 students since 2008. You can learn from Pye Jirsa inside SLR Lounge Premium.


pye jirsa fstoppersCreative Live – CreativeLive is an educational platform for creatives.  Founded by Chase Jarvis, it offers an array of courses ranging from photography and design to music and business.  Pye Jirsa is one of the top instructors on CreativeLive.  You can find his courses here.


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Fstoppers – Fstoppers is a vibrant online community tailored for photographers and videographers. Founded by Patrick Hall and Lee Morris, it offers a mix of tutorials, gear reviews, and industry news, serving as an invaluable resource for photographers.  Pye has collaborated with Fstoppers to create various workshops, which you can find here.


Where to Watch Pye Jirsa

pye jirsa youtubeYou can watch Pye Jirsa’s free youtube videos on the following channels.


Where to Read Pye Jirsa’s Articles

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Where to Find Pye Jirsa’s Presets

pye jirsa presetsWhen Pye first started teaching photography, he started with the niche of Lightroom and Lightroom Presets.  Over the years, he’s launched multiple versions of the SLR Lounge Lightroom Presets, complete workflow presets for professional photographers.  In 2019, SLR Lounge partnered with preset maker DVLOP to create the Visual Flow Lightroom Presets, a system based on a patent-pending system of development called Lighting Condition Based Development.  These highly tested, continually refined sets of presets, are designed to get professional results in a single click.