https://visualeducation.com/class/shadowless-lighting-for-photographing-products-on-white/

In this live show, Karl demonstrates a useful technique for creating shadowless lighting when photographing products on a white background.  This technique is often required for e-commerce or catalogue product photography and is something we’ve been asked about a lot. To help you achieve this look Karl demonstrates a start-to-finish shoot showing the simple technique that can be used to achieve this.  To start, Karl shows how one would normally light products on white (you can find more in-depth demonstrations on this in classes such as our packshot product photography class, high-end headphones product shoot, or rings jewellery photography shoot). The problem with this technique is that it can be very difficult to eliminate shadows entirely, which is what is often required when shooting e-commerce products.

https://visualeducation.com/class/advanced-studio-kit/

As you progress with your photography you may find it necessary to use more advanced equipment. Perhaps you’re struggling to ensure perfectly colour accurate images, capture greater depth of field, or create tiny, controllable patches of light…  Having worked as a commercial photographer for 20+ years, Karl shares some of the specialist kit he, and other professional photographers, often use for product shoots.  In this class, Karl discusses these various bits of equipment and why they’re useful. He also explains some budget alternatives to some of the gear shown in this tutorial.

https://milled.com/photowhoa/nsfw-12-videos-to-create-the-best-fine-art-nude-stills-pZa9QfmJZqafjTsa
If you’re struggling with the necessary skills to reach your full potential as a fine art nude photographer, we have the solution.

https://visualeducation.com/class/chivas-regal-photoshoot/

In this bottle photography class, you’ll learn how to craft the perfect lighting setup for a whisky image to be paired with a CGI background.  As Karl begins, he’s confident that the shoot will be straightforward. But it proves to be more challenging than expected, requiring some fascinating problem-solving and producing excellent learning opportunities.  You’ll watch him experiment with a wide variety of lights and modifiers, including softboxes, scrims, Fresnels, projection attachments, and more.  You’ll also see him use a range of props and reflectors as he works to create beautiful lighting for the bottle, its label, and its contents – plus the accompanying glass.  Particularly interesting are the lengths to which Karl has to go to achieve satisfactory caustics on the wooden surface!  Once he has the various images he needs, Karl demonstrates how to move them into Photoshop, merge them and undertake the necessary retouching, including removing the ‘halo-ing’ so that the bottle sits comfortably against the CGI background.  In this part of the class, you’ll learn various useful post-production tools and techniques.  He finishes by photographing a cube to help Ethan match up the perspectives of the bottle shot with the CGI background.

https://inspire.peter-coulson.com.au/workshops/photoshoots/teishas-beach-photoshoot

https://visualeducation.com/class/how-to-photograph-golf-clubs/

Photographing reflective products can be difficult enough, but what about when there are three of those products, all with curved lines and unusual shapes to deal with?  Part of our series on how to photograph sports equipment, this class focuses on how to photograph mixed-surface texture products with complex shapes. Throughout the step-by-step shoot you’ll see how Karl overcomes these challenges as he shoots a trio of golf clubs.  As Karl works through the shoot you’ll see how he finalises his composition, lights the metallic surfaces of the clubs, uses reflectors and flags to enhance and control the lighting, and uses focus stacking to overcome depth of field issues.

https://visualeducation.com/class/controlling-mood-and-emotion-in-an-image/

  When it comes to photography, the very best images will always convey a certain mood or emotion. By using a particular light, or type of light, we, as photographers, can control the mood and feel of an image by making adjustments to things like the direction, position, hardness or softness and even temperature of the light.  In this course you’ll learn how you can create two very different images by completely changing the look and feel of an image, even if it’s the exact same subject and composition.  Shooting an overhead shot of an eyewear designers desk, Karl first demonstrates how to create clean, bright lighting, similar to what you’d expect in an office. He then creates a far more evocative lighting setup, recreating the light you’d expect to see with early morning or late afternoon sunlight streaming through a window.  These two comparisons clearly demonstrate why light and mood are so important in photography and how, by using the right modifiers, you can create almost any look.

https://www.photigy.com/school/creative-coffee-shot-workshop-29/

https://www.clickphotoschool.com/fascination-of-a-flat-lay-photograph/

Go behind the scenes with Stephanie Studer in a Breakout that will show you how to create beautiful flat lay images for publication, your social media feed, or any application. From styling to using the light all around you, Stephanie will show you how to create fascinating flat lays with confidence.

https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/product-and-food-photography-lighting-gear-styling-editing-and-more/1588018303

In my complete product and food photography course we’ll cover everything from planning a session to putting on the final polish. I’ll share my full creative process, the gear I use, my editing workflow, and all my best tips and tricks along the way.  You’ll learn how to craft beautiful light and gain greater camera confidence as we dive into the nuts and bolts of exposure, composition, and equipment. By the end of class you’ll be equipped with the confidence and skill to orchestrate an entire photoshoot using a studio and kit tailored to your personal style and goals.  This course is designed for anyone who wants to take their food and product photography to the next level. Whether you’re a hobby photographer wanting a breathtaking instagram feed or you’re at a professional level trying to break into food and product photography, this course is for you. I’m sharing everything I wish I knew when I went from portraits to pour shots.

https://visualeducation.com/class/tag-heuer-photoshoot/

In this product photography class, Karl shoots a luxury TAG Heuer watch as he and Ethan compete to produce the slickest image: Karl with his camera, Ethan in Blender.  You’ll watch Karl use the infinity cove like a giant scrim to create lovely gradient lighting on the product.  You’ll also see him use reflectors, mirrors, flags, scrims, gels and a color checker card as he carefully crafts the perfect lighting setup for the shot.  Finally, because he’s been shooting with a macro lens with shallow depth of field, he undertakes a focus stacking process to pull together various shots and produce the stunning final image.

Domestika - Food Photography Techniques for Advertising con Alfonso Acedo

 

Discover the lighting and digital retouching tips for food styling
All art has its secrets, but few like that of gastronomic photography. Alfonso Acedo - photographer and culinary stylist - knows all the techniques and tricks to open the appetite or thirst of consumers with just one photo, so brands like Kellogg's, Calvé and a variety of restaurants rely on their care for culinary detail in photographs .
In this course you will learn to enhance the appearance of drinks and food in a photograph through lighting, digital retouching and culinary styling.

https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/skincare-product-photography-using-monochromatic-colors/329033581

Using color to enhance your images is a great composition resource to know how to use. In this class, we analyze my process for creating a skincare product photography. You can replicate this composition with your products and start making beautiful images for your social media with almost no effort. You can use your smartphone or a DSLR camera to create your images, natural or artificial lights. There are no limits to what you can accomplish once you understand how the image is created.

https://www.photigy.com/school/advanced-compositing-in-photoshop-creative-product-photography-workshop-76/

 

Welcome to Workshop #76 of the Professional Interactive Education Program, where we delve into the realm of advanced cosmetics product photography. In this session, we'll guide you through the process of capturing a captivating image featuring a glossy mascara pen amidst swirls of black liquid splashes. Our seasoned instructors, Alex Koloskov and Artem Pissarevskiy, will lead you through each step, ensuring you gain invaluable insights into both the photography and post-production aspects of this project.

https://visualeducation.com/class/still-life-pasta-food-art-post-production/

In this post-production class, Karl shows you the Photoshop tools and techniques he needs to polish and perfect the image he captured in Still Life Pasta: Food Art.

Having decided he wants to add this shot to his professional portfolio, Karl undertakes some meticulous post-production to get it looking just right. This includes reshaping, rearranging and resizing the pasta shells and spaghetti noodles using a range of tools including the Lasso tool, the Liquify filter, the Distort filter, the Ruler tool and the Rotate function.

Karl also demonstrates how to chamfer edges and make hue saturation adjustments, in addition to how to use layer masks and remove imperfections with the Healing Brush and Clone Stamp tool.

He finishes up by adjusting the contrast using burn and dodge layers, altering the balance and mood of the image and controlling where the viewer’s eye is drawn.

The final result (below) shows the fruits of his efforts, and highlights what you can achieve in your own post-production work.

https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Powerful-Portrait-Photography-Capturing-Your-Subject-in-Their-Environment/1160500136
The key to powerful portraits? Bring out your subject’s personality by shooting in a place they love!
In this 50-minute class, photographer Aundre Larrow shares his unique approach to capturing portraits that tell a story, focusing on working with your subject in the context of their own environment. From a local gym to a Brooklyn bakery, Aundre takes you behind-the-scenes, sharing simple steps to capture the emotion, personality, and depth of real people in the real world!

https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Fine-Art-Photography-How-to-Create-a-Unique-Self-Portrait/128219024

How to create unique self-portraits in the comfort of your home. Bring your imagination and passion to tell an idea or story.

Let’s open the doors to our worlds! Fine Art self-portraiture is a wonderful tool to set your mind free to experiment and communicate anything you want to the world!

https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/product-commercial-design-using-photo-manipulation-adobe-photoshop/381238787

In this course, I'll be sharing many useful techniques and best practices I have been using in my own work. This workshop is a very effective way to improve your Photo manipulation skills with an emphasis on working with type.

https://www.maxrivetutorials.com/
Join Max Rive, one of the World's Most Famous landscape photographers, for his first online masterclass tutorial.
Take your photography to the next level as you join Max Rive on this 14+ hours in-depth masterclass, where he’ll share all of his secrets to landscape photography for the very first time.