Toronto-based photographer and professional photo retoucher Mike Sidofsky creates vivid, expansive photos with colors that pop out of the frame. Known on Instagram as @mindz.eye, he’s amassed a dedicated and engaged following in love with his signature techniques. How does he do it?

Layering light is an effective way to add a new dimension to your work. In this lesson, Felix shows you how to do this with ease, using no modifiers, just two lights. Learn this creative setup that will elevate the emotion of your photography. The images from this setup often look like they were created in a complex studio with lots of post production, but here you will learn to do it all in-camera!

This class is an overview of a number of basic shooting techniques and elements that produce cinematic visuals with minimum resources. Thankfully, filmmaking isn’t about having the best equipment or waiting on the perfect weather- it’s about knowing how to produce quality images that reinforce your story, using whatever resources you have available.

Create more visually interesting and dynamic websites. Learn how to build animated effects and 3D objects using CSS transforms and transitions. Follow along with author Patrick Carey as he shows how to transition between properties such as color, background, opacity, and positioning, and adjust the timing and duration of transitions. Patrick explains how to perform 2D transformations, such as scaling, skewing, and rotating, as well as transformations in 3D. He shows how to transform objects along the X-, Y-, and Z-axis; use perspective; and create 3D objects such as animated cubes. Interactive demo pages are included with the exercise files, so you can practice what you've learned after each video.

 
It's not enough to know about the many light types available in CINEMA 4D—you need to know how and where to place them to create a desired effect. In this course, Donovan Keith covers some basic photographic lighting concepts and shows how to turn CINEMA 4D into a powerful virtual lighting studio. Learn how to reveal the form and texture of diffuse objects, and use special techniques for lighting reflective and transparent surfaces. Donovan also shows how to accurately place highlights in order to shape the contours of objects, and use contrasting light and shadow to dramatic effect.

Learn to achieve Felix’s soft painterly light in our first two-light setup of the series. Join Felix as he explains his signature lighting set-up and you’ll realize it’s much simpler than it looks. In this series of videos, you’ll learn how to modify this light to flatter women, men, and achieve more fashion-ready looks.

High quality, high-resolution 3D model of a Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4.

The Spectrum Styles Pack introduces a new type of Capture One Styles, enabling you to easily include a high-end touch of color grading in your daily workflow. While maintaining full control over your editing, Spectrum achieves impact through understated adjustments, either partnered with another Styles Pack or on its own.

Lighting Evolution is a screen recording lasting over 2 hours. Quicktime Player works best! During the video Roberto Valenzuela explains his thought process and troubleshooting lighting scenarios that occur at all aspects of weddings and portrait sessions. Using his own work as examples, he explains how to tackle the most common challenges wedding and portrait photographers face, and explains how he achieves the beautiful lighting he is known for. Roberto Valenzuela will discuss how he uses flashes, video lights, reflectors, and diffusers to achieve a natural blend between the ambient light and flashes. This video will show you what is possible with minimal equipment and strategic placement of lights to yield the highest photographic impact.

Follow Joel as he creates a advertising Lifestyle Portrait on location in Montana using four different approaches. Joel first starts with natural light and then introduces strobes working in the standard approach then going to ND filters to create Shallow Depth Of Field and finally using High Speed Syncing with shutter speeds up to 1/8000th.

Join Emily Cromwell and learn how she masters Instagram as a creative! She covers several topics such as what to post, how and what hashtags to use for your particular craft, how to create a killer profile, and much more. In this class, you will learn how to craft a profile for your Instagram that is true to you and lets your viewers know just who you are, how to craft a consistent feed that speaks true to your brand and vision, how to edit your photos for a beautiful Instagram feed, the art of engagement, how and what hashtags you should be using (and how to add them to your posts in a way that it won’t look all jumbled together), and lastly, how to schedule and make a plan for your Instagram posts.