In this unique course, Alex Koloskov reveals the secrets to working with polarized light and applies the technique to photographing a variety of challenging jewelry pieces. Product photography is all about managing reflections to ensure a product’s particular attributes like colors, textures, and shapes are captured accurately, and jewelry is often among the most challenging subjects to work with. Applying these polarized lighting techniques can help overcome some of challenges posed by a jewelry item’s numerous reflective surfaces, but it can also introduce additional problems if used indiscriminately. Alex guides you through why and how to use polarized light and explains when to avoid it. Once the shooting is done, professional retoucher Genia Larionova takes over and demonstrates the post-production techniques to use to create truly stunning final images.

This course covers everything you need to know about shooting luxury jewelry, from lighting setups for large gemstone jewelry pieces to glossy metal jewelry and everything in between.By using the proper equipment along with correct lighting techniques, you will be able to create stunning images of high-quality jewelry for both still and motion shots.

In this workshop-based course you will learn: How to retouch luxury jewelry using Adobe Photoshop and various plugins because of the specifics of jewelry photography (extreme macro). Retouching is an essential part of the process and our expert will teach you secrets of post-production of jewelry.

If you’ve ever wanted to know how Susan creates her multiple exposures in camera, this class will be a great place to start learning the process!  Understand the layering methods, come up with a concept, and learn to stack your images in this quick, easy course.

How do you create natural, believable artificial light as a wedding photographer?  Whether or not you brand yourself as a “natural light wedding photographer”, Susan Stripling believes that you need to equip yourself with the tools and skills necessary for creating artifical light in all scenarios : from rainy days to dark reception halls, dimly lit portrait spaces to bright sunny fields.

Photographing a bride getting ready is something that all wedding photographers have to learn how to do.  No matter what your style of photography, getting-ready images are part of every wedding day coverage.  How do you document them?  What lenses do you use?  What settings?  How do you position your subjects?  How do you interact with the bride?  How do you light the scene?

At almost every single wedding day that you photograph, you’ll be called on to take portraits of the wedding couple. Whether or not your style is largely documentary in nature, portraits of the wedding couple together is an important part of any wedding photography coverage.

Learn from the best in the business as they join Karl in studio to share insights, swap stories and offer advice on everything from equipment, professional tips and techniques to working in different climates. Get your questions answered with our live Q&A during the show, view the live photography shows schedule. Catch up on all the previous shows below

In previous live shows, we’ve looked at the fundamentals of post-production and retouching, but in this live show (the first of two-parts) Karl focusses on one particular, and very powerful element: colour.Colour is an important part of photography, so knowing how to control and manipulate it in the post-production stages is a useful skill to have.

Explore detailed techniques on landscape/seascape photography, including planning, execution, composition, filters, RAW files, post processing, shutter speeds and depth of field. These modules require a full knowledge of apertures, shutter speeds, focal lengths and an understanding of the f-stop scale. If you do not yet posses that knowledge then please head to our ‘Essentials’ section and start there before commencing the courses in this section.