Photography and Photoshop Tutorials

Free Download Karl Taylor Photography – Working to a Brief: Assignment 1 LAUNCH
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Genre / Category:Photography
File Size :837MB

Free Download Karl Taylor Photography – Umbrella Lighting
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Genre / Category:Photography
File Size :738MB
Umbrellas are some of the most prolific lighting modifiers, with many photographers owning, or using, them at least once in their career. However, many photographers often quickly upgrade to other modifiers such as softboxes, beauty dishes or even parabolic reflectors without fully realising exactly what they could achieve with umbrellas.

Free Download Karl Taylor Photography – Two-Light Portraiture
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Genre / Category:Photography
File Size :1.2GB
In this live photography workshop, now available to watch as a replay, Karl demonstrates various simple-but-effective two-light setups for portraiture.  You'll learn how to create beautiful portraits with minimal lights and basic modifiers, including softboxes, octaboxes and snoots.  Karl also demonstrates how you can use white foam board, or a low white studio ceiling, to control your lighting.  Later in the shoot, Karl creates a 'box room' within the studio to demonstrate how you can achieve surprisingly good portrait results with simple bare-bulb lighting.

Free Download Karl Taylor Photography – Technical Tools Tilt-Shift Product Shoot
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Genre / Category:Photography
File Size :1.4GB
This live show focuses on the technique of tilt-shift photography as Karl demonstrates how to shoot an arrangement of products using this technique.    Building up light by light, in this live show Karl demonstrates how to use a combination of gradient light, point light sources and global fill to create a beautiful final shot of these shiny objects and shows you why using tilt-shift is the best option to get the ideal results.    The material of these tools adds an extra level of challenge. But with clever problem solving and some carefully placed lights Karl reveals how you can add some beautiful specular highlights. This show contains a setup and concepts that can be easily adjusted to suit a variety of products from cosmetics to technical tools.    Karl touches on the concept of angles of incidence and reflectance and how to calculate where you need to place a light in your setup to illuminate your products – an important principle that will help make your photoshoots run smoother. He also shows you where to focus and how to adjust your tilt shift adapter or lens to get the correct results.

Free Download Karl Taylor Photography – Studio Backgrounds
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Genre / Category:Photography
File Size :157MB
Backgrounds are the foundation on which we build our photographs. A background can make or break an image, so it's crucial that you understand how to work with them.

Free Download Karl Taylor Photography – Sourcing Clothing and Styling for Fashion Shoots on a Budget
Content Source:https://visualeducation.com/class/styling-for-fashion-shoots/
Genre / Category:Photography
File Size :398MB
Photographing models in the latest high-end garments is nice work if you can get it. But when you're still learning the ropes of fashion photography and looking to build your portfolio, you may not be sure how to style a fashion photoshoot. Plus, you may need to stay within a tight budget as you source clothing for your shoots.  In this class, Georgie offers lots of fashion-styling tips and takes you through a range of options for sourcing clothes for photoshoots affordably. She looks at different materials and even lets you in on some DIY hacks for faking those luxury items you can't quite afford.  You'll also discover advice on how to work with a stylist – a crucial skill for any emerging fashion photographer.

Free Download Karl Taylor Photography – Shooting in a Small Photography Studio: 6 Tips
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Genre / Category:Photography
File Size :118MB
With over 25 years of professional photography experience, in this episode, I'm offering advice on how you can make the most of small studio spaces and how you can control your lighting from bouncing around all over the place.  I get lots of comments on this topic, many photographers are working from home or a garage or simply don't have a large studio and they often struggle to control their lighting.  A small number of my photos have required a larger space. I now use my own studio for these shoots but in the past, I've rented studios or warehouses to get the job done.  Most of my commercial photography jobs don't require much more than a few meters so here's my 6 steps on how you can shoot great images in a small space.

Free Download Karl Taylor Photography – Shadowless Lighting for Photographing Products on White
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Genre / Category:Photography
File Size :743MB
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.  The solution to this is actually very simple and requires nothing more than a simple change of background material.  In the show Karl demonstrates exactly how to achieve this shadowless lighting, thereby eliminating the need to spend hours in Photoshop doing cutout work. He then goes on to show a simple trick to make cutout work even easier and how to easily change the background colour in Photoshop!

Free Download Karl Taylor Photography – Polarising Light in Studio Photography
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Genre / Category:Photography
File Size :1.2GB
Polarising studio light can be incredibly useful in commercial photography. But you have to know why, when and how to do it.  This knowledge will equip you with an extra level of control, which is particularly useful when shooting reflective or shiny surfaces, or even shots with multiple surface textures.  In this class, Karl explains what polarised light is and demonstrates how it works through three different practical shoots. He explains the difference between polarising your light and polarising the lens, what each does, and what happens when you do both.

Free Download Karl Taylor Photography – Photoshop Demonstration: Colour Techniques (Part 2)
Content Source:https://visualeducation.com/class/photoshop-demonstration-colour-techniques-2-2/
Genre / Category:Photography
File Size :867MB
Following on from our previous colour techniques Photoshop demonstration, Karl continues to discuss the concept of colour, why it's so important in an image, why we may want to change it and how it can be adjusted in Photoshop.Working through several different examples, Karl offers his advice for achieving colour-accurate imagery and demonstrates his preferred methods of adjusting colour in Photoshop. You'll learn how to use adjustments such as cross curves, Selective Colour, Camera Raw Filter, Hue/Saturation and Gradient Map. Karl explains what he prefers about these methods and also why he doesn't use some of the other common tools.