Starting up or running your own photography business can be a daunting and overwhelming task. As much as you need to be a talented and passionate photographer, you also need to be business smart. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, Karl explains what it takes to become a successful pro photographer, sharing his journey over the last two decades, whilst giving you top tips and advice to help you with your own photography journey. This series of video classes (which also includes relevant documentation available to download) also includes how much to charge, what areas of photography earn you the most money as well as understanding the commercial project workflow as well as how to run and grow your business.

Frequency separation is a popular retouching technique used for smoothing skin, and in this post production course Karl shows you exactly how to achieve the very best results using this method. Karl simplifies the techniques of low frequency and high frequency separation for skin retouching, explains the reasons behind it and demonstrates a quick process for smoothing skin without loosing the original texture. Other powerful techniques covered within this course include Burn and Dodge.

It’s no secret that I love bright light.  My clients are drawn to the lighting in my images, and when we schedule an engagement session…well, they want that light in their portraits.  What do you do when you find yourself facing a day where there IS no light?  Perhaps the clouds have rolled in, perhaps the weather looks bad but there are no days available to reschedule to, perhaps you’ve just got to get it done.

Jacklyn Greenberg shares her insight into developing a unique photographic style at The Wedding School Style Summit. How can you define your personal style, and do you figure out who you are as a photographer?

As wedding photographers need to learn the skill of creating beauty anywhere.  We always hope that at every wedding will have miraculous light, dozens of amazing locations to make portraits, and beautiful rooms for the bride to get ready. But that’s not always the case. It is important that we are always capable to pull on our skills as an artist and technician to make beauty anywhere.

In this nearly two-hour long course, wedding photographer Cliff Mautner will break down exactly how to achieve a proper exposure in all of these different conditions : and more!  Mastering exposure can be tricky to learn, but is crucial for your success as a working wedding photographer.

In this nearly two-hour long course, wedding photographer Cliff Mautner will break down exactly how to achieve a proper exposure in all of these different conditions : and more!  Mastering exposure can be tricky to learn, but is crucial for your success as a working wedding photographer.

Duration: 4h 54m Format: HD 1920x1080

In this 3.5-hour workshop, Andre-Lang shares his VR workflow in great depth and demonstrates the flexibility of sculpting in VR as well as the precision that you can achieve with simple yet effective tools. You’ll see exactly how he uses Medium to block out and refine his mecha before rendering the final design using KeyShot.This tutorial is designed to be enjoyed by everybody from aspiring artists to industry veterans looking to modernize their approach and add the power of VR to their arsenal. After completing this tutorial, artists should be able to quickly use Medium and KeyShot to create tangible and functional designs of their own. As a concept artist whose workflow has evolved from entirely 2D through adding 3D and is now almost exclusively VR, this is a fascinating workshop for 2D and 3D artists alike who are looking to add to their skillset and master VR sculpting tools.

Duration: 4h 54m Format: HD 1920x1080

Discover how to create visual effects for games using the most up-to-date techniques in Unreal Engine 5 with Senior VFX Artist at People Can Fly, Pawel Margacz. Learn Pawel’s complete workflow for creating magical spell FX for UE5 from scratch: Using meshes from Houdini and textures in Substance Designer, Pawel assembles a magical projectile in Niagara, demonstrating how to match character and effects animations to create a dynamic, game-ready attack in Unreal 5.

Duration: 4h 24m Format: HD 1920x1080

Facial rigging is one of the most sought-after talents in the animation industry. A great facial rigger will have both technical and artistic skills to achieve smooth and appealing facial expressions for characters, whether they’re being created for film, TV, games, or VR. In this 4-hour workshop, Hector Abraham Torres, a Character Rigger at Sony Pictures Animation, reveals how to create a stylized facial rig suitable for use in production. He shares a variety of techniques broken down into 12 chapters to help you fully learn and understand how to create a wide range of motion for character faces.

Duration: 7h 15m Format: HD 1920x1080

Creating assets for real-time game projects has become more intuitive and streamlined than ever. By breaking down the entire process into easily digestible sections, we can focus on the most important parts in the creative process while staying non-destructive and open to improvements all the way through to our final bakes. In this introduction to creating props for games, senior environment artist Nick Reynolds examines each step of the process starting with the basic fundamentals and building up to a final low poly model of a sci-fi vehicle.

Duration: 8h 09m Format: HD 1920x1080

Environment Artist Wojtek Piwowarczyk teaches how to create a 3D environment entirely using Houdini, the industry-standard animation tool by SideFX. The workshop reveals the complete process of procedural environment creation as well as the advantages of harnessing a non-destructive workflow, which allows you to make scene changes at any stage of the production process.

Mothers LOVE having portraits with their children! These are pictures they will absolutely cherish for the rest of their lives. Making the day flawless and easy will make your clients feel at ease and they will be able to enjoy their time with you and with each other. Download our Posing Mum & Sons course so you can learn so many great ways to pose a mother with her boys.In this 3 part course, Sue will walk you through so many different ways to pose a mum and her sons. Not only will you learn about how to pose, but you will also see the way Sue interacts with her clients. This is HUGE. Especially with boys! A lot of boys and men don’t enjoy having family photoshoots. The way Sue engages and compliments while she’s posing this group is perfect. You can see as the videos go on, that these boys become more comfortable with her. So, on top of learning great ways of posing mum and sons, you will also learn the very important element of photography which is how to engage with your clients!

Sue’s greatest inspiration for a contemporary portrait is Vanity Fair magazine. As she learned to market her business better over the years she used to say “I am a contemporary portrait photographer, with a fashion magazine style.” Everything about what she wanted to communicate and project was in this sentence. In the last 10 years, Vanity Fair has stepped forward with some of the best celebrity style portraits we have ever seen. This is why Sue has created the Vanity Fair Style genre. It’s stunning, high fashion portraiture.

For those of you who shoot on-location instead of in a studio, Sue wanted to show you that you really don’t need a lot to make an on-location shoot work beautifully. For this photo shoot of Caitie, Sue walked around a neighborhood and found different spots that worked really well. They were nothing fancy at all — a cement wall, in the middle of the street, a big flower bush, and some ivy. All you need for a shoot like this is some sort of scrim, if it is sunny, and a reflector. If there isn’t any wind, you can have someone use a piece of cardboard as a fan for movement in the hair.

In the Posing lessons, Sue covers one of the most important subjects, POSING. Sue discusses the fundamentals of posing – from body language, body types, and thoughtful composition, to working in standing, sitting, and lying down positions, and more. Mastering posing is so important because if you go into a shoot knowing how to pose your client with confidence, they, too, will become more confident. This allows for a more seamless, fun shoot which will produce stunning portraits that your client will love for years to come!

The fashion pose is all about length and triangles. It’s a more contemporary pose with absolutely stunning results! The key is to lock down the pose first and then you can freestyle from there. In the Fashion Pose course, Sue walks you through different variations of the fashion pose. First, you will see Tee’s shoot. Tee is long and lean, so with her, it is all about the triangles! Learn how Sue gets a nice base with Tee and then is able to freestyle after that base is locked in.

Join Sue today as we explore shooting on dark backgrounds and creating moody looks without harsh shadows. We’ll use tunnels, blocking, and reflection to bend natural light to create more depth and contrast in your images while maintaining a soft filtered light on your subject’s face. Think dark, gorgeous, moody almost old Hollywood style Film Noir, but just a little bit different.