Look at This! Great Photographs Revisited
18 PostsPhotographs offer another layer of experience—a reading experience as rich as any written prose—if we take the time to observe and process the photograph’s visual language. In this Learning Guide you will read examples and do assignments to train your eye to look at images.View Learning Guide...
Event Photography
3 PostsThe title of ‘Event Photographer' might not sound particularly glamourous or exciting, but the role has far more to offer than simply shooting people holding awkward poses. Each event holds different challenges, so you need to think on your feet, and each client requires a different set of shots. In this Learning Guide you'll get a deeper look at event photography.View Learning Guide...
Black and White Photography
8 PostsThere is something magical about black and white photographs, but unless you suffer from an extreme form of colour blindness, you don’t see the world in black and white. To capture the best black and white images, you need to understand how a scene is recorded and rendered as a range of tonalities, without colour. In this Learning Guide you'll learn how to overcome the limits of black and white and take advantage of the creative power of the monochrome image.View Learning Guide...
Video Lighting
4 PostsIn this Learning Guide, you will learn how to create a simple and beautiful video lighting that works great for interviews, presentations, instructional videos, short films and much more!View Learning Guide...
People and Portrait Retouching
8 PostsPortrait photographers strive to achieve beautiful skin in their images. Getting beautiful skin that is also realistic and preserves natural skin texture is a portrait photographer’s holy grail. Expertly applied makeup and good lighting are the foundation for beautiful skin, but retouching is the polish. In this Learning Guide, you'll learn great techniques for retouching skin and will find out which situations benefit from each technique.View Learning Guide...
Environmental Portraiture: How to Go Beyond the Ordinary
12 PostsEnvironmental portraiture is a the practice of making pictures of people out in the world, in uncontrolled situations. It is a naturalistic, engaging, contextual way of portraying people. In this learning guide you'll learn how to make portraits in a natural environment.View Learning Guide...