After the popularity of our previous still life photography live show, Karl will once again be sharing some simple yet creative still life photography ideas that members can easily try themselves. This show will cover the lighting and styling of the shot and members will be able to follow along and ask their questions live throughout the shoot.

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In this live show, Karl will review the images submitted for our seventh 'Working to a Brief' assignment. For these challenges, members are tasked with executing a specific brief, but with the bonus of professional feedback and advice on their images. Karl will also introduce the next brief in the series.

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In this live show, Karl will launch the brief for our eighth ‘Working to a Brief’ assignment. He'll provide a visual sketch, mood boards, and detailed description, plus answer audience questions in real time.

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Master lighting with precision. These more specialist modifiers enable photographers to light with precision and control. Often used to light labels in product photography and elements of the face in portraiture for a moody effect, these modifiers can be very helpful. Karl will be demonstrating modifiers from the top of the range and highlighting their capabilities, as well as demonstrating more budget options. And for those who are not ready to make the investment, he'll reveal lighting hacks that can create similar results, helping you get more creative with your lighting, whatever your budget.

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For this live show, you'll have the opportunity to submit your fashion or beauty photographs for professional feedback. Karl will offer his opinion and advice for each of the images, highlighting what works and what doesn’t, and sharing simple tips to help improve any image.

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Rim lighting can produce some lovely effects, and is actually simpler than it looks – once you know how it’s done. In fact, it typically involves just a single light source, as Karl will demonstrate in this live product photoshoot.

As he photographs a small-scale product against a black edge mask, he’ll supplement the rim lighting by using mirrors to bounce light onto the subject. As you watch a master at work, you’ll discover how to transform everyday objects into objects of desire with elegant lighting and precise attention to detail.

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You don’t necessarily need to be commissioned by a client in order to start producing commercial work. You might choose instead to produce shots that you can sell as stock images.

In this live show, Karl will demonstrate how to do just that. As he crafts a series of eye-catching stock-appropriate images using collections of everyday objects, some templates and some glue, you’ll discover some key practicalities and considerations to keep in mind when working on stock photos.

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In this live show, Karl will be review the images submitted for our eighth 'Working to a Brief' assignment. Members are tasked with executing a specific brief, but with the bonus of professional feedback and advice on their images. Karl will also introduce the brief for the upcoming assignment in this show.

In this live show, Karl will be launch our ninth ‘Working to a Brief’ assignment, providing a visual sketch, mood boards, and written description. This task will give you the opportunity to practise the real-world skills of interpreting and executing a photography brief.

No matter how much you trust your own eye, it can be hard to tell if your work is up to scratch. But learning to analyse and critique your images is a crucial skill for any photographer interested in improving. Fortunately, these analytical and critical skills can be learned and practiced like any other. One way to do so, as Karl will demonstrate in this live workshop, is to review some of your older images and compare them to more recent ones.

We love to see how far our members have come since they first joined KTE, and part of the show will be dedicated to tracking members’ progress, both for instructional and inspirational purposes.

Tune in to see Karl launch our tenth ‘Working to a Brief’ assignment. He'll provide a visual sketch, mood boards, and detailed description, and will answer questions from members in real time. This task will give members an opportunity to practise the real-world skills of interpreting and executing a photography brief.

For this live show members will have an opportunity to submit their foodphotographs for professional feedback from Karl. Throughout this show, Karl will be offering his opinion and advice for each of the images, highlighting what works, what doesn’t and simple tips to help improve any image.

When something becomes ‘part of the furniture’, we stop noticing it. So when we’re taking photographs of furniture, how can we make the images stand out? In this live shoot, Karl will be shooting large pieces of furniture, walking you through the practicalities of the process as he confronts them in real time. These will include space considerations, backgrounds, styling, lighting setups and the challenges of capturing various different materials (e.g. wood, metal, glass, or fabric) simultaneously.

Drop-tank photography is popular and effective for advertising because it gives products a fresh, clean feel. In this live show, Karl will attempt to capture an appealing drop-tank image using pieces of fruit. This will be a highly technical shoot involving custom-built ramps for dropping the fruit, tubes to add bubbles to the tank water, and more.

You’ll learn how to create a controlled environment for this type of photography, allowing you to combine different shots to create the perfect final image. Karl will follow this up with a separate post-production live show at a later date.

In this follow-up show, Karl will take you step-by-step through his post-production work on the drop-tank fruit shots he captured during a previous live shoot. You’ll see the thought process and creativity involved in combining various layers to produce the perfect final image, as well as the precise retouching and editing required to make it look convincing and authentic

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Paddy Dowling is a globally renowned humanitarian correspondent and photojournalist who often works in high-risk and hostile environments. His documentary photojournalism for the international press, UN agencies, global foundations and international NGOs highlights the struggle of refugees, displaced persons and children facing barriers to education. In this live show, Karl will chat with Paddy about his illustrious career and incredible work, covering everything from equipment and technical matters to advice for photographing subjects who are experiencing great hardship.

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