Karl Taylor Education – Creative Portrait Lighting Techniques. In this live show Karl will be showing you creative lighting styles and techniques that you can use to recreate glamorous, Hollywood-style black and white portrait photography. Working through each step of the shoot, Karl explains his lighting setup, power ratios and lens choice for this image. Using a combination of seven lights, he also explains how to balance multiple lights and

Karl Taylor Education – Creative Portrait Lighting 1.0. Science, lighting and narrative come together in this live show, as you’ll learn how to creatively control light and use simple everyday props to build impressively layered sets for portrait photography. A slightly more technical setup, Karl demonstrates how to incorporate a prismatic lighting effect and shows how this can be combined with carefully controlled pockets of light to create a

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In this informative special edition live photography workshop, Karl is joined by broncolor’s Urs Recher and together they explain and demonstrate key lighting principles for effective portrait photography. In the first half of the show Urs goes into detail about the science and theory of lighting, explaining concepts such as the inverse square law, the angle of incidence and the effects of various modifiers.

Karl shows you how to add that extra level of creativity by making use of techniques such as gels, hair lights and precision lighting. For examples of portraits on location, see the related content below.

learn how to get creative with these 10 examples of three light setups for portrait photography. Throughout this section you’ll see how to using multiple lights and even balance studio lighting with natural light to create everything from high-key fashion-style lighting to clean, fresh lighting suitable for business portraits.

Karl demonstrates how to use just two lights for creative portrait photography. Throughout these tutorials you’ll see 10 creative portrait photography lighting setups and learn how to balance multiple studio lights to achieve the result you want.

Don’t have a lot of studio lights? No problem… This section provides 10 creative examples of how to use just one light and basic modifiers for portrait photography. Starting with the simplest of setups, Karl demonstrates how to apply the knowledge taught in ‘Lighting Theory & Equipment’ to get stunning results using just one studio light. Once you’ve mastered this, take a look at our related content for more creative ways to use two, three

This section provides a complete introduction to studio lighting and equipment, covering fundamental concepts related to portraiture, product and fashion photography. Karl explains essential lighting theory and demonstrates how to use this knowledge to recognise, modify and control light. He also covers different types of studio lighting, useful equipment and accessories for studio photography and compares the effects of different modifiers.

Looking to shoot creative portrait photography on a budget? In this live workshop Karl demonstrates how to create this impactful portrait using just three studio lights, including a Godox projection attachment and further DIY modifiers. As part of this shoot, Karl shows two different methods that can be used to achieve even illumination on a colourful background with clean, crisp lighting on the subject.