Step up your creativity in your family portraiture! Join Gilmar Smith as she walks you through a series of super fun and imaginative photo shoots with families and kids. In this class you’ll learn what goes into the set up of each scene, how to make it flow with adults and kids, get everyone engaged with a concept, and ensure everyone has a great experience. The first shoot involves a family in a holiday themed shoot, the second has a magical theme for a youth portrait, and in the final shoot Gilmar engages her own kids in a fantastically creative shoot with a unique concept.

Use color to evoke emotion in your portraits with creative lighting techniques! Join Mary Bel as she demonstrates a variety of budget friendly ways to introduce color into your portrait lighting. Starting with gels, Mary walks through several live shoots to demonstrate how you can use color to tell a story. From there, Mary shows how she carves light using tools like flashlights, plastic rulers, and other dollar store finds. Mary wraps up the class with a demonstration of how to incorporate several of these techniques into a single shoot for truly dynamic results.

Join Richard Bernabe as he unravels the mysteries of visual aesthetics! In the late 19th century, artists sought to formalize what was then known about art and design to better understand why some art was pleasing to the eye and some was not. As photographers, understanding these core principles of art can help us to see differently, improve our craft, and create order from chaos. Join Richard as he breaks down each of the principles with stunning examples, diagrams, and careful explanations to help you create art that is even more pleasing to the eye.

Did you know your camera can act like a time machine? Join Frederick Van Johnson as he shares his unique philosophy on this topic. In this class he explores three different techniques—multiplicity, cinemagraphs, and adding motion to a still image—that you can incorporate into your photography. Starting with the fundamentals, Frederick discusses the tools he uses, and then steps through a series of demonstrations involving on location shoots and in-studio post-processing to teach you how to accomplish each technique from start to finish.

Join Jefferson Graham for this photographic exploration of San Francisco. Visit iconic locations around the city as Jefferson offers his advice on when and where to set up in order to get the best shots. He also shares some gear recommendations and suggestions on great places to eat.

Learn how to get more creative and make photos you love! Join Sam Haddix as he takes you through a pragmatic approach to expanding your creativity. No matter where you are on your photographic journey you can always benefit from techniques that can help ignite new passion for your work. Sam’s approach incorporates the power of analog technologies and your own powers of analysis, so grab a pen, some paper, and a willingness to exercise a creative muscle you didn’t know you had.

If you’re considering going into architectural photography, then this is the class for you! Join Jeff Leimbach as he lays out the fundamentals of his process for capturing, editing, and delivering finished files to his clients. In this class you’ll learn about the essential gear you’ll want to have with you, the key lenses to consider adding to your kit (and why), the settings and steps Jeff follows for capturing the raw images used to create the final photos, and his process for delivering those files to the client. By the end of the class you’ll have a firm grasp of the basics of commercial architectural photography and how to start applying those fundamentals to residential, real estate, and other related fields.

If you’re new to Photoshop then this is the class for you! Join Scott as he takes you through the 12 essential techniques and concepts that you need to know to get started using Photoshop. Once you’ve got these under your belt you’ll be ready to head off into any Photoshop direction you choose. In this class you’ll learn the essentials for opening and navigating around photos, using panels, using the most common tools, making selections, removing things from Photoshop, using brushes, using filters, and much more. These are exactly the techniques Scott would tell a friend to get them up and running with the most powerful image editor ever created, and by the end of the class you’ll feel confident to start diving deeper into more advanced techniques.

The Adjustment Brush is the tool to take your editing to the next level! Join Scott Kelby for an in-depth look at everything you need to know about using the brush whether you are using Lightroom Classic or the cloud based Lightroom. The Adjustment Brush is part of a family of local adjustment tools that includes the Graduated and Radial Filters, and you’ll learn about all three in this class, and how to use them together. From learning the nuances of the brush settings to pro-level tips and tricks, as well as a variety of techniques for masking your brush strokes, you’ll come away from this class knowing what works, what doesn’t, and how to get the most out of this powerful suite of tools.

Learn how to get great bird photographs at home and anywhere else in the world you may go. Join Rick Sammon as he shares over 250 tips, tricks, and techniques on photography, wildlife, and Photoshop to help you create the best bird photographs of your life. Bird photography can be challenging, but the bigger the challenge the bigger the reward, and after learning from Rick you’ll be prepared to photograph birds in any location.

Become a master of the Lightroom Classic import process! Join Scott Kelby as he demystifies the Lightroom Classic import window, explains the core workflow, orients you to all of the options, and shows you methods to make this process more efficient and reliable. Once you fully understand this aspect of the workflow it will make your Lightroom Classic life so much easier!

Get ready to have fun and learn a lot with Rick Sammon! Join Rick for his 20th class on KelbyOne and learn the origin of Sammonisms; those easy to remember photo tips that he is so well known for sharing. Rick has a gift for distilling these important points down into bite size chunks that are easy to remember when you’re out in the field doing what you love. Get comfortable, and be sure to download the PDF he provided so you won’t even have to take notes.