Creative Cosmetic Photography

Pro Club Workshop #70

Creative Cosmetic Photography

This is an advertising photography tutorial for Pro Club Interactive Education Program, workshop #70

In this Pro Club workshop, Alex and Artem get creative with nail polish items combined with some very special liquid forms. You can use this technique to create some great advertising images!

With Alex you’ll learn how to set up the scene and lighting and how to get dramatic effects in a small studio for optimum in-camera results. Then Artem, our post-production guru, will show you how best to enhance your images for a stunning final result. We will help you overcome some common challenges and use this technique to give your portfolio the ‘wow’ factor.

If you’re shooting cosmetics and/or liquids, you might also be interested in these classes:

Deadline for homework submission: May 31th 2019

The date of the live review: June 5th 2019

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Note: If you have questions, please ask on the same forum on a sticky Q/A post

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Meet your instructors

Alex Koloskov

Alex is one of the worlds best commercial advertising photographers, co-founder, and teacher at Photigy.com

He is also the man behind Photigy’s most popular courses and tireless idea generator

Artem Pissarevskiy

Artem is a 22 years old retoucher from Finland, he’s been working in the post-production field for about 4 years. He sees himself as more technically skilled retoucher than artistic, specializing mostly in product and creative retouch and enjoy problem-solving as it is a huge part of the post-production process

Creative Cosmetic Photography Workshop: In Studio Shooting

Post-Production

Before and After Post-Production

Student’s Submissions

Pro Club Workshop #70 - Svetlana Trifonov

Homework: Critique and Review

7 Comments

Amal Assaf on May 18, 2019 at 7:23 pm

Beautiful lighting set up and beautiful end retouching…
I will try to something different with same concept..
But unfortunately I didn’t find colored candle oil.. almost it’s transparent.
If could you please add link for it in amazon or any app..

Thank you so much my idol.

Morten Eriksen on May 19, 2019 at 4:03 pm

Hi Amal, I found this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077WT912J?pf_rd_p=2d1ab404-3b11-4c97-b3db-48081e145e35&pf_rd_r=MMWDEECB62FG6DJ55AR4
But not sure if this is the one Alex used in this workshop. But this should work 😉

Johnny Clulow on May 22, 2019 at 10:23 am

Taking Olive oil as the first compound. What can you use to color it and when its in water it doesn’t dissipate and end up fogging the water column.?

Gavin Ferrie on May 30, 2019 at 2:18 pm

I bought some oil based dye for candle making, found it on eBay.
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Alex test on May 29, 2019 at 12:05 am

I was using this coloring (color for lamp oil) https://amzn.to/2VWijan

Johnny Clulow on June 5, 2019 at 2:10 am

Uk guys & Gals. I’ve purchased from this UK store. I’ll unfortantly miss the submission date though 🙁

https://www.candlesontheweb.co.uk/acatalog/Coloured-Tints-for-Lamp-Oil-337.html#SID=79

Morten Eriksen on June 5, 2019 at 6:15 am

If you have done the shots we still have room for more 😉
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