Description
This replay follows an online workshop presented in November 2025.
It includes the videos (4 hours of recordings) as well as the exercise files.
You’ll receive the download links within a few moments of payment (PayPal or credit card).
From Object to Masterpiece
A fruit, a flower, a cup… behind every object lies an infinity of possibilities. This workshop will teach you how to transform them into true artistic compositions. With an accessible and inspiring approach, you’ll explore step by step the techniques to reveal your own style and create works that truly capture the eye.
Workshop content :
Alan Shapiro session :
✨ 2.5 Hour Still Life Editing Masterclass in Lightroom with Alan Shapiro plus a Bonus Texture Blending Lesson in Photoshop
Transform the Ordinary into Art.
Step into the creative world of renowned photographer and visual poet Alan Shapiro for an unforgettable Lightroom editing masterclass focused on still life photography—with an exclusive bonus Photoshop module on texture blending.
Whether you’re photographing a single flower, a table of treasured objects, or an abstract arrangement of color and form, this session is your invitation to go beyond the technical—and create images that breathe, whisper, and sing.
Alan will guide you through his entire editing process with the heart of an artist and the mind of a master technician. You’ll learn how to shape light, coax out emotion, and develop your own visual voice using the powerful tools in Adobe Lightroom—and then push the boundaries of creativity in Photoshop with his signature texture blending techniques.
What You’ll Learn: Masterclass Highlights
Lightroom: Still Life Editing Essentials
- Alan’s approach to still life: seeing the extraordinary in the everyday
- Mastering exposure, contrast, and tonal flow to bring your subject to life
- Using color with purpose: HSL, white balance, and subtle grading
- Enhancing shape and mood with radial filters, and masks
- Creating visual depth and atmosphere using light sculpting techniques
- Sharpening, detail enhancement, and prepping for output
Bonus Module: Texture Blending in Photoshop
- Alan’s personal library of hand-painted and photographic textures
- Layering techniques to add depth, emotion, and painterly atmosphere
- Blending modes, masking, and tonal harmony
- Creating a signature style that elevates still life into fine art
Who This Is For
- Photographers of all levels who want to create more emotionally resonant still life images
- Lightroom users ready to level up their editing workflow
- Creatives seeking a hands-on deep dive with real-time edits and take-home techniques
This isn’t just about sliders and tools. It’s about storytelling, intention, and the joy of discovering beauty in stillness.
Are you ready to slow down, look closer, and edit with heart?
David Duchens session :
In this session, I will guide you step by step through my creative process.
We will begin with a short presentation of some of my works in this style, so you can see concrete examples and better understand my artistic approach.
When I first started exploring this theme, I naturally drew inspiration from my floral works. They felt like the logical next step and complemented this new direction very well.
After this introduction, we will move on to practice. Together, we will explore different methods and techniques that will allow you to create your own images, while adding your personal and artistic touch.
Most of the process will take place in Photoshop. I will explain each step in detail, starting from simple source images and transforming them—by changing the background, adjusting the mood, and modifying various elements.
During the session, you will learn how to:
- Create a base image starting either from a real photo or from AI-generated elements, using Adobe Firefly.
Important note about AI: we will only use it to generate certain elements, not a complete image. We’ll go through several specific examples together. - Build the overall composition of the image.
- Work on atmosphere and lighting—both globally and locally (for example, by creating rays of light).
- Discover useful tips and tricks that will make your workflow more efficient.
- Use layer masks effectively.
In addition, I will show you some filters and plugins that can save time and make complex effects easier to achieve than with Photoshop alone.
Plugins we’ll explore: Nik Collection and Boris FX Optics, which offers almost unlimited variations and adjustments.
By the end of the workshop, you will not only understand the workflow but also have the tools and confidence to create your own unique images.
Alan Shapiro’ s bio :
Passionate, New York-Based Photographer, Storyteller and Educator.
Alan grew up on the creative side of advertising, working with clients around the world, telling their unique stories in very unique ways. He had the pleasure of collaborating with many talented photographers and film directors and became envious of their art and craft. At first, he saw it as a means of reducing his stress-filled life. As a Global Chief Creative Officer at Omnicom, the world’s largest Advertising Agency Network, he needed a distraction. A friend gave him a camera. Then he bought another and another. His new hobby and daily “creative exercise regimen” turned into a joy-filled and all-consuming passion. Then, his first photo client called, followed by many more.
His work can be seen throughout the entire production sets on ABC’s The Good Doctor and HBO’s Sex and The City, in launch campaigns for the Apple iPhone and Nikon, as well as for Cadillac, OnStar, U.S. Navy, Lockheed Martin, Die Zeit, Ricoh, Cotton Incorporated, Scholastic, and numerous others. His work fills entire walls in Bose retail stores and Ritz Carlton Hotels worldwide and hangs in numerous private and corporate art collections. His macro, food, and still life work can be seen in countless editorial publications and products from housewares to clothing to puzzles.
As much as Alan loves creating images, he genuinely loves to teach, sharing his workflow from capture through post-processing and printing. He is a super high-energy instructor with a knack for getting people out of their comfort zones, as well as helping them discover and capture beautifully simple things in unexpected ways.
Find him here:
AlanShapiroPhotography.com
Instagram: @alanshapiro515
Facebook: @alanwshapiro
Carmelina Carra –
The course was outstanding. You and Alan went above and beyond to provide us with an extensive learning experience. I truly enjoyed it and look forward to using the information that I learned in this course. Also having the video to refer to is very useful.
Sharon Dentice –
David Duchens and Alan Sapiro are both very creative photographers. They complemented
each other in their Photography skills and teachings. I enjoyed the workshop and learned a lot from both photographers. If you want to enhance your photography and editing skills and have some fun while learning, I recommend taking classes from both photographers.
Frances Cable (client confirmé) –
“The ability to create magic from such different perspectives from you and Alan demonstrated for us! You are both inspiring, and I am looking forward to putting your different techniques to the test! “
Louise Reeves –
It was very exciting news when you announced a joint still life work shop with yourself and Alan Shapiro. I anxiously awaited for the opportunity to register as I knew with the two of you together as presenters that it was going to be a dynamite session. And it was just that! Presentation of the materials presented by both of you was easy to follow and comprehend. I am very happy that we have the videos for playback as it was a lot of information in both sessions. The course materials and presentations of the materials by both you and Alan were absolutely outstanding.
Debra M. (client confirmé) –
Alan Sharipo is a master at demonstrating still life and unique post processing techniques that will improve any photographer’s images. His engaging style and willingness to share is a hallmark of Alan’s workshops.
David Duchens’ Photoshop workshops provide a wealth of traditional and AI techniques that have helped level-up my images. He is an excellent teacher and readily shares his expertise.
Fotini S. –
The workshop with Alan Shapiro and David Duchens was an exceptionally inspiring deep dive into the art of still-life and food photography. Alan guided us through his entire editing workflow — starting in Lightroom and then moving into Photoshop — showing in detail how he refines multiple captures, enhances delicate textures, and brings his images to life through thoughtful color and light shaping. Many of his techniques were completely new to me, and I was genuinely captivated by his creative approach to food photography.
David complemented the workshop perfectly. With his calm clarity and impressive Photoshop expertise, he shared a wealth of tips and tricks, including his innovative use of AI tools such as Bloom. By demonstrating his process on a still-life composition with fruits, he showed how a simple setup can transform into a beautifully balanced, poetic image.
Both instructors teach with a rare combination of passion, depth, and generosity. I came away from this workshop not only with new technical skills, but with fresh inspiration for my own creative direction. It was truly a transformative experience.
Thank you!
Marty M. –
We just finished the « Still Life » live seminars, and I am still trying to absorb what I just saw (lucky that we will have the videos to help us all remember the techniques that both David and Alan took us through.)
There seems to be no end to the creativity these two artists have shown us. There are lots of courses out there that teach the nuts and bolts of Lightroom and Photoshop, but Alan and David take it to the next level – how to apply these nuts and bolts to achieve creative results that will help us create our own unique works of photographic art.
Furthermore, it is based on photography, not AI image creation – very refreshing to those of us who have chosen the camera to be the starting point for our creativity.
Thank you, gentlemen, for showing us the way.
Marty