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5 Photography Online Courses to Create Self-Portraits Like a Pro
Learn from experts to create original, emotional-filled self-portraits
Photography is a magical and expressive universe that enchants thousands of people through a fascinating play of lights, moments, scenarios and original creations.
Self-portrait, in this context, is an excerpt from the photography universe that overflows meanings and transforms personal emotions and motivations into powerful, intimate and mysterious narratives. You are the one who sets the creative tone from start to finish.
These five photographers and artists are experts in self-portrait and share with you their best techniques in the courses below.
The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography, a course by Laura Zalenga
Artist Laura Zalenga (@laurazalenga), a self-portrait specialist, began her journey exploring different techniques and forms of expression, forming a portfolio of major clients such as Adobe, Disney and Sony.
In this course, Laura teaches how to use photography to delve into thoughts and emotions. In addition, you will see how to develop a concept, find ideal locations and use natural light creatively. It will show your process from the initial idea to the final editing techniques with Lightroom and Photoshop, creating a self-portrait capable of telling a captivating story.
Fine Art Self-Portrait Photography, a course by Danny Bittencourt
Photographer Danny Bittencourt (@dannybbittencourt), in addition to specializing in Fine Art photography, is a visual poet and writer capable of transmitting artistic expression in technique in unique photos.
In this course, she will teach you exactly how to create your photos, showing all the steps: starting from the proposal, going through the creation of a script and setting the scene until the moment of shooting and the final editing in Adobe Photoshop.
Conceptual Self-Portrait Photography, a course by Krishna VR
The self-portrait is an art form, but also an exercise in analysis in which the person who practices it can act as a creative director, subject and artist, controlling all the variables of his final work.
In this course, you will learn from visual artist Krishna (@bykrishnavr) to seek inspiration to express your ideas and complement them with props to create self-portraits with a great visual and conceptual narrative.
Artistic Self-Portrait Photography, a course by Cristina Otero
If you want to learn to explore artistic photography as your own model, the work of photographer Cristina Otero (@cristinaotero) - who, at the age of 15, became the youngest Spanish artist to exhibit individually in a gallery - is ideal.
In this course, she will show her creative process to develop a photographic self-portrait with special attention to post-production.
Pictorial Self-Portrait Photography, a course by Lídia Vives
Lídia Vives (@lidiavivesphoto) creates self-portraits full of symbolism, emotion and personality. In this course, she teaches how to do photography representing a character or an experience of her own.
Throughout the classes and units, you will be able to materialize your ideas and style to turn them into pictorial portraits full of emotion.
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