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  • 5 Tips For Taking Creative Photographs Without Leaving Your Home
    Photography

    5 Tips For Taking Creative Photographs Without Leaving Your Home

    Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda present “Visual Stay-rytelling” and inspire you to create within the walls of your home Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda are a creative duo with extensive experience working with top international brands such as Facebook, Netflix, and Disney. They have thousands of followers on social media, especially on Instagram. Earlier this year, they took part in our Domestika Live: Visual Stay-rytelling, sharing details of their creative process. Their work mixes architecture with photography; the way they approach new projects is sure to give you ideas for how to fulfill your creative potential without even leaving your house.

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  • The Best Types of Shots You can Take with a Drone
    Film & Video

    The Best Types of Shots You can Take with a Drone

    Director of photography Yeray Martín Perdomo shows you how to film outdoors with a drone A drone allows you to capture scenes that would be impossible or extremely costly to film using traditional methods. They can be used both indoors and outdoors to achieve stunning sequences and tell engaging stories. Yeray Martín Perdomo (@yeray_martin_perdomo), director of photography and filmmaker, has used them in more than 50 countries to approach remote tribes, jungles, and volcanoes. Here, he will explain the type of shots you can take when flying a drone outdoors and when it is best to use them. Wide Shot A shot that gives you a general overview of a specific area. The movement has to be very linear and smooth. You do not want it to be static, but it is convenient to move very slowly because it will always be easier to accelerate a sequence than to slow it down.

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  • Domestika Diary: Aaron Walls
    Photography

    Domestika Diary: Aaron Walls

    The photographer shares how to take photos without having to leave the house Being a photographer doesn’t always mean counting on the best equipment or circumstances: photography depends on the eye of the maker and their capacity to see the expressive possibilities of their surroundings, regardless of their limits. In today’s Domestika Diaries, the portrait photographer Aaron Walls tells us how his work as a professional photographer is developing every day. Walls doesn’t stop looking for opportunities to create content from his home and remain active on social media. Learn more in the following video:

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  • Download Free Presets for Adobe Lightroom
    Photography

    Download Free Presets for Adobe Lightroom

    Rafaella Bertorini shares the tools to improve your photographic post-production processes Rafa Bertorini (@rafabertorini) got into photography thanks to her mother. Her most vivid childhood memory is taking photos of everything around her with her mother's camera. It was her first hobby, and over the years it became a much greater passion. Now, it's her profession, her full-time job. These days, Rafa is a professional photographer and instagrammer focused on fashion, portraits, and travel.

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  • 7 Tips For Photographing Amateur Models
    Photography

    7 Tips For Photographing Amateur Models

    How to take professional portraits of amateur models Catalina Bartolomé (@catalina_bartolome) is an Argentinian photographer who has been taking portraits for more than 12 years. She has collaborated with the likes of La Nación, OHLALÁ, Clarín, Radar, Inrockuptibles, Rolling Stone, and Las 12. In 2016, she founded her own company, Retratos Profesionales, specializing in portrait photography for amateur models. Over the course of her career, Bartolomé has mastered the secret to great direction, having worked with a diverse mix of models and clients who have each had their own unique reason for seeking out a professional portrait. Today she is sharing 7 key tips that will help you work with amateurs and get the best results.

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  • Domestika Diary: ADVNTR Studio
    Design

    Domestika Diary: ADVNTR Studio

    Creative couple animator Willie Russell and designer Jillian Russell share how to stay active without leaving the house Finding a creative partner who complements us professionally is an interesting way to develop a career: we can always ask their opinion, sharing the process can help us see our strengths and weaknesses, and together we can take on jobs we might not be able to do alone. Designers, animators, creative couple, and founders of ADVNTR Studio Willie and Jillian Russell take us through their journey and artistic anxieties in this edition of Domestika Diary. They give us a tour of their home and studio while sharing tips on how to continue cultivating our creativity wherever we are. Learn more in the video below:

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  • Photoshop Tutorial: 3 Ways to Save Your Images
    Photography Teacher

    Photoshop Tutorial: 3 Ways to Save Your Images

    Learn from Carol Lopes the 3 ways to save a file in Photoshop so that you can edit, print, or share it on social media Saving an image file in Photoshop may sound simple, but it requires following different steps depending on what you want to do with your image. In this tutorial, post-production expert and photographer Carol Lopes (@carol_lopes) will teach you three ways to save your images: one so that you can continue to edit later, one so that you can print, and another for sharing on social media. Watch the tutorial in the video below:

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  • Photographic Composition: 9 Basic Principles You Should Know
    Photography

    Photographic Composition: 9 Basic Principles You Should Know

    Derio Ilari tells you how to achieve stunning photos for a professional Instagram profile Many people believe, to capture a great photo, you need great equipment and editing skills. However, you can be a master of post production and not get a single good photo if you don’t pay attention to the composition. Derio Ilari (@derioi) is a product photographer who has worked with brands like Adidas, Audi, Volkswagen, Guaraná and, Stella Artois, among many more. His incredible catalog shows his talent and artistic sensibility. Photos have always been the medium he has best expressed himself with and the composition is the essence of each of his images. Here he shares what to consider when taking professional photos for Instagram.

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  • Tips for Highlighting Brightness and Reflections in Product Photos
    Photography

    Tips for Highlighting Brightness and Reflections in Product Photos

    Karina Meza shares how to take advantage of light and shade in your photos using Photoshop Karina Meza (@karinameza) is a photographer with 15 years experience in digital retouching, specializing in advertising still lifes. She knows that special attention should be giving to retouch brightness and reflections for product photos, as much as to contrast. These details greatly influence the product’s final look. Below, she gives three basic tips you should consider when editing these elements on Photoshop.

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  • Domestika Creatives: Shinji Nagabe
    Photography

    Domestika Creatives: Shinji Nagabe

    The Brazilian photographer talks about his creative process, his series full of ironic and surreal images, and his inspirations. Shinji Nagabe followed the same path as many photographers of his generation and those before. He began his career in journalism and hard news and witnessed the often harsh reality of São Paulo's periphery, a city where he also lived for some years. In his transition to a more artistic style of photography, which has earned him international awards and recognition, he developed a more commercial version of his discipline. Little by little, he achieved the look he was after: a hybrid of art and storytelling brought together in a very personal style. In his series, ordinary people are adorned with multicolored accessories, masks, plastic bananas, and bright objects that contrast against arid landscapes. The viewer's initial shock and bewilderment give way to reflection. The condemnation of poor living conditions around sugar cane plantations or of Brazil's complex political sphere, which the photographer's ironic gaze converts into a banana republic, set the tone for his work and other criticisms. In this video, Nagabe talks about his creative process:

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  • Domestika Maestros: Viki Ospina
    Photography

    Domestika Maestros: Viki Ospina

    A pioneer of Colombian photojournalism, her camera has captured the last 50 years of the country's history When Viki Ospina started taking photographs, being a photojournalist and a woman were almost incompatible. Still, working alongside other photographers who struggled for decades to claim their role in the world, she managed to find a place for women in this profession. Along the way, Ospina also captured all the contradictions of the recent history of Colombia through the lens of her camera. The photographer meets us in her studio to enlighten us with all her wisdom, accumulated over decades of constant work. Passionate about capturing the true essence of things, and about transmitting everything she learned throughout her extraordinary career, Ospina reviews the most important moments of her life in the following video.

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  • What is a Flat Lay Photo and How to Shoot It
    Photography

    What is a Flat Lay Photo and How to Shoot It

    Learn to create these popular images and bring your Instagram profile and other social networks to life Flat lay photography is one of the most popular styles on social networks, especially on Instagram. It provides an ideal way to present products, projects under development or travel arrangements. Mina Barrio (@minabarrio), product photographer at Melon Blanc studio, tells you everything you need to know about this approach and how to easily create the most striking flat lays using only your phone.

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  • Instagram Tutorial: 5 Tips to Create Your Own style
    Marketing Teacher

    Instagram Tutorial: 5 Tips to Create Your Own style

    Learn these basic tips for generating content and finding your own style with Derio Ilari What is the secret to success as an artist or photographer on Instagram? It would be too optimistic to believe that there is only one magic solution, but what is clear is that looking at the advice of those who have managed to make their profiles a success can greatly help us improve our fan base and the quality of our posts. That's why commercial photographer Derio Ilari (@derioi) has shared his five fundamental tips for creating your own style on your Instagram profile, working on concepts ranging from your personality as a creator to the style of your photographs or images. Discover them in the following video:

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  • Top 5 Photo Editing Apps for Instagram
    Photography

    Top 5 Photo Editing Apps for Instagram

    Get to know these five apps that will make your Instagram posts pop A few days ago, we shared 5 apps for recording and editing videos on your phone, now it's time for photos. Whether you want to improve your Instagram content, get into professional photography with your smartphone camera or just improve your digital photo album, these apps will help you capture and edit incredible photos. Ortho - Perspective Camera Imagine finding yourself walking through the street as the sun sets. You get your smartphone and aim up to take a photo of the horizon but you can’t find a good angle. The vertical lines seem to converge, the upper parts of buildings are cropped. It’s chaos. This app corrects your perspective automatically, in real time. It also lets you add a grid to help with composition, choose from multiple aspect ratios, and use angle, level, and histogram displays.

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  • Tips for your Commercial Documentary Photos
    Photography

    Tips for your Commercial Documentary Photos

    Discover how to adjust your expectations to reality when creating a documentary image bank with these tips. Outdoor documentary photography assignments have two characteristics that might seem opposite: they mean working for a client, with established budgets and deadlines, and at the same time they are subject to the variability of outdoor photography. So, with a lot of headwinds, we must work effectively and practically. CONTRA, a photographic and audiovisual producer specializing in the creation of documentary image banks, shares his essential tips for being well prepared when dealing with these types of commissions, which have differential characteristics with respect to other photographic works.

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  • Photography tutorial: how to freeze motion
    Photography Teacher

    Photography tutorial: how to freeze motion

    Learn how to capture subjects or objects that move very fast with Jesús G. Pastor's techniques for photographing objects in motion One of the endless possibilities that photography offers is to capture the movement, that is, capture objects or subjects that pass very fast in front of our camera. At first glance, it may seem like a challenge, but following some simple steps, we can freeze an entire scene or even just the most dynamic subject on a photograph. We will explain these two techniques, and how to use them on your SLR camera, guided by Spanish photographer Jesús G. Pastor (@jesus_g_pastor), who has worked for several Spanish national newspapers (La Vanguardia, Public, Metro, Avui, Interviu, Human Journalism, Huffington Post ) and international publications (Travel Africa Magazine, the Sunday Times, Corbis, Demotix, UNHCR), as well as companies, NGOs and of course Domestika, where he teaches the course Introduction to Digital Photography.

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  • 3 Creative Retouching Techniques to Work Magic on Your Photos
    Photography

    3 Creative Retouching Techniques to Work Magic on Your Photos

    Create alternate realities with three simple creative retouching techniques in Photoshop that will transform your photos. Silvia Grav (@silviagrav) began making waves in international photography from a young age: this self-taught photographer has collaborated with brands like HBO, Lexus and Samsung, inspired the makers of the opening sequence of True Detective and has impacted half the world with her fascinating photographs. Her process begins behind the camera – and she is often the one who poses in front of it too – but a good part of the magic is made in post production, with different professional creative retouching techniques such as reshaping the image, painting with light, and blending images to create dreamlike visions that affect the viewer. Discover these three creative retouching techniques to transform your photos:

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