Creative Photography and Photocomposition with Photoshop

Dodge & Burn, the art of volumes

A course by Pitu López , Photographer

99% positive reviews (195)

3,113 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Dodge & Burn, the art of volumes

Overview

“In this lesson I am going to teach you a technique that I love to manage the volumes and lighting of our image ”

In this video lesson Pitu López addresses the topic: Dodge & Burn, the art of volumes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Photography and Photocomposition with Photoshop. Create a creative self-portrait with simple lighting techniques and digital post-production.

Partial transcription of the video

“Well guys, here's the tomato. Let's meet (inaudible). This is a very funny technique ... and with a very cool result. It is something that is used in commercial photography almost in 100% of the images. With this we achieve, make emphasis in the volumes that most interest us. Both in the characters, and in the elements. What we want to achieve with this, is to give a touch almost of illustration to our photo. For example, that's what I look for with my photos. So I'm going to show you, how it's used. Although you will see that later, the criterion .. to continue to make more light or less l...”

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Course summary for: Creative Photography and Photocomposition with Photoshop

Level: Intermediate
99% positive reviews (195)
3113 students
4 units
20 lessons (5h 12m)
12 downloads

Category
Photography & Video
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Advertising, Art Direction, Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Photo Retouching, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Photography Post-production

Pitu López

A course by Pitu López

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Photographer

Pitu López is a photographer specialized in photocomposition. Its portfolio includes scenes for advertising, editorial portraits and images for the promotion of different artists and brands.

He has worked for brands such as Clarins, Hendrick's Gin, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche or Banco Santander among others and personalities such as Vinila Von Bismark, Eva Hache, Leo Harlem or Alex O'Dogherty.

In most of his professional projects he develops several artistic disciplines, always with photography as a starting point.

In his personal work always seeks to create scenes with characters to generate an atmosphere from them. His images make the viewer doubt the confusion of the real fiction through the photocomposition.