Self-Portrait as a Personal Diary

How to create a mood board for the project

A course by Daniella Benedetti , Intimacy and Fashion Photographer

98% positive reviews (124)

3,797 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: How to create a mood board for the project

Overview

“Now we are going to organize our favorite references and then create a detailed mood board with these images. This is a very useful process that will later serve as a guide for taking our photographs.”

In this video lesson Daniella Benedetti addresses the topic: How to create a mood board for the project, which is part of the Domestika online course: Self-Portrait as a Personal Diary. Explore aspects of your identity by photographing yourself in everyday situations and visually capturing your innermost feelings.

Partial transcription of the video

“How to Create a Mood Board For Your Project In this lesson, I'll talk about making a mood board for your project. Usually, I make a general mood board and then divide it into situations, or in this case, sections, such as lighting, location, editing. The first one, the general mood board, shows what I want the project to look like. I always include images that may give me ideas and help me when I go to take photographs. Here, I make something like a collage of my images and I choose things I already know I want to happen. For example, I want to have a photo in a bed and I want light coming ...”

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Course summary for: Self-Portrait as a Personal Diary

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (124)
3797 students
4 units
15 lessons (2h 39m)
8 downloads

Category
Photography & Video
Software
Adobe Lightroom
Areas
Fine-Art Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography

Daniella Benedetti

A course by Daniella Benedetti

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Intimacy and Fashion Photographer

Bogotá native Daniella Benedetti began her photography career on her travels around various European cities including Barcelona and Milan. It was in the latter that she started to use photography as a means of expression, producing her first self-portrait project ""Obsession in Progress,"" which was selected for exhibition at Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Photographing intimacy has always been her first love, and she's brought it into the world of fashion through her work with brands such as Adidas and Mercedes Salazar, as well as into the editorial world collaborating with magazines like Billboard and Vice.