The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography
Two Ways of Finding Your Concept or How I Found the Concept for 6 of My Portfolio Images
A course by Laura Zalenga , Photographer
About the video: Two Ways of Finding Your Concept or How I Found the Concept for 6 of My Portfolio Images
Overview
“The most important thing to say here is there is no guaranteed step-by-step plan to find a concept. Because there is no right or wrong. A concept is an idea. And an idea is a very abstract thing as we all know. When an idea becomes an idea? This is the difficulty and the beauty of it. In this lesson, I will show 6 of the most popular of my photographs and explain where the inspiration for them originates, how the concept came together, and how I executed them. And some fun stories around them. ”
In this video lesson Laura Zalenga addresses the topic: Two Ways of Finding Your Concept or How I Found the Concept for 6 of My Portfolio Images, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography. Learn how to use photography to delve into your thoughts and feelings.
Partial transcription of the video
“Two ways of finding your concept In this lesson, we'll talk about the two different origins of my concepts. First of all, it's important that we have a look at the fact that there is no guaranteed step by step solution to find a concept. It's ideas that we talk about. In the end there is no definition of what is an idea and what is not an idea. And as we all know, what is right and what is wrong is always up for people's interpretation. In my portfolio, we'll see that concepts origin in two very different areas. To me there's like a theory-based area and then there's like a physical area. I...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography
-
Category
Photography & Video -
Areas
Photography, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography, Studio Photography
Laura Zalenga
A course by Laura Zalenga
Laura Zalenga is a German freelance photographer with a passion for creating self-portraits filled with emotion. She started taking photographs at eighteen and although she went on to study Architecture in Munich, she always found the time and inspiration for photography, publishing her work on Flickr and Facebook, where she first started to get noticed.
Laura’s visual language is captivating and clear, narrating an intimate story in every image she produces. She believes photography to be a type of therapy and one of the motivating factors behind her work, capable of healing both ourselves and others.
In 2018, she was one of the seven international artists selected for the Adobe Creative Residency and has worked for companies such as Adobe, Artemide, Disney, Lufthansa, Sony, and more. Laura also teaches workshops and gives inspirational talks relating to photography throughout the world.
- 99% positive reviews (167)
- 5,151 students
- 18 lessons (3h 19m)
- 6 additional resources (6 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English, Spanish
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
