The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography
Practice Posing
A course by Laura Zalenga , Photographer
About the video: Practice Posing
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to practice and experiment posing by showing you how I experiment with posing. We do that because posing is the language of the body and even subtle changes make a big difference.”
In this video lesson Laura Zalenga addresses the topic: Practice Posing, 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
“Posing In this lesson, we're gonna look at posing. Practice posing, where to find inspiration, and how the poses in my imagery look like. In this first image, you see me, obviously, because it's a self-portrait, in an empty pool because people always wonder what that is. I was lucky to find it in that stage. I was like, "this looks pretty, let's see what I can do." For the posing in this one, mood was kind of darkish, melancholic. So I was thinking I should find a pose that also expresses that. So here we come to the first thing. Your pose should express the mood and the story almost, that ...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography
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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.
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