The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography
Examine Lighting
A course by Laura Zalenga , Photographer
About the video: Examine Lighting
Overview
“In this lesson, we will learn how different natural light situations affect the object we are looking at. We will learn which form of natural light to use best for what expected result. This will help you later on when you have to define which time of the day/ which weather to shoot your final project with to have the result you hope for.”
In this video lesson Laura Zalenga addresses the topic: Examine Lighting, 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
“Lighting In this lesson we'll talk about light, which is like a massive topic and it would probably take me hours if we really go into detail, but I'll try to talk about the main things. So first of all, you need to really examine light. You need to study it and really understand what different light situations will do to your photo and what they'll do to your object, which I guess in a self-portrait is yourself. There's sunlight. Harsh sunlight in the middle of the day, softer light in the beginning of the day and at the end of the day. There's of course cloudy sky, which is a softer light...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography
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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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