The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography
Examine Composition, Crop, and Ratio
A course by Laura Zalenga , Photographer
About the video: Examine Composition, Crop, and Ratio
Overview
“In this lesson, we will look at different compositions and crops of images and how they change the balance and the effect of an image. We will compare different crops and compositions using the same sample image to see what difference these make to the given image.”
In this video lesson Laura Zalenga addresses the topic: Examine Composition, Crop, and Ratio, 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
“Composition In this lesson, we'll talk about composition, crop and ratio, which is important because it affects the balance and effect of your image. I'll show you examples from my portfolio of images where I chose certain compositions in certain crops to have a certain effect. Let's start with this first one. It's a completely central composition but I chose it because it's so much going on in this image. I wanted the object to be completely in the middle, because otherwise it's too wild and it's already with this tilted horizon and with the double figure that is kind of hanging there. If ...”
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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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