The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography

Lightroom - Selecting Images

A course by Laura Zalenga , Photographer

Photographer. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Joined October 2019
99% positive reviews (167)
5,144 students
Audio: English, Spanish
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About the video: Lightroom - Selecting Images

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you how I review my images in Lightroom. We will select the best photos from the shoot by making the selection smaller and smaller and we talk about what makes them "the best".”

In this video lesson Laura Zalenga addresses the topic: Lightroom - Selecting 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

“Lightroom select images In this lesson we'll look at Lightroom. And we start with looking at selecting images. You have all your images in there, and the first round will be that you're deleting the ones that are horrible, so nobody will ever see them again. And then I start looking at what I like a bit little better. And then I look at what I like even better, and in the end, I pick my final image. Let's open Lightroom. And I already have it on full screen. And I already imported my photos, and, as you see, this is my test photos. With this one, really... Of course it's still on my memory ...”

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Course summary for: The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography

  • Level: Beginner
  • 99% positive reviews (167)
  • 5144 students
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  • 18 lessons (3h 19m)
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  • Areas

    Photography, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography, Studio Photography

Laura Zalenga

Laura Zalenga
A course by Laura Zalenga

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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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The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography

A course by Laura Zalenga
Photographer. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Joined October 2019
  • 99% positive reviews (167)
  • 5,144 students