The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography

Lightroom - Basic Editing: Game of Trial and Error

A course by Laura Zalenga , Photographer

Learn how to use photography to delve into your thoughts and feelings

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About the video: Lightroom - Basic Editing: Game of Trial and Error

Overview

“In this lesson, we will look at the basic edit in Lightroom. We will look at the composition and potential of other crops. We will look at the contrast, the overall color, and the individual color tones. Lastly, we will export the image to Photoshop.”

In this video lesson Laura Zalenga addresses the topic: Lightroom - Basic Editing: Game of Trial and Error, 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 basic editing In this lesson we'll look at the basic editing in Lightroom. Things like contrast and light and white balance and even removing little spots. And as I call it, it's the game of trial and error. Let's have a look. Now that I really have all my images here that I've found my favorites, let's have a look at Lightroom editing. So I go to Develop. What's the first thing that I do? I look at my image, I wonder what it is that I like about it, that I want to enhance, and what is it that I don't like that I wanna get rid of. First of all, I wanna look at I want those lines t...”

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

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (159)
4695 students
5 units
18 lessons (3h 19m)
6 downloads

Category
Photography & Video
Areas
Photography, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography, Studio Photography

Laura Zalenga

A course by Laura Zalenga

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Photographer

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.