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Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory

Portrait - Focus: Subject and Sharp Background

A course by Giulia Candussi , Photojournalist and Documentary Filmmaker

Learn how to use a digital camera and its settings to start taking high-quality photos

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About the video: Portrait - Focus: Subject and Sharp Background

Overview

“Focusing is choosing the part of your photo that will be sharp. Our brains usually prefer sharper images over blurry ones. A well-defined subject draws attention and is the most important part of the composition.”

In this video lesson Giulia Candussi addresses the topic: Portrait - Focus: Subject and Sharp Background, which is part of the Domestika online course: Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory. Learn how to use a digital camera and its settings to start taking high-quality photos.

Partial transcription of the video

“Portrait - Focus: Subject + Sharp Background Hello and welcome back. So far, you should've learnt everything there is to know about aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and the combination of the three. In this unit we are gonna have a couple of practical exercises to see if you've learned what I've taught you so far. So the first lesson will be playing with people. We'll have a couple of different portraits with different apertures. The second lesson will be playing with different shutter speeds, so you can understand what it means to have a blurring effect instead of a freezing effect. And then ...”

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Course summary for: Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (727)
34910 students
6 units
18 lessons (2h 28m)
14 downloads

Category
Photography & Video
Software
Adobe Lightroom
Areas
Digital Photography, Photographic Composition, Photography

Giulia Candussi

A course by Giulia Candussi

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Photojournalist and Documentary Filmmaker

Giulia Candussi is an Italian photojournalist based in Scotland with over a decade of experience in producing photo reportages about human rights, environmental issues, and cultural identity. It was during her studies in International Relations (Bologna University, Italy) where she discovered the field of photo-reportage and the impact it could have on the world. Passionate about expressing her vision, she went on to study a Master’s in Photojournalism in London.

Giulia has collaborated with local media and international news agencies such as Getty Images and her work was published on La Repubblica, L’Espresso, The Guardian, Huffington Post, US Weekly, and more. She has traveled extensively in Europe and the Americas, also working with non-governmental organizations. As a documentary filmmaker, she has produced “Upstream” and “Hogar”. Currently, she produces “Van Life”, a documentary series for BBC Scotland’s “The Social”. Her work has been exhibited in èStoria, international history festival (Gorizia, 2011) and Photomonth, international photography festival (London, 2010), Centro Culturale Candiani (Venice Mestre, 2015), at the art gallery Storie Contemporanee (Rome, Italy 2017), and more.