Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory
Selecting the Best Photos, Basic Retouching
A course by Giulia Candussi , Photojournalist and Documentary Filmmaker
About the video: Selecting the Best Photos, Basic Retouching
Overview
“The first port of call is having a clear idea of how you are going to store your image files on your computer or hard drive.”
In this video lesson Giulia Candussi addresses the topic: Selecting the Best Photos, Basic Retouching, 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
“Selecting the Best Photos, Basic Retouching. In this lesson I'm going to teach you how to select the best pictures and how to do some basic retouching. Before we dive in into the program, I briefly want to talk about post-processing. I think that retouching is a little bit like makeup. I personally like when I use some makeup and it's subtle. You can't really notice that I'm wearing any makeup, but it's enhancing the beauty spots. I think retouching is something similar. If you can see that you've done a lot of researching on that picture, is not ideal. From my experience, when you're just ...”
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Course summary for: Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory
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Giulia Candussi
A course by Giulia Candussi
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.
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