Artistic Photography: Create a Visual Narrative
Eye vs. camera
A course by Flora Negri , Photographer, Creative Director, and Performance Artist
Joined August 2020
About the video: Eye vs. camera
Overview
“In this class, you will see how the camera interprets light and basic technical notions of how to experiment with different lights with your equipment.”
In this video lesson Flora Negri addresses the topic: Eye vs. camera, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Photography: Create a Visual Narrative. Bring a photo shoot to life by learning portrait and self-portrait techniques that tell an intimate and symbolic story .
Partial transcription of the video
“Eye vs. camera One also very important thing to understand is that light reading is very different that our eye has and that our camera has. If we interpret light as a character within the story we're going to tell in the image, we can understand better how we want to read it on camera. That's why studying photometry is so important. We work directly with three variables: the ISO, the speed and the diaphragm. It is essential to know the limitations of your equipment. Raise the ISO too much and end up generating a lot of noise within the image is not a mistake, if that is your intention or y...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Photography: Create a Visual Narrative
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Areas
Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Photographic Lighting, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography

Flora Negri
A course by Flora Negri
Flora Negri is a photographer, creative director, and performance artist based in São Paulo. When she was little, she used to dream of becoming a writer and is now fully devoted to telling stories through photography. She has photographed some of Brazil's best-known artists in music, theater, and television, such as Paulinho Moska, Chico César, Camila Pitanga, Cauã Reymond, and Letícia Sabatella, to name but a few.
In addition to shooting for album covers, posters, and Brazilian publications, her work was featured in an exhibition and a book put together by GirlGaze in Los Angeles (2017), celebrating the work of 50 female photographers from all over the world.
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