Flat Lay Lifestyle Photography: From Your Phone to Instagram
Material Setup and Composition
A course by Darren Rowlands , Photographer & Video Content Creator
About the video: Material Setup and Composition
Overview
“Next we’ll run over the positioning of your props and materials, discussing layout in more detail and applying the rule of thirds principle we learnt earlier.”
In this video lesson Darren Rowlands addresses the topic: Material Setup and Composition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Flat Lay Lifestyle Photography: From Your Phone to Instagram. Learn to shoot and edit beautifully crafted lifestyle photos in flat lay, social media’s favorite format.
Partial transcription of the video
“Equipment Setup In this lesson, the fun finally begins and we'll play around with our props and get them into position. The main point of our props is to guide the eye around the scene and dress around the focal point of our image. You'll be shooting and using these photos for social media, so it's really important that your props do that, that you grab people's attention almost immediately. As you know, when you're scrolling through Instagram, your image needs to be punchy and hit home straight away. The story and the focal point need to be clear, and, most importantly, the props must guid...”
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Course summary for: Flat Lay Lifestyle Photography: From Your Phone to Instagram
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Content Marketing, Digital Photography, Instagram, Instagram Marketing, Instagram Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Photography, Social Media
Darren Rowlands
A course by Darren Rowlands
Darren Rowlands is a UK-based freelance photographer and video content creator specialized in creative direction and styling. His passion for photography came from a very early age, and he eventually went on to study graphic design at the University of Salford in Manchester.
After working as a freelance graphic designer for different agencies, he found his true calling in branding and eventually worked as Head of Creative for a number of brands across the UK. His client list includes Adobe, Oral-B, and KEF Audio.
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