Professional Photography for Instagram
Compose a Flatlay
A course by Mina Barrio , Product Photographer
About the video: Compose a Flatlay
Overview
“In this class we will see one of the most famous types of photographs on Instagram: the flatlay. To do this, arrange your objects on the floor or table and take the photo from above (that is, from a zenith point of view). ”
In this video lesson Mina Barrio addresses the topic: Compose a Flatlay, which is part of the Domestika online course: Professional Photography for Instagram. Learn tricks to take and edit photographs for social media on your phone.
Partial transcription of the video
“The type of photography that we are going to do now, compared to the previous one, which was more realistic and we were trying to find or create an environment that could really exist, this one is much more creative, and we're going to make a little more surreal environment since the background will be a flat colored background, that in our case we have a vanilla colored cardboard pretty big. As I already told you, we always buy cardboard in fine art stores and are usually 100 x 70. If there are smaller ones, what we do is overlap two. So, we have our background and based on it we will crea...”
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Course summary for: Professional Photography for Instagram
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Category
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Areas
Advertising, Instagram, Instagram Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Photography, Photography, Product Photography, Social Media

Mina Barrio
A course by Mina Barrio
Mina Barrio is a product photographer at Melon Blanc, a multidisciplinary studio that specializes in visual identity design for brands.
Mina’s mission is to create visual content for a range of successful brands including Charuca, Lucia Be, The Singular Olivia, and La Compañía Fantástica. Taking and editing photos for Instagram means taking every single detail into account, right down to the elements that might look out of place.
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