Emotive Photography: Create Real, Up-close Images
The Idea Begins to Take Shape
A course by Carol Peña , Photographer and Art Director
About the video: The Idea Begins to Take Shape
Overview
“Next, I'll show you how I start to shape my ideas. I will share with you resources that are part of my process, such as my notebook, digital tools like Pinterest, the inspiration I find in books, etc.”
In this video lesson Carol Peña addresses the topic: The Idea Begins to Take Shape, which is part of the Domestika online course: Emotive Photography: Create Real, Up-close Images . Combine color, composition, and space to get portraits that tell a story and generate emotions .
Partial transcription of the video
“The idea begins to take shape We will learn to give shape to ideas in a simple and practical way. I always have a notebook handy where I go writing down words, phrases, quotes, song lyrics, things that I find and that at some point they can inspire me. This is the notebook I've been working with lately and I usually write down any phrase that can inspire me. For example, I am usually always working in the present moment so as not to worry or not to be aware what might happen or what happened in the past. It helps me to have a certain focus and to focus. This is a postcard that I bought in N...”
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Course summary for: Emotive Photography: Create Real, Up-close Images
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Areas
Fine-Art Photography, Mobile Photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography

Carol Peña
A course by Carol Peña
Carol Peña is a photographer and art director, although she has also worked in publishing and advertising over the course of her career. She uses emotive photography to explore the many universes that can coexist in a single room. Her creations have garnered her a following of more than five hundred and twenty thousand people on Instagram.
Carol combines images and texts to help brands from around the world communicate, including Olympus, Carolina Herrera, Adidas, Hermès, Bombay Sapphire, Iberostar, Ruinart, Estrella Damm, Huawei, Barceló viajes, Hyundai, MINI Living, and Herschel. She also shares her skills and knowledge as a teacher at Blanquerna, Idep, and Brother.
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