Emotive Photography: Create Real, Up-close Images
Narrate Emotions through Objects
A course by Carol Peña , Photographer and Art Director
About the video: Narrate Emotions through Objects
Overview
“In this lesson I will explain the process that led me to work the way I do now. I will tell you how we can help ourselves with objects that we have nearby to tell stories and I will begin to define the ones that I will use in the final project.”
In this video lesson Carol Peña addresses the topic: Narrate Emotions through Objects, 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
“Narrate emotions through objects In this lesson we will try to integrate objects from our daily life so that they help us to count some emotions that we want to work on. Although I have always been linked to photography, I have not always worked as a photographer. Many years I worked as an art director in advertising agencies between Barcelona and Madrid and somehow inevitably that way of communicating it affected the way I take pictures or tell stories. Maybe that made me find a certain space in an application like Instagram in particular where the images we saw of certain brands or of cer...”
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Course summary for: Emotive Photography: Create Real, Up-close Images
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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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