Emotive Photography: Create Real, Up-close Images

Self-Portrait: Mirrors and Tricks

A course by Carol Peña , Photographer and Art Director

Photographer and Art Director. Madrid, Spain.
Joined October 2014
91% positive reviews (64)
1,891 students
Audio: Spanish
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About the video: Self-Portrait: Mirrors and Tricks

Overview

“Finally, we will talk about the importance and the difficulty of seeing each other. How the self-portrait can be a therapeutic and cathartic process, and what elements can help us in that task.”

In this video lesson Carol Peña addresses the topic: Self-Portrait: Mirrors and Tricks, 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

“Self-portrait: mirrors and tricks In this lesson, we will learn how to improve self-portraits helping us with mirrors. Sometimes it is not entirely easy for us to see each other in the mirror image, but I think that is why it is good that we work more on this exercise to understand what we are seeing, what we don't like and what we want to convey with the image. For me, self-portraits are an exercise in self-knowledge or to go checking what happens inside of me And when I go back to them I see if it was okay if there was a bad or good time. I discover that in the way he showed me in the sel...”

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Course summary for: Emotive Photography: Create Real, Up-close Images

  • Level: Beginner
  • 91% positive reviews (64)
  • 1891 students
  • 5 units
  • 14 lessons (2h 38m)
  • 2 downloads
  • Category

    Photography & Video
  • Areas

    Fine-Art Photography, Mobile Photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography

Carol Peña

Carol Peña
A course by Carol Peña

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Photographer and Art Director

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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Emotive Photography: Create Real, Up-close Images . Photography, and Video course by Carol Peña

Emotive Photography: Create Real, Up-close Images

A course by Carol Peña
Photographer and Art Director. Madrid, Spain.
Joined October 2014
  • 91% positive reviews (64)
  • 1,891 students