Paper Sculpture for Set Design
Photographing the Pieces
A course by Sarah Louise Matthews , Paper Engineer
Joined April 2021
About the video: Photographing the Pieces
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll be photographing my work, then importing the photographs over to Photoshop to edit them slightly. This will make them ready to be posted in a portfolio and on social media.”
In this video lesson Sarah Louise Matthews addresses the topic: Photographing the Pieces, which is part of the Domestika online course: Paper Sculpture for Set Design. Learn paper crafting techniques to create beautiful 3D illustrations and structures for a product photography set.
Partial transcription of the video
“Photographing the Pieces. In this lesson, I’ll be photographing my work and taking the photographs over to Photoshop to slightly edit, to share them on social media and in my portfolio. First, let me tell you about my photographic process. While making a project for a client, I send the pieces off to them to photograph professionally, but I do also always take my photos of the individual pieces and of them together, as it's good to have them as a reference for social media and my portfolio. There's no guarantee that everything will be used in the professional photos. It's good to have your ...”
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Course summary for: Paper Sculpture for Set Design
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Design, DIY, Paper Craft, Product Photography, Sculpture, Set Design, Traditional illustration

Sarah Louise Matthews
A course by Sarah Louise Matthews
Sarah Matthews is a paper engineer based in Yorkshire, England who has been making things out of paper for as long as she can remember. She went on to study textile surface design at university, but soon realized that her true passion lay in working with paper and so decided to specialize in it. After graduating she began selling her paper products on Etsy and sharing them on social media, where her work began attracting commissions.
Since then, she’s built a following of over 30K on Instagram and created paper window displays for brands including Ted Baker, Pandora, and Selfridges. She’s also written for Mollie Makes Magazine and published her own book, Paper Craft Home, in which she shares her expertise.
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