Dark Mood Photography for Culinary Projects
Storytelling: let's tell a story
A course by Dácil Fernández , Food Photographer and Stylist
About the video: Storytelling: let's tell a story
Overview
“Now we are going to delve into the world of visual narrative. We are going to make our photographs engage and excite the viewer through storytelling. Because everything suggests much more if we tell it in the form of a story.”
In this video lesson Dácil Fernández addresses the topic: Storytelling: let's tell a story, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dark Mood Photography for Culinary Projects. Create delicious images of food for Instagram and turn them into dark and moody works of art in Lightroom.
Partial transcription of the video
“Storytelling: Let's Tell a Story In this lesson, we’ll talk about storytelling or visual narrative. How do we use a visual narrative to catch our viewer's attention? What do I mean by that? As photographers, one of our goals should be to make viewers spend more time or draw their attention more to our image. We can do that through visual narratives or storytelling. We’re telling them a story or we're making them imagine a scene. We can take them to a situation they’ve lived, a memory that they have. To ground that story, it's essential to be clear about what story you’re telling, how you wa...”
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Course summary for: Dark Mood Photography for Culinary Projects
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Category
Culinary, Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom Classic -
Areas
Food Photography, Food Styling, Instagram Photography

Dácil Fernández
A course by Dácil Fernández
Food photographer Dácil Fernández first started out on a bakery blog, where she invented stories around food and transformed them into photographs. At that time, she was a fashion stylist and decided to leave it to devote herself fully to photography.
She has worked with Mangaroca, DYC, Tefal, Kenwood, Nescafé, Paulaner, Bulldog, and Lidl, among others. All these big-name brands found their way to her through her main showcase: Instagram.
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