Drone Photography for Beginners: Capture the Bigger Picture
Capturing a Creative Top-down Portrait
A course by Alina Rudya , Photographer
About the video: Capturing a Creative Top-down Portrait
Overview
“It's time to get creative and capture a top-down/bird-view shot! In this lesson, I will show you how to take successful pictures of a model or yourself in a colorful outfit, paying attention to composition and color contrast.”
In this video lesson Alina Rudya addresses the topic: Capturing a Creative Top-down Portrait, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drone Photography for Beginners: Capture the Bigger Picture. Learn how to take and edit captivating aerial photographs that combine light, composition, color, and perspective.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Capturing a Creative Top-down Portrait In this lesson, we will get creative with a top-down shot of a person. We'll take pictures of a model or yourself in a colorful outfit, paying attention to the composition and the color contrast. SHOOTING First Setup For the first setup, I picked this location with the boats, which creates a nice repetitive pattern and is a minimalistic background. As I said before, it is important to have the right poses for this shot when it's shot from the top. We tilted the camera down, and my model is lying flat on one of the boats and creating different shapes ...”
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Course summary for: Drone Photography for Beginners: Capture the Bigger Picture
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Digital Photography, Instagram Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Photographic Composition, Photography, Photography Post-production
Alina Rudya
A course by Alina Rudya
Alina Rudya is a Berlin-based lifestyle and travel photographer from Ukraine. She wanted to be a photographer from the age of nine after her father bought her a National Geographic magazine from the US. She completed an MA in political science and another in journalism, before going on to study photography at Lette-Verein School of Design and the University of Arts Berlin. She later began posting her work on Instagram alongside working on shoots for newspapers and magazines. After growing a following, she started attracting clients and eventually flying drones in 2017.
Since then, Alina has published several books including a monograph Prypyat Mon Amour, which was published worldwide. She also founded Bell Collective – a group of female creators that aims to break stereotypes around female travel and creative choices. Alina has worked with clients including Samsung, Nikon, Mercedes-Benz, and OPPO Mobile, and her drone shots have also been published in books like Accidentally Wes Anderson.
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