Artistic Self-Portraits: Introspective Photography
Equipment and work tools
A course by Fotolucida , Photographer
About the video: Equipment and work tools
Overview
“In this lesson I tell you what I use to make self-portraits. I will start with my photographic equipment, going through the artifacts that help me set my works and I will conclude with the location.”
In this video lesson Fotolucida addresses the topic: Equipment and work tools, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Self-Portraits: Introspective Photography. Explore the principles of self-portrait photography by learning to capture and edit personal images using Lightroom and Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“Equipment and work tools Now I will show you the equipment and tools that I will use for the self-portrait session. I use a Canon 6D Mark II camera with a 35mm lens. I also use these self-timers which are for flash. I use them because they have a wider range of distance than the normal ones. Although it is for flash, I use it as a remote trigger. I also use an artificial light lamp, which is not expensive or professional, it is to decorate rooms. This is the tripod I use. For character creation I created a mask with fantasy elements which are not expensive at all. I also used a quartz and w...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Self-Portraits: Introspective Photography
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Fine-Art Photography, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography

Fotolucida
A course by Fotolucida
Handra Rocha communicates with the world through photography. Self-taught for more than 12 years, she started sharing her images on her Instagram account, Fotolucida, eventually reaching more than 130K followers.
Throughout her career, she has worked with national and international brands like Sony Xperia, Cerveza Indio, Mezcal Creyente, Secretaría de Turismo de México, Universal Music, Oreo, Happy Socks, and many more. In 2017, she won a spot in the PECDA 22 program in the Visual Arts section of the Young Creators category, with her project Poesía visual. That same year, she was nominated Instagrammer of the year at the Eliot Awards in Mexico.
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