Urban Photography: Create Geometric and Colorful Compositions
The quality of the initial shot
A course by Julien Marchand , Photographer
About the video: The quality of the initial shot
Overview
“Now I'm going to show you how to use the camera and its settings to achieve the perfect shot and clean files to work with. ”
In this video lesson Julien Marchand addresses the topic: The quality of the initial shot, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Photography: Create Geometric and Colorful Compositions. Enhance a city through photography by exploring a unique retouching and rendering technique in Lightroom and Photoshop, perfect for social media.
Partial transcription of the video
“The quality of the initial shot We will learn how to use the camera and its settings in order to have a perfect shot and clean files to work with. There is no ideal image. Sometimes you have to take a photo that doesn't look good. This will save as much information as possible. on the shot. We will see an example with these pictures I took of the same building at different times, including one completely failed that can be seen here. That is to say, at the top, the sky is completely burned. It is information that is lost. We see a completely faded blue. There, it's gray and all white, it's ...”
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Course summary for: Urban Photography: Create Geometric and Colorful Compositions
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Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop -
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Color Theory, Digital Photography, Instagram Photography, Photo Retouching, Photographic Composition, Photography Post-production

Julien Marchand
A course by Julien Marchand
Based in the south of France, Julien Marchand started out working in publishing, but his passion for photography soon took over. In addition to teaching, he has produced tutorials for Adobe Lightroom and collaborated with the brand Uma Oath. His Instagram account blank.city has already gained 35K followers.
Julien's photographic approach could be summed up as a real urban treasure hunt motivated by a quest for form, light, and color. He also devotes a great deal of time to post-production work.
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