Portrait Photography: Retouch and Composite Vibrant Images
Research: Creating Mood Boards and Choosing a Color Palette
A course by David Ayllon , Photographer, Creative Director, and Visual Artist
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: Research: Creating Mood Boards and Choosing a Color Palette
Overview
“Now that you have a general idea of what you want to do, let’s do some research to shape the idea further. In this lesson, I will show you how to create a mood board. I love to surf websites like Pinterest for inspiration, but you can find images anywhere (Google, magazines, etc.). This is also a great way to figure out your color palette and overall approach.”
In this video lesson David Ayllon addresses the topic: Research: Creating Mood Boards and Choosing a Color Palette, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Photography: Retouch and Composite Vibrant Images. Learn how to create expressive images by exploring identity and iconic references through storytelling, from initial concept to final edit.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Research: Creating Mood Boards and Choosing a Color Palette Now that we have a general-ish idea of where we want to take our concepts, let's use the power of the internet to create a mood board and to really start to put things into focus. Here we have a mood board that I created through Pinterest, which I will leave you a link to below, but I just wanted to talk through some of the inspiration and things that I found. Some things that I think we can apply to our shoot and just my overall thought process on everything. I found a lot of these old, vintage horror comics, specifically like E...”
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Course summary for: Portrait Photography: Retouch and Composite Vibrant Images
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Photographic Lighting, Photography Post-production, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography
David Ayllon
A course by David Ayllon
David’s unique and vibrant style has gained him wide recognition, with several accolades to his name. In 2018, David won a W3 award for his work on the Courtyard/NFL Super Bowl Sleepover digital campaign. He is also a winner of the 2017 PDN Faces photography competition, 2016 Seeing the Light competition (Rangefinder Magazine), as well as the 2009 IAC award for Best Design Website.
David has worked at countless design agencies as well as in-house at companies like Marriott International, Rockstar Games, and Taco Bell. Some of his past clients include Elvira, Todrick Hall, Kid Cudi, Lupe Fiasco, as well as Drag Race winners Trixie Mattel and Sasha Velour. He received his MFA in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art & Design.
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