Narrative Photo Essays with Models and Sets

Overview

“I started my professional career as an art director in advertising agencies, where I used illustration a lot to give my work more prominence when campaigns didn't have many resources. With the same intention, I studied Photoshop on my own and empirically and that's when I discovered retouch. I developed a great passion for digital arts and, in a short time, I became a supplier to the agencies I worked with. From that moment on, I started to follow more photographic productions to direct photographers to this then new stage of photography, post-production. That was when the desire to be the author of the works was born so as not to be the extension of other artists all the time. From then on, photography came into my life, proving to be a liberating step. All the stages of my trajectory were complementary and turned me into an increasingly complete and self-sufficient image professional, illustrating, producing, photographing and post-producing my own works in perfect alchemy. ”

In this video lesson Samuka Marinho addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Photo Essays with Models and Sets. Learn to use lighting, props, and characters in your photoshoots to tell inspiring stories with your camera.

Partial transcription of the video

“Presentation Hi! My name is Samuka Marinho and I was born in Bahia, northeast of Brazil. I started my career as an art director in advertising agencies. In them, I used my illustration to highlight my works. Then I started dedicating myself digital photo retouching techniques and soon I became a supplier to the agencies where I worked. That's when I started to follow closely photographic productions, where he directed photographers to this new stage of photography: the post-production. In order not to be the extension of other photographers all the time, I bought my own camera, the same one...”

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Course summary for: Narrative Photo Essays with Models and Sets

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (9)
• 256 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 25m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Communication, Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Narrative, Photo Retouching, Photography Post-production, Storytelling