Narrative Photo Essays with Models and Sets
Finalization of the image
A course by Samuka Marinho , Photographer, Illustrator, and Editor
About the video: Finalization of the image
Overview
“It's time for the final touch. As you can see, all previous activities interfere with subsequent activities. Mistakes can be made, they are part of the process, but they should not be kept. If everything was done in an organized and controlled way, all the atmosphere planned from the first sketch will work perfectly in this final stage of editing. ”
In this video lesson Samuka Marinho addresses the topic: Finalization of the image, 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
“Finalization of the image In this class, we are going to start working on colors, the atmosphere and depth of the scene. Now we have all our elements cut out here and assembled according to the layout. This here is our layout and here how the cropped images turned out. Basically, the only difference here is in our background, that I ended up making it straighter, with the most accurate perspective, now that all the elements are together. One last layer that I integrated into the scene were the particles, which are the flames of our candle. How do we distort our scene object, which is the ta...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Photo Essays with Models and Sets
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Communication, Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Narrative, Photo Retouching, Photography Post-production, Storytelling

Samuka Marinho
A course by Samuka Marinho
Samuka Marinho is an illustrator, photographer, and photo editor whose work has been featured on book and album covers, exhibited in galleries, and included in specialized publications. He has also collaborated on advertising campaigns awarded with the Cannes Gold Lion. But his most ambitious project to date is Corsários, a 192-page photographic narrative depicting the so-called Golden Age of Piracy in over 400 carefully crafted scenes.
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