Intimate Photography: Capture Emotive Portraits
How to Start a Personal Project
A course by Matilde Viegas , Documentary and Portrait Photographer
About the video: How to Start a Personal Project
Overview
“When you review your photographs, sometimes you see a pattern: Are you documenting a particular theme, a time in your life, or a person? This signals the start of a project. To help you better understand this, I will review three of my personal projects, how they started, and the idea behind them. ”
In this video lesson Matilde Viegas addresses the topic: How to Start a Personal Project, which is part of the Domestika online course: Intimate Photography: Capture Emotive Portraits. Find your creative voice and enhance your portfolio by learning to plan and carry out emotionally-engaged photoshoots in an intimate setting.
Partial transcription of the video
“ How to Start a Personal Project In this lesson, we'll talk about how to start your personal project. Nowadays, all of us have a camera in our hands. It's in our phone, it's in the back pocket of our pants. It's easy to reach out for it and take a picture. We don't think about what we are picturing, we just take it and that's done. With a personal project, you want to be more invested in it. You want to think about the things that you love. When you start using your camera, maybe you can opt for a real camera instead of your phone because that will allow you to think about it more seriousl...”
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Course summary for: Intimate Photography: Capture Emotive Portraits
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Bridge, Adobe Lightroom -
Areas
Documentary Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Photography, Portrait Photography
Matilde Viegas
A course by Matilde Viegas
Matilde Viegas is a portrait and documentary photographer from Portugal. She was always creative from a young age but went on to study biochemistry and theoretical chemistry before attending art school where she was introduced to photography. After her mother bought her a manual camera of her own, she committed herself to learning the craft and eventually started posting her work online.
Since then, Matilde has collaborated with clients like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Monocle, Konfekt, The Guardian, and more. Her work is mostly editorial with a focus on individuals and she is passionate about portraying the world in an optimistic way that encourages others to dream of a better future.
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