Intimate Photography: Capture Emotive Portraits
Sequencing to Tell a Story
A course by Matilde Viegas , Documentary and Portrait Photographer
About the video: Sequencing to Tell a Story
Overview
“If you want to communicate stories and create narratives within your project, sequencing is an essential part of your process. By bringing together the photographs you selected and edited, you can now play around with them to find the right sequence. Try to bring rhythm to your photographs, just like a song! ”
In this video lesson Matilde Viegas addresses the topic: Sequencing to Tell a Story, 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
“ Sequencing to Tell a Story In this lesson, we'll look at the images that we have selected and edited, and we'll try to find their place among this narrative that we are constructing. Now, let's look at our photographs. Now that we have edited the pictures to look more cohesive, we'll now be selecting which images work best together and downsize it to about three to five images. Looking at the selection we made, I am looking for a way to introduce the characters. This one feels right to do it. If I want another option, this one feels great as well. It probably gives me a little more inform...”
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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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