Photography for Beginners: Professional Techniques
Conceptualize an essay
A course by Gerardo Montiel Klint , Photographer
About the video: Conceptualize an essay
Overview
“With everything you learned in this course, what follows now is to make your first photo essay. An essay consists of telling your first story with a series of photographs that, when put together, become a visual sentence, a small film with stopped moments. What do you want to tell and how do you want to tell it? There are as many topics as interests you have. ”
In this video lesson Gerardo Montiel Klint addresses the topic: Conceptualize an essay, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photography for Beginners: Professional Techniques. Learn the fundamentals of photography and digital camera use to capture images that convey your artistic vision.
Partial transcription of the video
“Conceptualize an essay Everything we have done so far is part of your blog. Collect all the exercises and make a document. Remember that this document or this flight log will allow you to return to it until you completely master photography. We saw different types of photography: documentary, fashion, essays. Photography is used to communicate and to tell stories. These stories come from the ideas that one is having or of the experiences that one is having. The photography that interests me is author photography, What is personal photography? It is the one that circulates in museums, galler...”
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Course summary for: Photography for Beginners: Professional Techniques
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Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Photographic Composition, Photography

Gerardo Montiel Klint
A course by Gerardo Montiel Klint
Gerardo Montiel Klint, born in Mexico City, studied industrial design at the Ibero-American University and is a photographer and member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte FONCA. He has received numerous awards including the Premio de Adquisición at the 11th and 13th edition of the Bienal de Fotografía in México.
His work has appeared in countless renowned art collections in the USA, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and many more. He has also taken part in both individual and group exhibitions in Mexico, Argentina, Hungary, Colombia, Brazil, the USA, Uruguay, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, and China. He is cofounder of Hydra, a networking and production platform for contemporary photography. He currently codirects the production and photography studio Klint & Photo, specialized in advertising, interior design, fashion, and portraiture.
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