Introduction to Group Portrait Photography
The Mood Board
A course by Nolwen Cifuentes , Commercial and Editorial Photographer
Joined September 2021
Joined September 2021
About the video: The Mood Board
Overview
“In this lesson, you’ll learn how to create and populate your mood board for each specific photoshoot.”
In this video lesson Nolwen Cifuentes addresses the topic: The Mood Board, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Group Portrait Photography. Explore styling, lighting, composition, movement, and color to take striking group shots that capture the energy of each subject.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Mood Board In this lesson, we'll learn how to build a mood board specifically for this shoot. We'll use some images that we liked from our Pinterest library and bring them into this mood board. It's important to have a mood board for your shoot so that you have a vision and idea of where you want it to go. If you have a stylist, any type of crew member, or collaborators that are helping you, you must show them a mood board so that everyone's on the same page and knows what we'll be doing with this shoot. I use Keynote to build my mood boards, but you can also use Google Slides, Canva,...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Group Portrait Photography
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Photography, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography
Nolwen Cifuentes
A course by Nolwen Cifuentes
Nolwen Cifuentes is an editorial and portrait photographer from California. She studied graphic design at UCLA before deciding to pursue photography, eventually gaining industry experience shooting weddings. Nolwen then expanded into different styles of photography and, after being featured in a magazine, started reaching out to editors and booking jobs.
Since then, she has captured portraits for well-known magazines, media, tech, beauty, and fashion brands. Her clients include Netflix, People, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Variety. She was also featured on The Lit List’s 30 New + Emerging Photographers to Watch. Nolwen is passionate about making content that represents the people she didn’t see in the media growing up, and she is a member of Women Photograph, Diversify Photo, and Authority Collective.
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