Photography and Darkness: Create Cinematic Portraits
About Me
A course by Louis Dazy , Photographer
About the video: About Me
Overview
“To begin with, I want you to familiarize yourself with my background and my work as a photographer. Maybe my journey can inspire yours.”
In this video lesson Louis Dazy addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photography and Darkness: Create Cinematic Portraits. Learn to play with light and shadows to create stunning cinematic photos, from preparing the shoot to art direction and editing in Lightroom.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hi there, welcome to this Domestika course around cinematic photography. My name is Louis Dazy, I am a French photographer, I live in paris and I've been doing photography for six years now. I started by learning the basics with tutorials just to know how to use my camera. My first camera was a Nikon F2. It's a film camera from the 70s. The first thing I learned with, it was to master my exposure in order to make a correct photo, which is the basis. If I got into photography, it was first to document my daily life, and I was bored at work, I needed to be able to create outside ...”
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Course summary for: Photography and Darkness: Create Cinematic Portraits
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom -
Areas
Photo Retouching, Photographic Composition, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Photography Post-production

Louis Dazy
A course by Louis Dazy
Based in Paris, Louis Dazy originally worked in art direction in a communication agency. Bored with his job, he taught himself photography by immortalizing moments from everyday life. His dreamlike and hypnotic photographs were quickly spotted on Behance and Instagram. Little by little, projects started rolling in and he began working full time.
Since then, Louis has collaborated with major brands such as Yamaha and Adobe. His pictures have appeared in numerous exhibitions and publications. They also feature in the credits of the series Tell Me Your Secrets and gave birth to his book, Dreams in Technicolor.
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