Still Life Photography: Create Conceptual Images

About Us

A course by Gerard + Belevender , Art Direction and Photography Duo

75% positive reviews (4)

427 students

Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: About Us

Overview

“In this lesson, we'll introduce ourselves and talk about how our separate career paths led us together, and into the business we have today. We'll also cover why personal work is our favorite type of work and how it's evolved into more professional paid projects.”

In this video lesson Gerard + Belevender addresses the topic: About Us, which is part of the Domestika online course: Still Life Photography: Create Conceptual Images. Learn to tell visual stories by exploring color, camera angles, set design, props, and lighting to create carefully-composed images from scratch..

Partial transcription of the video

“and I'm Jenna Belavender. We're a photography, creative direction, and styling couple based in Detroit, Michigan. When I was 16, I started college taking photography classes. I quickly found out that I learned a lot faster on my own, so I quit college and started working for a portrait and wedding photographer as a retoucher. After a few years, I learned that I hated going to work for someone else, so once again, I quit. I started my own wedding photography business because I had no interest in being a starving artist, and there was a lot of equipment that I wanted to buy. I learned a lot d...”

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Course summary for: Still Life Photography: Create Conceptual Images

Level: Beginner
75% positive reviews (4)
427 students
4 units
16 lessons (2h 32m)
14 downloads

Category
Photography & Video
Software
Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop, Capture One
Areas
Food Photography, Food Styling, Product Photography

Gerard + Belevender

A course by Gerard + Belevender

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Art Direction and Photography Duo

Gerard + Belevender is a photography, creative direction, and styling duo based in Detroit, Michigan. Michelle Gerard and Jenna Belevender first met at an event and quickly began working on projects together. They later moved into their own studio where they started creating scenes inspired by nostalgia, food, and pop culture.

Since then, Michelle and Jenna have conceptualized still images for brands like Little Saints, Club Backdrops, DADA Daily, and Ban.do, and worked with publications such as Compound Butter. One of their personal projects, The Artist Diet, has also been published internationally both in print and online.