Still Life Photography: Create Conceptual Images

Influences

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: Influences

Overview

“Our influences come from so many places! Here, we'll go beyond our favorite photographers into our favorite films, TV shows, references, and artists, and we'll talk about how experience shapes our work more than a visual reference. ”

In this video lesson Gerard + Belevender addresses the topic: Influences, 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

“In the last lesson, we talked about ourselves. Now you've gotten to know us, we want to talk about some of our biggest influences. Although we love photography and are inspired by many other photographers, our influences range from pop culture, films, books, chefs, and food stylists, and all other kinds of artists. Out of every photographer we admire, we can draw the most parallels with our work with the work of Henry Hargraves. We discovered his work while we were shooting our project, The Artist Diet, because we have both done images based on the director, David Lynch. I love that his pho...”

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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.