Still Life Photography: Create Conceptual Images

Creating a Narrative

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: Creating a Narrative

Overview

“When you're done researching, it's time to write a narrative statement that captures the mood and concept you're trying to emulate. Here, we'll show you how to do this! ”

In this video lesson Gerard + Belevender addresses the topic: Creating a Narrative, 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

“Okay, in our last lesson, we generated ideas, did the research, now let's talk about creating a narrative statement. Creating the statement is going to get the wheels turning in your mind, describing that moment you want to create. Let me show you how we do this. Using my research in the last lesson, I'm going to take what I learned and write a scene based on it. Your statement can be as short or as long as you want. It also doesn't have to be grammatically correct. Write a run-on sentence with bad grammar, this is only for your own process and reference. So looking at my research, I starte...”

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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.