Still Life Photography: Create Conceptual Images

Creating a Mood Board

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 Mood Board

Overview

“In this lesson, we'll show you how to set up a mood board with references to the overall aesthetic and any notes you've taken during your research. ”

In this video lesson Gerard + Belevender addresses the topic: Creating a Mood Board, 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 created a narrative, and now we're getting into the visual part of our scene. It's time to start collecting images that communicate the look you're trying to achieve. Let's make it happen. So we've created a new board here for our mood board. We'll be using the Chrome extension to save things from the internet and add some notes or even start thinking about color here. While our research board was all about gathering information, the mood board is gathering visual inspiration to start setting the scene. You might already have kind of a clear scene in your mind from cr...”

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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.