Still Life Photography: Create Conceptual Images
Shooting the Final Photo
A course by Gerard + Belevender , Art Direction and Photography Duo
Joined May 2020
About the video: Shooting the Final Photo
Overview
“After a few final touches on the scene, we're ready for the photoshoot! In this lesson, we'll show you how to add the last details and capture the photo.”
In this video lesson Gerard + Belevender addresses the topic: Shooting the Final Photo, 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 did all of our styling and our lighting, so now we can finally put some cheese on these nachos. We're just using a little crock pot to heat up the cheese and keep it warm on set. We have to work quick because once this is sitting on set, it might kind of congeal and start looking weird. I'm just going to start with putting all of the nacho cheese in the little dedicated side container. Once I put it on top of the rest of the nachos, I only get one shot, so let's start with this. So we're placing the cheese very strategically. We're only putting it in one spot, and if ...”
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Course summary for: Still Life Photography: Create Conceptual Images
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Photography & Video -
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Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop, Capture One -
Areas
Food Photography, Food Styling, Product Photography

Gerard + Belevender
A course by Gerard + Belevender
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.
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