Directing Models for Photography
The idealized body
A course by Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago) , Photographer
Joined December 2016
Joined December 2016
About the video: The idealized body
Overview
“There is a belief that only beautiful and attractive people can go well in photos. However, over the centuries the canons have changed and certain physical characteristics have been exalted and considered beautiful or not, depending on the time and culture.”
In this video lesson Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago) addresses the topic: The idealized body, which is part of the Domestika online course: Directing Models for Photography. Learn the art of directing people for your fashion photographs and portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“UNIT 2 THE IDEALIZED BODY I'm sure you've wondered why some people look good in front of the camera and others don't. This often has to do with being photogenic. We can't say for certain what being photogenic consists of because we often confuse it as synonymous with being attractive. "Photogenic" literally means in the dictionary... If you look it up, you'll see the definition is "looks good or comes out well in photographs," which has nothing to do with beauty. It has nothing to do with our face type, body type, etc. We mistakenly tend to think that there's an ideal body or face that will...”
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Course summary for: Directing Models for Photography
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Category
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Areas
Fashion Photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography
Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago)
A course by Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago)
Eduardo Gómez Muñoz, more commonly known as Alter Imago, has been a professional photographer for 14 years. Although he started as a rock band photographer, he has specialized in portrait and artistic photography, digital retouching, photo manipulation, and advertising photography.
Since 2015 he has regularly published on his YouTube channel 'Alter Imago fotografía', where he has 90,000 subscribers and more than 36 million minutes of viewing. He has won the silver medal at the Photography World Cup in Sydney (Australia) in 2018 in the digital illustration category, and the Nation Awards in Dublin (Ireland).
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