Still-Life Photography: Create Dark and Moody Images
Creating a Mood Board
A course by Daniela Constantini , Photographer
Joined January 2022
About the video: Creating a Mood Board
Overview
“It's really useful to create a mood board, as it can help you know in advance if the colors you are going to work with actually work together. It can also remind you of details that you don't want to forget and it helps you materialize your ideas.”
In this video lesson Daniela Constantini addresses the topic: Creating a Mood Board, which is part of the Domestika online course: Still-Life Photography: Create Dark and Moody Images. Learn to compose dramatic still-life photos inspired by classic chiaroscuro paintings, from the setup and shoot to the final editing.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Creating a Mood Board In this lesson, we'll create a mood board with the inanimate objects I'll work with in the final project. Let's have a look. Mood Board A mood board is a great way to organize ideas, see if colors work together, and get your ideas and inspiration onto a digital or physical document as a way to remind you of details and materialize your idea. I don't know if this might have happened to you, but it certainly happened to me. Often, I'll gather inspiration and I'll store it in my camera roll, and I might not be in the mood to create a mood board before I begin with my sh...”
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Course summary for: Still-Life Photography: Create Dark and Moody Images
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Fine-Art Photography, Food Photography, Product Photography
Daniela Constantini
A course by Daniela Constantini
Daniela Constantini is a Mexican photographer living in Bern, Switzerland. She is a graduate of the Visual Journalism and Documentary Practice program at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her long-term project Days of Silence won Rita K. Hillman Excellence Award. In 2015, Errr-Magazine, a Mexican magazine devoted to art and literature, published her first novel, El gato me da igual. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Communication and a major in Journalism from Universidad Ibero located in Mexico City.
Since graduation, she has been working as a freelance photographer focusing on Portraiture, Still Life, and Lifestyle. She has also been the Creative Director, Stylist, and Photographer on projects with brands like Villars Maître Chocolatier, L'Occitane, Mövenpick, Ojo de Café, in Switzerland, and for Pyne & Smith Clothiers based in California, USA, among others. She has exhibited work in New York, Mexico City, Olten (Switzerland) Paris, Arles, Berlin, and Amsterdam.
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