Still-Life Photography: Create Dark and Moody Images
Selection and Lightroom Adjustments
A course by Daniela Constantini , Photographer
Joined January 2022
About the video: Selection and Lightroom Adjustments
Overview
“After the photoshoot, the next step is to select the final image and make some corrections. Let me show you how I start the editing process in Lightroom. ”
In this video lesson Daniela Constantini addresses the topic: Selection and Lightroom Adjustments, 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
“ Selection and Lightroom Adjustments We've finished our shooting, so let's select the final image and make some adjustments in Lightroom. Let me show you how to do it. Here, what you are seeing is my first selection of photographs from our final shoot. I've shot a lot of photographs, so I go one by one, selecting the ones that I like the most. These photographs are the ones I would like to work with, but I'll only choose one. Right off the bat, I'll take away the ones that are brighter. Since I like working with moody and darker still lifes, I'll take this one away. I'll take this one away...”
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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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