Self Portrait Specialization

Course summary

• U1: Getting Inspired

  • Introduction

  • Influences | Lídia Vives

  • Influences | Daniella Benedetti

  • Influences | Laura Zalenga

  • Influences | Sofie Sund

  • Influences | Angela Garcia

• U2: Fine Art Photography: Self-Portraits Filled with Symbolism

  • Referents of the Self-Portrait

  • Style Guide for Self-Portrait

  • Finding Inspiration and Making the Mood Board

  • Finding Props

  • Materials

  • Learning to pose

  • Prepare the set: props and lighting

  • Shooting: close-up

  • Shooting: medium shot

  • Development in Camera Raw 1

  • Development in Camera Raw 2

  • Development in Camera Raw 3

  • Cleaning the image 1

  • Cleaning the image 2

  • Cleaning the image 3

  • Cleaning the image 4

  • Cleaning the image 5

  • Skin retouching 1

  • Skin retouching 2

  • Contrast and color 1

  • Contrast and color 2

  • Liquify filter, focus and texture

  • Saving your Photo

  • Submit your photograph

• U3: Self-Portrait as a Personal Diary

  • Different paths for a project

  • Five key questions to think about your project

  • How to create a mood board for the project

  • Materials

  • From praise to trial and error: recursion

  • Self-portrait shooting: keys

  • Self portrait shooting: how to include another person in your photo

  • Image selection 1

  • Image selection 2

  • Basic development in Lightroom 1

  • Basic development in Lightroom 2

  • Manual intervention of the image

  • Storytelling and personal life

• U4: The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography

  • Where to Find Inspiration

  • Two Ways of Finding Your Concept or How I Found the Concept for 6 of My Portfolio Images

  • Scouting Locations

  • My Equipment

  • Practice Self-Portrait Technique

  • Practice Posing

  • Examine Lighting

  • Examine Composition, Crop, and Ratio

  • Setting Up the Location

  • Test Photos - “Trial and Error”

  • The Final Photos

  • Lightroom - Selecting Images

  • Lightroom - Basic Editing: Game of Trial and Error

  • Photoshop - Final Touches 1

  • Photoshop - Final Touches 2

• U5: Self-Portrait Photography: Explore Color and Light

  • Feeling Inspired

  • Experimenting with Colors

  • Without Light, There Is No Photo

  • The Equipment

  • Brainstorming and the Mood Board

  • Setting up the Scene

  • The First Photo: Shaping the Light

  • The Second Photo: Experimenting with Long Exposure

  • The Third Photo: Working with Natural Light 1

  • The Third Photo: Working with Natural Light 2

  • Selecting and Editing on a Phone 1

  • Selecting and Editing on a Phone 2

  • Selecting and Editing with Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop 1

  • Selecting and Editing with Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop 2

  • The Final Result and Sharing Your Work

• U6: Fashion Self-Portrait from Start to Finish

  • equipment and tools

  • The mood board and the concept

  • Self-knowledge and posed

  • Fashion editorial makeup

  • Styling for the session

  • The makeup

  • Stage

  • the photo session

  • Edit the photos

  • Graphic work on photographs

  • Share the photos

• Final project

  • Self Portrait Specialization