Pictorial Portrait Photography

The colors and their characteristics.

A course by Lídia Vives , Photographer

97% positive reviews (202)

3,828 students

Audio: Spanish, Italian

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About the video: The colors and their characteristics.

Overview

“This lesson is about colors and, to understand them, I will show you what brightness, saturation and temperature are. In addition, I will talk about the symbology of colors so that you learn when you should use each one and what effects they can produce in our image. ”

In this video lesson Lídia Vives addresses the topic: The colors and their characteristics., which is part of the Domestika online course: Pictorial Portrait Photography. Learn how to capture the essence of Renaissance masters in your photos.

Partial transcription of the video

“THE COLORS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS In this lesson we will talk about the characteristics of color: brightness, saturation and temperature. I will also show you his psychology through pictorial examples. Let's see it. To understand colors well, we must first know how they divide. On the one hand we have pigment colors or subtractive synthesis, it's the CMYK, the colors of the paint, whose primary ones are cyan, yellow and magenta. And the result of mixing all of them produces black. On the other hand we have light colors or additive synthesis, they are the RGB, the colors of the camera and...”

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Course summary for: Pictorial Portrait Photography

Level: Beginner
97% positive reviews (202)
3828 students
4 units
16 lessons (2h 23m)
3 downloads

Category
Photography & Video
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw
Areas
Fine-Art Photography, Interior Photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography

Lídia Vives

A course by Lídia Vives

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Photographer

Lídia Vives is an artistic photographer, renowned for her pictorial self-portraits filled with secrets. Influenced by Henri-Cartier Bresson, she discovered photography as a means of artistic expression at sixteen, and decided to switch her paint brush for a camera.

Lídia’s work has been exhibited in Spanish and Australian galleries, using her Instagram account as a visual diary where she expresses all that she doesn’t say out loud. Her main clients include brands and editorials for which she creates fashion and advertising photography, and above all, for art collections.