Documentary Photography Projects
Finding the retouching of the series (part 2)
A course by Marcos Zegers , Photographer
About the video: Finding the retouching of the series (part 2)
Overview
“In this lesson, I will continue to show you my image retouching process, and thus generate a visual unity among all the images in the series.”
In this video lesson Marcos Zegers addresses the topic: Finding the retouching of the series (part 2), which is part of the Domestika online course: Documentary Photography Projects. Create a photography series with a critical eye and personal style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Finding the retouching of the series Let's go to Adela's photo retouched and let's see our shadows. We are going to lower them a little and what we are going to do is that we are going to upload them locally. With this tool here in Lightroom, It's called the Adjustment Brush or the letter K, as you can see on the screen, we see that by clicking this circle opens that you can see on the screen With his halo. This is the area that when painting and pressing will be retouched. And we have certain settings for this area. I will set all settings to zero and then I'm going to upload the exposure ...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Documentary Photography Projects
-
Category
Photography & Video -
Areas
Documentary Photography, Outdoor Photography, Photography

Marcos Zegers
A course by Marcos Zegers
Mark Zegers is a Chilean photographer with a degree in architecture. His documentary photography work focuses mainly on geopolitical and territorial conflicts, which he produces in a contemporary and multidisciplinary style.
Among his projects is an investigation that was published in The New York Times about the young people who left Chile for Russia in 1973 and were unable to return to their country. The long-term project that earned him a POY Latam 2019 award in the environment category is his series focused on the history of extraction (mining) in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and its current relationship with lithium in South America. This visual essay has been exhibited in Chile, Shanghai, and Paris as well as at the AIPAD Photography Show 2019 in New York, the Photo London fair, and as part of World Press Photo's 6x6 program.
- 97% positive reviews (212)
- 6,869 students
- 12 lessons (2h 10m)
- 16 additional resources (4 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever