Creative Lighting for Portraits
Background of the photographic portrait
A course by Victor Idrogo , Photographer
About the video: Background of the photographic portrait
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you a summary of the history of the portrait. We will understand its importance in the history of art, how we have represented ourselves and how we arrive at less figurative examples. We will end up seeing abstract portraits in painting and the use of color in contemporary photographic portraits. ”
In this video lesson Victor Idrogo addresses the topic: Background of the photographic portrait, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Lighting for Portraits. Get into experimental photography and learn to improve your use of expressive lighting.
Partial transcription of the video
“Background of the photographic portrait In this lesson I will explain about the history of the portrait and its importance in the history of art and photography. Join me to see it. Let's start not in the prehistoric, but basically on how Greek sculpture, for example, It represented her ideal of beauty, which was not only with an aesthetic beauty ideal in the body, but also with a mental development. They worked hard on the ideal of the perfect body. They also worked with different allegories, and everything was representative towards an ideal of how it could be. Still how the work of art wa...”
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Course summary for: Creative Lighting for Portraits
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Capture One -
Areas
Fine-Art Photography, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography
Victor Idrogo
A course by Victor Idrogo
Victor Idrogo is a professional photographer from Peru. For more than 10 years he has been dedicated to commercial photography and has specialized in portraits. His works have been published in magazines such as Somos y cosas.
In his commercial office called Icónica Institucional Photography, he works with a team of professionals with whom he makes portraits and photographic coverage for companies and different institutions.
In parallel, he performs more personal work, also based on portraits and experimentation with the expressive use of light.
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