Photographic Project Creation

Overview

“Still life is the photography of objects. We are going to choose the objects to photograph according to what we have set out to explain in our image collection. For example, if we are doing a small project about our friends, we could ask each of them to choose the object they are most fond of, or the one that has been with them for the longest time, or the one that best defines them... Many times, an object tells us a lot about the person with whom it is associated. You can find it very interesting to photographically play with the chosen objects to be able to show them in new and fun ways! ”

In this video lesson Tanit Plana addresses the topic: The still life, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photographic Project Creation. Learn to narrate a story through powerful images in a creative and structured way.

Partial transcription of the video

“STILL LIFE In this lesson I am going to teach you how still life shooting takes place. You are going to accompany me to the Retiro Park, the place I chose in Madrid, to continue with the series that I am doing of portraits. For this occasion, I needed a site that had greenery, leafy enough to get a shot that is full of green, leaves, or browns, whatever the color, but, above all, get a place where you lose the city reference, not to see houses behind, or fences, not to see a very well-kept French garden. For still life photography, I have asked the characters they will be portrayed to bring...”

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Course summary for: Photographic Project Creation

• Level: Beginner
• 91% positive reviews (102)
• 2444 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 11m)

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Areas

  Fine-Art Photography, Outdoor Photography, Photography