Black and White Photography: Digital Editing and Retouching
Presentation
A course by Cristian Maturana Ortiz , Visual artist
Joined June 2019
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you about me, my beginnings in the photographs and my perspectives regarding this trade. I will also tell you how the development of my career has led me to an assessment of the technique, and in what ways I have related to it.”
In this video lesson Cristian Maturana Ortiz addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Black and White Photography: Digital Editing and Retouching. Achieve total control over the tonal range and learn how to capture, retouch, and print your photos.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, welcome to this course. I am Cristian Maturana. I am a visual artist. My formal training is as a photographer. In my career, the processes have always attracted my attention because they are the instance in which certain elements that act about the operation of the work cease to be a thing To become another. The leaves cease to be leaves to be pigments. Pigments cease to be pigments when placed on a cloth And they become image. That concept of disappearance has a very strong link with the political in Latin America. Therefore, my work always product of that affinity for ...”
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Course summary for: Black and White Photography: Digital Editing and Retouching
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Photography, Film Photography, Photo Retouching, Photography

Cristian Maturana Ortiz
A course by Cristian Maturana Ortiz
Chilean photographer and artist Cristian Maturana lives in Viña del Mar, where he teaches Professional Photography at the Instituto Arcos. He is also a printer and framing artist in the specialized workshop of fine art photography Taller Atacama. In addition to photography, he studied architecture and cinema.
He has received the Fondart award for the C.M./C.M project. (Yo es Otro), has published 2 books, and has participated in several individual and collective exhibits in important galleries and museums in Chile, Mexico, Colombia, and Spain.
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