Dark Conceptual Portraits
Theme and character definition
A course by Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago) , Photographer
Joined December 2016
About the video: Theme and character definition
Overview
“In this lesson we will brainstorm (with words only) that will serve us to land the ideas that we want to carry out, at first very freely without any restrictions, then we will debug the most interesting ideas to end up with a theme and A more concrete character.”
In this video lesson Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago) addresses the topic: Theme and character definition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dark Conceptual Portraits. Carry out a somber-looking photoshoot from concept to editing.
Partial transcription of the video
“Define the theme and THE CHARACTER Now let's go to the first step of this creative process. We will define our theme and our character. Normally we have many ideas, and sometimes we don't know how to land them. This is a mechanism that I use continuously and it works a lot for me. Next I will explain it to you. Here I have a notebook, any notebook, in which I will write a series of keywords which I will subsequently eliminate according to what I want to do in my project and gradually approach the character I want to do in this picture. Perfect, the first thing I'm going to write are topics....”
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Course summary for: Dark Conceptual Portraits
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Areas
Fine-Art Photography, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Portrait Photography

Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago)
A course by Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago)
Eduardo Gómez Muñoz, more commonly known as Alter Imago, has been a professional photographer for 14 years. Although he started as a rock band photographer, he has specialized in portrait and artistic photography, digital retouching, photo manipulation, and advertising photography.
Since 2015 he has regularly published on his YouTube channel 'Alter Imago fotografía', where he has 90,000 subscribers and more than 36 million minutes of viewing. He has won the silver medal at the Photography World Cup in Sydney (Australia) in 2018 in the digital illustration category, and the Nation Awards in Dublin (Ireland).
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