Experimental Outdoor Self-Portrait Photography
A course by user1958601 surname1958601 , Photographer and Visual Artist
Joined January 2020
Channel your emotions and translate them into thought-provoking images
Channel your emotions and translate them into thought-provoking images
Joined January 2020
What if your self-portraits could speak for themselves and were capable of communicating how you feel? Through his introspective and intimate perspective, photographer Cristias Rosas achieves this with every picture he takes. He believes photography to be the only way to process and express his life experiences.
Learn to channel your emotions in outdoor self-portraits using experimental photography techniques. Play with space and light to reflect feelings that are usually hidden from plain sight. With this course, you’ll discover how to connect your inner world with the nature that surrounds it.
What will you learn in this online course?
17 lessons & 17 downloads
- 96% positive reviews (23)
- 488 students
- 17 lessons (1h 54m)
- 17 additional resources (0 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
Recommended software for this course
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe PhotoshopWhat is this course's project?
Create a small sequence of images combining self-portraiture and landscape photography, with the aim of expressing an emotion.
Who is this online course for?
For photography enthusiasts who want to experiment with self-portraits by learning innovative new techniques to apply to their outdoor photography.
Requirements and materials
To take this course you need to have basic photography skills.
As for materials, you need a digital camera, an angular lens, a telephoto lens or a 50mm lens, a neutral-density filter, an LED flashlight, a camera trigger, and a computer with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop installed.
Reviews
A course by user1958601 surname1958601
Cristias Rosas has been a photographer for over sixteen years. In the last decade, he has focused on creating photography series inspired by his feelings, personal interests, and life’s unexpected events. His work ranges from creating portraits of his father suffering from senile dementia, for the project “La Edad de la desaparición”, to documentary-related themes such as New York’s sadomasochistic community, for “La Otra Cotidianidad”.
His images have been featured internationally, including in publications in Japan and Peru.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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What will we do during the course?
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U2
From inside to outside
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References
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How to propose a photographic project?
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Plan the photoshoot
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materials
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U3
Rehearsing distortions
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Long shutter
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Body performance
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Light painting
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U4
In situ
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Landscape photography
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Self-portrait in the landscape
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Experimental techniques
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U5
Reappropriation of the natural
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Lightroom
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Photoshop
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Photoshop and montage
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Photoshop and montage part 2
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FP
Final project
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Experimental Outdoor Self-Portrait Photography
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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Learn at your own pace
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Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
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Meet expert teachers
Each expert teaches what they do best, with clear guidelines, true passion, and professional insight in every lesson.
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Certificates
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Get front-row seats
Videos of the highest quality, so you don't miss a single detail. With unlimited access, you can watch them as many times as you need to perfect your technique.
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Share knowledge and ideas
Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.
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FAQs
Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.
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there are a lot of positive things in this course and i learned some things .HOWEVER,i wouldnt recommend if you dont speak spanish as the subtitles are terrible.there are chunks missing any subtitles and the ones that are there are hardly understandable.it was obviously some bad computer generated subtitles which didnt get hallf the technical lingo. it is such a pity as i thiink that i would have got more out of the course. it is still interesting, just extremely frustrating that the subtitles
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great course
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I can reccomend it,if you have artistic soul .Go for it.
displayname771839
As far as I have advanced so far the Caristias course has seemed very interesting to me the way of explaining each of the topics: from their own experience and with concrete practices. The information you present has been very useful to me in my practice of creative self-portraiture. Highly recommended.
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This is a well-presented and serious course that goes into depth with the creative aspects of self-portraits in nature, and also how to achieve various effects through the technical use of the camera. It is giving me lots of really useful information and ideas for my next photography project. I am very much enjoying deep diving into the possibilities.