Photography as an Expressive and Artistic Means (Spanish, Multisub)

Learn the procedures and techniques of lighting, directing and post-production in order to create your own visual narrative In this course, you will learn to use photography as a method of personal exploration of your own ideas and concepts, to discover and define your own visual narrative.

Taking as your starting point your inner universe, you will learn to give voice to your ideas through photography. Gerardo Montiel Klint will guide you when developing your personal style through the photography of inanimate objects, the psychological portrait and the self-portrait.

You will acquire knowledge that will allow you to create a methodology to tackle all kinds of projects, big and small, and take control of the creative process from intuition. You will learn to work lighting, art direction, narrative and postproduction, as well as the best way to present your project.

What will you learn in this online course? You will begin by knowing more in depth who Gerardo Montiel Klint is, his work, his influences in the world of image, art and literature; how were his beginnings in the world of photography and why he does what he does.

You will learn and understand basic concepts of controlled lighting, how to manage a team and models in the context of a photo shoot.

You will work with inanimate objects and discover techniques to endow them with life through animation frame by frame. Also, you will understand how to work self-representation by placing yourself in front of the camera.

You will tackle postproduction with Photoshop and learn what a digital negative is and how it works. You will acquire knowledge about color correction and you will also attend a lesson on color psychology, which will help you masterfully carry out the final retouching.

Gerardo Montiel Klint will give you some advice on supports and types of printing essential for the final project, which will help you better understand how to assemble a set of images and find the appropriate outputs for your project in the form of publication, exhibition, book, etc.

What is this course’s project? Starting from a concept, you will create a visual set composed of four different images created with different techniques: the portrait, the still life and the self-representation.

Using your own imaginary you will explore the free association of ideas with strategies and tools in the study and digital laboratory, to finish with the assembly of a set of images ready to be exhibited.

Who is this online course for? This course is aimed at anyone interested in expressing themselves through photography and who will develop their own visual discourse.

Requirements and materials To fully enjoy this course, you only need to know how to use a camera in manual mode and have basic knowledge of Photoshop.

With respect to the materials, you will need a digital camera with option for manual handling, an inanimate object of your choice, a model to photograph, an artificial light source and a computer with a photo editing program to reveal and edit your images .