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Exploring the Essential Features of “Maureen Eggleton – Fine Art Photography: How to Create a Unique Self Portrait”
Lessons in This Class
- Introduction
- Project Introduction: Getting Ready
- Get Inspired:Feed Your Imagination
- Narrowing down the idea: 6 easy steps
- Time to shoot: See How It’s Done
- Editing in Lightroom and Photoshop part 1
- Editing In Lightroom and Photoshop part 2
- Final words
About This Class
How to create unique self-portraits in the comfort of your home. Bring your imagination and passion to tell an idea or story.
Let’s open the doors to our worlds! Fine Art self-portraiture is a wonderful tool to set your mind free to experiment and communicate anything you want to the world!
My name is Maureen Eggleton. I am a portrait and editorial photographer. In this class, I will share with you all my creative processes, including tips and tricks so that you can take self-portraits even in tiny places.
This class is for any person who wants to unleash their creativity to experiment and create something personal and artistic.
The goal is to create one fine art self-portrait that expresses something you want to share with the world, ie, it could be a part of your story, an idea, feeling, or something you stand up for. The sky’s the limit!
Here are some of the most exciting things you will learn::
-Creativity over gear: We will focus on creating and telling a story or idea with what we have at hand.
-Running out of ideas? No problem, I will show you what you can do to get inspired and how to feed your imagination.
-We will immerse ourselves in a personal and easy activity where you will use your introspection to help you come up with ideas.
-Play with lightroom sliders to bring your photo to life and blend images with blending modes in photoshop to give your image an artistic touch.
-Learn to observe. This will help you find the best places to shoot in your home and in other locations.
-Work in your curiosity, patience, and flexibility: Let go of perfectionism and focus on finding different possible ways to express your idea.
-Grow your self-confidence: Being the subject in front of the camera can be intimidating and awkward but practicing fine art self-portrait constantly will help you see, accept, and love yourself as you are.
-Flexibility: You can bend the photography rules, allowing you more room to play with your images. Blurry and out of the focus images can be welcome!!
-Props: We will see how different props already available in your home can help you tell your story.
What will you need:
-Very basic knowledge of digital cameras.
-Basic knowledge of Lightroom and Photoshop.
-A tripod and remote control would be helpful otherwise you can use a pile of books or perhaps a table and the self-timer option in your camera ;
Meet Your Teacher
Maureen Eggleton
Portrait and Fine Art Photographer
Hi everyone, I’m Maureen, a Portrait and Fine Art photographer.
I’m Mexican-American, now living in Tokyo. I have worked with models and agencies in Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, and Los Angeles, and my work has been published in editorials like Photo Vogue Italy and Photo Nostrum Barcelona.
In my past life (when I was living in Mexico City) I ran one of the best model agencies, which I loved because I learned a lot about the modeling and fashion industry, but my love for photography has been with me since I was six years old so I decided to dedicate my life to my craft.
I’m all things art, photography, creative wellness, and nature connection practices.
Random fact: 99.9% of the people I have met think I am French. Can you guess why?
- Related Skills
- Adobe Lightroom
- Adobe Photoshop
- Photography
- Photographic Styles
- Portrait Photography
Level: All Levels
Hands-on Class Project
Create one fine art self-portrait that communicates an idea, story, or feeling.
We will start by getting inspired and coming up with a very simple story/idea, then we will find a location to shoot at home, gather props (if you want) and sketch the idea (do NOT panic, we will draw like a kid) to finally have fun shooting and editing. Oh yeah!
1. Get Inspired: I will walk you through what you can do to get inspired.
2. Narrowing Down the Idea: I will show you the same process I use to come up with cool ideas after my inspiration activity. This is the time where you will write down all you imagine that you would love to see reflected in your self-portrait. It doesn’t matter how crazy it sounds, write, write, WRITE!!… It could be part of your story, a feeling, a cause you stand up for, a concept.
4. Lets Shoot, See How It Is Done: I will take you behind my camera so that you can see how I shoot my self-portraits. Here I will share some tips to find the perfect lighting and also how I deal with not knowing how to pose my hands. After this lesson, you will be ready to shoot your self-portrait.
6.Edition: We will experiment first in Lightroom adjusting exposure, light, tones, and a little bit of color, then we will migrate to photoshop where I will show you how I blend the self-portrait with an image of flowers using blending modes. This is the way we will give our photo our artistic touch.
Be flexible and open to change your direction.
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