Lifestyle Photography: Capturing Inspiring Visual Stories Skillshare Original - Skillshare Course

Join photographer Marte Marie Forsberg to learn about her inspired approach to lifestyle photography! Whether you're photographing for a blog or Instagram, or just want to capture beautiful food, you'll learn how to capture amazing stories in a natural and stylish way. This 20-minute online class is all about capturing a story, giving you tools and tactics to masterfully capture everyday moments. The lessons, which take place in your thatched English country house, address inspiration, styling, filming and editing, so you can successfully capture an environment, its food and the life around you. This class is perfect for both beginner and professional photographers. It's a welcome reminder of small moments that are truly perfect.______________What you'll learnVisual storytelling. Marte Marie uses light, simple compositions to create beautiful, evocative food and lifestyle photographs. In her lesson series, she invites you to her beautiful country house to talk about her artistic process. It will follow as Marte Marie selects, designs and films two scenes: a "breakfast story" in her kitchen and an "afternoon tea story" in a local pub. Whether you're creating images for an Instagram feed, a website, or for print photojournalism, you'll leave Marte Marie's lesson inspired by this detailed look at how she creates her work. Creating your own. Marte Marie will ask you to submit three photographs that tell your own “afternoon tea story,” however you conceptualize it. The environment can be any environment you choose and the details are yours to decide. You can use any camera you have on hand, even if it's connected to an iPhone! Then, if you would like feedback, you will have the option to upload your work to share with Marte Marie and the rest of the class. Dynamic still life photography. You'll learn how to highlight people, capture conversations, and showcase flavors using Marte Marie's simple photography techniques. He'll explore how mood boards keep your eyes fresh and inspire your lighting and color decisions, and share the secrets he relies on to make his best shots "come to life." Working with light. Light is the most important tool that Marte Marie uses to tell her visual stories. You will learn to "live in the shadows", to create changing works by playing with light, directing it where it falls or blocking it completely. Marte Marie will discuss simple ways to test lighting to create the kind of atmosphere that allows your subject to take center stage. Find the story. You'll see Marte Marie demonstrate how she hones her visual stories to express only the most pertinent and important details. She will discuss how she keeps compositions simple but effective, simmering the essence of a news photo on location or reinforcing a still life at home to create beautiful, focused photographs every time. Food style. Marte Marie shapes her visual story with keywords that maintain the message of her photographs. You'll learn important rules of visual style like the "element of three" and how it helps make even quick compositions feel dynamic. Marte Marie will also talk about how the height of objects plays into the way she designs her work, and how she uses household items to keep settings and lighting simple. Using their tips, you'll keep the focus on your food, not the background! Simple tools. Marte Marie's method is fast, simple and accessible, and her tool set is the same. He'll talk about how he uses iPhones and cheap camera lenses to capture images for the web and print, as well as what mobile apps he relies on to process his work on the go! Depending on the details. In food and lifestyle photography, visual details can make or break an image. Marte Marie will draw your attention to the smallest choices she makes, about crumbs, flour and butter texture, that help create rustic, moody shots and stitches them together to create a visual story from individual photographs. I'll keep the focus on your food, not the background! Simple tools. Marte Marie's method is fast, simple and accessible, and her tool set is the same. He'll talk about how he uses iPhones and cheap camera lenses to capture images for the web and print, as well as what mobile apps he relies on to process his work on the go! Depending on the details. In food and lifestyle photography, visual details can make or break an image. Marte Marie will draw your attention to the smallest choices she makes, about crumbs, flour and butter texture, that help create rustic, moody shots and stitches them together to create a visual story from individual photographs. I'll keep the focus on your food, not the background! Simple tools. Marte Marie's method is fast, simple and accessible, and her tool set is the same. He'll talk about how he uses iPhones and cheap camera lenses to capture images for the web and print, as well as what mobile apps he relies on to process his work on the go! Depending on the details. In food and lifestyle photography, visual details can make or break an image. Marte Marie will draw your attention to the smallest choices she makes, about crumbs, flour and butter texture, that help create rustic, moody shots and stitches them together to create a visual story from individual photographs. He'll talk about how he uses iPhones and cheap camera lenses to capture images for the web and print, as well as what mobile apps he relies on to process his work on the go! Depending on the details. In food and lifestyle photography, visual details can make or break an image. Marte Marie will draw your attention to the smallest choices she makes, about crumbs, flour and butter texture, that help create rustic, moody shots and stitches them together to create a visual story from individual photographs. He'll talk about how he uses iPhones and cheap camera lenses to capture images for the web and print, as well as what mobile apps he relies on to process his work on the go! Depending on the details. In food and lifestyle photography, visual details can make or break an image.