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Commercial Fashion Photography

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Overview

Are you ready to create stunning fine-art with your fashion shoots? Join renowned fine-art and fashion photographer Miss Aniela as she creates a standalone bestselling art piece with a fashion model shot on location. In an unprecedented feat in CreativeLive history, "Swan Lake," the image created by Miss Aniela during this class became (to her amazement) one of her bestselling fine-art pieces over the following decade, as well as an iconic book cover. Watch in meticulous detail how she planned, shot and edited it! 

Miss Aniela will:

  • Take you step by step through a location photo shoot
  • Show both lo-fi and high-production budget approaches to a fashion set-up
  • Take you on set at The Ruins ballroom in Seattle, WA, US to watch the meticulous shooting and post-production that went into Miss Aniela's bestselling Surreal Fashion piece "Swan Lake" 
  • Share her insight into the business of fashion photography and fine-art photography, and hear from the stylist's point of view too
You will learn how to conceptualize, produce, and work with a stylist, as well as alone — including finding inspirational details and creative locations.
After reflecting on the shoot and reviewing the raw images, Miss Aniela will walk you through her compositing process and how she incorporated stock photography into the model's dress to transform it into a timeless work of art. You will also learn how to choose images that appeal to the stylists, editors, and commercial clients. Miss Aniela will reveal her own professional journey, explaining how she turned her Flickr stream of amateur self-portraits into a thriving commercial and fine-art photography career. 

Syllabus

  • Defining Fine Art & Fashion Photography
  • Why & How to Channel Your Passion
  • When Passion Meets Business
  • Method in Madness of the Right Brain Photographer
  • Right Brain Needs a Left Brain/Shooting Planning
  • Gear Overview
  • Test Shoot Setup: Location, Lighting, Styling
  • Simple Test Shoot vs Couture Test Shoot
  • Inspiration vs Imitation & Having Moodboards
  • Creating a Pitch
  • What Makes it Fashion or Fine Art
  • Sourcing Locations On a Limited Budget
  • Submitting Work to Magazines
  • Lo-Fi (Small Production) Shoot
  • Lo-Fi Shoot Continued
  • Couture Fashion Shoot - Part 1
  • Couture Fashion Shoot - Part 2
  • Couture Fashion Shoot - Part 3
  • Team Q & A
  • Reviewing Images from Shoots
  • Tackling Anti-Photoshop Debates
  • Image Selection & Simple Editing
  • Compositing Process of Hi-Fi Image
  • Possibilities for Surreal Storytelling in Images
  • The Purpose of Finding Your Style
  • Acknowledging Your Photography Journey
  • Marketing & Social Media Audience
  • Preparing for Job Offers & Dream Job

Taught by

Miss Aniela

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