High Speed Product Photography (Spanish, Multisub)

Basic techniques to freeze movement with the camera and take impressive product photos
Photographer Paloma Rincón will teach you how to freeze the movement of a liquid to create dynamic and impactful compositions in product or creative still lifes.

You will work with natural light first and flash later, to discover different ways to achieve this effect technically. This resource of movement is a technique that can be applied to any other photographic genre.

What will you learn in this online course?
You will begin to know better the work of Paloma Rincón, its fictitious worlds from real objects and visual games. You will also discover your favorite books, artists and websites.

Then Paloma will tell you about the importance of the briefing, the starting point of any project, be it a commissioned work or a personal idea. You will deepen in the creative development of the idea looking for images, documentation, elements to use, materials, defining the spirit of the final photo, the light, the color palette, the behavior of the liquid in question, etc.

Later, you will create the moodboard of elements, backgrounds and extra materials and the first sketches. It will also be time to build the necessary structures. In addition, knowing the elements that will make up the image, Paloma Rincón will teach you how to prepare the photographic equipment, both camera and lighting.

The next phase will be shooting and selecting images, first with natural light and then with flash. You will learn to model light, lighting schemes with reflectors, camera settings, types of flash, flash duration, etc.

Once the photo is done, Paloma will explain how it performs the processing of images in RAW with the Capture One program adjusting brightness, contrast, histogram and color, among others.

Finally, you will go to retouch with Photoshop to prepare the master of the file. You will know how to compose from masks, maintain the point of view and direction of light, use pens and aspects of basic cosmetic digital retouching.

What is this course’s project?
The course project will consist in making a still life where a product or solid element interacts with a liquid that you will freeze in motion.

Who is this online course for?
It is aimed at photographers or photography enthusiasts who are interested in investigating the creative possibilities of liquids in movement and knowing the work process of Paloma Rincón.

Requirements and materials
It is necessary to have basic knowledge of photography (iso, speed, diaphragm), knowledge of Photoshop, a camera and previous knowledge of the use of it in manual mode, preferably that can make RAW files and a computer with an image processing software and a retouching program.