Documentary Photography for Commercial Use

You will start the course knowing CONTRA, or what is the same, Álvaro and Nano. They will explain to you what their trajectory in photography has been, how they deal with projects working as a team, and their influences.

You will see how to approach a project of management and creation of large volumes of photographs (image bank) that will later be delivered to the client - although the process is replicable for your personal projects. You will learn to deal with documentary-looking advertising photographs, thus managing to tell stories but with professional advertising quality.

You will see how to plan together with the client, identifying what is the specific need of a session to define the work day and budget it. Also, you will review the essential equipment and materials to get started.

You will discover how to download all the camera material, create folders in Bridge, copy them in them and formats to leave all the raw material on the hard drives.

You will make an introduction to Adobe Bridge, seeing its advantages, learning to classify and filter files. You will see how to effectively organize the material made to work with it. AGAIN will teach you several editing criteria and identify themes and pillars.

You will learn to handle large volumes of images and work them in low resolution. You will create keywords that will help you have an order using search tags, as well as other tips to identify your files before sending them to the customer.

You will digitally reveal your images in Camera RAW, learning the basic techniques and settings for your images. You will also see how to make specific lighting adjustments from there and then in Photoshop, touch-ups to clarify imperfections, calibrations and export settings.