The Photograph of Sin City: from the Comic to the Screen
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Course overview
- Provider
- Domestika
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Lessons
- 11 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Rico Torres
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In this course, the photographer Rico Torres, will explain step by step how to recreate the visual style of Sin City in your photographs. You will learn lighting techniques, how to make a photo session with a model and professional post-production tricks.
Rico Torres is considered one of the 10 Best Still Pictures in Hollywood and is the author of most of the posters of Robert Rodríguez's films such as Desperado, Spy Kids, Planet Terror, Predators or Machete Kills.
However, there is a before and after in his career after Sin City . A visual challenge in which he not only had to recreate the iconic B-movie black aesthetic that Rodríguez printed on the film, but also to be faithful to the high-contrast black and white images and sprinkled with colorful details of Frank's comics Miller, feat that could be repeated in the second installment, Sin City 2: A Fatal Lady , released in 2014.
Description
You will start getting to know Rico Torres a bit better, his professional career and the influences that have determined his work to later know the creative process behind the creation of a Sin City poster in the pre-production phase.
You will know what is the relationship between the photographer and the creative agency responsible for creating the concept. Then, during the photo session, Rico Torres will explain to you what is the necessary lighting equipment, cameras and lenses, how to interact with the model and the position of the lights and camera on the set.
Finally, you will enter the post-production phase, in which you will see the workflow to preview the images, software to convert RAW to TIFF formats and the photo retouching tricks with Photoshop to give the Sin City style to the photos.
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