From the course: Creating a Photography Portfolio
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Building a mood board
- [Chris] When I captured this portrait of my friend Amber, who is a painter, I was asking her about this whole idea of painting. I said, "Well hey, what makes a painting good?" And she said, "Chris, it isn't about painting what you see, "or what's in front of you, but it's painting "how that thing makes you feel." Well feeling is the topic for this movie, and here we're going to look at how we can create a brand mood board. In other words, a board which somehow captures the essence of the feeling that we want our portfolio to have. Now to dig into this topic, I first want to turn to a practice or craft which is familiar to me, and that's photography. So here I want to share a few insights from the practice of photography metaphorically, and talk about how that compares to creating a mood board for a portfolio. All right well this is a location where I photographed someone, and I'm going to zoom in on it. The location you can see is highlighted right there with that white arrow. It…
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