Lindsay Adler on using moodboards for your shoot

Friday 27 January 2023, 20:02 by Elja Trum | 2,805 views | 1 comment

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

For almost every shoot I do, I first create a moodboard. Mine usually consist of a number of example photos showing what I have in mind. I get that inspiration from the internet and from photobooks. In this video, photographer Lindsay Adler explains how she approaches this.

I usually use Pinterest for my moodboards, because it is an easy way to create them and share the photos.

I also save the photos I put on a moodboard as files in a folder, so I can easily print them and have them with me on paper on the day of the shoot. That works much better than using a smartphone.

As Lindsay explains in the video, she uses Canva to create a good-looking moodboard with little effort. This is certainly interesting if you work for a paying client.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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Martin wrote on Tuesday 31 January 2023 at 15:44 | reply
Interesting story! I actually never thought of approaching it this way, but I’m going to try it out!
Thanks!
Translated from Dutch.

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