Special photos from Instagram - flat-lays - are called still-lives of the 21st century. At the master class of instabloger Alina Chubar at Prospekt shopping mall, Weekend tried to understand what  layout is, why we need a grid in a camera, how accessories and backgrounds for holiday photos can be collected and which stores may become real décor Klondikes for flat-lay beginners.
Ania told about practice importance:
“I work as a manicure master, so I need to know how to make nice photos and it is important for me to learn how to create them. This master-class was very informative and interesting. I’ve already known some tricks, for example, one of the processing programs, now I want to master another one, which I was told about. The flat-lay, I’ve made, was not as nice as I wanted it to be, but not bad for the first time, now I just have to take pictures which will become better and better. Most of all I liked, probably, like other girls, a huge amount of different beautiful decor, which I just wanted to use in practice.”
The sixth rule by Alina Chubar for flat-lay creation concerns the color:
“In my pictures I try to use monochrome colors as close as possible to each other. There are many blogs that use not a specific palette, but some kind of own color set. It depends more on processing, not on the objects used in a layout. You can create a multi-colored layout, but after taking and processing a picture you’ll you get a masterpiece.”
A few more rules for creating flatlays by Alina Chubar read in the Prospekt’s following news.
Source: http://project.weekend.today/ny-flatlay