more from second shoot

from shoot two

 useing a snoot and soft box on Elinchrom lights 

played with the shadows, trying to make different shapes from them

some shots from second still life shoot

from shoot two

done with 2 elinchrom lights and soft box on both 

also using cannon 5d 

hadnt really used the 5d to this extent but got some good photo

 The lighting in still life photography can be deceiving, as you may think it to be easy on first glance, but in actual fact it could take hours to light an object correctly, though patients and practice you end up with something that you don’t even like. Its hard to describe how disappointing this is when it happens the first time, after spending an hour and half trying to light an object, to have taken hundreds of photos of said object and not one of them being even remotely how I wanted it be, very disheartening.

And then there are all those reflections to deal with, and I started to feel it, like I had been transported back to the moment I received the prints from my first ever role of film. Trying to steady my nerves and trying to contain my excitement as I carefully open the envelope thing that the prints used to come in, and then the disappointment and frustration find out that the images I took were just absolute the worst things id even seen, ever, but in that moment I chose to carry on, to strive to better myself, rather than just putting the prints in the bin I kept them, they have since been stolen when our house got robbed but hey, as inspiration and something to look at and think I could of done this differently or that. As I have done with the photo’s from that awful still life practice shoot … 

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william eggleston
red ceiling
some people think william eggleston was father of modern colour photography but how can they say that, he wasnt the first to use colour, and in my eyes he wasnt the best at it. he did have a unique belief though, that by looking patiently at somthing others ignore or look away from, iteresting things can be seen.
the lighting appears to be coming from the object of focus, ie lightbulb, and reflect of the ceiling not much else to say, though i do like the contrasting of the white wires on the red ceiling, probable best that i dont say what i first sore when i looked at this photo... sexual pictures on the wall