The Key Concepts: Photography
David Bate
BERG
Oxford.New York
Thomas Richard Williams
'Nature Mort' or 'The Sands of Time' 1852
daguerreotype
page 126
still life book research
Showing posts with label still life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label still life. Show all posts
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Friday, 15 March 2013
final shoot for still life
phrenology head and the hand
both objects have a significants to me, they are my mums but they have been on show in our house since i was a little kid. iv grown up looking at them everyday. they've been though seven moves.
i also burnt some incense while shooting the images to help create an atmosphere .
taken using a cannon 5D and a telephoto lens
Thursday, 14 February 2013
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
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
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
Monday, 11 February 2013
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
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