Still Life
Set-up Still Life
For the Still Life project we had to photograph 2 different
kinds of still life. Some of our still life’s had to be assembled on our
own; taking into account the items that we were using, the settings on the
camera, and the lighting of the scene. The objects we used were person
specific meaning that they had a meaning behind them based on the photographer.
For example I decided to use Legos because I would always play with Legos
as a kid and still use Legos today. As the photographer, I also had to
decide how the objects would be organized in order to give the meaning and
aesthetic feeling to it. For the Legos, although my pictures were rushed,
I tried to stack them on top of each other so then I could play with the
aperture on the camera to create a good sense of depth and field. In the
Balsa wood pictures I tried to create a lot of overlapping triangles along with
the ability to play with depth the same way I did with the Legos.
Aperture was a very prominent part of this project as well so that we could
make the camera focus in on certain parts of the still life’s and leaving other
parts of the still life blurry, or you could adjust it to allow the whole still
life to be in perfect focus. Although setting up a still life is exciting and allows you to completely compose the work of art i still believe that finding still lifes was a a thousand times more fun because it allows you to decide what you want to take a picture of based on what you see rather than setting everything up yourself. I did not fully enjoy trying to figure out what compositionally looked good on the back drop of the still life. Finding everyday still lifes is easy and exciting and makes you re-think everyday life and what you see.