About still life photography
A Still Life is a work of art, a drawing or painting or a photo (usually) of a group of objects. Objects do not move, hence the word 'still'. In the past these objects tended to be flowers, fruit, and other kinds of food or dead animals - hence 'life'. The French for still life is 'nature morte', meaning 'dead nature'. You get the idea. Nowadays, though, still life can mean any objects small enough to be put in front of you, usually on a table.
Still life first came from Ancient Egyptians period where they used to paint images of objects that don't move like for example images of fruit or a pieces of food on a table and good background ever no they where not forcing on the background of the image they still need to make sure it was good and worked well with the main objects in the set up so that the image over all looks really good to the person viewing the image at the end. The idea of still life image being images from a digital camera was not till around the 19th century as well as still life being a highly popular type of photo in this time so was profit photography as in that time no moving subjects was the best type of thing to take photos of in that time due to how good the cameras in that time period.
Still life first came from Ancient Egyptians period where they used to paint images of objects that don't move like for example images of fruit or a pieces of food on a table and good background ever no they where not forcing on the background of the image they still need to make sure it was good and worked well with the main objects in the set up so that the image over all looks really good to the person viewing the image at the end. The idea of still life image being images from a digital camera was not till around the 19th century as well as still life being a highly popular type of photo in this time so was profit photography as in that time no moving subjects was the best type of thing to take photos of in that time due to how good the cameras in that time period.
Photographer that take still life photos within there own work:
Irving PennThis photographer was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits and still life's. Peens career included work at vogue magazine and independent advertising work for clients including lssey miyake and Clinique.
here shows examples of Irving's still life work- I like Penn work as it shows that the he has to of think out side the box to come up with the ideas for the images as they are not really what you would now see. however I don't like the way he has done a plan white background for most of he's photos I like that it helps the main subjects/ object stand out more and better however I think some of the objects would look good with a coloured or patterned background to it add a different idea to the image too as well as the object. Penn is also a really cool photographer as he does more than one theme to he's still-life photography work. |
Irving Penn
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, know for his sensitive yet blunt treatment of controversial subject-matter in the large-scale, highly stylized black and white medium of photography.
here shows some examples of he's work- I really like Roberts work because of how he mostly use black and white image which is cool as it shows all the shadows in the image and the different light and dark parts of the different shadows in the image. What I don't like so much about the work is that it shows to have very little life within it due it being in black and white the idea of the flower should show life, but making the image black and white takes that away from the flower almost making it still more dead than a live. |
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Fluer Olby
Fluer Olby is a photographer who works with still life photography and likes to use bright colour objects as their main subject within their photos.
what I like about the work is that it the background goes well with the main subjects and that the colours go really well together. what I don't really like about this work is that you have a really dark one coloured background with little light it looks like. |
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Ander Kertesz
was a Hungarian-born photographer know for his ground-breaking composition and the photo essay. he also work a lot with the type of still life photography not only taking still life photos but writing about them to he liked both the same.
here shows some of he's work- What I like about the work is that the photographer plays with light to make the main subject of the image the main thing lighted up the only part of the light is the main subject that helps the main subject of the image stand out a lot more than it would with out this. |
Ander Kertesz
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still life photo shoot 1:
In this photo shoot we made a set up on a table with a black background of lots of different random objects with a very low key lighting set up.
viewing in to the different objects and chancing round with the lighting gave me a mixture of different images at the end of the photo shoot. the dark lighting in the photos help build the idea and theme of mysteries in my own work.
viewing in to the different objects and chancing round with the lighting gave me a mixture of different images at the end of the photo shoot. the dark lighting in the photos help build the idea and theme of mysteries in my own work.
WWW:I was able to take some good still life photos of more than one types of object and was able to learn more about the best lighting and what are the best angles to take the photos from when doing still life photography.
EBI: To take more images of ever more different object to build more of this photo shoot.
EBI: To take more images of ever more different object to build more of this photo shoot.
Photo shoot 2: Stephanie Gonot’s contemporary - still life photography called orange
In this photo shoot I looked at the photographer called Stephanie Gonot's who is a still-life photographer who take this photo which is called "orange". what I wanted to do in this photo shoot was to do my best to recreate this image on my own but at the same time to add my own thing to the image at the same time. This image has it name due to it having a orange coloured theme to it the orange background with the orange objects with in the image to therefore it makes the image stand out more. The photographer has done this to help the objects/photo stand out more. We recreating this image I could not find as may objects all the same colour therefore I made my work different and made my image have two coloured objects that go together well with the background colour being the same as one of the colours. |
WWW: what went well about this shoot was that my photos use the image of Stephanie's work but at the same time is my own work just using part of he's idea and making it my own I think that I done it very well.
EBI: if I was to do this photo shoot again I would maybe do some more planning before the shoot to make sure I had lots of things that where the same colour so that I could mix the object and therefor the image up a bit more to add to my shoot.
EBI: if I was to do this photo shoot again I would maybe do some more planning before the shoot to make sure I had lots of things that where the same colour so that I could mix the object and therefor the image up a bit more to add to my shoot.
Still-life photography photoshoot 3
Food Photography
Food still life photography started in Rome and cities of the Netherlands and Northern France.
England still life photography was a bit different to other they would show food half way eaten food and would set up a table of food for the phot not just one paces of food.
Iving Penn (June 19,1917) - (October 7,2009)
an American photographer who was know for he's still life photos as well as other types of he's photography work.
you can see that in my work I have done my best to recreate the work in my own photo shoot when looking at he's work and ideas.
England still life photography was a bit different to other they would show food half way eaten food and would set up a table of food for the phot not just one paces of food.
Iving Penn (June 19,1917) - (October 7,2009)
an American photographer who was know for he's still life photos as well as other types of he's photography work.
you can see that in my work I have done my best to recreate the work in my own photo shoot when looking at he's work and ideas.
In this photo shoot I take photos of lots of different types of food withy both high and low key lighting to show the food in different ways I also used different angles and close up and far away to show different details and shapes of the different types of food.
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WWW: in this photo shot I feel that a lot went ell using my old skills I got from the lighting shots. I was able to high and low key lighting within this shot with I think added a lot to my photos.
EBI: to make this shot better next time I could get more different types of food to help me build on the idea of this shot or some how show the food in a different way than I already have done. |
food photo shoot 2: freeze food
this photo shoot shows me adding to my first photo shoot using the idea of food. but however in this photoshoot I add the idea of the food now being frozen. I used high key lighting for this photo shoot as from the photos from my first photo shoot I feel that the high key lighting was a lot better and showed more details within the different types of food. some of the food is just frozen as the shape of the food and the smaller parts of the food are in boxes of ice this was good as it showed the food more frozen than the food with out the frozen box around it.
WWW: I think a lot of things went well in this photo shoot as I feel that I was able to show lots of details within the food frozen.
EBI: this shoot did have some things that I wish would have gone a bit bitter for example I don't think that the photo shoot had much lighting in some of the images due to where I was placing the food and I don't think that just having the one coloured background was the best idea as I feel all the photos look the same and I think that if I had used different background I could have change peoples views and feeling towards the photos within this photo shoot. |