Perception
I realise that vegetables are a very common subject matter when it comes to Still Life. Yet I think they photograph beautifully and they handle light extremely well. I used a tomato, a stalk of broccoli, a capsicum and an avocado in my light project, and focused on low light and backlighting.
I based my idea around taking objects that we find appetizing and appealing and visually altering them with low light and backlighting to give them a more living, cellular feel. The backlighting of some of the objects helped me to exaggerate the fleshiness of the vegetables and accentuate the seeds/pods and the veins, giving an even more lifelike and ‘breathing’ effect. The restricting light and the object contrasting with the darkness almost gives a look of space, and accompanying how the vegetables appear in the controlled light seemly gives the images an almost extraterrestrial aesthetic - which I like as it ties back in with my original idea of giving the vegetables life.
With the subject matter I decided to focus more on the surface and texture of the object, than as a whole. This technique helped to accentuate the smaller details and to distract the eye from the object’s actual nature, allowing the viewer to form new meaning for the photograph, instead of the image immediately being limited by the subject matter being identified.
I based my idea around taking objects that we find appetizing and appealing and visually altering them with low light and backlighting to give them a more living, cellular feel. The backlighting of some of the objects helped me to exaggerate the fleshiness of the vegetables and accentuate the seeds/pods and the veins, giving an even more lifelike and ‘breathing’ effect. The restricting light and the object contrasting with the darkness almost gives a look of space, and accompanying how the vegetables appear in the controlled light seemly gives the images an almost extraterrestrial aesthetic - which I like as it ties back in with my original idea of giving the vegetables life.
With the subject matter I decided to focus more on the surface and texture of the object, than as a whole. This technique helped to accentuate the smaller details and to distract the eye from the object’s actual nature, allowing the viewer to form new meaning for the photograph, instead of the image immediately being limited by the subject matter being identified.
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