This weeks workshop task was ‘The Found Object’.
Originally, i found this brief daunting to me as before this semester I haven’t practised photography in this manner. I took to Pintrest for some inspiration and I found i particularly liked the work of Horacio Salinas and his still life sculptures as well as Aleksandra Kingo and her use of bright colour and food within her still life photography.
I tried to encorporate elements of this into my own work focussing on the particular areas my eye was personally drawn to; with the work of Salinas, I liked the coming together of different objects but I also liked the simplicity in Kingo’s work as well as the use of food. Personally, I think this is why I decided for my final image to be what it is.
I required the help of my flat mates for this image, to cover the ‘found object’ segment of the brief. I think the image works well as I tried to spotlight the lighting in the image like would be expected from a traditional desk lamp, however, casting it towards the object making the potato inside of the lampshade the main focus. This also created a nice shadow behind the lamp which I believe adds to the overall feel of the image. I kept the traditional plain desk background so not to distract from the main subject of the image. I did try the image on different layers of background but I felt this looked best as it cast a clear shadow onto this surface.
These are images I also took whilst attempting to fufil the set brief that I thought were particularly interesting.
The jar image (left) was inspired by an unknown photographer I came across, also on Pinterest, which looked intrieging to me, however after creating it myself the composition of the photo could be improved, especially the difference and mark on the background of the image, as it distracts from the main subject of focus. I am unsure as to how I personally feel about the image subject itself, it is quite unusual but the different textures work well together.
The image of the hoover (right) was one of my favourites that I captured as it encapsulates a variety of different textures and combines the use of commercialised fashion photograpy that the average person is exposed to frequently but then also combines this unusual element by the use of the hoover giving a deeper meaning to how the audience is sucked into believing whatever it is the media exposes them to. In regards to the composition of the image, I wish the image was shifted slightly to the left so the edge of the hoover head was visible in the shot on the right hand side. Furthermore, there is some over exposed areas on the images of the models.
I found this object on my journey up Steep Hill. It immediately captured my eye and I love the colour difference between the washed out rusty pram and the bright aqua bucket.
