Here is my final exam piece – my short film entitled ‘Mirrors’

Still life photography is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects. It is really effective for portraying the detail of the photographed object in question, this can be furthered by paying attention to high and low key lighting.

Low key lighting predominantly uses dark tones to create a dramatic looking image, whereas high key lighting seeks to over light the subject to the point of reduced contrast.

Using the still life approach, I attempted to take some images of a garlic from numerous angles. The garlic was missing a couple of cloves which made it more convenient to photograph as I’m trying to display man-kind’s negative impact upon the environment and demonstrate how humans merely take from the natural world.

In order to experiment with the images, I printed the photographs out onto standard A4 paper and sliced the images up in order to combine the four photographs, or alternatively, the three or four segments of the garlic in an usual form of a garlic.

Considering the resurgence of a Karl Blossfedlt approach I also put the garlics into a black and white filter and gave them a black border on Adobe Photoshop.

The black and white filter enhances the sinister effect of humans upon the natural world, which is also displayed through the garlic missing cloves as they were utilized for human consumption, demonstrating the greed of our species.

Following the attention to the human assumption aspect, I would like to establish what happens to the garlic once used or in its cooking form. Here is another garlic structure…

Sammy Slabbinck is a unique contemporary photographer who is notorious for using collages. The Belgiancombines his own photography with alternative images, which are usually old-fashioned, giving a vintage effect.

To view more of his work, click the following link … https://www.yatzer.com/sammy-slabbinck-art/slideshow/11

Sammy Slabbinck’s iconic and individual take on the world caught my attention as he combines photographs fluently and gives an obvious opinion in each of his images. One photograph of Slabbinck’s that certainly caught my attention is the following image as it really does open a variety of images you’d expect to see through a camera. Slabbinck gives such a simple yet effective visual representation of the photographic process and gives different examples to help visualize the camera and its function, whilst also portraying his own interpretation. For a modern photographer to use old fashioned images and emit such a vintage tone inverts my expectations which fundamentally, makes the collection of photographs more interesting.

The split up images are portrayed as different rays coming from the camera. The graphics show presumably an old fashioned holiday home and a man holding a traditional camera, setting this very vintage and mature scene. The interesting visuals are juxtaposed with bland brown paper which help illuminate the images which Slabbinck forces us to focus on.

I attempted to recreate the image in my own way…