In my very first a level photography class i was challenged like the rest of the photography student to take a picture of only a paper with my phone camera, and i was up to the challenge.

So i grabbed my phone with the really bad camera and picked up a paper and started experimenting shapes that i can create from a single sheet of white paper.its really just about being creative at this point you really just need to experiment as much as you can and think ahead on how are you going to take the picture, at what angle, what lighting……..

I saw that most of the students where just trying to copy the photograph of a paper in the form of a ball that the teacher showed us, so i wanted to do something else. so i grabbed a ruler and my paper and started folding the paper around the ruler to create a zigzag paper.

After i did the paper now i should plan on how am i going to take the picture, i decided to use the flash on my phone since there was not enough natural light to create shadows. but i wasn’t sure at what angle should i take the photo so i experimented from two angles and this is what i came up with:

so this one i took it from above the paper and used the light in the room to create that zigzag shadow around the paper.

this one i just took it from the side, and the light from the sun through the window also created some shadow on the paper.

and as you can see both photos where edited and that was using a phone app, since the challenge included only using phone there was no other way to do it.

in the first photo i used a light filter called vintage which makes the photo a bit dim and yellowish, i also used a tick black frame alongside cropping to adjust the paper in the middle of the picture.

in the second one i used a light filter called x process, which makes the photo brighter and blueish , i cropped some obstacles from the photograph and i used a frame with a little bit of texture to create some movement in the photograph.