There are two ways for photographing still life:

Photographing Objects:

This set up has 3 lights, you have fill lights, the key light and u have a light at the back of the screen

Photographing books and flat items:

You have 2 flash heads which is then set off by the flash on the camera. By doing this you can get a perfectly lit image

With the images I gathered from the objects photo shoot i tried out different things such as putting the images into black and white. Other than that I didn’t really touch the images apart from some slight cropping and exposure/contrast adjustments. I did sharpen some of the images slightly to make the reflections more prominent. I really wanted the objects to stand out and really show their history and their age. The reason I didn’t really want to edit the images was because I thought the objects should be centre focus, they have a story to tell and any major editing would take away from it.