To respond to the genre of Still Life, I went into the school studio to take my own still life pictures using objects taken from SSIs around Jersey. I used two stations: one with a semi-reflective infinity curve and one with a paper background and base, to create two different colours.

Contact Sheets

Editing Process

As Still Life images tend to require less editing than landscape or portrait images (as they tend to be more controlled), less editing than usual was required for this shoot.

To start the editing process I removed the spots on the images using the spot remover tool on lightroom as there were a few smaller bits of pieces left on the station we used to take pictures.

Next, I chose the best images using the ‘Pick’ and ‘Reject’ (Or ‘Flagging’) function on Lightroom.

As well as the Star Rating Function.

Next, I edited the images themselves by manually changing the exposure, contrast and temperatures of the images to make them stand out a bit more, but not too much as to remove them from their original aesthetic.

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Edited Images:

These are the final edited images from this shoot, the changes I made to them are minimal as still life photographs do not need to be changed as much.

I also made some black and white versions for some of the images, which is gives each image a completely different tone.

Best Images