Process and stages of the project:

• Learning the camera settings and changing the settings while taking still life images: shutter speed, aperture, depth of field.

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• Used different lighting techniques: flash lighting, continuous lighting (infinity screen).

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• Taking photos of our objects from home singly and together which we then printed off for our final outcomes

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My overall Evaluation:

Overall I think this project could of been better. This is because my I’m not as happy with my images as I could be and I don’t think they show what I’m capable of. I am happy and proud with some of my images towards the later stages of the project such as the Mary Ellen Bartley images I took. Taking images of still life and single objects was new to me and I think if I were to redo any of the shoots I would have a better understanding of how to arrange the objects to make the images more appealing and interesting. Looking at my final outcomes I am happy with how the window mount came out as I have never done something like that before.

Window mount

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Mounted photos

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Experiments

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Mary Ellen Bartley

Mary Ellen Bartley is a New York based contemporary still life photographer. Often choosing books as her subject in majority of he work, Bartley is capable of capturing varied textures and colors in her pieces.

In her latest project, a series titled 7 Things Again and Again, she chose 7 common items form within her home that she felt represented her time during quarantine. The selected items were: toilet paper, a half-full bottle of rubbing alcohol, a notebook, a mug, a ceramic bowl, a muted yellow bar of soap, and a glass cube. She would arrange said objects in different ways every day throughout the 30 days of April.

Some examples of her work:

My photo shoot

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In conclusion, i believe i have done well in this project for being new to photography, i learned how to use photoshop and light room classic to improve and edit my photos, i have enjoyed the process of taking, editing and creating photomontages. However there are still areas i need to improve on, i need to take more images so i have a wider selection to choose from when i do the final selection and to create more edits and montages to show my capability of editing images, in future projects i will apply my knowledge what i should do and learn from the mistakes i have made on this first project. I have linked all the knowledge i have been taught in the first term to create the project and i am pleased with the outcome, however i know there are areas i need to improve on but they will develop over time.

I used adobe Lightroom classic to edit my still life photos.

“Neue Sachlichkeit,” often known as the New Objectivity, is a photography movement that began during the 1920s, bearing an attitude that focused more on the raw reality of everyday objects mixed with the formal elements of photography, while rejecting sentimentalism and idealism.

Albert Renger-Patzsch also published a book, a novel concentrated particularly on specific subjects, such as wildlife, traditional craftsmen, mechanical equipment, landscapes, and architectural studies, displaying 100 of his photos based on his ideas of the New Objectivity, stating,

“There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should be fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by this technique”

Other photographers with similar interests in photography, particularly Objectivity photographers, such as Karl Blossfeldt, Helmar Lerski, and Edward Weston. Their work shows similar qualities with Albert Renger-Patzsch’s, such as the raw focus on the object and high detail.

Closer toward the modern day, Patzsch has now influenced many photographers, such as Martin Parr, William Eggleston, and Peter Fraser – all of their works tending to focus more on the reality of their subjects as opposed to something idealistic, but still managing to find the beauty in something totally ordinary.

I have picked this photo as one of my best photograph because i like the simplicity of the background, the warmth of the light, i also like the clarity of the ridges on the rock and the placement of the objects.

This image has been selected because of how the objects look effortlessly placed, but at the same time it looks put together, i used continuous light which then started to limit the shadows.

This photo is one of my favourites due to the use of the coloured film over the top of the continuous light causing a sunset feel to the photo.

This photo was a photo i didn’t really like due to the colour of the lighting and how warm the out come was so i used Lightroom classic to edit the photo i make the shadows darker giving the photo a colder feel.