Walker Evans is a Photographer Born on the 3rd of November, 1903 in the United States and died April 10th 1975. Who also has the project “The Beauty Of The Common Tool”.
The project “The Beauty Of The Common Tool” was made in 1965 and all of the images within the project have a plain white background and also in monochrome, These two effects adds a vintage and a mysterious effect onto the project. He also has his photos exactly in the centre of the frame in every single photo with a lot of negative space around the objects, Evans uses tools that look like construction tools or hospital tools. So I would assume that these photos have been taken in a hospital, a construction site or in someone’s shed.
Darren Harvey-Regan is a British Photographer born in Exeter in 1974. Darren Harvey-Regan also created “beauties of the common tool”. Darren Harvey-Regan`s Photographs are extremely similar to Walker Evans Images in the subject of formalism. Harvey-Regan normally focuses on one object however focusing on the use of lines and shape, in these images above the objects have a unique shape with a different form of lines and texture for example the shapes of the objects are not a square or an actual shape they are a complete random shape. His work often shows up at different exhibitions and museums.
For My first still life photoshoot, I experimented with many different objects and I did not really focus on any specific objects or style. In this photoshoot I used different objects such as: books, cards, cutlery and some tools, my favourite objects to photograph out of the ones I used I find that the photographs of the cutlery and the books came out the best because the cutlery can give various shadows as well as give you photo that element of uniqueness. I also think that the photographs that have the books in it came out nicely because the books really give that theme of nostalgia.
Photoshoot 2
For my second still life photoshoot I had more of an idea of what I wanted in my photoshoot unlike in my first photoshoot where I just experimented. In this photoshoot I used objects such as: a violin, toy car, hat and many different antique nostalgic objects. My focal point in photoshoot 2 is the violin, the violin is the object that catches the viewers eye when looking at these photos, this is because the violin is the biggest object in the photos and it is also the most vibrant and colourful object in the pictures.
Photoshoot 1 Favourite Photos
This is a before and after of one of my favourite photographs from my first still life photoshoot. I find that this image is one of the best ones from this photoshoot, I think this because the use of the NBA cards really give off the theme of nostalgia, I also placed them in a random order so it looked like I had found it like that. I then edited the photo in Lightroom changing the temperature of the photo as well as the contrast and shadows.
This is also another one of my favourite photos from the first photoshoot. I really like this photo because of many different aspects, for example the shadows, the books and just the general layout of the photo. For this image I stacked 3 books on top of each other like a staircase and then put the cutlery as well as another object on top of it. The use of the cutlery gives great shadows and makes the image more appealing. I then edited the image using Lightroom increasing the contrast, texture and clarity to give it this stronger lighting which adds onto the theme of nostalgia.
This is my final favourite image from my still life photoshoot 1. This is a very strong image in my opinion because it has excellent shadows the forks give off interesting shadows for example in this photograph it looks like there are 4 forks and they are balancing on each other but there are only 2 forks and its shadows. For the editing of the image all I did was increase the temperature very slightly, decreased the shadows and increased the clarity a lot.
