Image Diagnosis

Choose an image to analyse

Look carefully at the image and add your findings below

Focus

• Is this image in focus?
• Partly in focus?
• Is the depth of field shallow or wide?

Lighting

• What lighting has been used? Flash or continuous? Hard or soft?
• How can you / we tell?
• Is the lighting effective?
• Why / why not?

Exposure

• Does the image have a balanced exposure?
• Over-exposed?
• Under-exposed
• What are the signs of this?
• What is the connection between the kind of lighting used and the exposure settings?

• Include the FILE INFO / META_DATA here
• Aperture
• Shutter Speed
• ISO

White Balance

• Does the image have a hue / tinge to it?
• What is the colour cast?
• Do the white objects appear white?

(Add this information plus the image to a blog post)

Q1. Where and when did still life originate?

• The early 1600s from Dutch and Northern European paintings

Q2. What does colonialism mean?

• Control by one power over a dependent area or people

Q3. How did colonialism impact the still life?

• It introduced new materials and techniques.

Q4. what do you see in early still life paintings?

• Variety of foods, flowers and occasionally skulls.

Q5. What could they symbolize?

• They could symbolize wealth and power in some cases and others maybe death, and lack of time which is shown in the paintings with skulls and or hourglasses.