before the photos were edited:
After the photo were edited:
here I went to the studio and too some photos inspired by walker Evans, I have already taken some similar photoshoots that involved more items, and different objects however I made this photoshoot more personally aimed towards still life photography and Walker Evans. I really like hoe some of my photos turned out however most of them had become very blurry and vivid, making it hard to work with and edit them, while others looked not centred enough or had a piece of the background in the photo. This made it difficult to chose a photo to edit. However I found a few and made sure that they were cropped to the right size.
Here I played around with the settings to try and see what looked best, I felt that my photos looked better with a warmer tone then a cold tone as the tools themselves were quite cold they wouldn’t have blended in well together. I made sure that the highlights were quite low as there were already shadows involved in the photo, therefore the tool already has a darkened background adding a white tone to it would make it look unrealistic and fake. I also added the blacks to over 50% because as the background was added to a warm tone, it helped me visualise and focus on the object more.
Photo Analysis:
Overall I am really happy with how this photo has turned out as the photo looks really clear. However the artist I was inspired by, Walker Evans, his photos were quite coldly toned and didn’t show much warmth, so I personally believed that the warmer tone made my photos look more advanced and original to me, although I was trying to copy walkers Evans work I did want to interpret my own ideas into the photo to make it more original to me. If I were to redo this photoshoot I would have liked to try and make them cold toned to see what difference it would have added. Or I would have liked to have used more tools maybe a knife and fork or even a spoon to mix it up a little bit as I had only used 2 different tools it didn’t help me explore and advance my ideas.
