Still life

For still life I was inspired by Walker Evans and Darren Harvey-Regan. Walker Evans photographed mundane house tools to turn them into a spectacle while Darren Harvey-Regan combined two generic tools in separate images to create a unique pieces. While I’m not sure I will be developing images like these further, I would like to include some still life in some regard.

If I do take still life, they will likely be single images in front of a white background. They will be different objects with a different theme. From this project I will be using the different lighting techniques I learned. I haven’t done much with objects however I think the outcomes had varying success.

Portraits

Cindy Sherman took staged environmental portraits like this one. This worked as an environmental portrait of a character. Her work tells a story about a person and how their environment shows that.

I liked working on this project and I think my outcomes were successful. I would like to experiment further with this as I believe it could work as an interesting way to evaluate an idea. I did like my outcomes however going forwards I would like to create more as I only really had one good photoshoot for this project.

Street Photography

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a pioneer in the street photography space. His work never interfered and acted as observations instead. He believed in the decisive moment and photographing fleeting moments. I do like how these photographs look and the process of taking them however I would be shifting my focus.

I think I had varying success with my street photography. I enjoyed this project some outcomes were pretty decent. If I did continue these ideas, I wouldn’t focus so much on the decisive moment and instead a specific theme.