A painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, typically including fruit and flowers and objects contrasting with these in texture, such as bowls and glassware.

Such as..

An artist who does this is…

Vincent- Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. 

Here as some of his images.

Van Gogh is today one of the most popular of the Post-Impressionist painters, although he was not widely appreciated during his lifetime. He is now famed for the great vitality of his works which are characterised by expressive and emotive use of brilliant colour and energetic application of impastoed paint.

Here is some of my Still life posts.

I really like this image because I used random objects and placed them in a way to make it look nostalgic , as if it were taken many theres back. I like it because it has a cool and clear tone and texture as well as a little clarity in this photo. The tone is quiet dark , however you can still see the photo well.

Here is another Still- Life artist.

Henry Hargreaves.

Former fashion model turned photographer, Henry Hargreaves , has a reputation for playing with his food. Born 1979 Henry is a Brooklyn -based artist and food photographer who spent his formative years growing up in New Zealand. He began working in fashion in early 2000, relocating to New York City.

Here are some of his images…

This image is very simple and plain. You could say that it could relate back to the past and what/ how they would eat back in the 1990s. I like Henrys work because it shows a lot of colour and contrast.

Still life, as a particular genre, began with Netherlandish painting in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the English term still life derives from the Dutch word stilleven. Early still-life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted

To conclude,

this shows the history of a persons life and what they like to do. Still life is a genre that spans art history. It is found everywhere from ancient Egyptian tombs—decorated with paintings of objects from daily life—to works of modern art where it provided opportunities to experiment with new techniques, forms, and styles.

This photograph is before I edited it and made any changed to it.

However, this is after.

Here’s another one of my photos that I really like and think has a better texture and clarity after I used photo shop for it.

This is before…

After…

It brings out the refection’s and tones and textures. It gives the image almost like a drawing type texture which I really like.

Here is the how I edited it, I prefer these photos a lot more rather than the original ones without photoshop.

What is an object photography?

In object photography, everything revolves around photographing three-dimensional objects and arrangements. The most common type of object photography is the so-called table top photography, in which smaller objects are draped on a table or shelf.

To conclude

I think that I edited these photographs’ quiet well and really brought out the colour it needed.

Here are my photos that have changed and evolved , they have also been edited and flagged by the ones that I like the most and the ones that I don’t like as much.

Using art steps, I used the still life photo that I took and placed it on this virtual gallery exhibition. I really like this because its plain and simple and the photo pops out on the black back round.

Here is photo number two from different angles..

Here is another image, two photos side by side.

To wrap up and conclude

I would say that these photoshoots are very interesting and calming. There is many different photos an load’s of edits too, but I think I could’ve taken more and edited them a bit more too.

Still life photography is the composition technique of using light and presentation to create a compelling photo of inanimate objects. With still life photography, the photographer controls the scene, which allows for the space to experiment with camera angles, lighting, materials, textures, and object arrangement.

We used a still life picture and examed it based off this sheet. there were many key point within this photo as you can see.

Here is the sheet.

In conclusion- This shows you all the theory and I really liked working with Still life as it shows a lot about whatever the photo is being taken of, could even be about your life if taken near somewhere close or related to you.

I used flags, ratings and colours. I used different background’s to make more colours and variation’s.

This photo has different colour background for colourful effect with a single used tool.

I took this photo on a white background and here is how I took the photograph. These photographs are inspired by Walker Evans.

Here are some more images of some tools- inspired by Walker Evans.

This is one of my favourite pictures because its very clear and has a lot of purity. I edited this photograph to add higher colour.

In conclusion

I think that this photo shoot went well with all the colour and different styles of backgrounds, however I think I could’ve made the photos more clear and lit up the room more or even in light room. Although I do like the lay out and how you can move all the colours and pictures around. As well as mix up all the tools with many different o=objects surrounding them.

Both these artist capture photograph’s with a dull/ mysterious meaning behind it. Both artist’s paid careful attention to choice of objects , composition, lighting and exposer. The photographs of Walker Evans told the story of American working-class life with an exacting frankness that was truly revolutionary for its time. He took many photographs of his selected objects and he approached them from different angles or using different cameras. Evan captured the image in the moment, rather than in the darkroom after the fact. Walker Evans was a famous renowned American photographer who was known for his black and white images showing the impact of the Great Depression. However, Darren Harvey is a more modern artist, interested in the concept that photographs do not exist just to show things, but are physical things that become objects themselves. He used a load of different tools and the montaged tools become both beautiful and bizarre objects, in which a ratchet wrench is combined with a pair of pliers.

They both took photos with great meanings , looking carefully at the light and the structure of their objects and the way they structed their photos. They both work in the same area and both have earnt many awards for what they do.

I tried to impersonate theses artists images with my own work and here they are;

I used a different Varity of colours and tools to try make my photos vibrant. I was careful with how I placed the backgrounds and how I angled the tools. There are different tones to these photographs’.

In conclusion

I think that this photo shoot went well with all the colour and different styles of backgrounds, however I think I could’ve made the photos more clear and lit up the room more or even in light room. Although I do like the lay out and how you can move all the colours and pictures around.

Formalism

describes the position that is the most important aspect of a work of art in its natural form, the way it is made and its purely visual aspects rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the visible world and what we can see. For example, formalists within mathematics claim that mathematics is no more than the symbols written down by the mathematician on a piece of paper, which is based on logic and a few elementary rules alone.

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. A photograph without structure is useless.

  Formal and visual elements (such as line, shape, repetition, rhythm, balance etc.) are shared with other works of art. But photographs also have a specific grammar , such as flatness, frame, time, focus etc.

There are seven basic elements to photographic art that we must explore over the coming weeks:

1. Line
2. Shape
3. Form
4. Texture
5. Color
6. Size
7. Depth

Darren Harvey-Regan, Walker Evans –

Beauties of the common tool – 1955 photographs. This shows the softness and rough shapes to this photo. The tool seems to be quiet big because of the position and angel the camera was placed and how the photo was taken. The tone of this picture is quiet dark and there is a lot of back round space. The photo is in focus and has a cool temperature to it. This photograph could have a deeper meaning such as loneliness or fear as its quiet a dull photograph with a broken tool which could symbolise pain too.,  both artists paid careful attention to choice of objects, composition, lighting and exposure values.

Line in photography is the use of lines to create visual interest and convey a message in an image. Lines can be used to direct the viewer’s attention, create a sense of depth and can even be used to create a sense of movement.

Shape photography is the two-dimensional appearance of objects as your camera captures them. For instance, if you look at an image of a ball, you’ll find its shape as a circle. Likewise, if you look at a picture of a cube-shaped suitcase, you’ll find its shape like a square.

Form refers to when shape takes on three dimensions. Form is created by shadows and highlights on an object in the photograph. You can see in these two photos how shape becomes form when light hits the subject.

When talking about photography texture refers to the visual quality of the surface of an object, revealed through variances in shape, tone and color depth. Texture brings life and vibrance to images that would otherwise appear flat and uninspiring.

Red can mean danger, blue symbolizes calm, yellow is happy, black is mournful, white is innocent, and purple can symbolize wealth. Here, we will briefly discuss types of color in photographs. If you want to dive deeper into color theory, please enjoy Cory Rice’s fantastic article here.

The Basics:

Image Size is the term given to describe the height and width of an image in pixels. Maximum Image Size is determined by the megapixels of a given camera – for example, a 10-megapixel camera will give a maximum image size of 2592 by 3872 pixels.

In simplest terms, depth of field is how much of your image is in focus. In more technical terms, depth of field is the distance in an image where objects appear “acceptably in focus” or have a level of “acceptable sharpness

Steiglitz and Strand, “often abstracted reality by eliminating social or spatial context; by using viewpoints that flattened pictorial space, acknowledging the flatness of the picture plane; and by emphasising shape and tonal rendition in highlights and shadows as much as in the actual subject matter.”

A-level photography quiz

1: What is the etymology (origin & history) of the word photography?

Writing with light

2. What year was the first photograph made in camera made?

1826 (Joseph Nicéphore Niépce)

3. When did the first photograph of a human apear?

1838

4. who made the first selfie?

Robert cornelious (1839)

5.  When did the first colour photo appear

1861

6. what do we mean by the word genre?

A style or catogorey of art

7. What do we mean by the genre of still-life?

An image that shows inanimate objects from the natural or man-made world

8. What was the main purpose of the Pictorialist movement?

To affirm photography as an art form

9. How do we describe the term documentary photography?

Capture images that truthfully portray people, places and events. Staging images for maximum effect. Provide in-depth information about a subject over a long period time. An interpretation of reality as witnessed by the photographer

10. What is exposure in photography?

The amount of light that reaches your camera’s sensor.

11. What controls exposure on your camera?

Aperture, shutter speed, ISO.

12. What control on our camera records moving objects?

Shutter

13. How do we explain depth of field?

How much of your image is in focus.

14. What factors affect Depth of Field?

Lens aperture, distance from camera to subject, and lens focal length.

15. What is composition in photography?

The arrangement of visual elements within the frame.

16. What is your understanding of aesthetics in art?

Concerned with the nature of beauty and taste. It is subjective and in the eye of the beholder. Aesthetic qualities refer to the way and artwork looks and feels. Making a critical judgement based on observation and understanding.

17. What are contextual studies in photography?

To provide historial, cultural and theoterical understanding of images.

18. How many images are captured on average every day worldwide?

4.7 billion

19. Which portrait is the most reproduced in the world?

The Queen (Elizabeth II)

A-level photography quiz

1: What is the etymology (origin & history) of the word photography?

Writing with light

2. What year was the first photograph made in camera?

1826 (Joseph Nicéphore Niépce)

3. When did the first photograph of a human apear?

1838

4. who made the first selfie?

Robert cornelious (1839)

5.  When did the first colour photo appear

1861

6. what do we mean by the word genre?

A style or catogorey of art

7. What do we mean by the genre of still-life?

An image that shows inanimate objects from the natural or man-made world

8. What was the main purpose of the Pictorialist movement?

To affirm photography as an art form

9. How do we describe the term documentary photography?

Capture images that truthfully portray people, places and events. Staging images for maximum effect. Provide in-depth information about a subject over a long period time. An interpretation of reality as witnessed by the photographer

10. What is exposure in photography?

The amount of light that reaches your camera’s sensor.

11. What controls exposure on your camera?

Aperture, shutter speed, ISO.

12. What control on our camera records moving objects?

Shutter

13. How do we explain depth of field?

How much of your image is in focus.

14. What factors affect Depth of Field?

Lens aperture, distance from camera to subject, and lens focal length.

15. What is composition in photography?

The arrangement of visual elements within the frame.

16. What is your understanding of aesthetics in art?

Concerned with the nature of beauty and taste. It is subjective and in the eye of the beholder. Aesthetic qualities refer to the way and artwork looks and feels. Making a critical judgement based on observation and understanding.

17. What are contextual studies in photography?

To provide historial, cultural and theoterical understanding of images.

18. How many images are captured on average every day worldwide?

4.7 billion

19. Which portrait is the most reproduced in the world?

The Queen (Elizabeth II)