PH1300 - Introduction to Photography Practice: Part 6 - Still life.

For this project I had to take several still life shots of indoor houses, the idea being to capture the life of the person in a single frame. My idea was to take a picture of light switches and part of the wall around them to show contrast between the light switch and the wall, I believe the wall paper, colour and wall reflect the person, their tastes and style.





This first one is from a friends home, on the bottom of their staircase. When I saw the white line running along the red and then the light switch in sliver and black I had a good feeling. It shows a solid mix of colours and textures, the white pain some what splattering into the red and leaving lines going upwards, the texture being like a woo dish or pain covered canvas. The light switch with a solid silver square with two black switches in the centre, I think personally it's an enjoyable piece but it could have been better, maybe using a better contrast and angel, perhaps with some editing I can bring out it's full potential.



For this second one, I took it in another friends bathroom, the plastic walls with a marble pattern. I like this one because it has a clean look, with a bright white light switch which casts a slight shadow, giving it some more depth. The walls have a clean look as well and has thin pinkish lines that almost look like cracks. I myself am quite a fan of the ways the lines lead up to the light switch in some senses, however I do also think this one could do with improvements, such as better lighting and better visuals on the it, I should have took the shot at a time with more light but I am over all happy how this one turned out.

This one is quite an odd one to talk about, I will admit I was slightly rushed with this one as I could not get a shot I wanted the time I was there and I had to leave before I got exactly what I was after. But! I do like this one for some little reasons, mainly due to textures in the wall, my friend is currently in the process of redecorating his home and I found it a good time, the ripped of paper and cracked wall give a real interesting visual look at ageing, if one where to view it from the wallpaper to the darker wall it looks as if it decays. However I personally believe this could be much better, a more straight shot, better lighting and a correct white balance would fix many of the problems I have with it, however I also think that I could have framed this better, having more of the focus being on the light switch, if I get chance I will reshoot this and post the end result of it.

Now this final one is my personal favourite of the four, I find this one to be the most clean, strong and visually pleasing. For started the light switch on the left (The bright blue one) is extremely different from all the others and is on quite an bland background, further enchaining the look of it to make it more noticeable and the main feature of this, however your eyes gently glide along the picture to the switch on the right which is blurred out slightly and blurry, which is fine as it is not the main focus, however it being there adds to it I think over all, as it looks far more plain, boring and simple than the other so this yet again, boosts the looks of the blue! I can't think of to many improvements of this one personally, however I would like to play around with this in lightroom to bring out more details in the image and increase the sharpness without ruining it.



My overall thoughts of this project.

I overall enjoyed this project, I only wished I was not behind with work at the time so I got more time to focus on this rather than writing but I would do this again given the option to do so, I enjoy working with still life images as I get to fully control everything without the aid of others and the object does not make objections to my ideas and plans.