“Found Objects”:
– Triptych of images
– New context
– Controlled setting
To find my objects I decided to search charity shops in Lincoln; I was looking in particular at shapes and colours, as this is what I had taken from experimentation in workshops. I came away with a selection of books, time pieces and vases. Whilst the other objects were difficult to compose, I enjoyed working with the vases I had found.
Initial images:
Edward Weston’s Pepper series looks into shapes and curves in objects and in people. We were shown his work in a lecture and I decided that I wanted to keep in mind his way of looking at objects in my own work.
In addition to this, i tried to edit an initial image to emulate his work however the colours were not vivid enough and a black background would have helped create a more impactful image.
This example is more successful as I took an already dark and more complex image and thus I was more able to emulate Weston’s style here.
1. I first attempted to photograph the vases in a makeshift home studio with white art paper, bathroom spotlights and then natural light. This went well and made for some interesting shadows, and with editing this image looks better than expected.
2. The bathroom lighting made using the camera settings more difficult and this gave way to some interesting accidents. This image has a purple hue to it, an accident that compliments the colour of the vase however I felt the vase still looked washed out. This could, however, have been rectified with careful editing.
I then took the vases into the photography studio. I took inspiration from Haim Steinbach and used a white background and a wooden block as a base. Whilst playing around with the camera and with lighting, I took this image. Whilst the white balance and many other things are incorrect at this point, the colour of the background complements the other elements of this photograph and the light leaves an interesting reflection on the vase itself.