Still Life

For the still life project I am combining two concepts into one. I am taking one theme of color blocking and using sharp colors and lines to bring all the photos into unison. In addition to this I will be creating diptychs comparing beginnings/endings or before/after. For example, I will take an ice-cream cone and show on one side the full ice cream cone, and then show it melted on the other. Another example would be a sprout of a plant and then on the other side a dead plant. I will do this while implementing that color scheme as said before.

Color scheme: 
Concept: but in the form of a diptych

Still Life

For this upcoming project I wanted to photograph food with ordinary objects.  I want to shoot all my photos in studio to give my images a very clean look. I also want to shoot on very colorful backgrounds to make my images pop.

Still life

For my still life project, I want to do a messy concept. I want to take pictures of food and objects that are meant to be clean and perfect and make them messy. I think that this will show my personality in the way that I am a person with many quirky little facets. Still life is originally clean and perfect but I want to put a twist on this and do something totally different. I want people to look at my pictures for this project and feel a certain mood.

In my still life project I would like to show the creativity of the human mind. I want to stretch the limits and see where people can go when there are limited restrictions. I was inspired by how Laura Letisnky makes photos of spaces that have been used by people. They leave their marks whether they mean to or not and every person is different. I plan to give people common items and have them make something and see where they go and then photograph the results.

Still Life

Still Life Project Artist Statement
For my still life project, I plan on taking pictures of what a garage looks like, without changing anything for the shot. Every garage is different. The amount of light, organization, age, level of care, are all different and can provide many different images. For in studio work, I was planning on taking some of the items from garages create scenes using said objects.

Part 2 Still Life

For this still life project I would like to put a twist on the objects that would make people happy and still using the same object, make it sad or disappointing. Like a kid at his/her birthday party but there is no one there to celebrate or no presents. My goal for this project is for the photos to make people appreciate the little and big things and factors in their life that add up to a happy life. Also I would like to make people realize how different their lives would be if the things that make them happy were shattered or gone. All the good moments and things in life  should be cherished and to convey this fact to people is the main goal of these photos.

Still-Life Project

For my still-life project, I want to go with the theme of oddities. For example, I want to combine items you wouldn't normally combine together, such as putting skittles in seltzer water, or a hairbrush with spaghetti. I chose this theme after much consideration because it is much different than the themes I usually choose to do.

food still life

I think that this photo represents my theme for the food still life the best. My theme for it is to represent the typical family dinner for my family. My mom normally makes something and I make the desert. I actually really like the way the depth perception is and how the cookies fade out. Plus the cookies look delicious and they definitely were.

Food still life

 My photos convey how breakfast is made and how messy it is. Life isn't supposed to be clean and perfect and I decided to show this in my picture. This picture, also, shows the fun of making food with your family on a Saturday morning. It shows the homey part of life and family as well. It shows the natural part of life and the little things that matter the most.

still life

           In letinsky's photos, she poses many of her photos after dutch paintings. Also in her images she does not pose them cleanly, but usually showing the after effect of a meal. So this image is my best image best it encompasses all of the things that letinsky does in her images. The sheet that the food is on is not clean and is wrinkled just like the sheets that she has in her images. It also shows the aftermath of someone eating the food, which is the same as letinsky's images.  

Artist statement for still life project:
          For this photo project, I want to shoot images of fishing lures that have water drops on them. I have been enthralled by images of fishing lures that are clean and crisp that look like they had just come out of the water. I also want to shoot fishing lures because for many years I have loved to fish and I enjoy taking images of the lures. I want to shoot all of the images in the shallow depth of field so that the objects are cleanly focused on. For the outside images, I want to shoot the fishing lures on surfaces that compliment the lures colors. For the instudio images, I want to shoot the fishing lures on the black background and I want to play with the shadow that the lights creates on the fishing lures.

still life

For my still life project, I wanted to do something personal. I recently pulled a lot of my childhood books, toys ect from out of the storage unit. I'm currently redoing my room and moving stuff into that storage unit, that's what originally gave me the idea. I somehow still have the first set of makeup that I got, and my first pair of glasses. I plan on using those as well as stuff that I made while I was in elementary school and summer camp. I somehow still have boxes of old horse figurines and a pair of roller blades that I plan to use. I want this to be pretty personal and for all of my photos to have a story behind them.

Food Still Life Artist Statement

I am a firm believer of eating natural fruits. I am against the typical farmer's procedure of spraying the fruits on his/her farm with pesticides. As a little girl I lived on a farm with 62 angus beef cows and wild blackberry bushes growing sporadically around the farm. I would sit on the back of my dads tractor with a pale in my lap and pick the blackberries directly off the bush and pop them in my mouth-there was no need for pesticides. There was and still is not anything like eating fresh ripened fruits-I know from experience.  In my photos I want to convey the beauty of natural fruits and the bold flavor they have before being shipped to the grocery store.

Still life project

For this project, I wanted to explore how lines look when warped in glass.  I like how some of these paintings are monochromatic and some of the paintings use the colors that are opposite of the color wheel.

Still Life

This is my favorite still life so far as I like the simplicity and the detail of the water.  

For this project I want to incorporate shapes and how everything can fit together.  Clean lines, simple, crisp colors, and various shapes all will come together in one space.  I want to play with perspective and shapes to create a simple, beautiful image.

still life- Laura letinsky

Laura Letinsky emphasizes finding a balance.  She does this through photographing the aftermath of a meal.  In her photos, she leaves room for imagination explicate what happened.  In my photo, I wanted to replicate this.  I attempted this by making the apples look like they were about to fall.

Still life

   Just like Letinsky my photos are simple but have a strong meaning behind them. This Photo I feel is my best because out of the two photos I have in my folder so far this one speaks to me the most. This photo also gets my point of shooting this series, to show how even the small things in life for you is a big for someone else. I feel like this series I am shooting brings me closer to god because i am more and more thankful for what he has given me. I like the potential all of my photos have to be if i can make these photos as powerful as i want.
   This photo is a very healthy and simple breakfast, some who are not as fortunate as me don't get to wake up and eat a good breakfast, instead they either have empty stomachs or eat poor nasty food. Although it's not my favorite food I remember there is always someone who would kill to have just a taste of what i have to eat. I want my audience to feel sympathy and want to help the less fortunate because when it comes to realizing you have what others would kill to have you would want to help.

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For this project i am going to expand off of my egg project from last year. I am going to expand on the idea of floating. I also want to  use all types of eggs shapes, colors, sizes.

still life

Out of my two photos I think this one is my best because it shows a less luxurious way of consuming food which is more common for me personally. I like the framing of this photo as well as it showing the stress of homework and home some good old nilla wafers can help with that stress.

For my final still life project as of right now I'm thinking about taking pictures of eaten food that has been eaten in a unusual way. For example I would take a picture of a kit-kat bar that has been bitten from rather than the traditional way of eating it. I want to do this theme because I like this whole idea of a nicely setup picture with a not so nice food object. I feel that this concept could make the audience a little uncomfortable and worrying about the mysterious person that has eaten the food in such unusual ways.

mo's still life

For this project I want to wok with clean lines and simple ideas.  Rather than a still life full with things going on, I want to take a simple conceptual approach.  I want the viewer to get the most the can out of an image that is pastel and bright colors.  Also I want to include a lot of fruits :)

still life

For the still life project I am going to shoot things that are similar to the dutch painter that recreated shapes by using different materials. I want to create a pattern by using food. I want this project to be very clean with strong lines and a clean background. I to transform the food into looking like something else, like wallpaper