Still life task - food

 -   A still life is commonly objects which may be either natural (food,

flowers,plants,rocks or shells) or man - made (drinking glasses,books,vases,jewelry,coins,pipes and so on). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art, still life paintings give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscapes and portraiture. 

MARTIN PARR

This was the example given to us on the blog and i have taken a photo similar to this. I wanted something yummy and colourful to photograph! I like the bright colours in the background and on the cake, it makes the image very crazy and interesting. This is a very simple photo as it's just a cake placed on a menu but it works effectively due to the bright colours. One selection of things he photographs is British food from doughnuts to sausages all following colour as a pattern. 

This is the photo i took following the same theme as Martin Parr's. I have picked out a smaller aspect of colour in my image so there's a slight difference between them so i haven't done exactly the same photo. I went to the market and found a small cupcake stall and all the cakes were homemade and looked delicious! When being asked to photograph food i automatically think of cakes,sweets and chocolate as you can get some really colourful looking images!! 

Definition of still life

Spot the difference task

My image

Tony Howell

We had to do a task called spot the difference where we had to choose a photographer who's work we liked and create an image with similarities to theirs. I chose Tony Howell's abstract images because it was something different and i don't usually do abstract photography. 

To create my image i took a photo of a water fountain in my back garden and simply zoomed in loads, edited the brightness and contrast and cropped it into a square. I really like my photo because i think i have captured the detail well and i love how the water droplets have a sparkle and glisten to them! The only main big difference in these two photos is Tony Howell has focused on 2 single droplets of water and i have focused on more. There are some droplets on the outer side of the fountain that have a very similar shape and colour to Howell's. I could of created the exact style by simply focusing on a small number of water droplets but it may of slightly pixelated and lost the detail as i would of had to zoom in so much and i used a standard lens not macro. This was an image that i took in my spare time and i thought it related a lot to this task so i decided to use it.