Fine Art..

10/01/09 - Hungover and stuck in the house because of the rain i thought i would do some more fine art type photography.

My original idea was to have a wooden chopping board and an apple cropped to a square image and put into black and white. After a while of shooting i wasn't getting what i wanted and replaced with apple with a pair of scissors, something i have shot before in a similar manner. I decided to add a ball of string to give the shot more points of interest. I got the shot i wanted, but didn't like the ball of string, so it was back to the drawing board.

Eventually i though of cutting string and placing it next to the scissors and BINGO! it creates a nice balance and its exactly what i was looking for.

I used a small desk lamp to light the subject, to make the light a little softer i had the lamp facing away from the subject and held white paper in front of the light to reflect it. I had a bit of hassle trying to photograph and hold the paper but i guess thats just another great element of being a photographer.




1 - This is the camera on the tripod after i removed the centre column and put it in upside down. This allows me to have the camera facing directly down to the floor.

2 - This is the subject, sitting on a stool, there is about a 1 foot gap between the subject and the camera.

3 - This is the desk lamp facing away from the camera and subject. When shooting the image i had the other lights in the room turned off allowing me to control the lighting on the subject.

4 - This shows where i held the paper to reflect back onto the subject.

Looking through my camera on Live Mode;