Generating Idea - Still Life

Harold Edgerton

Still life is mainly a product things that don't move and used for advertising.
This challenges the perspectives of still life because it isn't just a product just sat there doing nothing it also has something going on. It adds more to the photograph and makes it more interesting. This also adds movement to he photograph which contradicts the fact it's still life. A normal still life photograph would involve an object(s) being placed in a way that makes them look more appealing with high key lighting to make it look more clean or the opposite way depending on the object, this makes more people want the product which is why still life is great for avertisng. Edgerton challenges this by not only creating movemen but a lot of shadowing is visable making t look less appealing. This is also considered more art than photography because you are posing the photograph and creating somethingdifferent and more intersting.


David Lachapelle





I really like some things about this photograph like it's all very vibrant colours and that with the sentiment of wanting someone to get better that adds to it. I don't like some aspects of this like the background, I feel like it takes away from the rest of the photograph. I like the way there's a bit of juxtaposition with the food as well as the balloons and there's a random little plane at the bottom right hand corner, this challenges the idea of a normal still life photograph. Also the American flag being on fire makes you think what the actual meaning of the photograph is.










I took this photograph in the studio and I do really like it but it doesn't challenge what still life photography is. I like how it is very clean and could advertise the jewelry real well, I wasn't able to think of many ways to challenge these perspectives with the facilities I had without having to spending a lot of money.

Project Plan

 In this Brief we have to challenge the rules and perspectives of, portraits, still life or landscape photography. I will need to do some research on some photographers that also challenge normal forms of photography. I think I will aim to do portraiture which I am a bit more comfortable with doing, I will try and get some different angles and maybe not even get a face in the photograph, because that is still a portrait. I think it would be a bit more difficult to get something a lot more different with landscape because you can't control it, there are only so many things that you can do to make it any different from other landscape photographs. I also think still life could be difficult because there are so many things you can photograph and in a lot of different ways that it could end up being boring or too confusing.

I plan to have my model in a field so there is almost a landscape background, using Sanna Berger as my influence I will be taking awkward pictures of my model. I will only be photographing part of her body, also she will be in all black to make it look I may also have my model have

Generating Ideas - Portraiture

We were asked to go out and see what portraits we could achieve that were unconventional and different. We needed to make sure they were fresh, unique and that challenged normal portraiture. We used a lot of different techniques like shadows and reflections or even just body parts because they all count as portraits.
I happened to choose catching people off guard while they were evaluating something they have just done like listening to their music and looking at a photograph. I think this captures how they react to the photograph and that it shows them as natural as possible doing something they like to do.

I like this photograph because it wouldn't be considered 'proffesional', but then you also have a very professional aspect of the photograph with the camera on a tripod in the corner. Almost creating some juxtaposition.

With this photograph I like how I was able to get the colours to come out very bright but not overexposed, also you can see that they are analysing a photo they have just taken. I think this challenges normal portraits in that we can't see / hear what they're analysing it's almost a mystery.

I like this because I took it while he was listening to some music he had just recorded  and seeing if he liked it or had to do it again.