one of the briefs set at my university (Cumbria) was to produce 2 A3 prints of a portrait and a still life concept. the still life object could not be bigger than a football and had to be taken in the proper lighting photography studio, and the portrait had to be of a stranger - also in the studio.
i loved researching the still life concept, i have always loved the colours of flower petals and how vibrant they are and how they contrast with white backgrounds so i realised they would look great for this brief.
the concept i wanted to portray for still life was the scientific side of flowers, rather than the aesthetic appearance of them. i deconstructed the intricate structures of the flowers and laid them out neatly into rows, making the composition of each image very tight and a focal point as a whole, rather than one feature of several.
this was my set-up! i was stood on a very un-sturdy stepladder while i photographed each flower - safe to say i felt like i could have fell forward and destroyed the still life studio!
with a bit of post-production, here are my end results.
overall, i absolutely love the way they have turned out. even though we only had to produce 1 A3 print, i decided to print 4 because i just couldn't choose one of them! i think they work fantastically as a set of photographs.
next post will be some photos from my portrait shoot! :)
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