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Still Life Photography

  A2 Level Photography
       30/11/2011
Still Life Photography

Aim: Understand Still Life photography techniques and
   artists.


Learning Objectives

   To be aware of the principles underpinning composition.
   To understand the developments in the still life genre.
   Produce a series of still life photographs inspired from
    artist research.
Still Life Photography

Brainstorm:

Compile a list of Still Life photographers and
identify compositional techniques used.
Still Life Photography
Still Life Photography

Still Life images can be just about anything that
doesn't move. The definition of a still life subject is
an inanimate object but other subjects are loosely
termed as still life as well. These include flowers,
food, etc. They are life forms but they don't move.

Source:
http://www.schoolofphotography.com/courses/free-photography-tips-and-articles/19-still-life-photography.html
Still Life Photography
Composition


Composition, is a key element often used in still life photography, for
this reason we will highlight a range of compositional rules applied,
these rules are generic and can clearly be used in a wide range of
photography genres.
Still Life Photography
Composition


Composition, is a key element often used in still life photography, for
this reason we will highlight a range of compositional rules applied,
these rules are generic and can clearly be used in a wide range of
photography genres.
Still Life Photography




Identify the compositional technique used
Still Life Photography




Identify the compositional technique used
Still Life Photography




Identify the compositional technique used
Still Life Photography




Identify the compositional technique used
Still Life Photography




Identify the compositional technique used
Still Life Photography
Student task.

Construct two still life photographs.

Utilise studio lighting for one image and natural lighting for the second

Download images and edit in Photoshop

Consider compositional techniques in your photography.


Complete task and present by 05/12/2011
Still Life Photography
Henry Fox
Talbot


Photograms
Still Life Photography
Henry Fox
Talbot
Still Life Photography
Immogen
Cunningham




               Agave Design 1, 1920s
Still Life Photography
Immogen Cunningham


Starting in the 1920s, she began making sharply focused,
close up studies of plant life and unconventional views of
industrial structures and modern architecture. Concerned
with light, form, and abstract pattern, these photographs
established her as one of the pioneers of modernist
photography on the West Coast.
Still Life Photography
Immogen
Cunningham
Still Life Photography
Laura Letinsky


The still life genre is unavoidably a commentary on societys
material-mindedness and the way images promote a kind of promise
of attainability. I am not interested though in the allure of the meal
that awaits an unseen viewers consumption. Instead, I photograph
the remains of meals and its refuse so as to investigate the
relationships between ripeness and decay, delicacy and
awkwardness, control and haphazardness, waste and plenitude,
pleasure and sustenance. Throughout my long-term photographic
practice I wish to engage the photographs transformative qualities,
changing what is typically overlooked into something splendid in its
resilience. I want to look at what is after the fact, at what
(ma)lingers, at what persists, and by inference, at what is gone.
Still Life Photography
Laura letinsky
Still Life Photography
Laura letinsky
Still Life Photography
Edward Weston


it strikes me that what he actually did, more often than not,
was make the commonplace wondrous and beautiful. In
Weston's still lives, for instance, the tonal quality of his
black-and-white prints imbue everyday objects, both natural
and man-made, with a heightened presence that
sometimes makes them seem almost unreal. In his
journals, he wrote that his aim was to render "the very
substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it
be polished steel or palpitating flesh".

≒Sean O'Haganguardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 August 2010 16.49 BST
Still Life Photography
Edward Weston




                      Pepper, 1930 Edward Weston negative,
                      Cole Weston print
Still Life Photography
Edward Weston
Still Life Photography
Ori Gherst



 Pomegranate, 2006

 Using extremely high-speed cameras, Ori Gersht has recreated in the
 film Pomegranate a Renaissance like still life composition. Whereas
 such paintings attempted to preserve motionless moments frozen in
 time, Gershts compositions are obstructed by fast and violent
 intervention. In Pomegranate, a film that references Juan Sanchez
 Cotans 17th century still life and Harold Edgertons stroboscopic
 photography, a high velocity bullet flies across the frame in slow motion
 and obliterates a suspended pomegranate, bursts it into open and
 wheels it slowly in the air like a smashed violated mouth spraying
 seeds. This peaceful image transform into blood shade. In doing so the
 film establishes a dialogue between stillness and motion, peace and
 violence.
Still Life Photography
Pomegranite 2006.
Still Life Photography.
Zachary
Zavislak
Still Life Photography
Jonathon
Knowles
Still Life Photography
Jonathon
Knowles
Still Life Photography
Irving Penn




                        Cigarette 17 New York, 1972
Still Life Photography
Cigarette Butts and Sidewalk Debris


Not surprisingly, he concentrated on producing
photographs intended to be viewed as art. In 1975 the
Museum of Modern Art presented a small exhibition of his
recent work printed using the platinum process: a series of
greatly magnified images of cigarette butts, transformed
from gutter discards to near landmark status, and showing
Mr. Penns penchant for straying far from the politesse of his
fashion and portrait pictures. The cigarette butts were
followed by a series focused on other forms of sidewalk
debris,

                  Irving Penn, Fashion Photographer, Is Dead at 92. New York Times
                  ANDY GRUNDBERGPublished: October 8, 2009
Still Life Photography
Irving Penn




                   After-dinner GamesNew York, 1947
Still Life Photography
Macro lens


Macro photography is close-up photography of
usually very small subjects.
A macro lens literally opens up a whole
new world of photographic subject matter.
It can even cause one to think differently
about everyday objects. However, despite
these exciting possibilities
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials
/macro-lenses.htm
Still Life Photography
Macro lens

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