Work Diary - Shoot 11

Evaluation

This session went extremely successful. I created one photograph from a studio shoot and the other photograph from a home shoot. The studio shoot was my favourite with the starbursts because the colour is extremely eye catching and colourful. The other two images also went successfully because the concept of the falling biscuits and exploding berries worked really well. I enjoyed this shoot and I liked the three whacky outcomes. I will continue to create images like I did during this shoot because the surreal theme in my project is exceptionally enjoyable for me to do. Using the studio lights was definitely effective because this allowed the detail on the sweet packet and sweets to stand out. If I was to shoot the other two photographs in the studio, the quality of them may look improved, however they came out effectively as they are anyway so I am very pleased with shoot 11.

This was the most successful creation that came from shoot 11. This overall photograph has been created with a variety of different images. I took individual pictures of the hand holding the sweets, the sweet packet, and the individual sweets on their own. I cut around these pieces and placed them into this frame, where I created the illusion of the starbursts falling out from the packet and piling up neatly into my models hand. I like this concept of falling sweets which is what I developed from my previous image of falling books.

In my opinion, this was the least successful photograph of the shoot. My reasons for this are because of the overall composition. I originally had a photograph of a bowl of fruit and yoghurt with a glass of smoothie next to it, with berries all added in to the image. I placed these around the top of the bowl to make it look as though they were exploding from it, however this wasn't very successful. It doesn't come across as an explosion, more so just berries floating around the frame. I did add some shadows to make these fruits look more three dimensional and realistic, however perhaps if they were a little more squashed, or the yoghurt was exploding aswell then it would have looked more complete and effective. 

Progression

After being inspired by Christopher Boffoli in creating photographs with added characters, I have decided after this shoot of food and sweets that I'd like to now add people to these already surreal styled photographs. I will be using my family and maybe some friends in some others to include in some of my food landscapes. In order to create the most imaginative and entertaining food landscapes I will do set ups of attractive crockery and food so that the overall images don't come out looking ugly and unprofessional. Below are a couple of inspiring photographs that I have found on the internet to inspire my shoot that I will do on Sunday, along with some photographs from my photographer research post on Christopher to also influence this shoot.