2/26/2018 0 Comments Photo 6 ~ Still LifeMeant to resemble advertisement photographs, still-lives are shot against a blank background with studio lighting. Any inanimate object can be utilized as a subject, so long as the photographer can make it pop on camera -- in capturing still-lives this weekend, that was my ultimate goal. Aperture: f 4.5 ISO: 1250 Shutter Speed: 1/60 Editing: cropped, upped the brightness/contrast, painted the background I expected this assignment to be similar to macro. In a technical sense, I was right: both types of photo worked well with a rapid shutter speed and a large aperture/small depth of field. In a second sense, however, I was wrong: macro and still- life are vastly different. Still-lives, for example, require a great deal more set-up. Since one isn't shooting up close, the back/foregrounds matter. My dad's wrinkled jacket and the pockmarked poster-board that I used were a chore during editing: increasing the photo's brightness made those flaws more evident, and I ended up having to conceal them with a black paintbrush tool. Additionally, still-lives simply weren't as interesting as macro shots were. Devoid of the details that a macro lens showcases, these inanimate objects seemed their ordinary selves.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
|