Month: October 2017

Within our photography workshops we took everyday objects and created beautiful but wacky images.

We started with a plastic block of cheese with plastic flowers and used inspiration from Dutch paintings with the dark lighting/background including interesting use of shadows. We then started using reflective disk and flagging to create a more interesting, fully lit image, with an extremely dark background to give an illusion of floating, more prominent in the second image.

Our second idea was to use a worn and old funnel to act as a vase for a plastic flower being brightly lit from ninety degrees which casts a shadow on the right hand side of the funnel.

For this project we worked in groups. I worked with Jennie Hawkes and Jen Dennison.

My image

This image is my favourite one that I took as part of the ‘appropriation’ title we were given. I think I like this one the most because of the slightly abstract interpretation of the title, not including any faces or people, and instead focused on the branding and furthermore creating a Parisian-looking image. This image also could have been taken within the 60’s, with the vintage-looking sign by the door.

What I also like about this image within the ‘appropriation’ context is the reflection of the Carluccio’s sign within the glass, representing two companies within this photo.

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Image found on the hashtag

This image was one of my favourites from the Instagram hashtag #ULimagesinthewild. I like the idea of cropping the image out of its original context to create another one. It makes the viewer consider why the girl is there/ what she is doing.

Therefore this makes it a thought-provoking image as we question what is happening and even what the original advert was of.  Having the image in black and white further makes it a stylish image, one which could be a poster within itself.