Ideas for project #1
When I first started shooting for this project I didn’t really have any specific ideas for subject matter, so I tried photographing different objects up close to see how that changed their appearance. I realized that the thing that I enjoyed playing with the most was light and how it can emphasize or hide different parts of an object. I also really like how you can obscure an image by getting really close to it, so that it is not immediately apparent to the viewer what exactly the object in the picture is.
When I was searching for pictures by other photographers to use as inspiration I was fascinated by the idea of taking close-up’s of people, but of body parts other than their face. So I used that I idea for my project and found it really interesting. My main inspiration was Martin Parr.
I chose to work in color because it gave me many different possibilities when I was working with different kinds of light. Also, it was nice to have color photos when editing the pictures in PhotoShop because there are so many different ways you can alter the colors and that can really change the overall image.
The majority of my pictures were not staged. However, after taking pictures of various items that I then decided to use, I moved them around to get the lighting that I wanted, and I removed any “background noise” that might disturb the image that I was after.
