STILL LIFE - MOLLY CRANNA

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STILL LIFE, Part 2 - Food

DIRECTIONS: Using your lightbox, choose FOOD as your subject matter. The food is your choice. Be clever and unexpected with the set-up and arrangement, and as with the first group of photos you made, vary the placement of your lights to create distinctly different shadow/highlight, angle, etc.

BEFORE STARTING:
Get inspired by conducting a "photography" search of food still life. Refine the search with "clever"/"modern"/"unusual"/"traditional"/"beautiful"/etc.
Also, peruse the links provided in previous posts.

A GREATER CHALLENGE:
How can you take something that you find/see, borrow from it, and then make it your own?

Florent Tanet

Carmen Mitrotta

A search for "photographic food still life" already done for you...CLICK HERE.
Louise Hagger.
Irving Penn.
Jenny van Sommers.
William Mullan.

PROJECT #7: REFLECTOR LIGHTING PORTRAITS

REFLECTOR PORTRAITS IN CLASS:
1. Make 18 images of a partner - each with a different quality/color/direction of light illuminating their face using the reflectors.
2. Be mindful of, and very intentional with, the angle of the highlights & shadows for each image.  
3. Photograph your subject in THREE different locations. 
4. For each location, make a couple photographs WITHOUT using the reflector. 

*For the daytime images, your highlights & shadows are likely to be significantly more subtle than the photos you will make with your subject at home. 

The Reflectors:

WHITE: Provides neutral soft-fill reflection
SILVER: Similar to white, but reflects higher contrast light
GOLD: Reflects warmer light for enhanced skin tone in neutral or cool light situations
BLACK: Blocks unwanted reflections and kills light spill 

NOTE: When making your photographs, the reflector should be moved to different locations and angles above, below, and to the sides of your subject's face.