I have chosen to photograph flowers for the
still life part of the brief, purely because I like them and I wanted to try
shooting them in the studio, as still life isn’t something I necessarily enjoy
doing, so I thought if I photograph something I like, it might make it a bit
more enjoyable.
Wolfgang Tilman once said “I want a picture
to look the way I see things” and I can relate to that within my own work.
Because that is how I want to photograph not just the flowers but everything I
take photographs of. Whilst photographing the flowers I want to try and keep it
as natural as possible, with still using the controlled lighting the brief
requires. However, with trying to keep it as natural as possible I am also
going to decontextualize my flowers, having them on a softly lit white
background.
I have chosen to shoot this way because of
my artist research. Most of the photographers I have seen shoot on a white
backdrop, that has been lit from underneath as well as around the flowers. Such
photographers include Carole Sharpe and Irving Penn.
After this lecture I am also going
to look at Nick Knight, Karl Blossfeldt and Richard Foster to further my
research and back up the shoots I have done and I am planning to do in the
future. Pablo Picasso once said
“There is no abstract art, you must always start with something afterward you
can remove all trace of reality” I guess this applies to anything within the
art subject not just abstract art, because to make anything you have to start
with something and mould it into what you want it to be. This is how I plan to
approach the still life brief, much like in Pablo Picasso words I am going to
start with something and then make it my own from that, in the hopes that I
will make some pretty decent still life flower images along the way.
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