Still Life Final Picks and Reflection

For my still life photos, I wanted to avoid cliches and find a way to make the ordinary appear extraordinary.  I also had to do something different from my last project, so pictures of plants were a no-go.  At first, I thought I wanted to just take pictures of different arrangements of hair, because I like images that are a little grotesque and "grungy", but it was very hard to take focused pictures of hair with my camera.  I also found most of the focused ones I did take rather boring.  The one I did really like was the "Get over it" picture shown here, which was created using scotch tape and my hair. For the other photos, I found white objects (including paper, which I crumpled to form crevices and planes that light would hit in contrasting ways) with the intention of creating black and white photos with odd shapes, textures, and shadows.  The results are surreal and I'm happy with them, although there are some I definitely prefer over others.  My favorites are the top photo and the "Get over it" photo.

Still Life Contact Sheets

Egg Abstraction Contact Sheets

Flaneur Contacts

Flaneur Part 1- Photos at Night

Kingsbury Scavenger Hunt

Color Theory

     First of all, a primary color is a color that can be mixed with other colors to form other colors, but that cannot be created by mixing any other colors together.  When mixing paints, for example, one can form green by mixing blue and yellow, but cannot form blue by mixing any other colors, so blue is a primary.  A secondary color is a color mixed from an equal amount of two primaries, so for example, a green mixed from 50% blue and 50% yellow.  A tertiary color is mixed from two thirds of one primary and one third of another, so that could be a green that was more blue than yellow, or vice versa.

     My contact sheet:

     I chose yellow for this assignment.  Yellow was my favorite color as a child, but I've always thought all colors have some aesthetic value, so I think favoring it wasn't really about what the color actually looks like.  I think it was my favorite because I didn't know many other people who picked it as their favorite color, and I always wanted to be original.  That's true even today, even though I wouldn't necessarily still pick yellow as my favorite color, so I see yellow as symbolic of originality as well as symbolic of a connection I still have to my childhood self.