While doing this still life, I tried many things. First, I just grabbed a few coffee beans and chocolate chips and dropped them in the box that I set up as my stage. Next, I took different angled pictures on the first scene before moving my objects. Then, I stood up all the chocolate chips and flipped over all the coffee beans. I then took pictures at different angles of the positioning of these objects. In the end, I liked the look of all the chocolate chips standing and the coffee beans flipped over.
"Texture Treat"
(No filter)
(Fresco)
(Neon Glow)
(Film Grain)
For this still life, I was out of ideas. I saw our fruit bowl in the kitchen and I decided to use some of the fruit in it. I chose two bananas and two avocados to take pictures of. I positioned them nice and neat to start off. Then, from different angles, I took pictures of the first set up. Again, I repositioned them to my liking and really focused on getting close ups. The texture of the fruit was really what I wanted to capture.
"Daytime Drive"
(No filter)
(Palette Knife)
(Paint Daubs)
(Plastic Wrap)
Car keys are fun to play with and interesting to take pictures of. I went into our key drawer and grabbed some car keys. At first I thought I would need lots of keys to make this work, but it worked just as well with only two sets of car keys. I placed them nicely and tried to not overlap the key and the car's control button. The finding a different element to focus on, I found all the angles I needed.
"Paper Music"
(No filter)
(Rough Pastels)
(Poster Edges)
(Smudge Stick)
Recently, my brother did a TEDx talk about diving deep into your passions. One of his many passions throughout the years was and still is origami. I saw the box of it sitting out and remembered him showing me a really cool accordion thing that he had folded. I took out a few of them and got to work. I positioned them found my angles, adjusted the lighting, and so on. In the end, I was glad I chose these as an object because they really do a good job showcasing my brother and his beliefs.
"Butter Shoes"
(No filter)
(Sponge)
(Underpainting)
(Watercolor)
Lastly, the shoes. These are butter knifes, actually. I originally was going to take pictures of traditional silverware, but then I saw all our fancy dishing spoons and forks. Next to those were these butter knives. I grabbed a few of them and started to attempt positioning them. At first, it took me a while to get them to balance standing up like a shoe does. Eventually, I got them all to stand and quickly snapped a few pictures before they began to tip over.