
Category Archives: Still Life

Composer Pro Play
I took my Lens Baby Composer Pro out for a spin this week and here are the results:
Categories: Australia, B&W, Black and White, Camera, Experiment, Landscape Photography, Lens Baby Composer Pro, Miniature, Monochrome, Motion, movement, Photographic Styles, Photography, Still Life, Tilt-shift Lense

Max Dupain Sunbaker
This is my submission for our task 2 assignment. I have selected Max Dupain to shoot an ‘in the style of’ series. Dupain shot ‘Sunbaker’ in 1937 stating: “It was a simple affair. We were camping down the south coast and one of my friends leapt out of the surf and slammed down onto the beach to have a sunbake – marvellous. We made the image and it’s been around, I suppose as a sort of icon of the Australian […]
Categories: Australia, B&W, Black and White, Coogee, Experiment, Historical, Lighting Styles, Max Dupain, Monochrome, Photographers, Photographic Styles, Photography, Still Life, Sydney

More on Modernism
So this week I was going to concentrate on replicating a still life by Edward Weston for another take on Modernism. I purchased some peppers from my local markets which has some different tones in the skin. Unfortunately I chose bright red peppers with green stalks. After photographing them it dawned on me that red and green are not the monochromatic photographer’s best friend. This process is about experimentation and with all experimental processes there are failures. This experiment is […]
Categories: B&W, Black and White, Edward Weston, Epic Fail, Experiment, Modernism, Photographers, Photography, Still Life, Straight Photography