Still Life
Sam Kaplan
Sam Kaplan, New York City based still-life photographer.
Sam Kaplan was born and raised in Boston, MA. He received a B.A. from Wesleyan University, that most liberal of liberal arts colleges. Sam studied both conceptual sculpture and traditional photography.
Through photography Sam is able to exercise his two favorite skills – creative problem solving and conceptual thinking. He lives in New York City with his wife, Laura, and hundreds of heavy books.
Studio photographer Sam Kaplan pushes the limits of still life, one painstaking millimeter at a time.
The challenge for a product photographer like Sam Kaplan is to create an engaging image from objects that are seen almost every single day.
The first picture is of a light bulb. If you look closely there are silver small spikes covering the whole bulb so you cant see the inside of the light bulb.
The second picture is of a cola bottle by the looks of it, as for this picture the bottle is covered in red little spikes which go all the way around the bottle.
I like how its been kept to one colour of spikes on the objects instead of more than one colour its very basic and simple which I like as it doesn't look too overdone.
The background of the image is the same colour as the gems on the bulb and bottle. I think having the gems on the bulb and bottle bring the object forward and stand out more.
There is a clear focal point to the pictures which is the objects as there is nothing else in the pictures its plain and all kept to one colour.
I like this picture as its different and I think it is creative.
Jenny van Sommers
Jenny Van Sommers is an award winning still life photographer. Van Sommers was awarded the Golden Lion at Cannes for her work with Stella Artois.
Jenny van Sommers lives and works in SE1 in London with frequent visits to the US and France. Editorial clients include Another Magazine, Dazed, and Vogue. Advertising clients include Apple, Audi, Hermes, and Nike. Her favourite artists include George Condo, Kurt Schwitters and Sarah Lucas.
This picture is from Jenny Van Sommers. The picture is of a perfume bottle with rope of some sort wrapped around the bottle which I think adds more to the picture and gives you something more to look at.
I think having a basic simple background makes the object stand out more making it the clear focal point.
I think taking pictures of a bottle with 2 different lighting variations will look nice because I can highlight and create shadows with the different variations.
I like the idea of doing perfume bottles as there are loads of different colours/shapes of perfume bottles.
This is my final image for still life.
The picture is of a perfume bottle called little black dress.
I decided to use a Little black dress bottle as it has minimal detail and its a plain simple bottle compared to the other bottle. For this image I placed it in a lighting cube tent as there had to be a white background so I thought this would work well. I placed the tent on a table and a soft box to the right and left of the tent and placed the perfume bottle in the middle before taking the picture the bottle was shaken and then placed in the tent then I took the picture this is why the liquid is slightly raised on the left side of the bottle compared to the right side and why there are bubbles showing at the top of the perfume. You cant see it clearly because there is a white background and the liquid in the bottle is transparent but it wasn't just a line of bubbles at the top of the bottle the bubbles went all down the bottle but it just isn't clear in the picture. I decided to shake the bottle up to add a bit more to the picture and so there's more to see as its just a plain perfume bottle.
The camera I used to do this was a Canon EOS 650D. The F-stop for this image was F/5.6, Exposure 1/400, ISO - 1600, Focal length 46mm and there was no flash on the camera as the tent was lit up by the soft boxes surrounding the tent.
I did Photoshop this picture at first I cropped the photo down to get rid of the unnecessary parts which was just the white background as all I wanted was the bottle. I used the spot healing tool to get rid of some blue stain which was left in the tent and I then brightened the picture to make the background more white and make the bottle stand out more. I couldn't brighten the picture too much as the bottle is see through so I needed to make sure the bottle shape was clear as it almost blends in with the white background.
For my second still life image I used a bottle with more things on it and took the picture from a different angle as I didn't want the two photos to look the exact same as I think that'd look quite boring. So for this picture I think the main focal point would be the top of the bottle's there's a pump and lace which catches the eye. I think the pink pump really stands out as its the only burst of colour in the picture.With the background being white and the bottle being black this brings the bottle more forward and makes it stand out more. I like how the top of the bottle has been nicely lit as the silver just really stands out as its that shiny.
If you look closely you can see the dust that's been building up on the top of the black bottle. I didn't shake this bottle up or anything as I think the bottle looked fine the way it was and I wanted to capture the beauty of the bottle. I'm happy with the way my shoot went for this bottle I got shots from loads of different angles and I like how two completely different bottles have been used.
The camera I used to do this was a Canon EOS 650D. The F-stop for this image was F/5.6, Exposure 1/320, ISO - 1600, Focal length 34mm and there was no flash on the camera as the tent was lit up by the soft boxes surrounding the tent. For this shoot I put a light to the left right and back of the tent so the whole tent was lit up more as the bottle was black and I thought it'd make the bottle stand out more.
At first I cropped the photo down to get rid of the unnecessary parts which was just the white background as all I wanted was the bottle. I used the spot healing tool to get rid of some blue stain which was left in the tent and I then brightened the picture to make the background more white and make the bottle stand out more. When I brightened the picture it made the top of the bottle really stand out with the pink pump being more brighter and you could see through the lace more than before the picture was photo shopped.
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