I do have a fondness for still life photography. It is sort of like painting, you have a blank canvas before you, that you build upon one object at a time until the final subject is completed.
Still life photography unlike other types of photography that we are all familiar with like street, landscape or flowers…in still life you control the creation of the image. You choose the subject, arrange it and light it anyway to your choosing. You really have complete control of the creative process. which is a reaffirmation of your composition and lighting skills…and can also be a learning process as you work through building the image.
In this series of still life images I have chosen to include books in a series of images. Because I am using other objects along with the book arrangements, it sometimes become questionable, is it the books or the accessory object that are the main subject? However, in this series of images it really doesn’t matter because the images are left to the viewer to decide what within the image draws their attention. I prefer to follow a minimal approach with not too many objects in the image. The main lighting for most of the images is early morning window light with sometimes a small handheld portable light to highlight an area, this combined with a black background to produce a Rembrandt style image.
Camera used SONY A7II…I can be contacted at nymacc@gmail.com for any inquiries about this post or past posts.
