Creative Still Life

Still life photography is a simple method of helping you to improve your creative eye. Still life images have a appealing feature, whether it is the shape, color or presentation that makes them stand out.  They present a way of testing you as an artist in presenting ordinary things you might find in your environment in an interesting and possibly new style of looking at the object.  I have always found it a challenge to present one item and contrast with another in the same image, such as opposite shapes.   All of the images presented here are shot using very simple setups and window light.

All of the images above were shot with a Sony 7AII camera…the image below (with Nikon in its place) shows a basic still life set up used with window light and reflector to open up shadows.  I can be contacted at nymacc@gmail.com

Head Shop

Photography is not all about skill level - but about seeing, observation and ideas.  These are parts of the process we call creativity.  It is a process of abstracting and selecting.

A simple example of this process is when visiting a place - is there something that seems to stand out above all else that you are looking at in this location.  For example, recently I visited an antique store and the first thing that I became aware of was the number of different dolls scattered throughout the store.

This observation lead me to continue searching and photographing as many doll or sculptured heads that I could find with the idea of presenting them in this blog as a theme called "Head Shop."  I had already decided on this project the minute I saw the first doll head.  This is what I mean about the creative process -your observations become an idea abstracted into a photographic theme.