Sam Taylor-Wood & Laura Letinsky

I love the direction use of lines and the accurate symmetry of all the lines. I like how the image as been rotated so that the corner of the table is straight, I like how the screw bit is at a angle and I like the bold contrast between the black background and the white foreground, which isn't distinguishable because you can't get perspective of distances in this picture which I also like. I like the clean, sharp lines which don't fade into the colour on the other side (black background and white table.) and the shadow on the bottom half of the table. I took this picture because I wanted to use Laura Letinsky's still life style but make it my own by taking a picture which makes the viewer think and have to work out what is going on in the picture. This wasn't actually to resemble that we leave evidence after activities but I signify that the dimensions and way we look at things doesn't have to be the same. This simplistic, minimalistic way of looking at a screw bit hopefully will make the viewer realise that there's always another way to look at something.

This image is so packed with rich colour and detail. I really like the smug that the fruit have created, and that the smug has the colours of the fruit as well to help the viewer to understand that it is a smug from the fruit. I like how some of the fruit is cut off, the way I haven't framed all the fruit gives it more mystery and ideas for the viewer to think about. I also like how the fruit has actually been eaten to symbolise that there was a moment in the past with this fruit but now it is just evidence of that past moment. My aim with this picture was to express evidence, in that this fruit may last for years and years, and it does leave a stain on this world...

As you can see I developed on Sam Taylor-Wood's use of fruit in her photography and decided to explore the use of macro lens with mouldy fruit. I really like the outcome of this shot because the viewer is very unsure on what the image is of at first. I like the way the focal length is very short and immediately blurred the background which I like because you can see the white line slowly fading away out of the frame. I like the sharp focus on the mould and the way the mould has risen higher than the orange creating a little cliff. My intention for this picture was to make the viewer feel like they were getting a exclusive insight into something they don't even know what to. It will hopefully make the viewer feel that the concept time will never stop and that life will forever be moving on; the moment which pasted will stay in some sort of form.

The is one of my finest photographs in my view. The use of the hand gives the picture a completely different way of looking at fruit. It  involves the viewer in a more personal way because I think that it looks like it is 'your' hand when you looking at the picture and makes you feel like you are the one holding the apple. I like the vivid colours of the apple and the paleness of the hand and the shape of the hand and how the hand is holding the apple, it is very meaningful and powerful. I want this picture to make the viewer feel immersed and involved with the hand and apple and to realise that we must keep moving ahead and realise that evidence is ways to follow.

I love the extreme simpleness of this picture. The very shape lines from white to black and the way the lines draw the viewers eyes straight to the orange. I like how the orange is the only thing in colour in the picture and how the orange is slightly tilted rather than being perfectly straight. My aim with this picture to make the viewer feel mystified by why the two lines are pointing to the orange and hopefully think about how over time evidence of past activities can turn into something less attractive, in this case decay and mould. I want this picture to make the viewer look at it for a long period of time thinking hard about the subject of evidence and relevance of today.

I like the shadows on the inside of the frame, especially on the corners of the inside of the frame. The perfectly centred grapes. I like the unique gold frame because it makes the picture so innovative and different from anything else in my Sam Taylor-Wood and Laura Letinsky gallery. My intention was to make the viewer have complete attention on the grape and I think that having it centred with only a white background makes it stand out will, however the golden frame makes the picture more lively because it would probably look quite dull and boring without it.

After such a successful shoot with the macro lens, I realised I have to develop on this with other fruits to see what I could capture. This time I used a banana, I waited until the banana was completely mouldy so that it was brown all over. What I think makes this image so marvellous and valuable is the lighting, divergent colour and shape. The lighting is coming from behind the banana so the top is in light but the outer side of the banana is in darkness, this looks very exciting and beautiful (for a mouldy banana). Although you may think there is no obvious colour in this photograph,  think that it has a lovely range of browns from a dark brown to a brown bordering on yellow. When I say 'shape', I mean the shape of the actual shape of the banana, the way you can see the thin lines curving parallel with each other and the waviness of the top of the banana. I hope that this picture will make the viewer think about how we and our lives are forever moving on and we can't stop for a moment.

I decided to show this image as well as the one third down because I think that this one is just as good in it's own ways, and everyone is entitled to their own opinions and I think it is appropriate to show both and tell the viewer decide on which one they prefer. I like the strong colour in this picture which gives it a great acknowledgement from the viewer and draws the viewer furthering into the image. I took this photograph because again I want the viewer to realise that life is forever moving on and that fruit will always turn to mould eventually and after our various activities in life the fruit will remain evidence of that activity but decay.

I like the way the banana curves round the corner with the white material. It gives it more of a dynamic appearance in the picture and actually completes it, I hope that with this placement of the banana the viewer will want to know the meaning and understand the connotation of the picture. Again I like the sharp, crisp lines with the contrast between the black and white. Lastly I like how I have used Sam Taylor-Wood's style of cutting a banana down the middle because then you can see all the insides of banana which personally I think is quite interesting to look at, especially as the banana has browned and isn't fresh any more. The meaning within this picture is that "What we leave behind is what we will become" and what I mean is that the bananas in this case, are what we leave behind after our activities and that is what we will come back to if another activity in the same place happens again, there's what will become of us. The question is, how many times will be see it?

I absolutely love this picture for a variety of reasons; I love the wide screen crop which helps focus the attention on the stretched open banana. I love the fuzzy, glowing feeling the apple has and how you can just see the tip of the banana which is blurred because it is out of the focal length. I also like the raw, true way I have captured these horrible and mouldy fruit, how you can even see the green mould on the end of the right side of the banana. I hope the viewer finds this picture shocking and quite discomforting because it want it to make them realise that sometimes our faults are left on this world and they are hard to get rid of, these two pieces of fruit represent the faults that take a long time to disappear. But human's need to see the evidence of these faults because then they will not happen again.

Although the outside of the banana made for a brilliant picture, the inside is full of amazing beauty and shape and colour. I like that I have used tilt shift radial to make the all the edges go out of focus and draw the viewers eye straight into the very middle of the image. I think that the tilt shift really worked for my intention and make the picture more breathtaking and interesting. I also like the colour of this photograph, the strong colours of yellow and dark brown do so well and naturally together and helps the viewer to realise that it is of a banana. And I think what I like the most is the amazing shapes and patterns the banana has created, I love all the different lines and how it has a glossy finish in the photograph. I want this picture to make the viewer feel happy and interested in all the different patterns that the inside of the banana has.

This picture has so much depth of character and charm. I like how the apple is the only object in the picture and really intensifies the focus on the apple. So my mean influence for this picture was the second picture I copied of Sam Taylor-Wood's photographs, she uses apples a lot in her photographic work and I wanted to develop on the use of apple to bring a picture full of character and charm. I really like the way I taken this picture quite far away from the apple, to create a lot of white space around it. My aim was to make the viewer understand that life is forever moving forwards and after the present moment that moment is in the past getting mouldy and slowly forgotten until it's dust.

I like the way you can't understand the dimensions of the picture. I like the mould on the orange and how the orange is right on the very edge of the picture. I like the way it is a simple picture but at the same time is quite unusual with all the different lines and shadows which make it exciting and different for the viewer to enjoy. I hope this picture makes the viewer feel interested in how this picture was taken and makes them realise that life is forever moving forwards and we are also leaving something behind, physically or mentally.

SHOULD I TAKE THIS ONE OUT!?!?! WHAT ABOUT LEMON ONE!?

I like that only part of the banana and the apple are in focus, I think this makes the picture my intimate with the viewer and lets the viewer see the fruit in such great, sharp detail. I also like the lighting, the way it gives a shadow to the right and I like that it makes the fruit very clear and bright. My plan was to take a picture which expressed the idea that we are always moving on our society and our personal lives and everything we do leaves a trace of evidence.

I love the way the TV remote is balancing on the very edge of the table, I like the way you can't understand the dimensions because the lines are so clean and sharp and that the way the TV remote is placed on the very edge at a angle putting some of the TV remote in the air. I think that this entire set up has brought a interesting, amusing and magnificent photograph. I also like the way the colours of the TV remote match the colours of the background and the table. I think that I have really developed on Laura Letinsky's style and made it into a style of my own.

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