My inspiration for this idea was to show a still life that isn’t perfect and that doesn’t have order. When I hear still life I thought “ok something that captures real life” and what I mean is not everyone has order in their life sometimes its just a mess. Thus why I have stuff spilling out of a bag. The lighting in the original is a little gloomy and I achieved this light naturally on a cloudy day. I didn’t use any photoshop to alter the image in any way. The location is on the porch of my girlfriends house. Before I started to take the pictures I had an idea to just kinda pull something out of my sewing bag and how it fell is how it fell. But then when I did that it didn’t spread nearly as much as I wanted. So I pulled and placed that box where it was and my shirt that says “Grace Kids”. So in a way it was both intentional and accidental. My strongest point is the lighting because I feel like it sets the mood to this entire picture. My weakest point is probably the lack of variety in the objects I chose for the assignment. I learned that it’s important to combined lighting and the background to make a strong picture. The one thing I would’ve done different was get more of a variety of items.
Evan Kleinman 