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I have a couple more that I wanted to submit as I was having a play around with different lighting and playing with focusing on the foreground or the background.

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Pastry Rolls in a Display Hot Box at a Cafe

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Focused on the foreground objects.

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Focused on the objects in the reflection of the mirror.

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Focus is on the plant leaf in the front of the frame, leaving the background blurred.

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Focus is on dried plants and vase texture contrasting to smooth surface in background.

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water lily and bees

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Six years ago, I was gifted a DSLR camera, but I've only ever used it on auto settings. Now, I’m finally diving in and experimenting with the more challenging settings like AV and TV. I’m excited to explore and create still-life compositions using my small ceramics and vases collection.

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Another one..

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And one with everything in focus...

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Focuses on each raindrops blurring out the background

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Cecilia n10305602 Focus on peony

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I work as a florist so I enjoy photographing flowers. For this week's focus on still life I looked more at the process of decay flowers go through and played around with purposeful arrangement on a striking black background.

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Another variety of flower I experimented with - I think it could have been more interesting if the flowers were more wilted; however, my focus for this experiment was the spider that I discovered crawling on the petals and the ominous sense it creates with the black backdrop in contrast to the pretty pink florals.

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This was my first still life experiment with a collection of older fruits/vegetables that I found in my fridge. This was more of a test to play with the Aperture and ISO but I ended up liking the composition. I found that I prefer a lower ISO for still life as I felt it created a more painterly, errie/nostalgic feeling to the image that I associate with the genre - I discovered that a lower ISO deepens the colour and tones down the highlights which I think is very fitting for memento mori style

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Light is focused on the various fruits/veggies, with the backdrop black and the fruit bowl an neutral colour to highlight the different colours.

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I tried to focus on this cute mug and a blurry red valvet cake behind.

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Experiment with different lighting, shadows, and view points

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Still life "Broken" 01

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Still life "Isolated 01"

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Still life "Containment 01"

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Lily Mayfield - My two passions of ceramics and jewellery making photographed in a natural lighting setting with still material creating alternative light shadows

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Lily Mayfield - My two passions of ceramics and jewellery making photographed in a natural lighting setting with still material creating alternative light shadows

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Shutter speed play (i shaked my garlic flowers haha)...love the effects I get from the different shutter speeds

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Lily Mayfield - Local surfer with slow shutter 

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Lily Mayfield - Local surfer with slow shutter 

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very different from the earlier photos but I realised I hadn't experimented with lighting. I think it's still too dark so will definitely adjust this in my next attempts

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An experiment with virtual photography using poly-modeled geometrics (cubes and cuboids) and hardware shading (fog) to create a scene with depth, atmosphere and value. Inspired by the architecture of Brutalist Cubism.

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Experimenting with Lighting & Material Texture

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Experimenting with Lighting, Shadow, Pattern and Form

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Experimenting with Lighting & Form

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Natural light vs texture

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Abstraction - light reflections and line sequence 

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Abstraction - light reflections and line sequence 

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Lily Mayfield - Abstract photograph

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My abstract play images (above and in the comment section), feature a hand-felted, embroidered sculpture I created. I explored close-up perspectives, cropping, points of focus, textural elements, colour experimentation, and motion.

I particularly enjoyed playing with movement to achieve an ethereal, other-dimensional effect, highlighting the organic and unusual shapes of the felt object. For the image with the yellow beneath the felt, I used my iPad to light a canvas, reflecting yellow onto the underside to create a complementary contrast to the overall blue hues.

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Close up floor board textures.

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my first try with multiple exposure

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Experiment with light and texture.

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Monochrome Still Life

playing around with iso, aperture and a diffused side light. shot in monochrome, I enjoyed how the soft light fell across the different textures

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Unedited lighting and texture through a crystal glass

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Unedited lighting and texture through a crystal glass

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Featuring her wall of hobbies & interests, love for reading, tea, & colour. "Katie in her natural state"

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Featuring Katies flare to her grey furnished house. The flowers, table coth, colourful dress & lana vinyl.

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Portraiture Collage experimentation with pictures of Katies belongings.

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Collage of portraits of myself with fabric draped over my head to create a ghost looking figure

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brunch date with my girl

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Took out colors from background elements and leave some on main body for a stand out effect.

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metal roof and nail fixings. and shadows

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For this abstract photo I wanted to draw attention to the repetition and movement of materials.

To achieve this I experimented with contrast to bring greater depth to the scene between shadows and brighter elements. The simple nature of the photograph aid to highlight this through limited subject matter.

I really enjoyed this photo experiment given the ability to express materiality in this way. I think it feels quite industrial and ford-esque. The repetitive elements feel somewhat like a production line. Raw.

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Use the light trick that pointed face out, edited photo with Lightroom by keep all yellow color and took out other colors for a vintage look.

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See if this works

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Experimenting with light and dark contrasts to highlight different features of the face; inspired by some of the examples from the lecture. I find the black and white photography really emphasizes and dramatizes an image, drawing attention to specific features in a striking way.

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more images from this series in the comments

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I've always found myself fascinated by caustic light and the way water in a pool/glass etc naturally creates shadows and crystal like light patches so naturally this was an avenue I wanted to explore for the abstraction week. I also find it particularly interesting that although you can't see the water/glass in these images, the photograph & context is still somewhat readable.

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Still life 01 - underlit leaves  CallumV

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Still life 01 - underlit leaves  CallumV

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Played with two of my film photos

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chinoiserie style bushland inverted blue:magenta

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The only one I've added to the folio since last week. I'm waiting for the sun to be stronger for the cyanotype prints to be more distinct so will do more in the next couple of days. Would love some feedback on my artist statement which needs to be cut down a little bit from 190 words:

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Finding a peacock photograph recalled a childhood memory of my mother creating a collage from collected fabric. After months of meticulous work, despite its imperfections, the framed fabric peacock was hung in our dining room.

For this body of work, my creative process began with uncertainty, a creative block that paradoxically became my catalyst. Through experimentation, I discovered the act of making and ‘starting somewhere’, is the art itself. The process, without predetermined outcomes, became as meaningful as the result.

Nature, a constant inspiration for me, along with a simple idea—altering scanned images from my parents' archives—led to experimentation with inversion and layering of adjustments in Photoshop. This evolved further into other processes like Cyanotype printing.

Inversion emerged as a key theme, mirroring the balance of opposites in our world. What began as casual exploration with different photographic processes deepened my connection to creativity. Although created with very different intent, my work has aesthetic similarities with Danie Mellor and explores processes used by Simon Roberts.

This body of work, like my mother’s peacock collage, is a reminder to trust the journey and integrate creativity into daily life. Even the uncertainty and the absence of direction can yield something meaningful.

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I am slightly behind than most but this is a current first grab at my draft artists statement as well a closer iteration of a single piece of work to include in my folio. sorry hard to articulate my communication as this is the only work to show:

Draft: Here and Never is a reflection on a recent period of change in my life where I was met with the emotional challenges of loneliness; experiencing a shift from living socially amongst others to evenings alone where my mind would often speak more than my mouth.

The photographic series depicts self-portraits and familiar scenes, chopped and collaged, piecing together the emotional weight of living by oneself. Quiet scenes are enveloped by intense visual disarray which capture the unforgiving isolation my mind and body experienced.

- Emotional qualities draw inspiration from photo media artists such as David Hockney…

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