I decided to look at a whole style for my research as I din't have any artists to research in the beginning, I wanted to look at Still Life in general an get a better idea of which direction to take for this project.
After looking through many, many pictures, I found that two artist appealed to me the most: Daguerre, and Kalf. I liked Daguerre's pictures and his sense of contrast between black and white, but Kalf was more inspirational for this project. It was the way he used dark backgrounds in contrast with bright objects for his still life. I like the appearance it gave the picture and decided to try that for my shoot.
Whilst in the room shooting it looked fine, but with the first contact print it already looked like the pictures may have been far too dark. But after a lot of playing around with the enlargers I managed to get the right combination between the colours and the light. Although the prints still look maybe a little too dark I think it gives a certain feeling to them which I quite like!
Lucie,
ReplyDeleteHow are things goings with your project? I'm really interested to see what you've been working on. From the above references I get the impression you are attracted to darkness (tell me if I'm wrong) so I wondering what you'd think of John Gruen (see: http://johngruenimages.carbonmade.com/projects/2250424#1) Gruen's work is overtly in the art genre of still lives. What do you think? And please start uploading test images on your blog!
Best wishes
Chris