Still Life - Food

For this task we were looking at still life with food being our subject. We researched different photographers and specific images before hand so we could think about different styles, how images are composed and how things like colour are used throughout these type of photos. 
The majority of still life images I saw when researching for this task were actually commercial images and you can tell that they are done for a specific purpose. Photos used for commercial purposes are very well composed and a lot have a narrow depth of field so that the focus is completely on the food and the eye is immediately drawn to that and not the background or surroundings. 

For example photos like this make sure that the viewers eye is completely focused on the food and not the background or anything else.
Although the colour of the background does have an impact on the photo because the red jam contrasts with the green a lot, again though, this just brings more attention to the food.














This image is another example of how photographers use depth of field to keep the viewers attention completely on the food, even part of the fork in the foreground is out of focus so the eye goes towards the pudding. The colours are in this are really strong too, the red and the white are really striking and the contrast makes a real impact. 

This is an example of a less commercial image all of it's in focus and the composition is very simple. The image is very symmetrical when you look at it's composition. The image also has a very soft, warm feeling of it, although the composition isn't what we'd 

















This is one of my images, I like the mixture of bright colours and how they contrast with the simple white background. The food is just on a paper plate with a napkin on top of it, I got this idea from the photo above. Although I like the colours and how bright it is in the top left corner I don't like how dark the muffin is, it loses detail and makes that part of it too dark when you compare it to other areas.