As in last week’s episode, we’re back in the year 2008. At the time, I decided to take a course in Conceptual Photography to stretch my visual thinking a bit. While I enjoyed the course very much, the instructor was not impressed with my work. He found my submissions to be a bit obvious and predictable (he was right). However, there were a couple of images that I created during that class that I still enjoy.
Here’s one of them…
This was a bit of a fun shoot, as I wanted to get this rather pinpoint light source to get this shadow. After some experimenting, I lit this scene with a single candle. Using a long exposure and keeping the air pretty still gave me the result that I wanted.
The imagery is obvious with the bent back of age and the bright years behind, but I still enjoy looking at this composition.
And, in case you wonder how I got the fork to stand still… I used continuous paper to get the background and put a very small hole in it. Through that hole I threaded a stand made from a paperclip that I hot-glued to the back of the fork.
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