The outcome of this project was probably my least favorite out of anything I did all year. Being on the broke end of things until after the holiday, I didn't want to go out and buy objects for this project so I was left to use what's available to me. For me, all of these shots are very plain. Yes, the concept of the title is captured, but there's no real use for them. Something I learned about this year is screen calibration to make sure your colors are right, and since these were all edited on a school computer, on my home computer I'm seeing that either their screen, or my screen isn't calibrated. On the school screen, the colors looked richer and denser - not as much as I'm looking at them from home. Thus far, I've essentially been critiquing myself, but I feel like in every batch, even if you hate the whole shoot, there's one image that stands out. For me, it is definitely the second and third pictures of the cotton ball and the light bulb. Now that it's cold out, I set up my mock up studio in my dining room, and found both of those objects in there. This makes it apparent to me, there is a photograph everywhere - you just need to look for it. I shot all of these in shutter priority mode, my objects are placed on black poster board backed by black foam board. I used a lamp but tried to avoid direct lighting, boning my lamp off a piece of white poster board to reflect it. The amount of "rigged" studio shots I've done this year, I think everyone will be happy to hear I found a cheap studio set up to invest in for the time being. Still, by no means a professional kit but once I start taking pictures with it, I'm sure you'll never be able to tell. Everything is what you make it!
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