Final Photoshoot

I believe that this photoshoot really shows my development process as my idea dramatically changes as I went through it. I planned on using my original objects (the two ergonomic men) to cast shadows on objects of different shapes and textures. As I had already looked at reasonably flat objects the first one I looked at was a pile of flour. This was due to its possibility to be moulded and shaped and also the variety of textures it has. Originally I was placing my ergonomic men on the flour, in front of the light and inside the flour in an attempt to cast an interesting shadow, this I found to be difficult however, due to the quality of the flour. As a surface it had so much texture which was already casting shadows onto itself making the shadows casting a lot more difficult as I could not get a strong enough shadow. It came down to me discarding the ergonomic men and casting shadows with hands in order to get a stronger more controlled shadow. Looking through my camera during the photoshoot I then found this particular image:

This brought me back to the image I had earlier which had a shadow cast that looked like a mountain landscape. The image above to me looked like an aerial shot of a snowy mountain and a landscape. By using light and shadow a sense of scale is lost. It also made me think about Alfred Steiglitz and his Equivalent series. As there was no context in those images they appeared abstract. The same applies here as there is a lack of context which would usually give scale, therefore that sense of reality or nature is lost. This completely adjusted my idea to focus on the flour and how I could use light to change how it is perceived.