Its kind of funny - when I took my commercial photography class I never expected there to be a fine art element to it. I was able to do an entire assignment based around fine art. I chose to stick to an organic element - flowers. To spice things up a bit I added some fairy lights and wove them through the flowers and around the vase I borrowed from my mom. After my tripod was all set up and focus set - I began to take photos of individual sections of the bouquet and specific flowers.
Later, I pieced all these images together in photoshop to create a solid image, added on a few colour corrections and a crop and boom! A fine art piece ready for any wall!
The first image was created with clear marbles and a constant light with a long exposure. I played with swirling the marbles and zooming the lens. The second was created using the same methods, but I used blue marbles that featured streaks the shades of blue and white.
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For the commercial Final Exam, it was very open ended for what we could shoot and come up with. It could be a product, food item, product still, or a fine art piece.
I personally chose to shoot a fine art peice, because I enjoy making them the most. I did a large amount of fine art pieces in high school and fine art always seemed like a natural choice. Plus, in a high pressure situation - like an exam - sometimes its nice to not have to worry about the results too much. The beauty about how I approach fine art, is that the image dosen't quite know what its supposed to be or turn out at the start, its your job as a photographer to see the potential and make something beautiful out of it.
So i grabbed a salad bowl, and a couple bags of marbles and got to work in the studio. Using a snoot to dial in the light and some long exposures, I was able to capture the following images!