The photographer that I took inspiration from is Andrew Zuckerman. I took interest in his macro photography images of flowers that are against a simple white background. I love the look of the bright and dramatically colored flowers against a stark white background. The contrast really makes the flowers feel like they are almost popping off of the page. I love all the little details that you can see in the flowers. For my images I took the idea of bright colored flowers against simple white backgrounds. I tried to focus in on flowers that I found either in my grandmothers greenhouse or flowers that grow on my parents property to have a personal connection with the subject. I chose flowers that I could connect with because I grew up helping my grandmother water the flowers in her greenhouse and a lot of the flowers on my parents property were planted by me! I also wanted to link the assignment to what we are going through now! I thought that the best way to accomplish what I wanted was to photograph my surroundings and so I gathered as many flowers as I could find in my general area. A lot of Andrew’s photographs are side views of the flowers and I went with more of a frontal view so that you could see the details of the flowers head on, that is just a personal preference and I wanted to put my own spin on the photographs.
Here are the images that I created:
For my images I really tried to create images that went well together! I used different lightening techniques to try to create the most contrast possible between the colorful flowers and the white background. I struggled a bit to keep the background strictly white, but I do like how all of my images turned out. I learned some better ways to take the photographs and I think I got stronger images in the end than the images I started out taking! I really tried to focus in on the textures of each flower and I believe that comes through when you look at the images.
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