These are the final images that I have
decided to use for my triptych. I found a variety of different materials, from
bottles to cans to bottle caps, and because most of what I have found were
related to beverages, I decided to go with that as a theme.
I chose a glass bottle, a metal can and a
plastic bottle because I wanted them to contrast each other. The concept behind
this still life triptych is to display three beverages side by side, each of
different alcoholic content and stored in containers made from
starkly different materials. I wanted the colours to match, so I went with a
green foreground to match the tone in general, and having the yellow background not
only compliments it but also brightens the photographs, and it was a suitable
background for the shadows to be cast on in my opinion, which was why I kept it.
I shot the items in various angles under different light conditions, but
I like my final compositions the most because of the shadows (or lack of, for
the can). It started off as an accidental occurrence when I had my light source
diagonally in front of the objects (except for the can), but I decided to
employ it as a ‘technique’ after a while because I found it interesting to see the details in the shadows cast on the background,
and
for the photograph of the green glass bottle, the details on the bottle itself
could be seen just slightly from its illuminated shadow, and I liked it, so I
recreated the effect using the plastic bottle with the light source on the
opposite side.
Having done my first triptych, I realised
that I didn't particularly like the transparent plastic bottle, so I went ahead
and got a green one so as to keep the work consistent in terms of presentation.
Essentially, I wanted the work to be a
balanced one, which is why the objects are placed on different ends of the
photographs, and the shadows of two items are moving in towards the shadow-less
metal can. I have
thought about creating double shadows for the metal can, but it hasn’t been as
successful (but I might try it again).
