TEXTURE
The first theme I chose to explore was texture, because I
love the texture of the rope around the base of the lamp. My first instinct
with texture was to zoom in real close and try to tilt the camera a bit because
that adds interesting blurriness in the distance. I pretty much took the same
approach to each texture I found on the lamp. I was very attracted to the rope
texture, but didn’t want three photographs of the same thing. It was rather
difficult to get the camera to focus on such a close subject, but it was
frustrating because using the flash gave me a weird dark shadow in the bottom
of my pictures. I never did get a picture of the switch that was clear enough
for me to be fully happy with it.
LIGHTING
The second theme I chose was lighting, because my subject is
used for light. My first idea was to take the lamp outside because I thought
that would be unexpected and interesting (comparing natural light to something
that emits artificial light). I like how saturated the colors came out in the sunlight.
After bringing it back inside and trying some other stuff, I took the shade off
and used one of the photos from that because I thought it was interesting to
keep the light source so blatantly in the picture – as in, the subject. And
then, maybe two days later, I found this random dragonfly on the lamp and took
a picture of it, using the lighting of the lamp to make a silhouette of the
dragonfly.
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