The 5 selected photos from season shoot

Narrowing down from the whole shoot was pretty hard, as usual.

Below are the 5 I chose to present to the class:

Most people thought this was a pudding - I don't blame them, it looks like it!

I chose to keep quiet to hear all the guesses and only reveal what the subject matters actually were, and my season, at the very end.

I'm not going to repeat the mystery now, though.

This is a heart-shaped ice cube with a dark food colouring mixed in it.

This is the one that looks gruesome/yummy/festive to me.

It's also an ice-cube, melting away with a blob of red paint in the middle and glitter.

I also added sea salt to some of the water on the tray, and you can see it on this picture.

Ice and glitter, looking festive.

And this was by far everyone's favourite. It's the pattern left on the plate from the melted dark blue ice, after I poured it down the sink.

Despite one suggestion, I wouldn't crop this image as I don't think it would have the same impact as the whole.

I was very pleased to hear everyone confidently answering "Winter" without hesitation when I asked which season people thought this represented, and that made me think I accomplished the brief.

The whole of this exercise made us realise the, sometimes unconscious, impact colour has on images and how they make us feel.

The colours on this shoot were picked deliberately (Dark blue and Silver-> Winter; Red and Green-> Christmas) and I think this element greatly contributed to the success of the outcome.

Season Brief

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Our next Professional Frameworks brief was to do with seasons. The class was divided into 3 groups, and each group was given a season (summer not being one of them).

Given we're in Autumn, both Winter and Spring thought they had a much harder challenge in front of them, but to be honest I liked not having Autumn as my season because it made me think harder of ways to express the season instead of just going out and shooting whatever is there.

As much as I like the suspense, my season was Winter. I decided to experiment with ice using a (you guessed it) Macro lens.

I went out and bought some "ingredients" for my fun shoot: ice trays, food colouring, glitter and oil paint.

The results are as follows:

I really like how some of the photos look rather gruesome. Others, yummy.

I wish glitter was edible.

In fact I got quite carried away with all the glitter (maybe working for Swarovski made sparkly things grow on me).

I added squirty cream to the mix thinking of its similarity to snow.

Just as interesting as the ice, was the "left over". The ink of the melted ice created some interesting visuals, especially after pouring it down the sink, leaving some fascinating patterns on the plate.

We had to show five photos to the class in a feedback session, and on my next post I'll show the ones I chose.