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.
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