This image is one of the most successful ones from

the shoot in my opinion, I experimented with an angle

I don’t often use, and created the tone that I wanted to
achieve in my shoot plan. I decided to take this
photograph at a bird’s eye view angle, as I wanted the
whole of the table to be in the shot. The lack of people
in the photograph highlights moments after a routine
very directly, the pushed out chairs and abandoned
table show a meal that has just been eaten, but not
cleared away, putting the audience in the position of
the person looking down at all the mess, and creating
a sense of sympathy, in a similar way to Clare
Gallagher. In my shoot plan I wrote that I wanted to
show household mess in a brighter and cleaner way,
which is a slight juxtaposition, trying to photograph
mess in a clean way. However, I think this was
achieved effectively, especially as the shoot was
taken in the garden. The whole of the photograph is in
focus, which contrasts the majority of images in this
shoot, but reinforces my experimentation.

This image was also a very successful one,

especially in creating a bright and clean tone. I
used a shallow depth of field, to keep only a small
section of the fork in focus. The lighting is what
makes this photograph successful, the light is in
all of the image, however it hits the photograph
most on the fork, where it is in focus, which really
heightens it being the subject of the photograph.
An element I would improve in the future is the
cluttered background, the image would be more
pleasing to the eye if there was less there,
however at the same time the cluttered
background reflects my theme and project. This
image was also successful as I didn’t have to
dramatically edit it, which shows that I chose to take the shoot at a good time in the
day, if I had photographed it later in the dayI would have had to change the
brightness and contrast significantly in order to create the same bright tone.