Week 2: Isolating Photographs

Craft
For this assignment we had to choose and photograph ten objects in isolation against a simple background to isolate in Photoshop. First of all, I have no photography experience, so being able to set up a clear and easily isolated photograph was not necessarily easy. The camera I used was a borrowed Kodak DX6490 4.0 Mega Pixel digital camera. As for the five indoor objects I choose, the setting was in a bright room with florencent lighting, and the objects were rested on top of a box with a white cloth for the background and photographed from above. The five outdoor objects were photographed during the morning on a back patio in the shade. I think the clarity of each object was about the same and it was not the greatest clarity either. The indoor objects were more succesful I thought because of the brighter pictures and the more neutral backgournd. As for the picture I thought was best was the starfish because I thought it was the most interesting and one of the more easily isolated ones.

Composition
I wanted to take centered pictures as clear as possible. Knowing that we would have to cut them out I wanted to make sure that all the objects had a simple background that was different from the color of the object. I think the biggest problem came from the lighting for the indoor photos because there was too much of a shadow that made cutting them out difficult. The outdoor photos were actually the easiest to cut out.

Concept
There was no concept in choosing which items to take pictures of. I just wanted to pick some objects that were interesting and they had nothing in common really.