What can you do with simple sheets of paper (or thin cards) as photo subjects? You can use white or coloured paper. By clipping sheets together you can create some wonderful curves. With window light and artificial light, you can create shadows and a wonderful contrast between light and dark. Do you keep your papers sharp with a narrow aperture, or creatively blur with a wider aperture? There are wonderful abstracts to create. What can you do with sheets of paper?
For this weeks challenge, I had a couple ideas but ended up going with trying to play with shapes and designs. I also wanted to play with the focus and decided on going with a large aperture to have just one section of the shot in focus in order to call attention to the different designs on each piece of paper.
-Lance
I had no idea what to do until I saw my book sitting on my coffee table so it occurred to me to make the pages look like a flower. I wanted to make the interior of pages (holes) really bright so I used a flash light to light them up. That’s how the "Neon Purple Flower" came to life. I don’t know if I cheated but I swear those are book pages. During the photo shoot, I noticed that there was a flashlight silhouette of the book and pages on the wall, funnily enough, it looked like a flower. I couldn’t decide which one to use so I went with both.
Continued in blue…