This was an exercise in grouping a number of 'points' in an attractive relationship. Described in the course material as "one of the three basic skills" of still-life photography, this was a project which I found extremely hard to self-assess, probably because I am still getting to grips with this idea of a 'network of lines' linking a group of objects.
For this series of photographs, I used eight identical objects, these being Nespresso coffee capsules on a grey background (I chose the 'Capriccio' blend as this is one of my favourites and the capsules had a dark green colour so that they would stand out better). With the camera on a tripod (of course!), I used the Canon 18 - 55 lens @ 49mm, f/5.6. 1/4s and ISO 100.
The series of photographs is shown below.
Personally, I find the sequence quite pleasing, with the possible exception of the last one which detracts from the curve formed by the five middle capsules (ignoring the top and bottom most ones). However, the placement of the last capsule does produce a very strong top left to bottom right diagonal of four capsules.
I have to say that I showed this sequence to my wife and she fell over laughing at the first photo of a single capsule. To avoid further embarrassment, I made a cup of coffee with it later!
I need to investigate how I can show lines using Elements 7 so that I can add this to the blog.
To be continued.
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