Still life photography is often associated with complex lighting and elaborate flash set-ups. However window light can sometimes be enough. Different weather will produce different types of light entering through the window. This can be controlled with net curtains or taping coloured gels to the window. It is easy to use on translucent items which can be back lit.
Medieval painters and artists mostly adopted 'God's eye' as a viewpoint and used multiple and contradictory perspectives ignoring the relative scale of objects. The Renaissance artists put the work at 'man's height' and built images according to the rules of geometric perspective with a horizon and a single vanishing point.
A photographer using a high viewpoint avoids the jumble of planes and makes an image more legible. A high viewpoint shows the photographer to be a witness rather than a participant and removed from the world with a chance to be better able to interpret its meanings. A photographer can sometimes have an aloof presence.
Images in half shadow half light exaggerate their mordant character and suggest something from Satan.
Medieval painters and artists mostly adopted 'God's eye' as a viewpoint and used multiple and contradictory perspectives ignoring the relative scale of objects. The Renaissance artists put the work at 'man's height' and built images according to the rules of geometric perspective with a horizon and a single vanishing point.
A photographer using a high viewpoint avoids the jumble of planes and makes an image more legible. A high viewpoint shows the photographer to be a witness rather than a participant and removed from the world with a chance to be better able to interpret its meanings. A photographer can sometimes have an aloof presence.
Images in half shadow half light exaggerate their mordant character and suggest something from Satan.
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