Photography Task

I quite enjoyed this photography task because of the simplicity and freedom it gave me. The task was simply to experiment using a DSLR and take six photographs of an object. The objects I chose in combination was a pencil wrap containing pens and pencils, with a notepad I've been using this year to take notes about briefs and any information needed to be recorded at a moments notice. I thought these objects in particular would be appropriate because they've been essential so far in the beginning section of the course to allow me to create animation and complete tasks. So I thought I'd use them as the objects for the purpose of this task. 

Due to the nature of the objects and their small scale, the shots all take advantage of the ability to get in close and take some interesting photographs this way. I've tried to capture the texture of the paper, which is quite grainy in the notebook and also get close up to the pencil wrap and its contents. 

I laid out the pencil wrap and opened it so the inside and overall contents was exposed as I thought this would perhaps prove to make a more interesting composition. As a light source I used a desk lamp and altered the way the light affected the objects in the photographs by planing around with the aperture, shutter speed and the light settings. Some of the photographs used the 'shade' function, others used 'daylight' and 'tungsten'. So, overall it was fun to experiment with photography in this way. 

Here are the results of the photography task.