This week we watched everyones presentations on their ideas for the upcoming project. I have decided that I’m going to be creating a photo series similar to commercial style food photography. I used food photography as my inspiration for the Mimesis project and learnt a lot about specific lighting techniques and how to style aestheically pleasing shots and want to continue along that path. I’m also really interested in photography specific to socials so have decided to utilise the grid funciton on Instagram. I think that the grid can be benificial in creating a unique and engaging set of photos by the way images look similar to one another which can appear quite aesthetically pleasing. I’ll be shooting 9 different shots in total and, considering is that time of the year and there’s props to use in every shop (reject shop, here I come!), I figured I would keep it Christmas themed and stick to desserts, which in turn means I’ll be using a red and green colour scheme. 

Below are some Instagram accounts that I’ve taken inspiration from. You can see that both accounts have specific themes and have organised their grids according to their aesthetic, the foodartproject sets quite a moody tone and thelittleplatation uses green and maroon as a reoccuring colour to tie their photos together. They both make use of lines, patterns, movement and motion and texture and close-up shots, selective focus shots and different lighting techniques. Heres some more examples that I’ve taken inspiration from. Theloopywhisk plays with different heights and close up shots and sarah_fel shoots a lot of flatlays and a cool blue undertone in all of her photos. 

I’m going to spend the next few days researching  different ways to style and shoot for food photography and also research more on different grid techniques to create a more aesthtic theme. I’ll also need to find some recieps and create a rough plan on what sort of backgrounds and props I might need to help tell a better story through the photos. I’ve given myself a week to bake and shoot all 9 shots but that could be extended due to not having to pay around with much in post-production and I think I’ll just be using the light effects to make shots brighter or enhance some of the red and greens. I am going to create a public Instagram account that I would make specific to this and use that for submission and use the caption as a recepie guide to tie it all together. Brian and Rohan both said that it would be a good idea to come up with a more specific theme so I’m going to go have a bit of a think about that before next week!