This week I chose a House plant I had forgotten I even owned as my subject. Apparently these things can go a long time without watering! I have no idea what type of plant it is, but I photographed it anyway.
This photo captures the entire plant. You can clearly see the dust on the leaves.
This close up picture is of the leaves of the plant. The waxy leaves reflect the light, and appear much cleaner due to the reflection than they did in the first photo.
This picture captures the Dirty pot the plant is planted in, and a few of the dusty leaves again. Because this picture wasn't taken at the same zoom as picture 2, the dust is again visible on the leaves.
This top view of the plant only captures one of the stems. The plant appears much smaller in this picture, but only because one of the two stems is out of frame.
This picture is taken from beneath the plant. Because the tops of each leaf is similar to the bottom, it's difficult to tell the angle just by the picture alone. The bottom of the leaves are much cleaner than the top, since the dust can't accumulate there.
This close up of a leaf is my favorite picture. I tried to frame the photo using the leaf on the left, and put the main subject slightly off center. I remembered these techniques from a High school photography class long ago. I think this shot is the most interesting out of the bunch, and the subject is still clearly identifiable to the viewer.
Although the Subject clearly doesn't change, it's amazing how different it looks from different angles. By playing around with the angles, I was able to capture different aspects of the plant. Distance also played a factor in how the plant appeared. In some of the photo's the dust clearly proved how neglectful I am when it comes to house plants, but by changing the zoom, I was able to make it appear like this plant has been taken care of better than it really has.
Way to honor that forgotten house plant! Great job capturing al the textures of the plant. Did you use a flash? The only thing that I would have done is to take it outside or put it on a solid surface so it isn't picking up the pattern in the rug. I really like the photo that you took of the underside of the leaf, it gives a different perspective. Very cool object to photograph! I myself am not the greatest at taking care of plants. But this one has a chance!
ReplyDeletePoor plant! I hope it got something to drink after all of its hard work modeling...The dusty leaves did make for a really cool shot, though. I really like the first picture, it looks rather fancy and well-framed by the rug and background.
ReplyDeleteThese are all excellent photographs of this plant. What is best about all of them is that you did move around the plant and got closer and farther away.
ReplyDeleteBe careful of always using the built-in flash on your camera. See if you can find other lamps in your house that you can use to eliminate your subject from the side or below or above.
I think you got the essence of this. One thing I was asking you to do was to take two of the photographs and compare them in another post. You still have time to do this…
I enjoyed the second picture a lot, the way you used the lighting to make the leaves all look like a different color is remarkable. Well done!
ReplyDeleteI really liked your fifth picture! The dark background really drew my eye to the fine details of the leaf.
ReplyDeleteNow go give that poor plant a drink! :)