In this workshop, we were looking at Dutch still life paintings and then we tried to recreate the basic principle of them using various props we were provided with. We worked in groups and I was working with Sam Allister, Miguel de Almeida and Scott Bentley. For this composition, we wanted to highlight the joker card so we chose grey props to accentuate the card and we centered the card in the middle of the composition so that the eye would naturally be drawn to it.
For this composition, we tried experimenting with how the light we used would react with a transparent subject like these plastic cups. Then we tried to arrange them like a Colosseum, however, I do not think we lit this composition well and the fact that the table is visible and the background is crumped slightly seems messy to me.
This is the final shot from the workshop. I like the idea that this shot represents, in that, pink is seen as a very feminine colour in our culture and to pair it with something like a grout gun, typically used by builders and handy-men which are seen to be very masculine occupations, brings an almost playful air to this composition, which is complemented by the almost effortless way the gun and flower seem to be resting on each other.
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