Work in Progress #2

Today was the second work in progress review.  For the first time in I would probably say my career at DAAP, I left the work in progress review with an overall good feeling as to how the review went!  I was picked to go first which I always like because my nerves are always all over the place, so this calms them down getting it over with.  I explained my two pictures and the first comment was from Lillia.  She said 'I love this so much!!! They actually make me hungry.  It's awesome!'.  Bless her!!!!!  That is exactly what I needed to hear.  I just felt like the overall response was so good!  Janie said that she really liked that I was considering the lighting as part of the composition.  The lighting from the cookies to the cheeseburger is s0 different but yet so natural to the subject.  The cheeseburger has high florescent lights like a fast food restaurant should while the cookies have a warmer feel to them, like in a home kitchen.  Brian suggested what if they all had studio lighting like a food advertisement because then it is playing on the "fakeness" on two different levels.  I really like this idea too.  I love the idea of taking highly commercial advertisement pictures of fake food!  Janie suggested that these types of things are great to play with to discover within myself what way speaks to me the most.  I am definitely looking forward to experimenting with this!  Some artists that were suggested to me are: Edwin Zwakman

Thomas Demand

Naoki Honjo

I look forward to researching these artists and more even though I hate research!

-till next time...

Oh, here are the pictures I used for the review!!