Initially with the apple photos I didn’t experiment much with the camera, just with the composition and the lighting. For this project I’ve been using a Samsung NX3000 digital camera with a 16-50mm zoom lense. Although this isn’t the camera ideal for photographing my found objects I think the pictures came out a good quality. I experimented with the white balance, lighting (using my desk lamp), aperture and shutter speed.

Shutter speed: When i changed this the camera wasn’t steady enough to take the photo and it usually came out blurred, so i left it on the cameras automatic settings. As the object was still, the shutter speed wasn’t an important element to change.

White balance: I tried using a white piece of paper in front of the camera to adjust this but my camera didn’t respond well to this as the lense is slightly broken. To experiment properly with this I would have to use one of the DSLR cameras. Although the white balance was off int his photo, I quite like how it came out anyway as it has kind of transformed into something else, its not obviously a cactus anymore.

Lighting: I used a desk lamp to light my object, which I had placed in front of a plain black paper background. I wanted to use black paper as I think this can really focus the viewers attention on the image. I could have used white as well but I felt this would look too much like a stock image and this wasn’t what I wanted to achieve. The desk lamp was successful to light the object and i moved it around to try and eliminate shadows and create a dark background.

Aperture: I experimented slightly with this as I wasn’t totally confident with what I was looking for. I just tried different settings and saw which produced the best images. I enjoyed changing the focus between the front pins on the cactus and the back ones and think this is a good way to change the image.