Still Life Food and Fashion: March 2012

Sunday, 11 March 2012

'Step Into My World'

Title: 'Step Into My World'
Publication: Pop Magazine

Friday, 9 March 2012

I want the puzzle pieces to be very subtle in my images, so I've decided to use one of the photos I took of the vegetable garden I constructed, but before the shoes were photographed, so just of the foliage. I found a puzzle template on the internet to make my photo into a puzzle, then I photoshopped the pieces onto the edited images.

Moving puzzle piece into position and resizing

Duplicating layer

Filling in duplicated layer all black

Adding gaussian blur

Changing opacity

Putting behind original layer and moving around until it looks right

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Editing in sky

Changing background to layer

Using the magic tool to select the background space

setting the background colours

Gradient tool in selected areas


Adding a vector mask

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Selected Photos

Out of all the photos I took I liked these ones the best. I can't choose between the top two landscape or portrait photos. I'm thinking the landscape one because that would give 2 portrait and 2 landscape.

I like the way the shoes look out of perspective and oversized compared to the delicate garden surrounding them, and because of their vibrancy and bright colours they contrast against the green 'foliage.' I want to add in a fake, yet convincing sky in the background so the photos look like proper scenes.

Photoshoot Contact Sheets

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Sweet Dreams by Kirsten Lepore

Preparing for the Photoshoot

Acrylic paints

Glitter covered shoe

Rainbow heels in the style of Ashish AW12/13

Sponge to create texture

Splattered paint and sponged paint inspired by Erdem AW12/13

Spray-painted pink shoe with buttons and sequins as a buckle, inspired by Marc Jacobs AW12/13

The food I will be using in my shoot

Cress

Dill, cabbage and bread

Broccoli and parsley

Making a bridge out of cucumber

Constructing my garden

Superglued broccoli to the loaves of bread, and using the cabbage leaves as a garden floor

Finished construction, using the dill, cress, parsley and remaining broccoli to make a 'forest' design

Monday, 5 March 2012

Shoot Idea

For my 4-5 styling photos, I want to use Carl Warner's foodscapes as my main inspiration.

http://www.arthappy.co.uk/2010/07/carl-warners-foodscapes.html

So I'm thinking I'd like to create my own 'garden' using food, and mainly vegetables in the style of Carl Warner.

I want to concentrate on the shoes from the AW 12/13 shows I have already researched, so I will get some plain shoes and customise them using paint, glitter, beads, sequins, buttons, etc.

Saturday, 3 March 2012

Heston's Feasts

Heston Blumenthal is well known for his scientific food creations and unusual food combinations and techniques, and his series 'Heston's Feasts' on Channel 4, features some of his mad inventions.