Found these leavs last week and photographed them today..
Found these leavs last week and photographed them today..
For my Self Promotion assignment in still life.
For this assignment i did a lot of research, and ended up watching videos and reading a lot, this is some of what i found.
Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”. It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence, specifically impermanence, the other two being suffering (dukkha) and emptiness or absence of self-nature.
Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, asperity (roughness or irregularity), simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes. And i watched several videos this BBC one was one of the good one i found..
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6916115281561390843
I like Wabi Sabi and feel iv been shoting a lot of it before with out really knowing it was Wabi Sabi.
Still Life 1
Assignment 1 (Chopsticks)
So my first assignment was to shot a pair of chopsticks we got in class.
I ended up shooting the chopsticks with a bowl of noodles, Bok choy, bean sprouts and crushed red pepper. As a backdrop i used a cream colored canson paper and its lighted with a nikon sb-900 straight over the bowl and a diffuser in between. This is my first go at food photography so im pretty happy with the end result and i wanna get more into shooting food.
