Discussion of Exam Paper

Everyday Objects: They are objects that we use every day like household items, for example, cutlery, or furniture. 
I would like to look into how people interact with everyday objects as well as them on their own, so for example, how people sit in a chair, as well as the chair itself, looking at how people sit at home on their own furniture, as opposed to when they're at somebody else's house.

A photographer that I have looked at is Andre Kertesz, he takes photographs of everyday objects like cutlery, and furniture.  I like his photographs because they are quite simple, although the composition has been thought about in detail. He is a Hungarian photographer and when he moved to France in the 1920's, he focused more on everyday objects like the fork. When he lived in Hungary he usually took photographs of people that lived in his area. 
He relates to the everyday objects topic because he takes photographs of very simple objects.

In this the lighting has obviously been thought about because the shadows are directly under the actual object which shows us that the lighting is coming from straight above, it isn't at an angle, this works well because it has a lot of contrast, it looks very sharp. The light is also reflecting off of the fork which makes it look very bright and gives the fork a 3D shape.

This image is of two pairs of glasses and a smoking pipe, the composition of this image is interesting because one pair of the glasses are sitting with the arms in the air, whilst the other ones are laying on the table flat. This is interesting because it's very simplistic, however it makes you wonder why someone put their glasses down like that, as it could ruin the lens of the glasses. It could show that one of the people care about their possessions more than the other, the pair that have their arms in the air look newer than the others as they are more bent and they are a darker colour, this could be showing how some richer people show less care for their objects as they didn't have to invest in them as much as a poorer person would.

Peter Keetman:

This is a very interesting photograph of some metal poles, the way Keetman has photographed this makes it look like bubbles in a way, they are all different sizes as he has brought some further towards him and some further away from him so that the sizes are very different. In addition, the light is reflecting off of the end of the pole which made it quite white, this heavily contrasts with the black hole in the centre of the pole. 

This image is of Volkswagen cars, they are all the same car although they are different colours. I like this contrast because it makes the photograph quite interesting to look at.