Research log - Everyday objects

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This image is very minimalist and it is of lollipops on a blue background, I like this image because it has the shades of the lollipops going down. It starts off with a very dark red on the left and the right is completely white, I think that the photographer probably did this because it just looks very aesthetic. The photographer used a blue background, this is possibly to make it look like the lollipops are floating.
I also think that the lollipops look like they are getting lighter and the reason for this might be that it looks like it is wearing away and the layers are lighter and lighter underneath.

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This photograph is of a piece of cake, I think it is quite interesting because it is an action shot, I think that the photographer must've edited the image as it is not very realistic, although I like the idea behind it a lot. I probably won't use this sort of thing in my shoots as I don't think it would be very good as I don't have a very good knowledge of photoshop.

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I like how simplistic this image and how much of a contrast it is, this photograph has a sweet taking place of the actual toothpaste which is interesting because usually toothpaste is used to clean teeth and we wouldn't use something sugary like a sweet to clean our teeth. I like the simplicity of this image, although it has obviously had a lot of thought behind it. It might've taken a while to work out how the toothpaste would fall to recreate it with the sweet.

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This photograph is showing the ingredients of a fruit salad separately, I like this because it is very organised, all of the different food is separated out and laid out nicely. I also like how it goes from very colourful, to almost black and white in colour. I think this works well as well because it also goes down in size, the chunks of apple are the biggest and they get smaller until it's the white polka dots which I am not sure what that is.

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This photograph is of a person holding a fork with some multicolour spaghetti on it, I can't tell if it is edited on the computer or if it is something like rubber bands that can come in a lot of different colours. I like the creativity behind this, but also how simple it is 

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This image is of some monopoly characters, they are very simple but I really like how they have been photographed as you can see the reflection beneath them.

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I like this image because it is very creative, the photographer has used sowing utensils to make the shape of a sowing machine. It would've taken a long time to set this image up which shows a lot of dedication and preparation, in addition 

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This image is by Jim Golden, I really like this image because it has so much repetitiveness. I like how he has laid out the locks and keys so that there is gaps between each thing, whilst there still being a lot of difference between each thing, it isn't the same thing over and over, meaning although it all fits together, it is all different objects. I think this looks good because we can see all the different locks and the differences between them. Most of the keys are very small which means that you don't notice them straight away.

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This image is also by Jim Golden, I like this image because it is so nicely laid out, it works because he has used a large amount of the same object, and with this image, you can tell that he has done it in very large scale, some of these cameras are very big but because of how many cameras there, you can't tell the size of them.

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This image is by Andre Kertesz, similar to the cutlery photograph that he took, however it doesn't use shadows. I really like this image because of the way that it is set out, one of the pairs of glasses is leant on the table with its lenses on it, this says to me that whoever's they are, doesn't care about the glasses much because they don't mind them being scratched. It could be portraying his wife and her death, she doesn't need the glasses anymore so they aren't being cared for, or maybe hers are the ones propped up correctly, and his are being scratched, because he doesn't care as much anymore.

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This photograph is of hundreds of rubber bands all over the table, they seem to be almost creating a wave like pattern, rather than just completely flat. This image is interesting because it isn't a normal image of rubber bands, it is quite odd in comparison to a lot of others.

I could use something like this for my shoot, however I don't think I would want to work with rubber bands for my shoot. I would prefer to use something more solid.

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This image is very interesting because it looks like a beehive, however it is actually straws, the angle that the photograph has been taken at leads me to think that it looks like a beehive, especially due to the colour of the straws as well. It is quite an abstract piece of work and I really like it because it is very original. I have not seen anyone do something like that before.

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This is an image similar to Andre Kertesz, however this one seems to be more thought through and staged, whereas Kertesz image looks very candid and that he took it on the spot. This image was definitely staged as nobody usually puts there forks up like that. However I still really like this image despite this.