Imogen Cunningham Research (Natural Form)

My first photographer I am focussing on, is Imogen Cunningham. On Tuesday 13th September we are doing a lighting workshop in school and we are focussing on lighting. I chose Imogen Cunningham as my artist, as she focusses on lighting and close ups of objects such as flowers, which creates shadowing and a very good contrast. Most of her photos are taken in black and white and she uses digital photography so I will use digital photography. My inspirtation for one of my shoots I will be doing is the famous painter Caravaggio as he painted still life so I will take this inspiriation of flowers and food to use in my shoot. Another inspiration is Mary Slingo who takes pictures of flowers and landscapes.

This is one of Imogens photographs and I like this photo because of the contrast. A black background has been used which works well against the white flower. You can see that this photograph involves lighting as certain parts of the flower seem to be more lighter than other parts which causes good shadowing. I will use this on my lighting shoot as I will take pictures of flowers of other objects such as fruit and vegetables but I don't want them to be perfect, I want them to be a bit different so then I can capture the great shadows that object will make. Imogen has photographed the flower in the middle of the photo so it is dead centre but I might centre my objects on the left or right so i can get a full view of it's shadow.

This is another one of Imogens photos and this photo is much closer up so you can see the detail which I will use when I take a photograph of a flower for an example. Lighting has been used again as you can see the shadowing on the petals, also a black and white mode would be good if you have a light and dark flower or fruit/veg as it will capture the colours and make a good contrast.