A Pepper, but not just a pepper.

Still working with peppers.  These are the latest images, I don’t think the results I’m getting are quite representing what I’m seeing in my head.  I want Edward Weston sexy peppers and I’m getting…mmmm, grocery store ad. Our assignment for studio lighting was ‘shiny stuff’ which really opened a lot of doors for me in terms of lighting the peppers shiny surfaces and I really enjoy some of the elements but the whole image is not working.  I started misting the peppers with my spray bottle just because I really like water and reflections in my photos but I don’t think its a significant enough addition.  I have also just been shooting randomly (but not randomly, just without a clear unifying subject) and enjoying those results but I’m almost wishing I didn’t.  The images are extremely graphic and have a design quality to them that I’m really attracted to but I wouldn’t say that is the kind of photography I usually like to look at.  Again…I’m looking for sensual not hard lines.  I have been thinking a lot of about shooting environments that aren’t what they seem.  This is hard to explain.  I like the idea of taking a picture of something, or just a part of something so that it becomes something else in the image entirely.  The pictures of rocks below illustrate what I’m talking about…maybe thats a picture of some western landscape I went climbing around on?  Maybe not.  They’re close up images of a rock sculpture on campus, but you get the idea…

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