Connecting Essay 1

This photograph is one that I collected when researching how to perform food colouring in water on the internet. In this image, the photographer used ink as appose to food colouring as it is stronger and they were able to create the illusion that it was separated from the water. The photographer used three glasses, and placed them in a row on white backgrounds, they also used a white stand to place the cups on which allowed him to use shadows. There are several shadows around each glass, all from different angles to suggest there was several light sources. This is also displayed through the light reflections on each side of the glass. I like this image for many reasons; firstly, I feel like the choice of colours was key in making the ink stand out. The use of the strong green, in juxtaposition to the calm blue and the bright yellow stands out to me. I also feel like if he had used weaker colours which were not as strong, such as light colours, it would not stand out as much. Secondly, the photographer captured the glass in its entirety, which is what most photographs do not do. Finally, I like how the ink in particularly the yellow, appears to be coming out of the bottom of the glass. 

Internet

The following image is one that I took from a shoot in which I dropped food colouring into a wine glass. In the following image, I edited it heavily in photoshop to make it appear as though the image was taken at once. I cropped three different parts of where the food colouring fell into the water and mixed, I then placed the three in a triptych and edited the curves to get rid of the corners of the glass. I made the background bright white, in which it was not in the unedited photographs. I didn't enhance the colours of the food colouring in these images, which is why I like the choice of colours so much. I found inspiration for these images when I was online looking at different photographers. Many of them took images in which they captured high speed images of water hitting an object and the impact that it had on them. I chose not use any borders on the image to make it appear as though it was all one image and was occurring simultaneously. I chose to flip the blue and red image, so that they were directing towards the image, I feel like this helped me as it meant that the viewer was drawn towards the centre which was the yellow image.

Own Image

There is a strong connection between my image and the image I found online when I was looking at internet images of different liquids being dropped into water. One of the strongest, is the context of the image in which they both feature different coloured liquids being dropped into water. In the first image, they chose to capture the entire glass. In the image I have chosen to compare, I chose to zoom directly into the food colouring. I had taken other images in which I shot using a wine glass, however, I struggled to show the entire glass as a lot of my set meant that there was a back lighting to stop the reflection on the glass being too strong. The colours are also very similar, although I chose not to use green as it didn't come up strong in my images and was too runny, therefore it didn't have the same effect that the other thicker liquids did.