Final Images...

For my final images i used a series of kitchen utensils and firstly either abstracted them or transformed them, and secondly I created a pattern from the whole or parts of the object. I mainly found inspiration in works of Levi Brown, a product photographer and M.C. Escher, a mathematical graphic artist.

Spoon Transformation...

For the image above I have transformed the spoons into eggs and placed them inside a 1Doz egg carton as a background/supporting scene. the lighting setup was pretty basic with just a single light angled in toward the eggs/spoons, the way this light hits the eggs makes them look like golden eggs which is helped by the sepia overtone of the image. I think this was a very successful transformation because of it's simplicity in both form and objects in the frame.

Spoon Pattern...

The image above is a pattern formed of spoons. For this image I created an intire circle of spoons wich was then repeted through the image and resized. The lighting was simple again having a top down light which fully illuminated the spoons, also what helped this image was the reflection of me taking the photograph, my reflection can only be pin pointed by zooming in to a single spoon but the forms and colours that it gives off really help to add to the slightly bland/blank silver reflection of just the spoon itself.

Sushi Mat Abstraction...

This abstraction of the sushi mat was achieved by a low angle close-up shot of the mat which formed in ridges and valleys. The setup for this image was an underlit translucent white table which gave a very interesting background around the falloff of the light creating a white to black area which at the edge of the mat created a blue fade to black to contrast the stark white entrance that the image has.

Sushi Mat Pattern...

In this image I had intended on making a ninja star out of the sushi mat but as i had previously experimented with the spoons in a pattern I thought I would give it a go with the ninja star sushi mat. I really liked the results as it had a second level of abstraction of the ninja star. The setup for this image was similar to that of the spoons. This was then made black and white as I thought the colour of the sushi mat was a little distracting as i wanted to concentrate on it's form and also it made it siut the other patterns nicely as they are prodominantly black and white. Again like the spoons the form was replicated and the results look really good creating diagonal lines and interesting negative shapes.

Can Opener Abstraction...

This image is proberbly my favourite of the non-pattern shots as the angle and lighting gives the object a personality and reminds me of an election photograph the way the bright beam of light in the background hits the head of the screw and the angle of the head as if it was looking up and out to a brighter future (I know that was cheesy). The shot was taken using the double lens technique which mimics a macro lens allowing extreme close upswith a cool vingette that focuses the eye on the subject. the lighting was simply just a directional light which back lights the object but is slightly offset to highlight the head.

Can Opener Pattern...

The can opener pattern was proberbly the most successful pattern and kind of looks like a wacky 70's wallpaper much like the spoons. The setup for this shot was toplit but slightly angled toward one side to give the tip highlights and lowlights instead of looking flat and uniform, this is what gives the pattern an interesting look which when reflected adds to the pattern also. Much the same as the other patterns it was multiplied