Exercise Viewpoint

For this exercise, we were asked to choose a selection of objects to photograph, along one of the theme’s listed.

I chose the theme ‘The Morning After’, so gathered bottles of various shapes and sizes, and three or four glasses.

I set them up on a small kitchen table against a plain wall, and photographed them from different angles, zooming in and out so that I could capture different parts of the set up.

I then chose twelve images and printed them off so I could put them in my sketchbook.

Using masking tape I created square, thin rectangle, diamond and rectangle formats on the images to use for thumbnail sketches.

From these thumbnail sketches I chose Image Number 2 as my favourite, to make into a larger illustration.

I liked the way the bottles appear at angle, giving the overall design an interesting feel to it.

Which viewpoint best fitted the word your objects illustrated?  Why was this?

The viewpoint I think best suits the words ‘The morning after’ is the one displayed in image six.  This is a nice clear view of the whisky bottle, which is half full, and an empty bottle next to it, which implies, perhaps, that it has been a heavy night of drinking. Having the image zoomed in like this doesn’t give much detail of what else could be going on, so you have to make your own conclusions from it.

Which format best illustrated your words?

I chose to go with rectangular and square shaped formats on the whole, as I felt it didn’t overpower the shapes and angles of the bottles etc on the images where I had zoomed in, or taken the shots with the camera from above, so these formats I would say best illustrated the words.

Did changing viewpoints make you think differently about your choice of objects and arrangement of them?

I don’t think that changing the viewpoints made me want to choose different objects, because I zoomed in quite tightly with the camera on some of the bottles and particularly the brandy glass, I found it made some everyday objects seem more interesting, the detail was greater, giving more meaning to the subject.