Anita Calero- Photographer

Anita photographs everything, food, fashion, floral or cosmetics, her photography is always beautifully executed. From her color choices to her lighting and composition, I find her photographs really inspiring....

She had so many images, beautiful images, i chose a few images of food to inform my research and ideas.

Love the lighting and brightness of this image, its also quite vintage looking.

This is image is one of my favourites of Anitas work, I feel it connects with my ideas, thinking of love, france, affection and kissing. 

Carl Kleiner- Photographer

Carl Kleiner is a still life photography are superbly creative, even if its fashion, food or advertising Carl has an impressive imagination.

I found this work very simple but effective and will help me with my shoot, as it shows good lighting, compostition and layout and shows a great way of useing food, also the images have a sort of humour about them.

Tuesdays Tutorial

Our first tutorial after the classes trip to London and my trip to Alpe d'Huez was very successful I feel, Everybody had some great photos and was interesting to listen to what experiences everyone had had compared to mine.

From the tutorial I feel I have a good starting point now to further my research, we talked about looking at doing something with heads (famous heads, or regular peoples heads) from the igloo Exhibition based on 'famous people'. 

Famous People Exhibition

Also we spoke about an interesting image I took whilst in France which is quite a beautiful image.

Below.

View from balcony .

I thought it would be interesting to maybe shoot my still life throw something such as a heart. Also in France the feel I got from there and in the mountains is affection and love, they are all very friendly and from my dinning experience where we ate, everyone was french and everywhere you look they are doing the double cheek kiss which i find amazing! The affection and love of France inspires me. So after tutorials I am thinking something to do with hearts, shooting through something, kisses and heads, a good start to get going with my research. 

Also my earlier research on Painter, Sculptors,Illustrators and Photographers has given me inspiration, the very famous artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo who is a painter, paints food like fruits and vegetables and makes them into abstract faces, I thought i could bring the Exhibition research and this artist research together and maybe create something along these lines. 

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Also when in France i noticed the beautiful Carpentry, the joinery and work that goes into the buildings are phi nominal. I am going to research into French Carpentry and Joinery.

French Salads

Trip to Alpe d'Huez

I took a snowboarding trip to France to explore the priest of Alpe d'Huez, Its a little village in the Alpes and hour and a half from Grenoble. Most of the time we was skiing and snowboarding, however i manage to take some pictures of surroundings, food and experiences.

Food experience In Tampopo

Tampopo is an eastern restaurant where you can pick a dish or dishes from any part of the eastern map. 

These were the sauces you got with the dishes all very spicy.

The map that colour coded  countries and named dishes down the side.

The restaurant inside had a great feel to low lighting, and long eastern looking tables with red pillows to sit on, you could also see the chief cooking your food on the left.  

All eastern waiters and spicy above on shelves, all quirky little packaging.

I had Singapore noodles, delicacy from Malaysia.  

Manchester Food Market

I was very surprised with this market as I had never visited this food market, there are some cute and quirky little stalls. I really loved the Cake shop, the cakes were very intricately made and the colours were beautiful. Also the Chinese fruit and veg stall intrigued me, there was a few exotic fruits and smells that reminded me of my travels to Malaysia and the different shapes and colours were very interesting . Below are a few images I took, I would like to revisit so capture some more detailed pictures of the items i was interested in.