>>4496665Yeah. Spending almost a year at this point taking essentially only egg based still lifes has been an excellent way to practice photography on a deeper level than simply camera manipulation. All that stuff is relatively easy. Making an image entirely from scratch is not.
After so long working egg photography I've finally come up with a formal idea for a series of printed still lifes that I think will be amazing. A simple idea conceptually, but one that has really good potential. My series will not really be classical still lifes, but close enough. The bricks one and the reeds one are my first two I've taken for the series.
A fun side effect of working still lifes for hundreds of hours is that it has helped boost confidence, skill, and creativity in other posed or controlled forms of photography like portraiture.
Something that was always a bit difficult for me at first was building height in my more formal still lifes. I think your picture feels a bit unbalanced vertically. The negative space it creates in the image doesn't do anything to enhance. I understand your constraints made this difficult at the time.
A fun way to practice is creating a still life that uses implied triangles between objects to create composition. You can use other shapes, but triangles is a classic. Limiting the number of elements is also a good way to practice.
Here's a phone picture test shot of the third image in my series. This is just to visualize form, see how different backgrounds look, and to play with cropping. I'll spend time over multiple days working on these before I actually take a picture on film. If I'm lucky it will be a one and done.
