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The still-life is one of classical and beautiful genres of a photo. If other genres such as: the portrait, architecture, a foodstuff, etc. cause certain associations, then still-life reproduces to everyone beholding the certain notions. Ideas of a still-life reflect beauty, courtliness, a sight on the other hand on usual and daily themes. Presence of fruit, vegetables, of flowers at the heart of a still-life reproduce special feeling of warmth, brightness and originality of gifts of nature.
Important points at still-life photography are:
- The ideological decision
- Composition decision
- Choice of light
With idea and a still-life composition everyone is defined itself. For choice of light it is necessary to tell about some nuances.
In shooting of still-life widely use all graphic means of a photo - light and a colour score, a tonality and the diversified composition methods. Light should reproduce completeness of a composition, reflect in a picture dimensions of forms and the texture of a surface of subjects and their arrangement in space.
In most cases the still-life represents the large image of subjects. In pictures they should look such with what we them have got used to see in a real life. And it is possible only provided that the texture of a surface of subjects will be reproduce thanks to corresponding installation of lighting devices.
At shooting of a still-life happens enough to use only one light source, to receive interesting as to a tonality and of light decision a picture.
At photographing of products from porcelain use both a white and black background. Thereby contrast light and dark is reached. For accurate allocation of contours of service it is possible to use back-lateral (counter light), a ceiling light, and in front subjects to shine with diffused light sources.
It is not necessary to forget that a brilliant surface of porcelain and glass products at their light by frontntlateral light strongly be reflected. Presence of patches of light is undesirable. If to photograph products from the transparent or painted glass on a gleam, having arranged behind glass subjects the white, brightly shined background, all patches of light on a surface disappear.
More difficult on construction and technology of photographing are dynamical still-lifes. Certainly, most simply to remove such subjects with use of lamps-flashes, but also at light of usual soffits shooting of moving subjects or a flowing liquid is possible.
At photographing of still-lifes it is necessary to give special attention to a background. In most cases a surface on which subjects are placed, and a background are divided by a horizontal line that stirs to complete perception of a picture as it divides the image on two parts. To avoid this line in a picture, it is necessary to choose or a high point of shooting, or as a background to use enough the big sheet of paper on the size or a fabric piece. Thus the paper or a fabric should, being smoothly bent to pass from a horizontal plane in the vertical.