Inspiration: Ellen Kooi

Ellen Kooi's website

I came across Ellen Kooi's book Within From Without during first quarter and decided to check it out of the library again recently. I personally think her images are awe inspiring because most are pretty simple and she uses light extremely well. She also usually uses color extremely well in her images. If I had had more time for the final I definitely would have liked to try something similar to her work, especially since her images easily fit into the category of the constructed image.
Here are some of my favorite images created by Kooi:

 

Images by Ellen Kooi.

Final Still Life

My personal favorites of all the still lifes I printed. Critiques always welcome.

 

 

Final Still Life

4 of my final 6 still life images.

 

Apple

Probably not using this as one of my final still lifes but I still like it.

OJ the old fashioned way

An image (straight out of camera) I'm thinking of reshooting tomorrow since the highlights are kind of bugging me. Any critiques/comments very welcome.

Todd Hido

I enjoyed Todd Hido speaking almost as much as I enjoyed Kareem Black speaking. I really preferred Hido's images over Black's though. Hido is a fine art photographer who also does commercial work, but he mainly stuck to showing and talking about his personal work. It really came across that Hido loved photography and it made for an interesting lecture from him. Photography is very personal for him, as his subjects relate to his past. I liked the ambiguity of some of his images, particularly those of houses. The houses appear as if they could be almost anywhere and allow the viewer to relate to them easily. After hearing Hido speak today I definitely think I might move towards fine art photography, though I can't be too sure yet.

More Still Life

Critiques welcomed, especially on which of the two star fruit images is better and why.

 

And one non-fruit still life: