Fruit & Veg
I set up a low key shoot to photograph these mushrooms, to isolate them and present them in their natural and simplest form. I photographed these mushrooms from a low angle and in the first photo I angled a whole mushroom to the side of a mushroom cut in half to make an interesting composition, then I chose to use the rule of thirds to make this still life much more fascinating to look at, I also used the rule of thirds in the last photo, but instead I captured just the one mushroom from the side slightly, so I could show the detail of the side of the mushroom and the inside lines. The middle photo is half of a mushroom in the centre from a low angle, I did this on purpose so that the inside detail could be seen and so the bottom of the mushroom is parallel with the edge of the photo, I wanted the photo to be basic and simple so it didn't distract from the detail and tones of the mushroom.
I used the same low key shoot but in a monochrome setting. In the first photo I arranged two peppers to show the side and front shape and how it reflects the light, which was a soft box light. In monochrome you can see the contrast that the yellow and green peppers have, but I wanted to capture the peppers in their simplest form and just show the tones and highlights. I decided in the second photo to position all of the vegetables in a straight line so that I had a photo that wasn't just one object, and to show the contrast of the textures and tones of all the vegetables and monochrome suited this best as in colour you'd be distracted by their colours. The last photo is of a deformed carrot on its side to show its curves against the black background. This photo isn't very successful in my opinion because the settings on the camera do not present the carrot in its best form, the photo could be a little bit more contrasted to show darker tones, but the highlights for this vegetable is harder to achieve unlike the peppers as they are shiny but because of the carrot's dull texture, light cannot be reflected in the same way. The photo of this carrot might have been more successful in colour.
This is a coloured set up to compliment the bright colours of the fruit and vegetables. The pepper and grapefruit is complimented by the pink backdrop, but the pineapple and sweetcorn contrasts instead. The fruit and vegetables have been arranged and positioned in levels so each one can be seen. A spotlight illuminates the arrangement, but the grapefruit that has been cut in half stands out the most due to its shiny texture. The second photo presents the sweetcorn in a weird way, the stand holds the sweetcorn high up and makes it eye-catching.
I wanted to capture this pepper on its own with low lighting so I could show the shapes and tones of the top of the pepper only. However I took this photo in colour because I wanted the pepper to stand out from the black background.
These are still lifes that I manipulated in Photoshop, I chose the invert and drastically change the colours of these fruit and vegetables as I wanted to present them in a way that isn't seen often to draw attention to them.
Sweets
I photographed the sweets with a high key set up and a white background to allow for the coloured packaging and sweets to be the only colours to focus on. This particularly worked for the first photo with the Nerds sweets because the packaging and sweets itself are very colourful, but the addition of the low angled soft box and rule of thirds composition only adds to the attractive detail. The second photo is a Coca-Cola can with scattered Coca-Cola pinball Haribo sweets to create the illusion that they have been poured from the can. Again this composition is in 1/3 of the photo to lead the eye along from the can to the sweets.
The first photo and last photo is transparent packaging being held up against a soft box to see the light through the translucent sweets. The second photo is of the individual love heart sweets with a white backdrop and a high key set up to compliment the pastel colours of the sweets.