This photo reminds me of the Christmas candy I had as a child and that my grandmother seemed to have year-round. Hard, yummy candies that turned the corners of my mouth red and green. My brother and I couldn’t wait to get to Grandma’s house and dig into her stockpiles of sweets. Great stuff. It’s not fancy or flashy and isn’t branded to go with any movie launches, but it is a classic, a staple of the American candy landscape.
I admit it. I have a bit of a photo crush on my friend Abby, who made this picture. I have used her photos before and repeat, maybe a little too defensively, that she is a great photographer. That’s it.
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In keeping with the theme of this week, here we have a photo of candy corn. Yep. One of my newest favorite photographers in Frances Civello, a fellow photographer based in Hershey, PA. As you might guess, she take lots of photos of candy and chocolate, since she lives in the town where sweetness was invented. We have featured her work before and everyone here loves her sense of composition.
Speaking of composition, Frances does a great job in this photo centering the subject. Note that this photo does not follow the rule of thirds, to which I have made previous reference. However, the perfect centering makes it an appealing and interesting photo to behold. The lines are all regular and offer a defined structure, wherein the individual kernels of candy corn, plucked fresh from the candy cob, arranged in a natural, yet somewhat chaotic manner, reside.
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My friend Abby is a great photographer partly because she has a great eye for composition. Also, she tries new things all the time, and most of all because she take lots and lots of pictures and doesn’t seem to feel inhibited when pulling her camera out in public. Lots of people are inhibited and their work suffers from the lack of practice.
This photo is a great example of bokeh, a Japanese term referring to the “aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus areas of an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field.” Yeah, the Wikipedia helped me out with that one. This differs from the simple depth-of-field example I used last week because bokeh refers specifically to the out-of-focus area. Abby’s photo below uses a shallow depth of field to achieve bokeh in both the foreground and background of the in-focus area:
Another, more exaggerated example of bokeh in action is this photo below by locksmith in aylesbury, which has no area in focus at all. However, these are still identifiable as M&Ms, or at least believable as such. The main subject of the photo is clear, even if significantly out of focus:
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Flickr user Frances Civello has a pretty neat photo here. The first thing that struck me was the shallow depth of field and that having the packaging out of focus does not reduce its ability to send its particular message. The second thing that struck me is that these are all ingredients for s’mores. All that’s missing is a bonfire. That’s a good thing, mind you, as it’s way too hot for a fire right now. This is better weather for turning these ingredients into a s’more milkshake.
All the same, the photo doesn’t say anything about that cultural candy construct – the s’more. It just shows some pieces and lets your brain figure out the rest. Great photo, Frances!
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Photo Wednesday is back on track, no longer forgotten and made up for on Thursdays. After that hearty praise Susan gave me, too. Oy.
Flickr user princess_of_llyr has some great candy photos but this one really captured my attention. The translucent gummi bears convey the idea of deliciousness and their grid formation, a rather rigid alignment, is a stark contrast against the fun of the candy and the bright colors. Great composition, Sera! Oh, did I mention that the photographer is the very same Sera who runs The Candy Enthusiast? We are definitely in good company here!
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I did photograph this but I have to give credit to my brother Leroy, who was with me in my studio and was the brains behind the small grouping of berries off to the side. I think that really makes the photo more interesting. It’s funny how small touches like that really affect the whole look of an image. After we were done shooting, I let him take the chocolate covered blueberries home for his wife. Photographers’ wives need special care sometimes. Thanks for your help, Leroy!
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We featured a cake with Kissables on top but have not really looked closely at the candies themselves. The clean glass gives us a good window to see these through and the artistic angle makes it a particularly interesting composition. Good job!
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