OUGD603 - Brief 5 - Live Brief - Conscious Creatives - Wildflower and Fungi Exhibition - Development - Photography compositions with leaf backgrounds

Photography compositions

It was considered that perhaps all of the flowers could be laid on a piece of paper with leaves scattered behind to create the effect of you looking through a wildflower meadow. Photographing the composition so that the bottoms of the stems couldn't be seen would allow the idea of them sproating up to be created. Having a line of grass along the bottom could better create the impression of them growing from the ground despite being laid horizontally on paper.

To create the impression of you looking through a wildflower patch it was considered blue could be used as a background for the leaves, however this dark shade of blue was not working. Folding some of the leaves so they stuck up and had more of a three dimensional element to them created more depth within the scene. Potentially the use of multiple greens is too much and the amount of leaves within the composition may make it look quite busy.

Placing the leaves on a brown background allowed the leaves to stand out much more and complemented the natural greens within the design however this looks like soil rather than looking through to the sky.

Using the flowers ontop of the leaf designs looked too busy. The size and colour of the poppy meant the eye was naturally drawn to this which detracted from the other flowers within the design. Overall the use of the flowers above the leaves behind wasn't really working as there was no structure to the arrangement, however I was conscious that having too much of an organised layout would then not look natural.

It was considered that perhaps the design could be framed within a square to reflect the idea of a small patch of space from which things can grow from. Letting element of the design cross over onto the white paper outside the frame, created the impression of the leaves growing out and also softened the geometric square shape.

Adding flowers by placing the stems underneath the frame meant that the heads of the flowers popped up through the hole, which emphasised the three dimensionality of the flowers. This created the impression of a birds eye view of the flowers as if you were looking down on a patch of wildflowers.

Multiple frames could be used with elements popping out of them. This could be adapted to look like cracks in a pathway with the wildflower weeds popping out of them.

The white contrasts with the use of different colours within the design however is perhaps a little boring as a background colour.