P10 background experimentation

After my second shoot in the studio I hit the charity shops of Hereford looking for table cloths and patterned material. I was surprised to find that there wasn't as much choice as I was expecting. I guess it's just one of those things where it seems like there's lots about but when you're looking for something there's none to be found! So, there's a couple that I've bought and a couple that I've borrowed from other people. The red gingham one is actually one of my duvet covers photographed, firstly the with the right side out but I felt that it was a little bit too vibrant so I turned it inside to mute down the colours. 

These are recipes that had belong to my Nanna. The one above she had written by hand and the one below she typed up using a type writer. These will be included in the final body of work to give it context. I've photographed them for now but I want to try scanning them.

P10 studio shoot 2

For my second shoot I borrowed a table cloth from one of my lecturers so I could start to see what the objects look like photographed against a patterned background. While I much prefer these images to the bright white background from the previous shoot I'm not sure this table cloth is "the one". It's quite a big, bright pattern which, I feel, distracts from the objects, especially where they lie flat against the surface.