Fruit observation.
In this project I was looking at food –
fruits in particular and observed how they
overripe
and rot. The reason for such a choice is my interest in food photography. I
always admired those fancy bright pictures of delicious food on the clean
background. And the brief for this project gave me chance to go ahead and try
it myself. However I though it would be interesting to experiment and take
fancy pictures of fruits not only when they are fresh and look juicy and
delicious but also capture their slow dying and becoming ugly and unatractive.
So I set my camera on the tripod and kept
taking pictures every once in a while when the fruits were changing. I found it
quite interesting that my four chosen fruits: banana, strawberry, avocado and
peach were changing and behaving differently in terms of timeframes.
Day 1.
Most of the noticable
change happened to banana and strawbery during the 1rst day. They changed color
and become more ripe.
Day 2.
Overnight avocado lost its healthy light
green color and turned brown. I observed quite a noticeable change in
strawberry. It dried and shrunk and lost it’s attractive ripe juicy look while
peach and banana did not change much. A few black dots and lines appeared on
the banana, and peach darkened and shrunk a little, though they both still look
eatable.
Day 3.
On the third day only banana kept its
eatable looks. Even though I’m personally a fan of slightly green bananas I
guess other people still wouldn’t mind having a bite of this ripe yellow one.
The rest of the fruits are not looking well.
Day 4.
Nothing changed much. All the fruits
apart from banana lost their appetizing look, but the change is not very
perceptible comparing to the results of the previous day.
Day 5.
All the fruits pretty much lost their
attractiveness. Banana is the only one that still looked eatable (however not
very appetizing). The other three fruits shrunk conspicuously. Peach caged the most
overnight. It shrunk a lot and got ugly little wrinkles all over it.
Day 6.
There is no noticable
pictures on the camera’s angle of view, yet peach has got mold on it.
Evaluation.
This project was quite fun. I learned a
lot about time-based photography. I also learned about the imperfections of
data photography. In my case On 6th day
one of the fruits got molded, however the mold grew underneath the peach and
from the camera angle I couldn’t capture it as it would interfere with the aestetics.
A quick gif showing the process
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