Finals

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