Andrew Vernon

Fine art landscape photographer Andrew Vernon is the man behind this striking image titled The Wave. A master of composition, Vernon gives the blood red liquid in this image a life of its own as it lines and overflows the wall of the glass.

 Lafugue Logos

With a passion for still life, photographing flowers in particular, the talented artist’s portfolio is full of serene, dream-like images such as this.

 Niko Vass

He’s all about simplicity, allowing his compositions, lighting and colours do the talking. 

 Henry Hargreaves

Talented photographer Henry Hargreaves is well known for his weird and wonderful compositions. Specialising in still life photography, Hargreaves continually raises the bar with his work and this Smoke and Lilies series is no exception. The idea is simply what the title suggests; gorgeous, paint-dripping lilies surrounded by smoke on a black background.

Magda Indigo

Magda Indigo has been a professional photographer for over 25 years. In that time, she’s worked with clients including Harper Collins, Microsoft, Samsung, Hallmark, and American Express. She’s also a Getty Images artist. Indigo is recognised mainly for her extraordinary flower, people, and food photography, with these beautiful Enoki mushrooms being a perfect example of the latter.

The photography style of “Still life” was firstly invented in the 17^th Century. The painting generally considered to be the first still life is a work by the Italian painter Jacopo De’Barbari painted 1504. The “golden age” of still-life painting occurred in the Lowlands during the 17th century.

Still Life in Photography is stereotypically seen as having objects in the frame of the shot and them being taken to life by adding effects, props, models, art, surfaces, layers, animals, rocks, lighting, etc. Still life Photography is the representation of lifeless subjects, which are mainly a small grouping of objects (such as flowers or fruits). It is a picture consisting primarily objects (a representation chiefly of inanimate objects as a painting of a bowl of fruit).

Furthermore, still life photography gives the photographer a more flexible way of arranging the design elements within a composition. This photography demands art, one which the photographer is expected to be able to form their work with a refined sense of lighting, coupled with compositional skills. The goal of a still life composition is to direct the viewer’s eye through a painting and lead them toward what the artist thinks is important. … Many beginning painters tend to devote their energy to drawing and painting objects accurately and find it difficult to create a strong composition.

In my opinion, to perform a great still life photograph you should: Choose subjects that speak to you, Get comfortable with the lighting, get hold of a decent tripod to keep your photos crisp, get an impressive but simple background and compose a shot in a way only you see the object. 

Lastly, nowadays still life photography can be portrayed in a modern style, the backgrounds are more colourful or more intense and not just simple, the idea and meaning is far more overthought than it should be and its mainly make up or accessories that are taken into consideration. Moreover, still life gets more retouching introduced and photoshop is a major deal with it too as the photographers and artist want to create something that the human eye never seen before and all the mainstream ideas has already been taken decades ago.