After finding numerous abandoned objects and taking Still Life images of them I began to tweak them slightly within Photoshop. This left me with the following photos to arrange into my final triptych….

    

I wished to remain inspired by the work of Edward Weston, and immediately chose two images that reminded me of other things, the rat stampede and the snake doing yoga I think are both such powerful images on their own (the yoga snake remaining tranquil whilst the rat stampeded represents panic and disorder) that they needed to be present within the triptych regardless. I then decided to try and use the love figurine as a juxtaposing center figure between the two, a catalyst to set off the emotions I wanted the other two images to create for an audience. This gave me this triptych…

However, it was the structure that let the piece down. The baggy platform of the center image made it stand out from the other two meaning they didn’t run alongside each other perfectly. Something had to be done. I Swapped the center image for a third animal piece, the scrunched up wrapping paper insect. I tried to arrange the three from darkest to lightest, allowing the creatures and the emotions I wished to evoke from each image to reach across the triptych and connect the three images more, however my first attempt at this new triptych didn’t represent this very well.

But there were still problems, as not only were the images not in the right order light-wise but the focus on them seemed to dissipate when I put them together in a triptych. I imported the images into Photoshop promptly (Lightroom refuses to work for me) to try and fix the problems. I altered the opacity of the duel layers for each image to try and increase the focus as well as changing the order of the three to create a flowing light effect.

I think the final Triptych works well in its concept more than anything, the technical aspect of my photography definitely needs work. For example my focusing still needs practice, as well as my use of white balance to nail the warmth of my images but  overall I think the idea is good enough to not let the piece be dragged down by the minor problems.