Biscuits and chocolates were my next subject idea for this assignment, as they aren’t organic and are mass produced and shaped by machinery, therefore I hoped that each individual item would be the same size and shape, eliminating some of the chances of inaccuracy. I searched the supermarket shelves to find a variety of interesting snacks that were also shaped geometrically and that I could envision would make effective compositions. Party Rings, Chocolate Rounds, Shortbreads, Pink Panthers, Chocolate Digestives and After Eight Mints were all chosen to be my subjects; the most challenging of them were the ones coated in chocolate, which always held the possibility of melting and left the occasional mark on the card I used in the background. It was great fun to experiment with compositions and arranging these delicious treats into eye-catching, novelty images that I think will form an interesting set as a group of 4, with similar subject matters carried across each image. Also, I took the feedback from the last tutorial into account and chose the coloured card in the background by referring to the colour wheel and using complementary colours to further make the images pop.

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Next, I chose the most successful, accurate images and took them into Camera Raw and Photoshop to use the pipet tool to selectively choose individual areas of the images and change the Hue, Luminance and Saturation of the colours to really make the colourful backgrounds pop, and make the subject matter stand out from the background. I wanted these images to have high impact due to the bright colours and the novelty of using biscuits, with some nostalgic snacks from childhood in there such as the Party Rings and Pink Panther biscuits. These images are below: