Still life photography is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects. It is the application of photography to the still life artistic style. An example is food photography.
This genre gives the photographer more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition compared to other photographic genres, such as landscape or portrait photography. Lighting and framing are important aspects of still life photography composition.
Still life in painting has a very long history, I believe the Egyptians painted still life scenes in their tombs.
This is not something that I had tried before so a weekend playing with objects to get a picture was at time frustrating and at other times amusing. Here are a few of the results.
(... and its a good book)
Time to start swotting!
I have Bean canoeing.
Time for a cuppa.
Times to read the news
