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Styles: Still Life
Lighting 
With still life, it is important to get the lighting right so that you can create some depth in the picture. Most people don't have professional studio setups, but you can still get some great pictures using a few spot lights and a backing cloth.
Lighting from the side will create depth.
Avoid on camera flash 
The direct-on light creates a very flat image. Use an external flash off the camera, or bounce the light of a side wall or reflector.
Accessories 
Reflectors and softboxes are very useful to create a natural light. Also things like a bottle of water (see picture below).
Set yourself a challenge
Almost anything can be the subject of a still life picture. So why not look around the house, office or garden and just pick something. Then see if you can make an interesting picture of it.
<<more key points will be added here soon>>
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Photo by Phil
I amd sure many people have take a still life picture of a bowl of fruit. Here's a slightly different approach where the photographer has used water to provide some additional interest.
Wetting the apples has given them more of a shine, and the drops of water were frozen using the flash. |
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Photo by Phil
Looks like it should be from a Bud advertising poster.
Here, a simple handheld torch (flashlight) was used to provide illumination - the golden colour coming from the colour of the beer itself. |
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Photographs
This is a site about photography so I'm sure you are expecting to see plenty of pictures.
For now, why not take a peek at the flickr galleries belonging to the two authors of this site.
Colin's Flickr Page
Phil's Flickr Page
"For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. " - Ruth Bernhard
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