For this project, choose either the still-life approach described above, or a larger scale shot, which involves choosing viewpoint and lens focal length.
The first thing I had to go, of course perhaps, was to find out what the word ‘juxtaposition’ actually means. The simple definition is ‘put side by side’ (this from ‘The Oxford Dictionary of Current English’ which I bought for £2.50 more than 20 years ago). I don’t know why I used the word simple: perhaps because I thought there was something more to ‘juxtapose’ than that. So off I went to the internet, to dictionary.com, or thefreedictionary.com, or whatever. And here I found the addition of the phrase ‘often for comparison’. Which seemed to make it a much bigger word somehow.
And this is what I came up with…
Project 66: juxtaposition
Hmmmm, I hear you saying. It took ages! Ages? you ask. That took ages?! Well the objects are juxtaposed; they’re side-by-side for comparison (a natural product and a man-made one). And the piece of resistance – check out the number on the calculator…
