Tools

This was a prompt assigned to me by one of my students. I thought it would be the easiest one I would shoot. My father collects tools, finds tools on the side of the road, and inherits old tools. I thought this would be easy to shoot because of how easily accessible tools are. I toyed around with the idea of shooting tools themselves, to shooting a store that sells tools, or to shoot people using them. I had already shot my father working with tools, so I opted to go with shooting a tool. I went down to my dad's workshop to shoot. Its in a basement, the lighting is terrible and its cluttered because its my parents are pack rats. I decided to use this drill press as its a tool that I used growing up. Seeing brought back some memories of my dad and I working together. In order to get this shot, I had to angle my camera against an old dishcloth that was being supported by a 2 x 4. I used the self timer because if I tripped the shutter the camera would move from me pushing the shutter release button.

Done