Friday, March 22, 2013

Week Five





          This week once again I didn't take any pictures of animals. I focused on the habitat mainly. I really tried to capture the neglect of the animals in the photographs. The way I feel like I captured it is because there's no food or clean water in any of the dishes. In image one and three, it's showing how the animals don't have food. In picture two it shows that they don't provide clean water. In photograph four, I showed semi-dirty water and in the reflection of the water it shows that the animal is in a trapped environment. In my last image I made a triptych of dirty-rusty water that was provided for the animals (in the bottom right picture, it shows that there was a rusty rock inside the water itself). After these images I'm thinking of turning the sadness and neglect to happiness. I will try to show how happy some animals are now that they've found new owners that truly love, and care for them. 

Friday, March 15, 2013

Week Four







For week 4 of my blog I decided to do more of a setting/story thing instead of animals. (Even though the first one I put up was one of my dog looking sad, don't worry he's not sad! He's just about to fall asleep haha.) In some of my images it shows a lot of restriction. For example photographs 2, 4, and 5, show that the animals don't have any freedom. In my third image it shows an unclipped collar with a dog tag , representing that the animal has escaped an unsafe habitat like animal abuse. In the last image it's showing an unsanitary place to live in for an animal. Later on I'm thinking of making some diptychs with the a setting and the animals.


Friday, March 8, 2013

Week Three










This week for my concentration series I went to a vet clinic. I took pictures of animals that were injured, and some that didn't have any owners. At first I was only going to do portrait shots, but then I wanted to show the environment that some animals are held captive in. So I decided to do a diptych with two of my images. I feel that with the diptych it shows a much stronger picture and also more of a story. Another change that I made this week was that I kept some pictures in color instead of having them in value and contrast. It showed more of a trapped mood because you can see the colors and they give off a I'm-in-jail-help-me feeling and low saturation. Overall I think these are some of my best pictures.