Final Concentration

Week 7

This weekend/Spring Break I will be completing my concentration. Today I am going to take pictures of chickens, displaying how we depend on them for food (eggs).

Inspiration

Joe McCally

http://simplyseductive.blogspot.com/2008/11/simply-beautiful-photography.html

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper… the photographer begins with the finished product."

— Edward Steichen

I like the mood this image portrays.

Here is a comparison of two images.  I can't decide whether I should do this series in black and white or color.... any suggestions?

Week 6 - Mother/Child Photoshoot

 

 Throughout the sequence of photos, I focused on displaying how a child depends on their mother while growing up, and how they go through experiences in life by learning from her.  I used the horse to show how the child was afraid at first, but once the mother helped her to feel comfortable, she was okay and was able to pet the horse.  This shows how children depend on their mothers/guardians to overcome fears and rely on them for comfort when they are young.

 

 Image taken during the Mother/Daughter shoot. 

This week I edited pictures that I have already taken, and plan to take more soon continuing with my original theme of dependency. 

Weekend Picture Plan:

-Small child and mother
-Human and telephone pole
-Hamburger/processed meat and a cow/chicken
-Humans and the sun/air

ADVICE PLEASE! Which one should I use comparing skiing and snow? (How skiing depends on snow)

I like the depth of this picture and the space/figure of ground.  The foot directly relates to the steps (horizontally) and the leg directly relates to the trees (vertically).  I may use this image instead of the other foot image (below).

This displays the dependency plants and growing sprouts have on water. I like how the lighting in the right image is almost the same color of water, creating an even deeper/closer connection and dependency on water. 

We depend on the snow to ski.  I like how these pictures are so different, yet connect with the same color scheme. It shows the connection between something mobile and alive to something still and lifeless.

This displays how our feet depend on our shoes. I plan to possibly retake the shoe picture in similar "mysterious" lighting as the foot is in to create a connecting mood among both images. 

Week 4

I am going to use this shoe image and a foot to show how our feet depend on our shoes.  I am experimenting around with color and am not sure which one to compare to a picture of a foot. They each portray different moods.

Week 3

This resembles man vs. nature.  The telephone pole relates to the open arms.  Both are connected by communication (the telephone lines connecting people from a distance and the open arms welcoming all).

Fire, an element effected and often controlled by nature.  Nature affecting man as well.  

I've noticed in some of my recent images that I am drawn towards the elements of nature, especially water.  I may experiement with the elements, or how elements effect things over time..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigroar/5472101763/in/photostream/


Here is a link to a Flickr blog that I have been inspired by.  B. Malarky displays the affect of water.








For time (as a possible concentration theme), I would connect the young chicken with the child's youth, showing how they draw towards eachother.  I really like the emphasis on the chicken in this image, as well as the humor it almost carries. 





 

Week 2

                                   
I'm not sure what I want to do with this particular style/mood of picture, but I would like to incorporate something of this nature in my concentration.  Maybe I could connect this to man vs. nature, or time (as the leaves fall).

Week 1

This is a picture of frozen water inside a bird bath.  I took this hoping to connect it to something such as "man vs. nature."  This picture has a lot of deph to it, and is very abstract. It is usually hard to look at it first glance knowing exactly what it is. This image inspired me to possibly include abstraction in my concentration theme.