Rabbits and Advertisements

As a small task set out by my teacher, I had to model the developing nicely hoodie and make it to do with photography.My approach to it was to make it almost humorous with a slight hint of cuteness as a lot of advertisements use cute animals etc to advertise their products.

An example I thought would be good to copy was an advertisement by a beer company in which they used a obviously fake polar bear to engage viewers who see the advert to talk about their company. The polar bear is an interesting idea as it is performing human tasks which a polar bear wouldn't do, for example smile or drink beer. To recreate this, I decided to use my sisters rabbit, with the idea of advertising my school's photography company "developing nicely". I had previously bought a hoodie from the company so I placed it over the rabbit to give the idea that it was wearing it. I then placed glasses on the rabbits head to give the idea that it was reading a newspaper article and used a photography based picture with a rabbit involved so my rabbit would be interested in the picture. I placed the rabbit in the bath so the background didn't detract attention away from the rabbit. I am very pleased overall with my recreation however I felt this photo had too much shadow and not enough of the hoodie was shown.

 I decided to re take the photo and feel I overcame the obstacles I faced.

People and Places

People and Places (shop/store workers)
My idea is based on how certain people feel and present themselves when at work, we asked the shopworker whether he/she would allow us to to take a picture of them and then, if a yes, would take a portrait picture of them from the exact spot of where we asked them. The picture being taken from the same spot, (the spot where we asked them whether we could take the picture or not) gives the photo's some similarity and so that the only contrast of the shopworkers, was what they are doing and their expression and presentation of themselves. We also took a picture of the outside of the shop to show all the photo's are real and to show what the worker does and why he/she pulls the expression he/she does in the picture. This can lead questions of whether the worker enjoys his/her job and is happy in it or not. I was inspired to perform this experiment to a photo I had seen in the past of some workers outside a shop in the 1930's. I felt this was a good opportunity to show how things could had changed.

 I believe this first photo worked well due to the people sitting at the outside table being shadowed out. This creates an almost ominous mood to the cafe even though the outside seems perfectly fine.

From analysing the photo I took of the female worker, I feel the image gives off the impression that she has quite a tiring job due to her facial expression. It looks as though she is trying to smile but cannot bring herself too, I also believe this mood is given by the womans bags under her eyes.

I believe the next photo I took worked well as it is jam packed with items in the picture as well as just the shop. I also feel the car blurred out as it is moving past looks interesting also. The  photo of the two workers worked really well as although they seem to stereotype nice old women, they are surrounded by unlikely items you wouldn't expect someone like them to have such as countless cigarettes and alcohol. Although they are old this gives an impression that they are surrounded by what the urban youth could be stereotyped as using.

Animals in Motion

This project is of the exam section "Animals in Motion". This is me taking my dog out for a walk in Blandford Forum, taking pictures of the various wildlife. This is in motion as we are walking the dog, which involves travelling, so not only are the animals moving, but we are too.

The Meeting Of Freinds

Waiting for Dinner

Archie's walk

Man's best friend's enemy

Contrast

The Fight

Ducks

Scenary

horse

birds