Influences
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Lioness Eye
David Lloyd
February 2015 |
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Red Fox
David Lloyd
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The influences for this shoot are shown above, here I am looking at Davids Lloyds wildlife photography, concentrating on his use of depth of field and also how he captures animals eyes, to make the image have more dramatics and more meaning.
For shoot 4 I wanted to look at Humans Relationships with Wild Animals, so over the Easter Holidays I visited Monkey World in Dorset, a Ape Rescue Centre, I wanted to try and capture human relationships with animals. In this shoot I used a Canon 1200D, with a 75-300mm lens connected, I decided to use this lens because I wanted to get close up to the animals, and capture their facial expressions, to make the viewer of my photos think about how these animals have been treated in the past. I found that when using the 75-300mm lens, the outcome was a sharp foreground and a very soft blurry background, this is shown mostly in image 7. I had the challenge of chain link fences, which made taking photographs quite hard, likewise reflections in windows and smudge marks on glass. Here are the images from this shoot, which was also inspired by David Lloyd...
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Despite the mesh in front of the monkey in this image, I believe this adds to the message, the monkeys eyes are looking out of the mesh, the way his eyes are separated by the mesh adds to the message that he's been kept in captivity, I think it works well as the mesh in the bottom left hand corner is blurred, but the top right is in focus, with the whole of the monkey in focus also.
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As you can see in Image 4, I had trouble getting a nice clear image with the mesh fencing, I tried my hardest to eliminate this from the photo as much as possible, by zooming in further, I would say this is one of the weakest images from this shoot as its hard to see the subject i'm trying to take a photo of, instead your eyes are instantly drawn towards the blurry fence.
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Photograph 7 was one of my most successful photos on this shoot, although I was taking this photo through the fence, I managed to zoom in enough so you can hardly see it obstructing the photograph, I really like the depth of field in this picture, as the background is so blurred, its hard to see that the monkey is in an enclosure. I believe this is an interesting photograph because of the monkey's facial expression, and the way he is almost looking away from the camera, suggests he has a troubled past, which most of the monkeys have at Monkey World
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