Week 1
In the first round of photos, I started with finding different angles on my pet. Some of my pictures included all three of them, while other pictures only included one. The picture to the left is my favorite picture of set. I like the abstraction of the angle that keeps you from knowing the actual size of the objects.
Week 2
During the second shooting, the focus of my pictures were things that I found around my apartment. I tried to incorperate my pet with several different things I noticed in my front room. This here is my favorite from my second set of photos. I like this one because you can’t even really tell what the object is. The imagination could tell us that it could be several different things.
Week 3
In the third group of pictures, I ventured outside of my apartment to put my pet in new surroundings. I tried putting several different things I found in it. My favorite one that I took was this one here. Again, I liked how the size appears to be unknown, because the size of the leaf is also unknown. Also, it is hard to quite make out a specific shape to it. Most of all though, I like the colors in the photograph and the composition of the piece.
Week 4
In week four I decided to experiment with lighting. I took a lamp and put it at different angles to try to get different effects. This picture is my favorite of the set. I like it because how the bright light is coming in from the back and the shadows are in the front.
Week 5
In this weeks photo shoot, I tried to look more towards concepts. I started taking a bunch of pictures depicting sensorship. I then took my focus to eyes. I’m not quite sure yet what I would do with eyes, I just found them interesting to find. This picture was my favorite just because of the subject matter. I like the fun simplistic feeling it gives.
Week 6
In week six, I played around a little bit with just random things around my apartment. I tried to use my pet as an everyday object, as well as just pairing things together with my pet to make things look interesting. This picture is my favorite from this week because I was able to find a way to multiply my pet. I have started to get bored with my pet and so it was fun to see that I can have a while new world opened to me using mirrors.
Week 7
During the next week for this assignment, I was starting to run dry on ideas of how to take pictures of my pet. I just looked around me for things that peaked my interest. I took simple objects that I come across and use everyday to pair with my pet. My favorite this week uses my pet in an everyday sense. I liked how it is not just my pet in the frame, but the elements around it correspond with the environment you would see it in.
Week 8
For the eighth week with my pet, I decided to take things a little differently. I took my pet outside in the dark to get a different mood for the photos to try and find a concept in there. I also played a little bit with the motion of my object and took pictures with movement in them. I chose this photo as my favorite this week because I liked the shadow that was cast by the bicycle wheel. I think that showing the shadow, and not so much the actual wheel gives an abstractness to my pet that is not seen in many of my photos.
Week 9
In taking this week’s photos, I focused more on a concept. I decided to go with the idea of eating disorders. Along with this, my photos were all taken with eating disorders in mind. The picture this week is my favorite because I like the colors, the composition, and the depth of field. I also think that the subject matter goes well with the concept of the brochure as well.
Week 10
During this last week with my pet, I decided to be simple and just take photos at different angles. In the some the photos, the flash would go off and create an almost black backgrund. After making the backgroud completely black in Photoshop, I thought it gave a good mood to the concept of my brochure. I also really liked the simplicity image.
