Here are my first developmental images on my theme of home. I have chosen to use my dog to represent this theme because I feel like our house isn't a home unless he's there. He is always there wherever I am when I'm at home and he is great company. If ever he is out (on a walk or maybe at kennels) the house always feels empty without his presence and quiet tapping of feet walking around the house. I originally wanted to capture objects that represented him e.g. his toys, a bone, his bed, his water and food bowls. I went out with this idea in my head and found that there was only a certain amount of objects that could represent him before I was going to have to start filling my zine with images of him to bulk it out.
Once I had started taking pictures of him I really liked them (because he is so photogenic and he is gorgeous) and so decided to mix the two styles of imagery - I want to have some images of objects that represent him and some of himself.
Black and white images :
Here I have been experimenting with how my images look by making some of them black and white. As much as I admire and am a fan of black and white photography, I don't think that I am going to go down this route for my own zine on the theme of home as the photographs which I have originally taken have a much warmer feel to them which is representational of home.
My original images were taken both indoors and outdoors. I find that the images which were taken indoors using natural lighting from the sun coming through windows are more successful and aesthetically pleasing than those taken indoors with artificial lighting. When I have had to use artificial lighting I have used portable lights to illuminate certain aspects of an image and to aid shooting indoors with poor lighting. I have also found that the early sunrise lighting is beautiful for photographing my dog looking out of the window.
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