Shoot Eight Straight Images

In this shoot I tried to improve upon my image of a dog, Tom,  being fed his dinner through the door hatch to its run.



I took some more images of the workers looking after the donkeys and sheep trying to get more interesting and captivating images.



A stray dog was handed in found wandering the streets. He was identified by his microchip and was 19 years old and was very frightened and was shaking. I captured an image of a volunteer giving him cuddles to stop him shaking. Fortunately the relieved and grateful owner came and collected him within an hour.



This is an image showing how vigilant you have to be when working at the Centre. The dogs there can be very clever and have learned how to push the kennel doors so that they bounce back and they can then get their noses in and push them open. This image shows Bart in the process of doing this and trying to get out to play.



I wanted to take an image where the dog dominated the frame and was the complete focus of attention, as the photographer Graeme Williams does in some of his images. I therefore took this image zoomed in close up to Niebla so that it became more personal and intimate but not so much that it was too intrusive. I also took the image as though it was from the perspective of the level of the dogs eyes so that it was more like what he would be seeing. It can insinuate that humans are on the same level as dogs are. We are not superior to them as people seem to think. So this image may encourage them to think of dogs as equals rather than toys that we can do what we want to. If this was the view that people had, then we would find fewer cases of abuse and neglect of dogs. I also felt that this would give an insight to the viewer of what the dog was seeing and would help them to identify and bond with the dog. This would help them understand why the volunteers and staff care for the animals so much.



I made a simple change to this image using Photoshop. By just increasing the brightness I focused more on the protective pose that the shaking dog is being held in. It also makes both the volunteers face and the subject more visible and the expression more easy to see. The brighter image also creates a more appropriate mood showing the affection the dog is receiving as the darker image could appear a bit more sad and depressing.



The light in the kennel block is not very good for taking images so when I took this image of Bart trying to escape the image was quite dark and you cannot see his eye very well. To improve the image I used Photoshop to decrease the contrast and increase the brightness so that now Bart's face is not so shadowed and now more visible to the viewer. Also the slightly orange region on the wall is reduced making it less distracting.