In order to gain my best work, I chose to start with something I was interested in. When I think of photography, I struggle to pinpoint one category, so instead I dove onto social media and saved images I found the most common type of photos I could find. On scrolling my Facebook feed, the most repetitive images were of animals and scenery.
Photography only impacts my life when It comes to documenting events with family, friends and pets. Choosing my first photo was rather easy. The original photo was taken by a family member towards the beginning of last year, and shows my dog enjoying a walk around a local field. In and before the photo, Tim was watching birds fly past in the distance, and seemed to be enjoying the wind and all the different smells. The photo was captioned by my cousin “Bird Watching”.
In previous work, I had attempted to fine tune my ability to alter the colour in Adobe software, giving me the idea of how dogs see the world in different colour. As studies show they are unable to see the colour red, dogs are restricted to only seeing blues, yellows, and the grayscale. With this in mind, the image didn’t seem to show this. Even without certain colours and understanding, Tim still enjoys observing the scenery around him, using his other senses to enhance his experience further than my own, where we would have thought the opposite. Having Tim look and stand through the four colours dogs ‘can’ see represents how different a world can be to them, but this does not make it any less interesting.